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Astrophotography is both an art and science, and has long been a source of fascination and fun for amateur astronomers. Yet the steep learning curve of mastering equipment, planning shoots, and processing images can feel overwhelming. Now, a groundbreaking new astrophotography course, powered by AI and available for iPhone, can guide you step by step
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Fluorite triplet TakahashiTokyo, Japan The FCT-65D is a low-dispersion Fluorite Triplet refractor. It has a 400mm focal length and a f/6.2 focal ratio, and a high Strehl ratio of .98. It also comes with a camera-angle adjuster and can be equipped with different Takahashi reducers, as well as dovetail plates and aluminum rings to accompany
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Abhijit Patil, taken from Bisti, New Mexico These “deviled egg” rock formations — also called the “Alien eggs” — lie under the Milky Way in this panorama taken with an astromodified Nikon Z 6II and 14–24mm zoom lens. The sky is a 4-panel mosaic, each frame taken at a focal length of 24mm and an
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In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are getting to know Bennu like never before — and a new study looks at how it could wreck us. Bennu is classified as a near-Earth
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan MitchellMaricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to distinguish between near-certain astronomical predictions and those which are far less so. Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda
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In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the elusive zodiacal light. Caused by light reflecting and scattering off dust in the plane of our solar system, one of the best times to see it is in the late winter and early spring. So, head to a reasonably dark site and
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5d ago
More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with tectonic activity and moonquakes that shook its surface. Evidence of these ground-shuddering events can be seen on the Moon’s nearside in the form of long features called wrinkle ridges — created when sheets
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I have always enjoyed looking at the sky on a clear night through binoculars. Seeing through individual optics for each eye creates a feeling of being in space. It’s different than looking through a telescope. Aesthetically, I find it much more pleasing. Most binoculars, unfortunately, just don’t collect enough light for real deep-sky viewing. But
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Shakeel Anwar from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Prominences dance around the limb of the Sun as the International Space Station crosses in front of the disk, imaged here in Hα with a 3.2-inch solar telescope. The imager took two 60-second videos with an astronomical camera — one to capture the transit and another to capture the
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Friday, February 7 Mighty Jupiter stands high in the east at sunset, dominating the stars of Taurus the Bull as they begin to appear in the deepening darkness. Once the Sun is safely below the horizon, center your telescope on the gas giant — those in the eastern half of the U.S. will see the planet
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