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Viewing the Gegenschein

If you spend enough nights outside with a camera and a thermos, the sky starts talking back. It speaks in whispers though, and the Gegenschein is one of its quietest voices -almost impossible to catch too. I like that. It rewards patience, good notes, and an honest eye. Chasing it will tune your instincts for transparency, light pollution gradients, and the way the ecli...

Tiny astrophotography rig built by Cuiv

Astronomy gear keeps leaning toward two virtues that often tug in opposite directions. Portability so you will actually carry it out. Power so your images do not leave you wishing you had brought the big rig. Cuiv, The Lazy Geek set himself a simple challenge. Build the smallest kit he could that still produces images with real scientific and aesthetic weight. The core ...

Light pollution filter LEVIATHAN Spectral Pro

If you've been shooting under light-polluted skies soaked in LED glare, you already know exactly how ugly this has gotten. I’m lucky, I'm still sitting in a Bortle 3 pocket - but I can drive just a few miles west and watch the night get steamrolled by people "upgrading" to those gawd-awful, retina-searing LEDs they sell at Walmart, Menards, Lowe&...

The startup bringing space telescopes to everyone

What if you could schedule your own cosmic observation from space - no clouds, no light pollution, no billion-dollar budget? In a world where most CubeSats stare hungrily back at Earth, a small team is flipping the narrative. Bueche Labs, driven by startup veterans with a restless love for the stars, is on a mission to point affordable telescopes outward, opening the...

Scope Nights updates to 2.6 giving stargazers a faster app

Scope Nights version 2.6 introduces a set of improvements intended to make the stargazing planning experience faster, smoother, and more reliable across iPhones and iPads. The update is available at no cost and brings the app into full compatibility with iOS 26 and current Apple mobile hardware. The developer notes that a considerable portion of the internal logic and i...

Missouri aurora November 2025 my first time with astrophotography

A few nights ago, my wife, daughter, and I stood in our driveway after hearing that the aurora might be visible through night mode on our phones. We weren’t expecting much-maybe a faint glow, maybe nothing at all. But the moment we lifted our phones toward the northern horizon, the screens revealed a soft red and violet haze rippling across the sky. It wasn’...

OMI Astro remote telescopes are ready for new astrophotography season

OMI Astro remote telescopes offer astronomers and astrophotography enthusiasts the opportunity to conduct imaging sessions using professional-grade telescopes without traveling to observatories. The service provides users with online access to equipment located in optimal viewing locations, allowing for clear and precise celestial observations. Accessing profession...

Preorder Dwarf Mini a lightweight powerful smart telescope

The new Dwarf Mini smart telescope from DWARFLAB introduces a compact, lightweight, and feature-rich approach to portable astrophotography. Designed for travelers, backyard observers, and astronomy enthusiasts, it combines imaging, tracking, and on-device processing into a single unit weighing under one kilogram. With a preorder price of $399, the Dwarf Mini aims to mak...

ZuluAlpha remote observatory phase 1 reservation now open

The newly launched ZuluAlpha remote observatory near Sutherland, South Africa, is now accepting reservations for Phase 1 of its remote hosting facility. Built on a high plateau under some of the darkest skies on Earth, the observatory allows astronomers, astrophotographers, and research institutions to operate telescopes and instruments remotely. The site has been desig...

CXB astro imaging filters exclusively at Farpoint

The introduction of CXB Astro Imaging Filters marks a continuation of a well-established tradition in advanced astronomical optics. Distributed exclusively through Farpoint Astro, these narrowband filters are designed for astrophotographers seeking precision and stability in data acquisition. The CXB filters represent the same engineering lineage as the renowned Astrodo...

Reflect Orbital satellites could roast the night sky!

Are you kidding me? As if the ever-growing wall of light pollution from every city, streetlight, and LED billboard wasn’t already bad enough, now we’ve got a startup that wants to beam sunlight back down to Earth at night. Reflect Orbital - backed by Sequoia Capital and Baiju Bhatt, no less - wants to fill the sky with thousands of satellites th...

Stellar SHO set from Optolong to unlock your cameras performance

Optolong has introduced a new pair of filters designed for astrophotographers using color cameras: the L-Synergy and the updated L-eXtreme. Together, these filters provide a pathway to creating narrowband-style images in the well-known Hubble Palette (SHO) while maintaining compatibility with one-shot-color (OSC) cameras. The addition of what Optolong describes as enhan...

