When your field becomes extremely wide, you find yourself in the realm of nightscapes — images of the night sky that may also include terrestrial vistas, like Orion and the winter Milky Way ...

A wide-angle lens that can shoot at f/2.8 or faster. A sturdy tripod. (Mine is made of carbon fiber.) A tracking mount like the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer or the Move Shoot Move rotator.

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Some of the largest objects in the night sky to view through a telescope are galaxies and supernova remnants, often many times larger in size than the moon but generally much less ...

This particular model is more suited for wide-angle astrophotography as opposed to deep-sky astrophotography, for which a separate counterweight accessory would need to be purchased.

It needs to be a wide-angle, in order to capture as much of the sky as possible, and so you're looking at 14-20mm on a full-frame camera, 1-14mm on APS-C, or 7-10mm on Micro Four Thirds.

WRAL viewers submitted photos of beautiful clouds they saw in the sky before Wednesday night's storms. Posted 5:25 a.m. Jul 11, 2024 - Updated 2:23 a.m. Jul 24, 2024 ...

Clouds gazing could also improve outlook and personal well-being, he says. Dazing into the sky can provide a wider “perspective on the stresses and strains down here on the ground,” he says.

The world's cloud authority, having not classified a new cloud in three decades, arose Thursday to name about a dozen new types, including a rolling, slalom-like form known to blanket the Iowa sky.