Exposure: Space

 # Exposure: Space **Astrophotography progression for [Exposure](https://modrinth.com/mod/exposure).** Point your camera at the night sky, hunt real cosmic objects, develop the photos and fill your personal star album. --- ## What does it add? 🔭 **256+ real cosmic objects** — from the Moon's craters to Sagittarius A*. Planets, exoplanets, moons, comets, asteroids, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, pulsars, quasars and a few anomalies. Every single one has its own pixel-art texture, description and reward.  📷 **Telescopic lenses (5 tiers)** — from the humble Bad lens to the Sculk lens that sees absolutely everything. Higher tiers reveal rarer, fainter objects. 🟣 **Space Filter** — a camera attachment with deep space trapped in its glass. Required to capture cosmic objects; install it together with a lens. 🪐 **Objects live in the actual sky.** They appear on real night-sky positions, hide behind terrain, scale with your zoom — and not every object shows up every night. Some, like Halley's Comet, are a once-in-a-lifetime sight. The ISS, Hubble and comets even **move across the sky in real time**. 🌠 **Night sky events** — some nights a **Meteor Shower**, an **Aurora Storm** or a **Deep Sky Night** rolls in: appearance chances get boosted, the Analyzer works up to 2× faster, and **event-exclusive objects** show up — fireballs, auroras, STEVE, the Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein exist only during their events. 📡 **Night Analyzer** — a craftable observatory block. Right-click it to learn what's happening in the sky tonight: event name, luck and analysis multipliers, how many exclusive objects are up there. No chat spam — checking the sky is part of the hobby. 🛠 **Photo Analyzer** — an astronomer's desk with a spectrum screen (and Wi-Fi, obviously). Feed it a developed photograph: it identifies the object, writes it into your album and pays out rewards into 8 output slots.  📖 **Cosmic Album** — a craftable book (amethyst + paper + book + leather) that collects every object you've studied as a glued-in polaroid: photo, story, object type, and a **"Visit on Wikipedia"** link for the real thing. Fill all 200+ pages if you dare. 🧭 **Villager trades** — cartographers (levels 4–5) and wandering traders sell archival photographs of cosmic objects, ready for the Analyzer. Event-exclusive ones are never sold — those you earn. 🏆 **Advancements** — a full tree: first analysis, halfway there, complete album, event photography and a few secrets. 🔁 **Repeat rewards** — by default, an object's full reward becomes available again every 5 in-game days (configurable, or disable it entirely). 🌑 **Dark-room friendly** — Exposure's Lightroom normally refuses to print in the dark. Cosmic photos are exempt: astrophotography *should* be developed at night. 📐 **Camera Stand support** — aim and capture through a mounted camera. 🍪 **Cosmic Leftover** — a creative-only snack that fills your hunger and unlocks the entire album in one bite. ⚙️ **Fully data-driven** — objects *and events* are JSON in a datapack (`data//cosmic_object/`, `data//cosmic_event/`), plus live-editable external folders (`config/exposure_space/objects/`, `config/exposure_space/events/`) for adding your own without rebuilding anything. Admins get `/cosmicevent`. ModMenu config screen included. --- ## Requirements | Mod | Why | |---|---| | [Exposure](https://modrinth.com/mod/exposure) | the camera itself | | [Exposure: Expanded](https://modrinth.com/mod/exposure-expanded) | tier-1 telescopic lens | | Architectury API, Prism, Cloth Config | libraries | Minecraft **1.21.1**, Fabric & NeoForge. On Fabric you also need Fabric API; ModMenu optional but recommended. ## Quick start 1. Craft a **Space Filter** and a **Telescopic Lens**, install both on your camera. 2. Wait for night, raise the viewfinder and scan the sky — found objects get a target lock. 3. Take the shot, develop the film, print the photo in a Lightroom. 4. Put the photograph into the **Photo Analyzer** and collect your reward. 5. Craft the **Cosmic Album** and admire your growing collection. --- [](https://modrinth.com/project/exposure-space) [](https://ko-fi.com/temno) [](https://discord.gg/RwYz28Nfs7)