Astrophotography

    How to photograph a NASA rocket launch with remote cameras
    May 16, 2018 John Aldred

    Under the pre-dawn skies of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 5th, 2018, NASA launched InSight. Destined for Mars, InSight launched on the…

    Gaia space telescope captured this breathtaking star map of the Milkyway Galaxy
    Apr 30, 2018 Chad Verzosa

    The European Space Agency (ESA) just released the second star map taken by Gaia space agency’s one-billion-pixel camera. It contains 1.7 billion stars in our…

    This huge NASA 2540mm f/8 mirror lens is STILL up for sale at $28,000
    Feb 20, 2018 John Aldred

    Way back in 2015, just a couple months shy of three years ago, we told you about a pretty insane lens that went up for…

    Sara Wager Deep Space Astrophotography

    Here are my gear and methods for shooting Deep Space: Photographer Spotlight Q&A with Astrophotographer Sara Wager
    Feb 4, 2018 JP Danko

    Next in our Photographer Spotlight series is Sara Wager. Sara is a British astrophotographer currently based in Spain. She creates fascinating photographs of Deep-Sky Objects from…

    Bring in the New Year with two supermoons, a blue moon, and a total lunar eclipse
    Jan 1, 2018 John Aldred

    It seems that some of us will have a very special January if we look up to the skies this month. We’re expecting to have…

    America declares its first International Dark Sky Reserve for astrophotographers and stargazers
    Dec 20, 2017 John Aldred

    Finding somewhere truly dark for astrophotography becomes more and more difficult with each passing day. Light pollution always seems to be increasing. Towns and cities…

    10 contenders go head-to-head to see which software is the best for processing astrophotography
    Dec 8, 2017 Alan Dyer

    To Adobe or not to Adobe. That is the question many photographers are asking with the spate of new image processing programs vying to “kill…

    Photographing the Milky Way handheld with the Sigma 14mm f/1.8 Art lens
    Dec 4, 2017 John Aldred

    Only a few short years ago, the idea of handheld photographs of the Milky Way would’ve been a thing of fantasy. Now, though, thanks to…

    These are the winning photos of Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017
    Sep 15, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    In August this year, we presented you with beautiful shortlisted images of Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 contest. The winners of nine categories…

    These are NASA’s mind-blowing photos of 2017 solar eclipse
    Aug 22, 2017 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    The solar eclipse is over, but the hype isn’t. As a matter of fact, some of us living far from North America are even more…