Astronomy & Astrophotography
Explore the art and science of capturing the cosmos. This category is your guide to photographing celestial wonders, from the familiar glow of the Moon to the faint light of distant galaxies. Here, you’ll find articles dedicated to every aspect of the craft, including the celestial targets themselves and the equipment and techniques used to capture them.
Relative Planets
What is neat about lining all three images side-by-side is that they were taken with the same telescope and same...
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Humid Jupiter, June 2018
This is my first good image of Jupiter in 2018. The focus was near-perfect and about as good as I...
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Moon Reunites with Venus on Hot Summer Night, June 2018
We’re about a month from the last rendezvous of the Moon and Venus.
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The current positions and timing of our planets offer an opportunity to see both Jupiter and Venus in the sky...
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Leo the Lion and Coma Berenices, May 2018
Above Leo and to the left you can see Coma Berenices. It sort of blends in with the other fainter...
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Moon and Venus Together, May 2018
If you look closely above and to the left of the Moon, you can see stars. They were not visible...
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Constellations X: Spring Triangle Fever
For the Spring Triangle, you are seeing the complete and full dimensions of the source image.
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I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking...
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Clear Sky, Bright Moon
Just one problem, though – the Moon was approaching Full and washed much of the sky out. So I settled...
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Just Moon
The Moon is now significant higher than Venus after Sunset, and fuller. So I took my digital camera and tripod...
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