Astrophotography

    Join the Dots: Photographer Captures VLT’s Outline in the Sky
    May 25, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    At the European Southern Observatory‘s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, adaptive optics has become an essential part of daily operations. ESO has equipped all four…

    ToupTek AstroEye AE676C: A Multi-Purpose Astronomy Camera
    May 23, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    ToupTek has announced a new astronomy camera, the AstroEye AE676C. The camera is built around Sony’s IMX676 sensor, a 12.5-megapixel square-format detector from the Starvis…

    Askar SQA60 Pro Launches with a Sextuplet Optical Design
    May 21, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Askar has expanded its Super Quality Astrograph (SQA) lineup with the introduction of the new SQA60 Pro. The telescope joins a growing category of compact…

    Askar launches 131F Refractor: Large-Aperture Flat-Field Imaging
    May 20, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The release of the Askar 111F earlier this month showed where Askar wanted to take its flat-field refractor lineup. That telescope combined a quadruplet optical…

    Askar 111F Flat-Field: A New Quadruplet Full-Frame Refractor
    May 14, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Today, astrophotography places enormous demands on optical systems. The refractor market has started moving toward a very specific type of refractor over the last few…

    NASA Releases 12,000 Photos from Artemis II Mission: Top Picks
    May 6, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA’s Artemis II mission generated one of the largest crew-operated deep-space photography archives ever released to the public. During the ten-day mission around the Moon…

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    Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2026 Breaks Its Own Record with the Rarest Yet Photos
    May 5, 2026 Dunja Đuđić

    Few things in life soothe me like lying on the grass somewhere in the mountains and staring at the starry sky. I live in the…

    WarpAstron WD15E Harmonic Drive Mount: A New Servo-Driven Platform
    Apr 21, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astrophotography mounts are increasingly relying on strain-wave transmission systems combined with servo motor control to achieve high tracking precision in a compact mechanical structures. The…

    Comet C/2025 R3: A Comet Now Visible in the Morning Sky
    Apr 12, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is currently passing through the inner Solar System and has entered its most important observing phase. Astronomers identified the object as…

    The Lens that Fell to Earth: Viltrox 16mm f/1.8 L Lens
    Apr 11, 2026 David Prochnow

    Imagine a camera lens with a built-in liquid crystal display (LCD) screen that shows aperture settings, depth-of-field scales, and precise focus distance measurements. It sounds…