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.
Halloween Moon
Ghostly clouds and autumn leaves bring you tonight’s Moon on this last day of October.
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The Moon and a Plane
Sometimes the quickest astrophotography snaps yield surprises. I was not even trying to include the plane, honest!
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Moon Falling in Daylight
These early Waning phase days are a reminder that astrophotography can be done all day and all night.
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Constellations IV: Scorpius Rising
As you can see, my view was a tad narrow, but you can easily make out the side of Scorpius...
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When is the Moon fully Full?
When is the Moon truly full? If you look at my image above from last night, taken with my digital...
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Memories of Jupiter
It is entirely possible that my filter opinions are just that, and yours may be different.
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Constellations III: Of the Summer Triangle
I have been searching for a way to accentuate the stars based on their brightness, short of manually blowing them...
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My Hunt for Pluto, Part II: The False Star
The best way I can confirm/reconfirm which dot was Pluto would be to sketch the area around HIP 94372 once...
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Alternative Moon Perception
The Moon, but not the Moon. Quickly I detached my smartphone from its mount and took several pictures of the...
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Discovering the Moon’s Craters
With that telescope, this eyepiece setup magnifies about 333 times!
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