Astronomy Blog

In case you look west after sunset, you’ll most likely spot the fourth brightest object inside sky*: Venus. But as I looked west recently, I noticed two bright(ish) objects just above it. It didn’t take me long to figure out that they were the planets Saturn and Mars. Both looked red due to their low altitude above [...]

30-20 second pics, and 8-30 second pics at 1000 iso taken with unfiltered Nikon D70s and Meade 8″ LX200R at prime focus in alt/az mode. Stacked using DeepSkyStacker and corrected with Adobe PhotoShop with the help of the ebook, “A Guide to Astrophotography with Digital SLR Cameras” by Jerry Lodriguss. This was my first attempt at Astrophotography, hope [...]