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.

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

How to create an animation of Jupiter

Astrophotography guides

How to make a planetary animation of Jupiter

Common astrophotography mistakes. Credit: Dan Mirica / EyeEm / Getty Images

Astrophotography guides

12 common astrophotography mistakes, and how to avoid them

How to remove stars from astrophotos in Photoshop

Astrophotography guides

How to remove stars from astrophotos in Photoshop

how to photograph the milky way

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph the Milky Way

photograph noctilucent clouds smartphone

Astrophotography guides

Photograph noctilucent clouds with a smartphone

improve sky backgrounds astrophotography final image

Astrophotography guides

Image processing How to improve sky backgrounds

Lunar Eclipse (10/12/2011) by Tim Jukes, Tsukuba, Japan.

Astrophotography guides

How to create a video animation of a lunar eclipse

starshrink north america nebula after

Astrophotography guides

How to use Starshrink for astrophotography

Milky Way stack layers after

Astrophotography guides

Image processing How to stack layers of images of the Milky Way