Category: Astrophotography

The International Space Station as Captured with the Nikon P900’s Monster Zoom

Liron Samuels

Shortly after its announcement I read a review of the Nikon P900 super-zoom bridge camera, where the author excitedly said it can be used to shoot objects as far as ten miles away. Judging by this photo of the International Space Station, captured by Naftali Maimon, I’m happy to say the P900’s 83x 2000mm-equivalent zoom […]

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Now is Your Chance to Photograph All Five Visible Planets in One Shot

Liron Samuels

Of all the planets found in the Solar System, only five of the brightest planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, can be seen with the naked eye. While all five of these planets can be seen throughout most of the year, as of this morning they can all be seen simultaneously as they […]

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A 46 Gigapixel Milkey Way ‘panorama’ you can interact with

Udi Tirosh

How often do you get to interact with the universe? This 46 Gigapixel ‘panorama’ of the milky way, was made at the German university Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, and took half a decade to complete. . Actually, this image of the Milky Way is so big that it had to be broken down into 268 sections, each photographed over a […]

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Sigma announced the world’s first full frame 20mm f/1.4 lens, but it’s not all roses

Liron Samuels

As expected, the rumors about the 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens turned out to be true and Sigma announced the world’s first full frame lens of this focal length and aperture. Quality wise the lens seems to fit in perfectly with the rest of the company’s excellent line of Art primes, and it will […]

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Photographers Moonrise Is A Short Movie Inspiration To Anyone Who Wants To Shoot The Moon

Udi Tirosh

New Zealand based astrophotographer Mark Gee (previously, and here) has quite a creative take on the Super Moon we had last week. I mean, we all shot the Super Moon (didn’t we) but Mark documented the shooting of the Super Moon with a few of his photographer friends, taking the whole thing to a new […]

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NASA’s enhanced photo of Pluto shows rich color variations and crazy detail

Liron Samuels

You know how sometimes you take such an amazing photo that you have to share immediately, just to later realize that you have an ever more awesome version of it? That’s pretty much the case here with NASA’s insane surface photo of Pluto, taken by the interplanetary space probe New Horizons. NASA released the first […]

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How to Post Process Milky Way Astrophotography in Adobe Lightroom

Eric Reagan

In this tutorial video, photographer Ian Norman shows how he processes astrophotography images in Adobe Lightroom. It’s a pretty straightforward process, but he does a great job of explaining how why he is making each adjustment. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay. RSSID#794326