Learn an easy way to create REAL diffraction spikes on bright stars using your refractor telescope or lens.
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This HDR composition of the Orion Nebula, by Kees Scherer, is one of the visually brightest nebulae in the night sky, located in the constellation Orion.
When is the best time of day for solar imaging? Why? Learn the incredible effect of atmospheric seeing conditions on solar imaging.
Learn this easy and effective way to reduce star size using Photoshop and make your milky way pop!
This week's Image of the Week is a 17-panel Milky Way panorama at Tenerife featuring zodiacal light above saharan dust clouds, by Javier Martinez.
The telescope doesn't make the photo, the photographer does. The “expensive” mistakes beginners make are not only costly on your pocket, they also rob you of...
An easy-to-follow tutorial on how to polar align a telescope mount using the drift align utility available in the free PHD2 guiding software.
Image of the week, January 15 2016. Blood Moon, by Björn Hoffmann. This is a composition of the different phases of the lunar eclipse from September 2015.
Learn how to get perfect round stars in your Milky Way and night sky photos, and find out why the rule of 500 is meant to be broken.
WIde-field AP is more than just point and shoot. Get some tips from Shaun Reynolds.