8 Astrophotography Lessons the Beginner Guides Leave Out

Photographer Matt Suess shares his lessons on photographing the night sky that beginners often don't think about.

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8 Astrophotography Lessons the Beginner Guides Leave Out

Photographer Matt Suess shares his lessons on photographing the night sky that beginners often don't think about.

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M 81 - Bode's Galaxy

Seestar S50
1,962 10 & 20second images
stacked and processed with Siril.
Beverley, Yorkshire, UK

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The Orion Nebula

Seestar S50
1590 10& 20 second images from 5 sessions
processed with Siril, Graxpert, Veralux, & GIMP

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Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis
Credits: Leonardo Julio, Astronomia Pampeana
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Capella is the sixth-brightest star in the night sky, and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere after Arcturus and Vega. A prominent object in the northern sky, it is circumpolar to observers north of 44°N. Its name meaning "little goat" in Latin
Seestar S50
9 x 10s images
Beverley, Yorkshire, UK
Processed in Siril

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M106- it is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. I took about 12h of data between Hydrogen and LGBR filters, however I ended up throwing all of the L data out as the filter was not exactly clean and I didn't have any flats for it.

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17-04-2026 Image Of The Day
https://app.astrobin.com/u/George?i=b1d4ar#gallery
Artemis II Orion Spacecraft on Its Way to The Moon by George Konkov
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Artemis II Orion Spacecraft on Its Way to The Moon - AstroBin

Last night I pointed my backyard at NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft (named "Integrity" by the crew). This is a timelapse of its movement. I’ve only gotten 150 frames here, and I’m planning to uploa...

Milky Way over Death Valley.

On my recent trip through the US Southwest I had clear skies and late nights. The galactic core has returned to our skies, and so I spent a lot of time in the dark taking picture of the Milky Way. Some photos are better than others, and I learned some things about composition and keystone issues with an ultra wide lens. The next few photos are from that trip.

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