Astrophotography
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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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

4 hours of searching led to this spectacular Milky Way cave photo – "I'm always drawn to locations that feel unique and relatively undiscovered"
By Kim Bunermann Published
NEWS After nearly giving up, the photographer found the hidden cave behind one of this year's most striking Milky Way photographs
Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million light-years away
By Alan Palazon Published
News The images shed light on the galaxy’s past and colorful stars that other telescopes couldn’t in what the dumbfounded astronomers are calling a case of “galactic archaeology”

Why use huge space telescopes for astronomy when you can blast an astronaut with a Nikon into space – new research paper suggests
By Alan Palazon Published
News An image shot on a handheld Nikon during the recent Artemis II lunar mission has revealed new insights into the evolution of our solar system
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