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All photos are carefully taken with a Celestron 8” newtonian telescope, mounted on a german equatorial mount, using a monochrome sensor actively cooled dedicated astro camera from ZWO.

One of the most important aspects of this type of photography is location, and by that I mean dark location. Your best results will be the darkest places you can find that are away from the light pollution of the city. I myself do my work anywhere from Bortle class 3 to 4, with a rare occasion of Bortle class 1. To find the Bortle class of your area, you can use lightpollutionmap.info to find your nearest dark site.

Photos like these take an immense amount of time both during the capture process and clean up of the final image from all the data that was captured, to produce the best signal to noise ratio, than a single capture can, of these space objects that are trillions of miles away.