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With over 50 posts published on the site, some of the best ones can get lost in the archives. Below is a list of greatest hits: the top five astro photos as ranked by page views. They also happen to be five of the best! Although the more recent shots are taken with an...

Spring is aurora season, and just before midnight last night a display of the northern lights lit up the sky. Taking a test shot from the window confirmed the alert from my phone app, so I headed out the door. The display had already started to subside once I’d defrosted...

The Summer Triangle rises above Twistleton Scars in the Yorkshire Dales. The Milky Way bisects the scene with the great Andromeda galaxy visible in the top left of shot.

Since testing out the new Nikkor 180mm f2.8 lens on the Andromeda galaxy, we’ve been cursed with almost 3 solid weeks of cloud and moonlit nights. This is pretty typical, as anybody who’s just bought some new equipment will tell you. The stars finally came out for an...

Details: Nikon D7000, Nikkor 180mm f2.8 at f2.8. 12.5 minutes (25 x 30 seconds) at iso 800. Using didymium filter. Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker and tracked with barn door tracker. Also in the image is edge-on spiral galaxy Caldwell 23, 30 million light-years away in the...

Noctilove is a website devoted to low light photography and astrophotography with a barn door tracker. All of the images on this website were taken without a telescope. Just a regular DSLR and lens. You’ll find images of comets, meteors, galaxies and nebulae, as well as...

Lenses & telescopes William Optics ZenithStar 73 II APO – This high quality doublet telescope is a joy to use. When teamed with the 73a field flattener it produces fantastic results with pinpoint stars at 430mm / f5.9. William Optics SpaceCat 51 – This tiny but...