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The iPhone 18 Pro Is Finally Starting to Feel Like a Real Camera
Sep 14, 2026
Alysa Gavilan
The iPhone 18 Pro adds variable aperture, manual camera controls and new image provenance tools, making it feel more like a dedicated camera.
NASA Astronaut’s Photos from ISS Reveal How Cities Have Changed at Night
Sep 14, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Cities look very different from space after dark. Over the past two decades, the view has kept changing. The orange glow that once covered many…
A New Supernova in NGC 7331: You Can Photograph It Too
Sep 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
If you had photographed NGC 7331 a few weeks ago, you would have captured a familiar deep-sky scene. The galaxy‘s bright core would sit among…
This is the Deepest Image Yet of Cloud-9: Almost No Stars Found
Sep 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have pointed one of the world’s largest optical telescopes at Cloud-9 and pushed an extremely faint target to the limits of deep imaging. The…
NASA-IBM’s New Lunar Foundation Model: AI to Study Lunar Images
Sep 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
For 17 years, NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been photographing the Moon from above. It has recorded craters, lava plains, boulders, ridges, and the permanently…
ToupTek Launches AFW-Mini: A Compact 5-Position Filter Wheel
Sep 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A filter wheel makes a monochrome astrophotography setup much easier to operate. Once several filters are loaded, the camera can move from one wavelength to…
SmallRig Wants to Turn Your iPhone 18 Pro Into a Cinema Camera
Sep 11, 2026
Alysa Gavilan
SmallRig is giving the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max a more serious filmmaking setup with two modular cage kits built around its SR-MicroSlide accessory system.
When Technical Knowledge Gets in the Way of a Good Photograph
Sep 11, 2026
Alysa Gavilan
Learning your camera is important, but photographer Martin Castein argues that technical knowledge can eventually become a distraction from composition, light and the moment itself.
ToupTek AE676M: Is This the Only Astronomy Camera You Need?
Sep 11, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
An astronomy camera usually has a particular focus. Planetary cameras have high frame rates, and deep-sky cameras put more emphasis on cooling and low read…
ALMA Captures Two Massive Stars Forming a Binary Star System
Sep 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have caught two massive stars as they become a binary system. The pair is still forming within its natal cloud, and researchers have already…