Astrophotography from a city can be disheartening. Ten hours of photos from a city backyard might not get you close to what less than an hour would from a dark site when it comes to revealing faint galaxies, nebulae, and dust. Star cl...

Making images out of narrowband data is inherently artistic in nature. Choices need to be made about how the wavelength or wavelengths are assigned colour wise, as well as their relative intensities to each other. Playing with these f...

Alnitak is the leftmost star in Orion's Belt, and the sworn enemy of many astrophotographers. One of the brightest stars in the sky, right in the middle of two large, famous, and photogenic emission nebulae is a recipe for halos, refl...

The Bubble Nebula is a star forming region in Cassiopea, featuring a very distinct shell from the massive central star. The main star is actually not in the middle of the bubble, it's to the right in George's image, but the piling up ...

As we enter spooky season, a couple of targets in the night sky become particularly seasonable, one of them being an emissive reflection nebula around the bright star Navi in the constellation of Cassiopeia, named the Ghost of Cassiop...

Wildfire Smoke has negative effects for everybody, and thanks to climate change, hotter drier summers make it more and more prevalent of a nuisance. As annoying- and even dangerous- as it is, one has to admit: it can make for some pretty...

Aurora are caused by changes in geomagnetic activity due to solar activity, collectively referred to as "space weather". The particularly active solar maximum we're in currently has led to an especially frequent and active stretch of ...