Astrophotography

Whether you’re an astrophotography expert or beginner, our guides and galleries will inspire and help you get the most out of imaging the night sky.

Our Andromeda Galaxy image after using Siril’s ‘Image processing’ suite for common processing steps like enhancing the background and bringing out the galaxy’s ‘true’ colour.

Astrophotography guides

How to use Siril free software to process your DSLR astro images

A sequence of close-ups of an NLC rift structure. Subtle changes in the clouds look dramatic once animated and speeded up. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph and record the motion of noctilucent clouds

Noctilucent clouds. Credit: Adrien Mauduit

Astrophotography

How to capture and process images of noctilucent clouds

Mars passing across the Beehive Cluster in October 2011, imaged through a f/3.3 reflector. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophotography guides

See and photograph Mars meeting the Beehive star cluster

The lumps, bumps, rilles and ancient craters of Crater Gutenberg are particularly rich to examine when the Sun is low

A guide to the Moon’s crater Gutenberg

Lunar occultation Jupiter 17 May 2023

Astrophotography guides

How to photograph (and see) this week’s lunar occultation of Jupiter

image processing edge on galaxies

Astrophotography guides

Bring out beauty and detail in your images of edge-on galaxies

An image of the Moon at night, with an identical 'ghost' Moon appearing off to one side. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophotography

Seeing a ‘ghost’ Moon in your images? Here’s why, and how to fix it

In our test setup, the filters were loaded into a filter wheel on the front of a ZWO ASI2600 colour camera

A guide to using multi-band filters for astrophotography

Which camera is best for astrophotography? Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus

Buyer's guide Best astro imaging cameras

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

The Cat's Eye Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Cat’s Eye Nebula

How to attach a DSLR to a telescope. Credit: Charlotte Daniels

Astrophotography

How to attach a DSLR camera to a telescope

Silhouette of person photographing the Moon with their smartphone

Astrophotography guides

Photograph the Moon with your smartphone camera