Astrophotography

This Milky Way photo was shot on a Huawei P20 Pro smartphone

Aug 9, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

If someone told me fifteen years ago that smartphone cameras would be able to capture the Milky Way, I’d probably just scoff. However, smartphones have…



Mars is now the brightest in 15 years so you can photograph its reflection on water

Jul 16, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

When it comes to reflections of celestial objects on a water surface, we can usually take photos like this of the Sun or the Moon….



How I captured the Milky Way rising above a thunderstorm

Jun 26, 2018 Cory Mottice

I have captured photos of stars above distant thunderstorms before, but I never imagined I would be able to capture the Milky Way above a…



In-depth testing of the Sony A7III for astrophotography

Jun 8, 2018 Alan Dyer

I put the new Sony A7III mirrorless camera through its paces for the features and functions we need to shoot the night sky. Sony’s A7III…



Lava, the Milky Way, the Moon, Mars, Saturn and an Iridium Flare in one image

Jun 7, 2018 Mike Mezeul II

Yes, it’s possible. I did indeed capture what you see above in one shot. Although some of the Internet seems to disagree, it’s true. What…



This is what the setting moon looks like through telescopic lens

Jun 6, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

Some photographers use lens compression to make the Moon look huge (this photo by Eric Paré came to my mind). But with a giant telescopic…



Here’s what really happened to that melted NASA camera

May 28, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

Last week, photo and story of a melted NASA camera went viral. Most of us believed that it happened because the camera was too close…



This is what happens when your camera is too close to a rocket launch pad

May 23, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

Photographing a rocket launch can be very unfriendly to your camera, as we have seen before. But today, a post on my Facebook feed appeared…



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…