Astrophotography

Milky Way from France

10 June 2019 · Photography

One clear night during a conference in the south of France was enough to set up a star tracker in a vineyard at 2 AM and photograph the Milky Way. The result is a composite blending a long ground exposure with a tracked sky shot — the brightest ‘star’ in the frame turned out to be Jupiter.

Milky Way & Perseids

1 November 2018 · Photography

Seeing the Milky Way for the first time in Slovenia was a perspective-shifting moment — far from Belgium’s light-polluted skies, the universe suddenly felt real. This post shares night photography from that trip, including star trail composites and a time-lapse showing the Earth’s rotation.