Astronomy

Every now and then I come across an image that is so breathtaking in its subject or execution, it just makes me gasp – and I’ve seen and worked with quite a few.Today’s APOD is one such: the full i…

Hi – I wanted to know how I should (or if I should) photograph a solar eclipse given that I have the following equipment at hand (listing only what I think is relevant): Nikon D80 / variety of le…

Hi Folks, From time to time I’ve had inquiries about whether I run workshops on night landscape photography – how to photograph the moon and startrails and night landscapes. So I thought I’d do …

On the 26th January 2009, there’s an Australia Day Eclipse – a Partial Solar Eclipse visible in large parts of Australia. In this article, I’ll take you through all you need to know in order to …

In a new idea for my site, once a week i’ll feature an old image and bring it back to life and give some background and information on capturing and processing the image(s). I’ll mainly concentrate…

Hi all For the past 3 years, I’ve been doing a pictorial review of the planets – making a composite image of my best planetary images taken during that calendar year. You can see the old composi…

well after finally managing to get some longer exposures running the other night with the help of the guide camera i have come across the problem of light pollution creeping into the images if they…

I received a very exciting early christmas present the other week – an email from Sean Walker, one of the editors of the US Sky&Telescope magazine and website, as…

I love Astronomy Picture of the Day. It’s a daily lucky dip of what’s new or even old and still interesting in astronomy, sometimes with breathtaking images. “Today’s i…

Hi, I’m using a minolta SLR camera with tripod and am interested in others experience in taking long exposure photos of the stars in the dark. What settings have you used and how long were yo…

Another one from APOD a total solar eclipse, successfully recording inner & outer corona, and the dark surface of the moon. Th…

Further to my earlier journal entry I’ve now written a small photo diary of this morning’s events...

Today, as seen from the UK, we had a partial solar eclipse (it was a total eclipse for parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia and China). The weather wasn’t brilliant, I was fighting cloud and wind …

I regularly check out the Astronomy Picture of the Day. Today’s image shows a 6-hour exposure of a Messier marathon. Fascinating!

If you live in the UK, and if you care abut education and science, especially astronomy and physics, please have a look at this....

I’ve just made a few tweaks to the guidelines of the Astronomy Group...

The people at RedBubble have been kind enough to create a group for anyone and everyone interested in astronomy. If you fancy getting involved pop over to the group...