Astra Obscura – Astrophotography & Space News

Welcome to Astra Obscura! I have created this website to share my personal experiences with the hobby of Astrophotography, as well as give me the ability to look back and gauge how far I’ve come.

You can read the About Me section, but in a nutshell, I am a beginner at Astrophotography and hope that my trials & tribulations will help others new to the hobby. Some of my methods may be considered wrong or unorthodox, but as I mentioned before, I am a beginner.

Feel free to browse around the site, share your comments and concerns

Latest Posts

- After a long hiatus
  July 26, 2021It’s been quite some time since my last post. Life and weather have gotten in the way of one of my most coveted hobbies. To be honest,I was getting a little discouraged and felt limited by my equipment. I was feeling that I wasn’t able to capture anything of significance with my entry-level gear, but now I feel more motivated than ever. I realize now that I can use the equipment I have now to learn the basics e.g. navigating the night sky, camera settings, and finally, post-processing. The weather is pretty poor this time of year, as we have some serious monsoons out here in the desert. As soon as the skies clear up, I plan to go back out there and keep at it!… Read more…
- What’s in the sky? – January 2021
  January 19, 2021Planets Mercury at magnitude -0.5, becomes visible low in the south-west evening, where it groups up with Jupiter and Saturn. Venus continues to burn brightly in the sky at magnitude -3.9. Mars too in its prime is found high in the south during fading evening twilight. Mars currently is a magnitude +0.1, only 1/10th as bright as it was in October. Jupiter and Saturn begin losing elevation at dusk as the month goes on…. Read more…