Astrophotography processing

BEST TIME TO SEE: Nights of 9/10, 10/11 and 11/12 July A full Moon occurs when the Moon is opposite the Sun in the sky or, in other words, when its ecliptic longitude is 180° from the Sun. The eclipti

Andrea Arbizzi, Modena, Italy, December 2024–April 2025 Andrea says: “PuWe 1 is a tough, faint target and even more so from my Bortle 8 sky! But after 28 hours and some intensive processing, I was abl

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

When everything comes together, there’s no better feeling, as Michael Topham experienced in Croatia

1 Tap the flash icon to turn it on or off, to suit current lighting conditions. 2 Tap this to change the Night Mode setting. A slider lets you switch from Auto to manually setting the time length of t

However good your camera and lens, raw files usually benefit from some processing and tweaking. Rod Lawton shares some essential enhancements