Posts by Author: Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Soumyadeep Mukherjee is an award-winning astrophotographer from India. He has a doctorate degree in Linguistics. His work extends to the sub-genres of nightscape, deep sky, solar, lunar and optical phenomenon photography. He is also a photography educator and has conducted numerous workshops. His works have appeared in over 40 books & magazines including Astronomy, BBC Sky at Night, Sky & Telescope among others, and in various websites including National Geographic, NASA, Forbes. He was the first Indian to win “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” award in a major category.
Founder Optics FOT106 Refractor: Precision in a Portable Package
Aug 22, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A good 4-inch class refractor is one of the most versatile telescopes an astrophotographer can own. It has enough aperture to reveal deep-sky detail, but…
SharpStar Mark III Harmonic GEM: A New Generation of Equatorial Mounts
Aug 22, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
In the world of astrophotography, a mount is the silent partner that makes every image possible. Without smooth tracking and stable support, even the best…
The “Cosmic Hand”: Chandra Photographs a Hand-shaped Nebula
Aug 21, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has given us another look at one of the strangest shapes in the sky, the nebula MSH 15-52, often called the…
Surya: NASA and IBM’s new AI Model for Predicting Space Weather
Aug 20, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
When scientists talk about the Sun, they often call it “active” or “quiet.” Those words might sound gentle, but they hide a reality that can…
Svbony SV220 Dual-Band 7nm Nebula Filter for OSC Cameras
Aug 20, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The Svbony SV220 Dual-Band 7nm Nebula Filter is designed to make deep-sky imaging more practical for astrophotographers working under light-polluted skies. By isolating the key…
James Webb Space Telescope Photographs a New Moon Orbiting Uranus
Aug 19, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
For decades, Uranus has seemed like a fairly well-mapped world. Voyager 2 flew past in 1986, Hubble tracked its changing atmosphere, and astronomers counted 28…
VLBA Photographs “Eye of Sauron”: A rare, head-on look into a blazar’s jet
Aug 19, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have captured a remarkable radio image of the blazar PKS 1424+240. For the first time, we see its plasma jet almost perfectly head-on. In…
Askar launches new refractor telescope: 91F Flat-Field
Aug 18, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Askar has expanded its line of imaging-friendly refractors with the introduction of the 91F Flat-Field APO. This telescope is designed to remove one of the…
Hubble Photographs a Noteworthy Nearby Spiral Galaxy: NGC 2835
Aug 18, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The latest picture from Hubble features NGC 2835, a face-on spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in Hydra. The image looks familiar at first…
JWST Photographs Mysterious Bright Objects in the Early Universe
Aug 17, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
When astronomers turned the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) toward the deep universe, they expected to see faint smudges from the earliest galaxies. Instead, they…