Under One Sky 2025 DarkSky event details

Under One Sky 2025 is DarkSky International’s annual global conference focused on light pollution, night sky preservation, and the impact of artificial lighting on ecosystems and human health. The event will take place virtually over 24 continuous hours on November 7–8, providing access to participants across time zones. Structured around regional session...

Australians urged to sign petition EN7346 on light pollution

Australia has some of the best skies in the world. Astronomers there have long enjoyed views that many others can only dream of. Yet those skies are not guaranteed. Artificial light at night, what the experts call ALAN, is steadily spreading across cities, towns, and countrysides. It does more than hide the Milky Way. It strains our health, confuses wildlife, wastes ene...

Starfront Observatories installs Custom 24-Inch F3 telescope

Starfront Observatories in Rockwood, Texas has installed its largest telescope yet. A custom-built 24 inch f/3 Newtonian astrograph now rides atop a wedge-mounted PlaneWave L-600, marking a significant leap forward in the observatory’s growing array of customer hosted telescopes. This instrument was handcrafted in Italy by Marco Guidi of Doc Telescopes, a name tha...

Under One Sky 2025 information and registration

Under One Sky is a 24-hour virtual conference hosted by DarkSky, the organization leading the fight against light pollution worldwide. The event brings together advocates, scientists, students, and people who care about preserving dark skies. Taking place entirely online, it follows the path of night across the globe, linking people from many time zones into one continu...

See Mercury early morning August 2025

Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, orbits the sun every 88 days. Its swift journey around the sun means that it often appears close to the sun in our sky, making it challenging to observe. Mercury passes between Earth and the sun approximately every 116 days, a position known as inferior conjunction. During this time, Mercury is lost in the ...

Choosing the right astrophotography camera

Astrophotography once relied entirely on film, a method plagued by low sensitivity, challenging exposures, and highly limited post-processing capabilities. The emergence of CCD sensors marked a massive improvement, offering lower noise and enhanced image quality. However, the introduction of CMOS sensors revolutionized the field even further. CMOS technology has rapidly...

Capturing the Milky Way using the Dwarf 3 Smart telescope

Ah, the Milky Way. That quiet band of light stretching across the summer sky has been there longer than anyone can remember, yet every year it pulls our eyes upward like it is brand new. It is the one thing in the warm night sky that can make a person stop in their tracks, hold up a phone, and try to catch its faint dusting of stars in a photograph. Out here, away from ...

Peach State Star Gaze 2025

The Peach State Star Gaze (PSSG) is one of the longest-running annual star parties in the southeastern United States. Set to return for its 31st year, the 2025 event will be held from October 19 through October 26 at the familiar grounds of Deerlick Astronomy Village in Georgia. Organized by the Atlanta Astronomy Club, this event offers amateur astronomers a week-long o...

Gskyer 70MM telescope impressions

The Gskyer 70MM refractor telescope is designed with one goal in mind, accessibility for beginners, particularly children and families who want a simple way to observe the night sky. While it's often labeled as a “kid’s telescope,” that doesn’t mean it lacks value for adults seeking their first experience with astronomy. This compact and ligh...

IDAS Dusk to Dawn filter

The IDAS DTD, officially known as the Dusk to Dawn filter, represents a unique approach to astrophotography filtering. Unlike many filters that specialize in narrowband isolation or broadband light suppression, this multi-bandpass filter offers a hybrid experience that caters to a wide variety of celestial targets. From comets and emission nebulae to galaxies and the Mi...

PARISTAR star party in the Pisgah National Forest

Each year, amateur astronomers across the Southeast look forward to one of the most accessible and friendly star party weekends in the region: the Star Party at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, better known as PARI. Set in western North Carolina, surrounded by forest and far from city lights, PARI is a certified Dark Sky Park with Bortle 2 conditions, some of...

Houdini 12 coma-correcting eyepiece

Following the successful debut of the Houdini 20, Houdini Telescopes has announced the next in its series of high-performance coma-correcting eyepieces: the Houdini 12 mm 86° Coma-Correcting Eyepiece. Designed to deliver exceptional sharpness, immersive fields of view, and unmatched coma correction in Newtonian reflectors, the Houdini 12 is already shaping up to be ...

Star party planning tips

Attending a star party for the first time can be exhilarating, humbling, and, at times, downright uncomfortable. While the thrill of dark skies and celestial wonders is the main draw, many attendees, especially those new to the experience, quickly realize that poor planning can turn a magical night into a freezing, sleep-deprived ordeal. Fortunately, shared wisdom from ...

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