by Steven Smith | Jul 1, 2023 | 2023, 07 July, Astronomy, Galaxies, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
View the July 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide There are few things more beautiful than a breathtaking landscape or nightscape—especially one that includes the Lord’s incredible Milky Way! A panorama enhances everything we love about landscapes, because panoramas show...
by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Astronomy, Covers, Nebulas
View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Tarantula Nebula. Photo by James Webb Space Telescope and the NIRCam instrument.
by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Astronomy, Galaxies, Let's Take a Hike
View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Cartwheel Galaxy. Photo by James Webb Space Telescope and the NIRCam instrument.
by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Astronomy, End of the Trail, Galaxies, Nebulas, Planets
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by Morris Yoder | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Planets, Study Guide, Sun, The Photo Focus
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by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Answer Key, Astronomy, Focus Illustrated, Study Guide, Sun, The Photo Focus
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by Shaphan Shank | Jan 11, 2022 | 2022, 01 January, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Nebulas, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
So you’ve invested in the necessary equipment, learned how to use it, and gathered a night’s worth of photos of some deep-sky target. You’ve also shot the calibration frames that you will need. The subframes from your camera, with a washed-out sky and a dull,...
by Shaphan Shank | Nov 24, 2021 | 2021, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Galaxies, Nebulas, Study Guide, Telescopes & Accessories, The Photo Focus
M81 and M82. Photo © Shaphan Shank. In my early teens, I knew almost nothing about astrophotography, except that I wanted to try it. My early dreams included using a very cheap CCD camera we had, along with our 8” Newtonian reflector. Then, a few years later, we had...
