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Photographing the northern lights with the Sony A7R V

Photographing the northern lights with the Sony A7R V

[ad_1] Armed with my Sony A7R V camera and the FE 12-24mm f/4 G lens, I set off in search of the northern lights in Abisko National Park.Located in the heart of Swedish Lapland, 121 miles (195 kilometers) within the Arctic Circle, Abisko National Park is the perfect...

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Observing Basics: What Messier missed

Observing Basics: What Messier missed

[ad_1] NGC 4565, the Needle Galaxy, was imaged with a ZWO ASI294MC Pro on a Takahashi FSQ-106N with 18 hours and 50 minutes of exposure. Credit: Molly Wakeling In 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalog of 103 objects in the heavens. He was...

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Secret Sky: Tropical Novaya Zemlya effects

Secret Sky: Tropical Novaya Zemlya effects

[ad_1] Back to Article List Now you see me, now you don’t. During the dry season at Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pan, temperature inversions lead to all manner of mirages. Credit: Stephen James O’Meara Any reference will tell you the Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar...

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ESA – Astro Chat with Marco Sieber

ESA – Astro Chat with Marco Sieber

[ad_1] Marco Sieber is one of ESA’s five astronaut candidates currently undergoing basic astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne. Join us as we speak to Marco about his first months of training and living in Germany, his background as a...

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Sky This Month: March 2024

Sky This Month: March 2024

[ad_1] Mercury at centre, on April 9, 2023, two days before its greatest evening elongation and best appearance in the evening sky for 2023 for northern hemisphere observers. Mercury was about magnitude -0.2 this night and was obvious to the naked eye. The star at...

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