I can still remember the night that marked the start of my journey into astrophotography. It was a clear and moonless August evening five years ago, and the year’s Perseid shower was at its peak. As I ...

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April 3, 2012 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today introduced the EOS 60Da Digital SLR Camera, a long-awaited successor to the EOS 20Da that is ...

We think the D850 is an astro master and it comes designed for shooting in the dark, thanks to backlit buttons, excellent low light autofocus and good high ISO noise handling. The Nikon D850 has been ...

While remotely controlling a powerful telescope and viewing the results on your computer screen - as promised by the Gloria project - certainly has its appeal, it doesn't quite match the sense of ...

As smartphone cameras improve, more people want to take photographs of the night sky with their smartphones. However, serious astrophotographers attach powerful, digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) ...

I do not consider myself an expert at using a digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR), but I have experimented enough to pass on some useful ideas. In my November 2012 column, I outlined briefly my ...

If you're tired of taking photos of relatively "normal" things-people, landscapes, animals, plants-why not take your craft out of this world with astrophotography? Specifically, taking photographs of ...

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by photographs of outer space. Whether it is the glowing moon hanging in the night sky, the banded clouds of Jupiter or multicolored nebulae light ...

In my 20-odd years of PC building and DIY electronics hackery, I have attached refrigeration units to many things: overclocked CPUs, of course, the underside of a mousepad during a particularly hot ...

Our guide to astrophotography camping will help you plan an outdoors trip, so you can capture the night skies away from light-filled cities. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...