Noise-Free Star Photos – a Starry Sky Stacker Review
Starry Sky Stacker
Starry Sky Stacker, from the developers of Starry Landscape Stacker, is a Mac-only image stacking program that allows you to stack, or combine, images of deep-sky objects...
Milky Way Photography for Beginners – Research, Location Scouting and Apps
In Part Two, I cover the "In The Field" portion of a Milky Way adventure - from pre-trip items you should look at to prepping the camera before the...
How to Remove Coma Aberration From Your Astro Images
What is Coma Aberration? Before we start talking about how to remove or even avoid coma in your astrophotography images, lets first talk about coma aberration. It is an...
Milky Way Photography for Beginners – Post Processing
Welcome to the final installment of our series devoted to beginning Milky Way photographers. In Part One, we covered research options such as apps that we use. Part Two...
Perfect Focus with a Bahtinov Mask!
What is a Bahtinov Mask?
A Bahtinov mask is a device used to help focus telescopes but can also be used to achieve focus on any camera with a telephoto...
What’s new in Starry Landscape Stacker Version 1.7
Starry Landscape Stacker is a popular, Mac only, program that allows you to stack landscape images that include a starry night sky to reduce noise and enhance detail. It...
How to use a Star Tracker
How to use a Star Tracker: Setup and Polar Alignment
In the following video by Dark Skies with Matt Quinn, he walks us through how to set up and polar...
Discover Your Milky Way Photography With These Techniques
Hey aspiring Milky Way photographers, how is your year going so far? I am back with the second part of our series "Milky Way Photography for Beginners." ...
Google Maps Research Tips For Milky Way Photography
Conducting research is a prime task when it comes to photography. Milky Way photography and other genres require us to spend anywhere from a few minutes to a...
Milky Way Photography Printing 101
Printing your Milky Way photography will be one of the most self-gratifying things a photographer can do. Seeing one’s work go from pixels to a physical object that we...