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A Glance At Astrophotography

Heres a quick look at some concepts around astrophotography to get you started.

Astrophotography is all about capturing photons

In this article we explore the basics of trying to capture light from far off in the universe on a camera on the Earth’s surface.

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Milky-Way.Kiwi interviews Ian Cooper – A giant of New Zealand astrophotography

Ian Cooper is a giant in New Zealand astrophotography. He has been capturing the night sky since the 1970s and in this article he takes us through some of the highlights and give us some tips.

Astrophotography is for everyone

You don’t need expensive equipment to do astrophotography. A smartphone and a telescope is all you need to get some great shots that will impress your friends and family.

January: 1-2-3 dogs and cats

Instructions to read before looking up – November night sky

Astrophotography is for everyone, again…

This is the next iteration in showing how astrophotography can be for everyone. This time we demonstrate what we photographed with an iPhone.

What we do on our stargazing sessions

We run public stargazing sessions from an amazing dark sky location between Martinborough and Carterton in Wairarapa and we thought it would be helpful to cover what we do on our stargazing sessions.

You want to take pictures of the night sky?

In this article we explore some of things that you need to think about if you want to take pictures of the night sky.

PhotoPills: imagine, plan, shoot – an astrophotography planning tool.

“Any photographer that has a question that needs an answer can use PhotoPills. Beginners use it to find sunrise and set times, golden hour and blue hour times and for basic calculations like depth of field. Then we have the photographers that plan their Sun, Moon and Milky Way shots… it all depends on your needs.”

The Bizarre and Confusing World of Telescope Mounts – Part One

Often when people go and buy their first telescope they don’t think much about the mount, they tend to focus more on the capabilities of the telescope itself.

What’s in the night sky in October 2019

Get your observing on! Here comes October and what are we going to look at? New Zealand switched to summer time, that is we put our clocks forward one hour. We are seriously starting to think now about solar astronomy.

A family of stars

Stars don’t last forever, it might seem like 10 billion years is almost forever but not every star lives as long as our Sun. This article covers what happens when stars die and shows some very awesome images from the European Space Observatory of the surface of some stars.

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