I started with this hobby back in 2019. A friend of mine asked me why I don’t have a telescope of my own being so interested in astronomy. When I finally decided to buy a telescope I didn’t want to limit myself to just looking at the night sky because of the restricted number of objects you can observe with your eyes. With a camera attached to the telescope you can “see” so much more because the camera sensor can gather more light than your eyes, revealing even the faintest deep sky objects.

I started off by buying a “cheaper” telescope and a mount using the Nikon D500 camera I already owned. Over time I have upgraded the equipment since my interest wasn’t just transient. The beginning was challenging and frustrating at times with no or useless user guides provided with the equipment I bought. Watching YouTube tutorials came to my rescue, but also a lot of trial and error…

The telescope is a bit like goggles or cyclops in the water – a new world is opened to explore. And I could see more in the sky than I ever expected and at mind-blowing distances. Photographing nebulae and galaxies is also a way of time travel, I look back in time since the light from faint galaxies has travelled millions of years before reaching the sensor of my camera.

Today the equipment needed for this hobby is easily available and gets more and more advanced and capable each year. This hobby can be very expensive but doesn’t have to be, and when you take your first image of a deep sky object you are most likely “hooked for life”!

The primary purpose with this website is to gather some of my astrophotographies in one place for you to explore. I will also present new pictures here when they are ready to be displayed. But I also want to share with you some insights I´ve learned about astronomy while taking these images. Most information presented here has been gathered from internet sources so there might be errors in the text. I would also like to explain how I took these pictures, what equipment I used and why, and how I processed these images in the computer without being too detailed. This for you to better understand how these photos were made. And maybe I can inspire someone to start with this hobby, that would be awesome!

Astronomy is science but astrophotography is a combination of science and art. When processing an image of a deep sky object there are so many things one can do, and easily “overdo” unfortunately… Sometimes astrophotographers associate specific gases like hydrogen and oxygen to “false colors” in order to reveal details in the nebulae that would otherwise be hidden. This technique has been widely used e.g in many photographies taken by the Hubble telescope. So what you see in many astrophotographies may not be scientifically accurate and never intended to be.

With all that said I hope you enjoy my photos. I would also like to thank Nikos Tsirigotis, my brother in law, for helping me create this website. If you have any comments or questions feel free to contact me and I will try to respond ASAP.

//Jonas