What follows is a mid/entry-level telescope-based astrophotography setup. It contains everything you will need to start shooting the skies. Below is how the Andromeda Galaxy would fit into your image using this setup (this image is heavily compressed, so details are lost). The TS Optics…
Capturing the planets and the Moon is the easiest way to begin in astrophotography and you don't need to live in a place without light pollution. Planetary astrophotography can be done even from a big city since the planets and the Moon are very bright…
Below, you will find a selection of the best telescopes for observing the Moon, the planets and the deep sky objects. Okay, best telescopes, that may be a subjective point of view since your preferences and mine may differ. But I tried to select one…
Astronomers may have found the first exoplanet outside of our own galaxy according to a paper published on September 22, 2020. While finding exoplanets (planets orbiting around other stars) has become an ordinary thing, over 4,300 have already been discovered in our galaxy, this would…
On September 14, 2020, a group of researchers published the news of the discovery of an unremarkable gas in Venus’s atmosphere: phosphine (PH3). Within no time their findings sent tremors throughout the Internet. But why? Well, on Earth phosphine is a byproduct of biological chemistry…