Astrophotography

How to Photograph the Northern Lights: Camera Settings and Tips for Beginners

Jul 3, 2026 Leonard Skapp

Seeing the Northern Lights is unforgettable, photographing them, however, is next level. Watching ribbons of green, purple, and pink dance across the night sky feels…



ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18 Shortlists: 4,000 Entries, Zero Bad Images

Jul 2, 2026 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

Every year, when the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlists are announced, I end up losing twenty minutes just staring at images in awe. The…



How to Photograph the Milky Way: A Beginner’s Guide to Astrophotography

Jun 22, 2026 Leonard Skapp

Few photography experiences are quite as rewarding as seeing the Milky Way appear on the back of your camera for the first time. What looked…



How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse: Tips, Settings and Gear for the 2026 Eclipse in Spain

Jun 17, 2026 Leonard Skapp

Photographing a solar eclipse is one of those bucket-list photography moments that looks simple until you try it. You’ve got a rare astronomical event, changing…



Join the Dots: Photographer Captures VLT’s Outline in the Sky

May 25, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

At the European Southern Observatory‘s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, adaptive optics has become an essential part of daily operations. ESO has equipped all four…



ToupTek AstroEye AE676C: A Multi-Purpose Astronomy Camera

May 23, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

ToupTek has announced a new astronomy camera, the AstroEye AE676C. The camera is built around Sony’s IMX676 sensor, a 12.5-megapixel square-format detector from the Starvis…



Askar SQA60 Pro Launches with a Sextuplet Optical Design

May 21, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Askar has expanded its Super Quality Astrograph (SQA) lineup with the introduction of the new SQA60 Pro. The telescope joins a growing category of compact…



Askar launches 131F Refractor: Large-Aperture Flat-Field Imaging

May 20, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

The release of the Askar 111F earlier this month showed where Askar wanted to take its flat-field refractor lineup. That telescope combined a quadruplet optical…



Askar 111F Flat-Field: A New Quadruplet Full-Frame Refractor

May 14, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Today, astrophotography places enormous demands on optical systems. The refractor market has started moving toward a very specific type of refractor over the last few…



NASA Releases 12,000 Photos from Artemis II Mission: Top Picks

May 6, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

NASA’s Artemis II mission generated one of the largest crew-operated deep-space photography archives ever released to the public. During the ten-day mission around the Moon…