Blue hour milky way shot over my favourite tree. Jupiter and Saturn to the bottom right of the picture A timelapse of the milky way rising over the Andes with Jupiter and Saturn in tow was next on my list.

Jupiter and Saturn rising over an ancient carob tree in the Atacama Desert If you want to get great astrophotography shots you need to do your homework. Knowing exactly when and where certain objects are

The mesmerizing Ring Nebula. Perhaps what our sun we look like in 4.5 billion years Our sun just like all other stars in the universe will not live forever. Which makes me wonder what is going to happen

You can even make an ugly foreground look beautiful in the right light Sometimes you have to work with what you've got, in this case these electricity cables were the perfect foreground for my semi-urban

Light pollution and clouds can still be used to good affect Astrophotography doesn't always have to be in the darkest places far away from civilization. Sometimes you can take great photos from your own

Moonlight illuminating the observatory with star trails behind Continuing on from yesterday's post about finding the celestial south pole, this time I wanted to experiment further with star trails and

The celestial south pole is the point where the stars are rotating around I recently posted about the 500 rule to get sharp milky way photos and avoid star trails. This time I want to do exactly that,

Milky Way: Cropped Sensor.16mm - F 3.5 / ISO 5000 / 20 Sec For those of you who are getting into astrophotography you might wonder how to get your stars looking sharp in Milky Way photos. The answer is

The new black hole photo polarized. On the left the real photo, on the right simulations of the powerful jets shooting out from its core Back in March I posted about my trips to ALMA and in particular

A clear sky in Atacama with the milky way overhead I am a big fan of Elon Musk and everything he is doing at SpaceX. I fully believe in their mission to Mars. But is his latest Starlink mission to provide

Albireo Binary Star: A binary star orbiting each other When you look up into the sky and see the stars twinkling you are not actually seeing what's really there. 80% of the stars you see in the sky are

Rigel: A super-blue Giant at the foot of Orion Stars light up the night sky and open our minds and curiosity to what's beyond our solar system. But the reality is most people live in light polluted areas

Comet Neowise passing earth at its closest point Comets are things of beauty that only come around once in a blue moon, long regarded as mythical objects in the night sky and under intense research by

Jupiter: The largest planet in the solar system, here showing 3 of the 4 Galilean moons Continuing on from yesterday's post I wanted to show you guys how I got on photographing the planets in our solar

Craters of the Moon The main reason I got into photography was through my work as an astronomy guide. Lucky to have access to a large telescope capable of seeing distant galaxies, I thought it would be

Pointing at our closest neighbouring star - Alpha Centauri On my second night camping in this idyllic location, I checked my moon app before I went out scouting to make sure the moon wouldn't spoil my

Our camping spot in the deep canyons of Atacama I recently posted about my first attempt at astrophotography light painting to illuminate the subject at night. I had a crazy idea to camp high up in the

Trying to capture that money shot For this post I wanted to write about something slightly different - here are a few of my favourite shots I've taken over my many photography expeditions from behind the

A layer of clouds cover the snow-capped volcanoes When you live in one of the driest places on earth, cloudy weather can be a luxury. Clouds always add texture and drama to your scene. Over the past few

Golden Hour over Licancabur Volcano Continuing on from my last post I wanted to highlight how you can completely change your photo when shooting frmo golden hour to blue hour. Licancabur Volcano is just