When we capture the night sky, especially faint stars and nebulae, we use long exposures. Long exposures and higher ISO settings introduce noise. Noise shows up as grain, speckles, and unwanted patterns in the image. Because we are trying to…

To capture deep sky objects with a DSLR camera, a star tracker is critical gear. Sitting atop a sturdy tripod just below the camera, star trackers slowly rotate your camera to match the rotation of the Earth. Without this, long…

Digital photography has changed the way our cameras see light. Human eyes only see part of the light spectrum. We call that the visible spectrum. A digital camera sensor is not limited in the same way. It can record light…

For people who are curious about modifying a DSLR for night sky photography and want to know what that actually looks like in real use. You might have a camera you already use for Milky Way shots. You might have…