Astrophotography

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View of a partial solar eclipse at New Brighton, a coastal suburb of Christchurch, on September 22, 2025.
How to plan photographing August 12's solar eclipse and Perseids meteor shower peak

By Jamie Carter Published

Astrophotography With a solar eclipse in Europe and North America followed by the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, August 12 will bring plenty of photographic opportunities. Here’s how to plan a shoot for both

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Plasma swirling in surface of Sun.
Scientists capture highest-resolution photos of the Sun’s surface ever, revealing “tiny engines” driving solar activity

By Alan Palazon Published

News Astrophysicists used a solar telescope fitted with a high-speed camera to capture the frames, which revealed Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a process they now think may be key to understanding how the Sun generates heat

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A composite of the August 21, 2017 total eclipse of the Sun, showing the second and third contact diamond rings and Baily’s Beads at the start left and end right of totality, flanking a composite image of totality itself The diamond ring and Baily’s Beads images are single images The totality images is a blend of 12 exposures from 1/1600 sec to 1 second, stacked as a smart object and combined using the Mean stack mode to blend the images Several High Pass filter layers were added to sharpen and increase the contrast in the coronal structures Regulus is the star at lower left Placement of the images only roughly matches the actual position and path of the Sun across the sky However, the time sequence runs from left to right All taken through the 106mm Astro-Physics Traveler refractor with a 085x reducer/flattener, yielding f/5 at 500mm focal length, wide enough to capture Regulus at left All with the Canon 6D MkII camera at ISO 100 Shot from a site in the Teton Valley, Idaho, north of Driggs. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)
Two eclipses and meteor showers – NASA offers simple guide to shooting August’s massive schedule of must-not-miss astrophotography events

By Alan Palazon Published

News From solar and lunar eclipses to meteor showers, August 2026 is a big month for astrophotography: here’s a summary of NASA’s top tips for enjoying the spectacles

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The ArcBlue C24 astrophotography camera used by a photographer
This full-frame camera doesn’t just photograph the stars – it tells you what stars you’re looking at from a removable magnetic LCD screen

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

ASTRO The ArcBlue C24 is a dedicated astrophotography rig for photographing (and IDing) the stars – and it works with existing lenses and telescopes

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This exceptionally deep image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals the renowned COSMOS field and its surroundings in the constellation Sextans. The view is crowded with galaxies and galaxy clusters spanning an immense range of distances and cosmic ages, while only a handful of foreground stars belong to our own Milky Way. It was created by combining multiple observations from Rubin’s LSST Camera into a deep coadded image and is being released to mark Early Data Preview 2, the first Rubin data preview based on LSST Camera observations. The COSMOS field was selected more than two decades ago to provide astronomers with a relatively unobstructed window into the distant Universe. Located away from the crowded plane of the Milky Way, it contains comparatively few bright stars and little intervening dust, and it is accessible to major observatories on Earth and in space. Even in this exceptionally clear region, Rubin’s remarkable sensitivity reveals traces of faint, glowing galactic cirrus: wisps of interstellar dust within our own Milky Way superimposed on the much more distant cosmic landscape. Early Data Preview 2 comes on the heels of the beginning of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). With its ability to observe the southern sky deeply, widely, and repeatedly, Rubin Observatory is poised to transform many areas of astronomy.
This single 3200-megapixel photo contains more than half a million galaxies and 50,000+ stars. Vera Rubin scientists say this is just the beginning

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SPACE The latest image from the world's largest camera captures an overwhelming number of galaxies on a 3200MP car-sized camera

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Sun during solar eclipse - April 2024
How to photograph the 2026 total solar eclipse: Get prepared for the astrophotography event of the year

By Jamie Carter Published

How to The complete guide to photographing the August 12 total solar eclipse

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Astrophotography in August 2026: a solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower headline a packed month for stargazers

By Jamie Carter Published

Astro Everything you need to know about what’s worth photographing in the night skies over the coming month

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Ring of fire eclipse
Confessions of an eclipse photographer: shooting my first ring of fire eclipse and discovering that photographing from a Caribbean cruise ship is much harder than it looks!

By David S Young Published

Solar eclipse In the second of a three-part series, David S Young how things have changed over 47 years of chasing totality with his camera

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I've been photographing total solar eclipses for over 40 years – and this is what it was like chasing totality with a film camera back before the internet

By David S Young Published

Solar eclipse In the first of a three-part series, David S Young recalls what it was like to photograph a total solar eclipse with film cameras and without the aid of the internet

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This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows Beta Pictoris d, a new planet found orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star is at the centre of the frame, and was subtracted when processing the data, revealing the environment around it. The new planet, indicated with an arrow, is the third one found around this star. The other two are Beta Pictoris b –– the bright source to the left, and Beta Pictoris c, orbiting much closer to the star and not seen here. The image was taken with the ERIS instrument at the VLT. Based on its infrared brightness and colour, the new planet appears to be a gas giant, about 2.4 times more massive than Jupiter. The diffuse horizontal band in this image is a debris disc around the star, seen here edge-on, the leftover material of planetary formation.
“We’ve learned not to trust bright blobs in images.” This is one of the most photographed planetary systems, but a faint planet still played hide-and-seek in more than a decade's worth of photos

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SPACE Researchers from NASA and the ESO have found a new exoplanet hidden inside one of the most photographed regions of the night sky

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