When a budding astroimager decides they're ready to move past their DSLR and buy a dedicated astro camera, a hard question arises: Should they choose a one-shot color or monochrome camera? It's a ...

If you already own a telescope and want more from your amateur astronomy hobby, have you considered astrophotography? With the advent of new camera technology, it is now possible for the average ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

We first heard of plans by the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to build a huge astro camera with a 3.2-gigapixel resolution way back in 2012. The world's largest digital ...

This compact, smartphone-controlled smart telescope is an ultra-portable astrophotography tool for dark-sky trips and ...

Astrophotographers need a lens that gathers a lot of light. Subjects are often, to the naked eye, tiny specks of light surrounded by darkness. A fast or wide-aperture lens, such as an f/1.4 lens, is ...

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

Follow these tips for cleaning the different parts of your camera lens, without risking damage to improve the clarity of your astrophotography. Keeping your camera lens clean is essential for ...

The smallest smart telescope ever made impresses with both basic and advanced astrophotography options, but images are ...

We all gaze in awe at beautiful deep-sky images, marveling at how the best imagers make it look so effortless to produce perfectly framed masterpieces. Such photos always seem to have perfect, ...