April 17, 2026

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Michael Bonocore
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Three images: left, a barn under the Milky Way; center, a close-up of stars and nebulae in the night sky; right, an old wooden building with circular star trails in the sky above it.

8 Astrophotography Lessons the Beginner Guides Leave Out

Photographer Matt Suess was halfway through a 45-minute star trail exposure in Joshua Tree when he noticed a hazy band stretched across the sky. He had grown up in New England, where light pollution hid the Milky Way, so he didn’t know what he was looking at. He pointed his camera at it. It was Suess’s first time seeing the Milky Way, but the photos came back soft. Decades of night shooting later, understanding why is the kind of lesson only experience can teach.

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Jeremy Gray
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A person holds a white digital camera with both hands on the left; on the right is a simplified, stylized illustration of the same camera, viewed from a similar angle.

It Looks Like Insta360 Is Making a Micro Four Thirds Camera

Back in January, Insta360's CEO and founder, Jingkang "JK" Liu posted an eye-catching image on Chinese social media site, Weibo, that showed two new products. Liu was using an unknown camera to photograph another unknown product. A recent leak sheds new light on the camera Liu teased, and it looks very interesting. Micro Four Thirds is getting a fancy new camera.