Welcome to the 2017 Telescope Gift Guide! This article is an updated version of one we published last year as a collaboration between Jon Groubert with his Light Polluted Astronomy blog and Sorin (aka the Soggy Astronomer). Jon has been an active contributor answering reader questions for quite a while here on …
This article covers my experience and what I learned photographing the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse from Casper, WY using DSLR cameras. If you plan to do any solar eclipse photography, including partial and annular solar eclipses, this article should provide a good starting point with links to various references.
Welcome to our 2016 Telescope Gift Guide! This article was a collaboration between Jon Groubert with his Light Polluted Astronomy blog and Sorin (aka the Soggy Astronomer). Jon has been an active contributor answering reader questions for quite a while here on Soggy Astronomer, particularly with suggestions on good telescopes to …
Photographing a Lunar Eclipse is actually not too hard in itself, but will benefit from a bit of planning, particularly for an eclipse time-lapse.
This article covers my experience performing a Hypertune on my Celestron CGEM mount, and what lead me to do so in the first place.
Planetary conjunctions are a pretty cool sight, and easy to photograph, often without a telescope.
The International Space Station is an inspiring sight. If you’ve never spotted it cruising across the night sky, have a look at 3 Easy Tools for Spotting the ISS to find out when it will be visible passing overhead. (If you live in the UK, follow @VirtualAstro on Twitter for …
I was fortunate to have a clear morning on Nov 20th to setup the telescope a few blocks away from my apartment at Observatory Park in Denver, CO. Despite the light dome from the city and the still nearly full moon, I managed to capture some decent images of both C/2012 S1 …
If you image with a DLSR that has LiveView like I do, you’ve probably encountered some problems trying to get those pesky stars to show up on the display. What I’ve always discovered, after much frustration, and sometimes not until the next morning, is this can be attributed to one …
With just your telescope and DSLR camera, you can capture some amazing views of our bright neighbor planets. You don’t even need a tracking mount!