Learn an easy way to create REAL diffraction spikes on bright stars using your refractor telescope or lens.
Tag - astro
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.
Read the story behind the amazing 10-panel, 100-hour mosaic of Monoceros by Paul C. Swift.
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 ~60-million light year distant spiral galaxy NGC7497 lies behind the diffuse molecular cloud known as MBM 54, by Álvaro Ibáñez Pérez
Two of the best ways for making solar flat fields to correct uneven illumination in your solar images and mosaics.
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.
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.
How Mia Stålnacke captured her award-winning APOD image "A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden"
Learn how to post-process an ISS transit of the moon using my photo that was selected APOD and went viral!