Useful Astrophotography Links and Resources
Last updated December 2025
Stargazers Lounge is an excellent forum, and well worth joining. The people are knowledgeable and friendly, and always happy to answer questions you have. They’ve helped me more times that I can remember.
Cosgrove’s Cosmos is an excellent site filled with useful information, including detailed processing walkthroughs.
lukomatico produces good YouTube tutorials about PixInsight processing, among other things.
Cuiv the Lazy Geek makes lots of videos that are worth a look.
Astrostace‘s video about a budget pier was the starting point of making my own.
Deep Sky Astrophotography With CMOS Cameras by Dr Robin Glover explains the science of why modern CMOS cameras are well-suited to short exposure times.
Astrobiscuit‘s YouTube videos are ace.
Stellarium is free planetarium software, good for planning imaging sessions.
Light Pollution Map gives you an idea of your local sky conditions.
Clear Outside is a weather forecasting site for stargazers.
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