View the winning submissions in the International Dark Sky Association's "Capture the Dark" photography contest. By Alysia Gray Painter • Published July 16, 2020 • Updated on July 16, 2020 at ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

Stephen Hummel, Dark Sky Specialist at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory, which saw 80,000-100,000 annual visitors pre-pandemic, confirms it's still been busy.

So spectacular is the nighttime sky above this monument that it holds the distinction of being the first IDA-designated dark sky park in the world on March 6, 2007.

Bisbee is the 22nd dark sky place in Arizona, and among 155 in the U.S., many of them clustered in the Southwest. It earned certification after a six-year-long community effort led by Bruce Syrett.

DarkSky International in 2016 designated Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve as the nation’s first preserve to achieve ...

This is an important aspect to consider if you are like me and must travel to a dark-sky site. When you can only spend a single evening in a location, shooting a wide-field subject becomes a ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens and embark on a journey through the night sky to capture everything from ...

Go somewhere with a very dark sky. Over on Shutterbug, a photographer by the name of Jess Santos wrote a beginner’s guide to astrophotography.And while much of it is focused on having the right ...