Astrophotography guides

Follow our astrophotography guides for in-depth tutorials on photographing the night sky, plus image processing advice to help fine-tune your astro images.

How to improve your image processing

Astrophotography guides

How to improve your image processing

venus and moon diffraction spikes. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophotography guides

3 unique ways to photograph the planet Venus

Silhouette of person photographing the Moon with their smartphone

Astrophotography guides

Photograph the Moon with your smartphone camera

Finished image of the Coathange Cluster with sharp, rounded star shapes. 21x 60” frames taken with a Canon 50D at ISO 800 and a Sky-Watcher Equinox 80ED.

Astrophotography guides

How to remove star trails in your night-sky photography

Colours can be revealed in star trail captures, like those near bright, electric-blue Vega. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophotography guides

How to bring out the colours of stars in your night-sky photography

How to photograph a comet. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph a comet

The final, corrected image of the Monkey Head and Jellyfish Nebulae. ‘Background Gradient’ and ‘Rounds Stars’ from Georg Hennig’s suite of astronomy plug-ins removed vignetting, flattened the background and refined the stars.

Astrophotography guides

Fix uneven backgrounds and bloated stars in astrophotos

The famous Pillars of Creation, M16, photographed using the StarGate 500 motorised Dobsonian paired with Altair GPCAM 290c, 158x 5”. Credit: Paul Money

Astrophotography guides

How to stack and derotate images with Astro Pixel Processor

Vixen Mobile Porta Altazimuth Mount. Credit: Opticron

Astrophotography guides

How to do deep-sky astrophotography with an alt-az mount

Mars close to the Moon's limb

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph next week’s lunar occultation of Mars

Albedo features on Mars. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph Mars at opposition

NGC 3132, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and processed by Warren Keller.

Astrophotography guides

How to produce your own space images using James Webb Space Telescope data

How to create a 24 hour star trails image

Astrophotography guides

How to create a 24-hour star trails image

how to photograph a lunar eclipse

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph a lunar eclipse and capture that rusty red Moon

How to photograph the 25 October solar eclipse

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph the 25 October partial solar eclipse