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    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

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    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

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    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

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