space photography
Hasselblad re-issues the original 1969 press release for the cameras that captured Moon landing + photos
Jul 4, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
On 20 July 1969, astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first men to set their feet on the surface of the Moon. To…
How many photos should you stack when shooting the night sky?
Jun 11, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Star stacking is a commonly used technique among astrophotographers. It helps you to reduce noise and end up with better images of the night sky….
This video shows a spectacular view of the SpaceX Starlink satellite train
May 27, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
On 23 May, SpaceX successfully launched its first 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. Amateur astronomer Marco Langbroek managed to catch them on camera, and he…
How I shot a Milky Way moonrise from an airplane seat
May 10, 2019
Jan Jasinski
A couple of weeks ago I was blessed with a sight that truly left me in a state of awe. Shortly after leveling off onboard…
How to shoot stellar Milky Way photos with a crop sensor camera and a kit lens
Apr 30, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you’re shooting the night sky with a consumer DSLR and a kit lens, you may wonder if you can make them impressive enough. Well,…
A comprehensive guide to photographing the Milky Way
Mar 11, 2019
Ross Schram von Haupt
Introduction This guide will be a walkthrough on the basics of Milky Way photography. It is best for beginners, but even intermediate and expert photographers…
This epic 81-megapixel moon photo was stacked from 50,000 images
Feb 19, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Among so many great moon photos out there, it doesn’t happen all too often anymore that one of them makes you stop scrolling and just…
We asked our friends to shoot “moon selfies” and this is what they sent us
Feb 12, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
A few weeks ago, the folks in North and South America, Europe and western Africa were able to see the blood moon lunar eclipse. While…
NASA asteroid probe OSIRIS-REx photographed the Earth & Moon from 71 million miles away
Jan 18, 2019
John Aldred
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is tasked with the mission of obtaining a sample of 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. Discovered in September 1999, Bennu has…
This solar system photo was composited from photos shot from a photographer’s backyard
Jan 17, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Photographer Andrew McCarthy has recently published a breathtaking image of the Solar System. The photo is a composite made from the images he took, but…