Alex Conu

Twelve years ago today, this happened. Its a transit of Venus in front of the Sun.The image was shot through a special @luntsolarsystems Solar telescope that allows you to see the Sun in H-alpha light. This is emitted by hydrogen atoms, by far the most common element in the Sun, when electrons wi...

18 years ago, in Turkey.

I was looking for some old photos and I found this pretty Moon I shot back in 2016, in Lofoten.

Last summer I started experimenting with instant film in astrophotography. The first results are super encouraging but I will not share them yet. Just bare with me a few more months. Heres my @intrepidcamera 4x5 camera loaded with Fujifilm FP-3000b film piggybacked on @vladulaus telescope at Astr...

The Moon with earthshine. Just because it looks pretty. Shot through my beloved Pentax 75SDHF refractor.

The Moon occulted Venus today. That means that the Moon passed In front of the planet and hid it for around one hour. The weather forecast was pretty iffy in Paris, but I was lucky and got literally 40 seconds when I was able to see the Moon and Venus next to it. I took a shot while the first rai...

Theres a partial lunar eclipse tonight. Unfortunately the weather in Paris doesnt cooperate and I will not be able to photograph it. So I leave you with this partial eclipse shot in Lofoten in 2018.

Astrophotography under the Big Dipper. Whats the boxy thing piggybacking on @vladulaus telescope you may ask. Thats @george_pascanus Mamiya RB67 camera taking photos of the night sky on medium format film.

I love taking photos of the night sky, but I have to be honest with you. Nothing beats visual astronomy.

One of the easiest to spot asterisms in the Northern skies, The Big Dipper, shines between the pine trees in the Romanian Carpathians.

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Observing the night sky through a big Dobsonian telescope during the Astromania star party, in the Romanian Carpathians. The smudge to the upper right of the frame is the Great Andromeda Galaxy. Then, just above the telescope and a little to the left, you can spot the Double Cluster in Perseus.