08/06/2025
Hello everyone! My name is Vaibhav ( ), and astrophotography is my passion.
My fascination with the night sky began with the humbling perspective of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot." That feeling of our small place in a vast, star-filled universe is what pushes me to drive out at night to capture the stars with my camera. Early humans who looked up at the sky wondering about our place in the universe. Today we are capable of launching satellites and predicting the locations of the heavenly bodies with such accuracy, it's honestly magical. This is why I am honored to be collaborating with the to share some of my work.
The gear I use to capture my photographs is fairly simple as I focus primarily on wide field astrophotography. All my images are captured with a Nikon Z7 camera, with 20mm, 35mm and telephoto lenses. For my milkyway images, I use a portable star tracker from MoveShootMove. I usually shoot 30 exposures of 1 minute each and stack them to obtain the most detail. I blend this composite sky image with the foreground shot separately for my final composition. For post processing I use Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Pixinsight and StarStax. I have listed the image details below:
1. Milkyway and Observatories, Haleakala, Hawaii
2. Milkyway along the Highway, Tenerife, Spain
3. Yosemite Valley at Night
4. Moonrise at the Lighthouse, Netherlands
5. Exploding Bolide, PNW, USA
6. Perseids Meteor Shower with Aurora, Netherlands
7. Milkyway behind Mt St Helens, USA
8. Milkyway in the home of Zeus, Crete, Greece
9. Moonrise in Amsterdam
10. Partial Eclipse, Netherlands
I hope my unique perspective inspires a similar sense of awe in you.
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