Tag: borealis

The Northern Lights in Paris? It seems impossible. Paris is so beautiful already, how could so much more beauty be added to it? And then of course, in a more practical way of thinking, isn’t Paris’s latitude too low for the aurora borealis to be visible? And so, when I first read a me...

Many photographers dream of capturing an iconic polar landscape with a dazzling display of northern lights in the background. Yet, few actually achieve this goal, and it is not just because we have to travel to the far north (or south for that matter); the very nature of the aurora is quit...

Astrophotography wouldn’t be anything without optics. To peer past the 6th-magnitude requires ‘eyes’ much stronger than our own — specifically, we need tools that help us gather more light, magnifying them for our own use. In other words, we’d need something that&rsq...

Astrophotography wouldn’t be anything without optics. To peer past the 6th-magnitude requires ‘eyes’ much stronger than our own — specifically, we need tools that help us gather more light, magnifying them for our own use. In other words, we’d need something that&rsq...