Guillaume Doyen
The company Vaonis, based in Montpellier, today announced the launch of the flagship of its range of connected observation stations: Hyperia, a fully automated instrument, equipped with the very latest technological advances in astrophotography. Hyperia is aimed not only at lovers of the field but...
Guillaume Doyen
La société Vaonis, basée à Montpellier, annonce aujourd'hui le lancement du fleuron de sa gamme de stations d'observations connectées : Hyperia, un instrument entièrement automatisé, doté des toutes dernières avancées technologies en matière d'astrophotographie. Hyperia s'adresse non seulement aux...
Guillaume Doyen
A team of amateur and professional astronomers have released astonishing pictures of planet Mars using a 1-meter diameter ground-based telescope. They carried on their observations for several nights and ended up forming, what one thinks to be, the most resolved map of Mars ever obtained from...
Guillaume Doyen
546 megapixels is the full resolution of this panoramic view of a region of the Milky Way photographed using a new-generation telescope built for mainstream users. In addition to a breathtaking resolution, this amazing deep view of the Carina and Centaurus constellations is the result of 336 hours...
Guillaume Doyen
Bien que Vénus soit le troisième objet le plus lumineux de notre ciel après le Soleil et la Lune, cette planète lorsqu'elle est observée avec un télescope, n'est pas pour autant aussi stupéfiante que Saturne, Jupiter ou encore Mars. Son atmosphère extrêmement réfléchissante est tellement brillante...
Guillaume Doyen
Although Venus is the third brightest object of our sky after the Sun and the Moon, this planet is not as mesmerizing as Saturn, Jupiter or Mars when observed through a telescope. Its highly-reflective atmosphere is so bright that it looks like a featureless white dot. However, an amateur...
Guillaume Doyen
On July 2, 2019, a Total Solar Eclipse occurred over South America, plunging professional observatories across Chile into darkness for up to 2 minutes 30 seconds. The path of the moon's shadow just passed over the ESO's La Silla ESO Observatory: a unique event which is not about to happen until...
Guillaume Doyen
L'astrophotographie est à part entière un moyen de vulgariser l'astronomie. Les images Juan-Carlos Muñoz est un astronome expérimenté tutoyant l'un des ciels les plus somptueux du monde et faisant cette usage de l'astrophotographie. AstroSpace a eu l'opportunité de le rencontrer lors de l'éclipse...
Guillaume Doyen
Astrophotography can sometimes be considered as a mean of popularizing astronomy. Images illustrate some technical and scientific concepts which remain difficult to imagine. Juan-Carlos Muñoz is an experienced astronomer who loves sharing his passion through capturing the sky of one of the...
Guillaume Doyen
1060 is the number of hours needed to capture this highly-resolved image (204 Megapixels) of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It might be the world's longest exposure image within the amateur astronomers community. In astrophotography, the amount of time you spend imaging a celestial object is...
Guillaume Doyen
Close-up animation of International Space Station docked with the SpaceX Dragon showing the SpaceX Crew Dragon on top. Credit: Nagy Szabolcs The space news was recently highlighted by a master stroke from the American company SpaceX: the first demonstration mission of the habitable Crew...