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ALPINE COSMOS Credits: Adrien Mauduit The Alps are the perfect place to gaze at the stars at this season: it offers snow to light up your landscapes while it is still not too cold! I photograph this scene while I was at the Emission Dam about a month ago, where fresh snow had covered just the mount...

Northern Taurids, Pleiades and California nebula Adrien Mauduit On the night of November 22nd 2017, I decided to take a time-lapse of the pleiades and the california nebula to show the color difference of the two completely different objects, the one star cluster reflecting its light onto a passing...

Venus and Jupiter rising above El Teide Credits: Adrien Mauduit For my last morning on top of El Roque in La Palma, where I slept all night in my car to shoot astrophotography, I woke up to the most pure, eerie and out of this world sight. Not only Venus and Jupiter were rising so bright in the nau...

Red sprites, lightning, zodiacal lights, milky way and orange airglow on La Palma Credits: Adrien Mauduit In the night of November 21st-22nd (last night), I was out shooting a time-lapse of the milky way On La Palma in the Canary Islands when some clouds rolled in along with thunderstorm that devel...

Draconids and aurora at 40000 feet Credits: Adrien Mauduit On the night between the 7th and the 8th (last night while my European friends were sleeping), I was flying above the Atlantic ocean at around 40000 feet from Canada to Europe when the aurora decided to show at around 1:00 am LT (South of G...

Northern Light Cascade Credits: Adrien Mauduit I have never witnessed such bright auroras in my whole life. Last September, as the solar storm was still raging on, the particles from the sun sparked a G1 strong event that brightened the Icelandic sky. When I say brightened, I mean literally. The pa...

Hunting the Hunter Credits: Adrien Mauduit In this shot composed of 20 light frames (no calibration frames), I wanted to capture the the detailed nebulosity of the Orion complex rising above the Swiss Alps on October 26th 2017. I went up the the Emosson Damn near the French border to capture it. My...

Conjunction of 3% Moon, Venus & Zaniah over the Swiss Alps Credits: Adrien Mauduit Early morning was a beautiful sight to behold. The 3% crescent moon rose along Mars (too high for the picture), Venus, which was close to Zaniah, a fainter star. I was hoping the moon would rise more to the west ...

The return of the hunter Credits: Adrien Mauduit www.adphotography-online.com The return of cooler temperatures has not gone unnoticed in the Alps region in France, and with it, shortening days, but more importantly the return of our beloved winter milky way. If you are a H-emission lover, the wint...

Aurora borealis photobombing the Big Dipper over the smokey Canadian rockies Image credits: Adrien Mauduit In the months of July and August, British Columbia in Canada has known some of its most destructive wildfires, spreading across hundreds of miles and ravaging entire ecosystems. Winds bore the...

Icelandic Fall Credits: Adrien Mauduit Last week was the time of year when all the leaves of small bushes were turning yellow and red in Iceland, contrasting with the green mosses and the dark basalt rocks. It got even more visually interesting when Lady aurora came out to play on top of it, delica...

Colorful Corona over Iceland Credits: Adrien Mauduit I have never witnessed such bright auroras in my whole life. Last week, as the solar storm is still raging on, the particles from the sun sparked a G1 strong event that brightened the Icelandic sky. When I say brightened, I mean literally. The pa...

Colorful Icelandic aurora over fjord Credits: Adrien Mauduit Probably one of the most colorful aurora scenes from last week in Akureyri in northern Iceland. I love how the lights reflect in the turquoise water illuminated by the setting moon, the green aurora and the astronomical twilight. I had dr...

Flowing towards new horizons Credits: Adrien Mauduit The 27th of September offered an epic G3-strong storm, but being situated in Iceland, most of the show happened further south. It was the first time that I faced completely south to shoot them. However they still put on an amazing show. I was com...

Mont Jura by night Credits: Adrien Mauduit It is rare when you can get the perfect combinations of things in life. You have to content yourself with what's there and thrive with it. Even though the Jura mountain chain is bathed in light pollution from Lake Leman valley to the south and east, Lyon t...

Conjunction of 3% Moon, Venus & Zaniah over the Swiss Alps Credits: Adrien Mauduit Early morning was a beautiful sight to behold. The 3% crescent moon rose along Mars (too high for the picture), Venus, which was close to Zaniah, a fainter star. I was hoping the moon would rise more to the west ...

Noctilucent clouds and lightning show Credits: Adrien Mauduit High Level's latitude gives the Project Possum team (Citizen science research program) and myself an excellent vantage point to capture not only the elusive noctilucent clouds, but also other great natural phenomena like the aurorae or t...

Aurora borealis photobombing the Big Dipper over the smokey Canadian rockies Credits: Adrien Mauduit www.adphotography-online.com In the months of July and August, British Columbia in Canada has known some of its most destructive wildfires, spreading across hundreds of miles and ravaging entire eco...

The return of the hunter Credits: Adrien Mauduit www.adphotography-online.com The return of cooler temperatures has not gone unnoticed in the Alps region in France, and with it, shortening days, but more importantly the return of our beloved winter milky way. If you are a H-emission lover, the wint...

Perseid meteor shower over Valais in Switzerland Credits: Adrien Mauduit The 2017 Perseid peaked on August 11th but the waning gibbous moon made it hard to see all the small meteorites. Only big ones were visible in the bright sky! I took the shot in the Valais area in Switzerland as I was on vacati...

Perseid meteor shower over Valais in Switzerland Credits: Adrien Mauduit The 2017 Perseid peaked on August 11th but the waning gibbous moon made it hard to see all the small meteorites. Only big ones were visible in the bright sky! I took the shot in the Valais area in Switzerland as I was on vacat...

Aurora borealis photobombing the Big Dipper over the smokey Canadian rockies Image credits: Adrien Mauduit In the months of July and August, British Columbia in Canada has known some of its most destructive wildfires, spreading across hundreds of miles and ravaging entire ecosystems. Winds bore the...

Partial lunar eclipse rising above French Alps Credits: Adrien Mauduit On Monday 7th of August 2017, a partial lunar eclipse was visible at moonrise (19:50 UTC) local before the shadow shrank into the penumbral area, and eventually faded. I went up the Jura mountain in France to have a clear view o...

Noctilucent cloud photobombed by aurora borealis Credits: Adrien Mauduit On July 1st 2017, The PoSSUM team and myself were doing research on NLC in High Level, AB, Canada, when the northern light suddenly photobombed the NLC in an extraordinary manner. The pillars advanced behind of the clouds, and...

Noctilucent cloud arc under big dipper and Cassiopea Credits: Adrien Mauduit We witnessed the widest and widest NLC display so far in High Level, AB, Canada on July 1st, 2017, on the PoSSUM NLC airborne research campaign. The show surprised us at around 1:10 am, whereas it was clouded and the rain ...