How To Learn From Your First 5 Images
Your first few deep sky images are a milestone. They might be noisy. They might…
How To Shoot A Milky Way Time-Lapse
Watching the Milky Way rise and drift across the sky is one of the most…
Photographing The Moon With Foregrounds
The Moon is one of the easiest and most rewarding targets in the night sky.…
How To Frame And Compose Night Sky Photos
There’s a moment during every imaging session when the technical part settles - the gear…
What Kind Of Computer Do You Need For Astrophotography?
When you take your first set of deep sky photos, the excitement doesn’t end at…
Essential Apps For Astrophotographers
Astrophotography happens at night, but the work begins long before the sky gets dark. From…
How To Plan Your First Imaging Session
Your gear is ready. You’ve chosen a target, charged your batteries, maybe even practiced polar…
Seasonal Astrophotography Targets
The night sky changes with the seasons. What rises in the autumn horizon is different…
How To Combine Narrowband Filters For Richer Nebula Images
If you're using a colour astronomy camera like I do under less-than-perfect skies, you already…
Hydrogen Alpha to Launch LYRA-51 to Monitor Devon’s Night Skies
We today announce LYRA-51's new initiative to monitor night-sky quality in Devon. The project will…
Autoguiding For Deep Sky Astrophotography
As you gain experience with deep sky imaging, you will notice a gradual limit to…
HαLIDE to Digitise and Protect Six Decades of Space History
Hydrogen Alpha is proud to announce HαLIDE - the Hydrogen Alpha Library of Digitised Exploration.…
Polar Alignment: Why It Matters And How To Do It
When you take a long-exposure photo of the night sky without aligning your mount, stars…
How To Focus At Night
Focusing at night is one of those quiet challenges in astrophotography. It sounds simple, but…
Choosing a Star Tracker for Astrophotography
When you’re just starting out in deep sky astrophotography, one piece of equipment makes all…
Putting Together A Deep Sky Astrophotography Kit
As you begin to capture galaxies and nebulae, you’ll soon realise that astrophotography is about…
Choosing Your First Telescope
There’s a quiet kind of excitement in choosing your first telescope. It marks a shift…
How To Get Started With Deep Sky Astrophotography
On a clear night, you can look up and see thousands of stars with the…
Choosing an Astrophotography Camera
If you are beginning to explore the night sky through a lens, it does not…