Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day (AAPOD2) is a website and social media presence, built, coordinated, and edited by Jason Matter and Charles Lillo. The goal of the site is to collect and archive the best Amateur Astronomy images on the internet and award a new AAPOD2 winner daily.
AAPOD2 in general does not endorse any commercial products nor guarantee claims or sales made on any linked pages or posts.
In the real world, Jason and Charles are two amateur astronomers who spend much of their free hobby time imaging the universe. Charles is the former creative director at Fandango.com and now is owner of https://umbrellaspecialist.com/ in Fort Lauderdale, Jason is a business owner at Naveles in Miami, which is a family owned and operated business since 1934 (http://www.naveles.com) . Both are married, with 2 kids and enjoy astro-photography, camping and hockey. Both are on the Board of Directors for the South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association (SFAAA.com) and have been so for a combined 15 yrs.
Both are avid amateur astronomers who blog and publish their own images on their own websites, Jason’s site is https://www.theastrogazer.com/ and Charles blogs at https://www.theastrogeek.com/.
The AAPOD2 Facebook group website and Instagram accounts are not associated with AAPODx2, APOD.nasa.gov and is a private venture started when we heard about the closing of aapodx2 facebook group and the aapodx2.com. We are going to keep the ball rolling for all us amateur astro-photographers.
Charles Lillo
Jason Matter
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About image permissions:
All the images on the AAPOD2 pages and social sites are credited to the owner(s) where they originated from. All of the images may be copyrighted to the owner and not AAPOD2, to use these pictures publicly or commercially one must write to the owners for permission.
For the copyrighted images, the copyright owner is identified in the AAPOD2 image details (please see the caption under the image), along with a hyperlink to the owner's website ,email or Facebook (or what ever the owner submitted to us).
Neither Jason Matter, Charles Lillo or AAPOD2 can grant permission to use copyrighted images. For use of these images, please write to the copyright owners.
Do you have a picture that would make a good AAPOD2?
If so, images are submitted via our website submissions page.
Please note that by submitting your image to AAPOD2, you are consenting for your image to be used on AAPOD2 in all of its forms.
Thank you for visiting the AAPOD2 pages and remember to Please, keep taking and sharing your astronomy pictures!