Who I am
A Belgian, a telescope in Texas, and the sky for a field.
My name is Arnaud Geoffroy. I live in Kraainem, Belgium, and I've been fascinated by space since childhood. My telescope, though, sits in Texas: I control it remotely from Belgium to photograph objects no one around me has ever seen with the naked eye — and to share them.
My Journey
From Tintin to the stars
As you may have guessed, my name is Arnaud Geoffroy. I'm in my forties and have been interested in space since I was a child.
Among the Tintin and Asterix albums was a book about our solar system where I was already learning more about our star, our planet and the other bodies in our solar system.
I grew up following a science-focused education and admiring photos of the cosmos taken by the HST (Hubble Space Telescope) such as, for example, the famous Pillars of Creation.
Around age 22, I bought my first astrophysics book, "Astronomy and Astrophysics" written by Séguin and Villeneuve, and stellar evolution literally fascinated me and made me want to learn even more. Books by the Bogdanov brothers, Hubert Reeves and Stephen Hawking were then added to the library.
Almost 20 years later, in 2021, I finally bought my first telescope and began to discover the cosmos with my own eyes and no longer just in a book or on the internet. Since the human eye is very limited, I quickly moved to photography in order to fully enjoy the objects in our celestial vault.
Two years later, after a first exhibition during my community's artists' tour, I decided to create this website to share these wonders with a larger audience. During this exhibition, I was struck by the number of people who had no idea about the wonders of our universe and asked me if these were paintings.
That's why you can read these few lines today.
If you feel like helping me in this endeavor, you can do so by ordering a print of one of my photos. This way, you'll help me finance equipment to take more photos and you'll acquire a limited edition art object.
The setup
Belgium, Texas, and nights of light
Belgian skies are rarely kind, and city lights wash out the stars. To keep photographing the deep sky, I operate a telescope set up in Texas — under one of the darkest skies in the world — from my desk in Belgium.
A single image can take anywhere from a few hours to dozens of exposures, gathered night after night — depending on the object and how faint the detail is. It's that patiently collected time that brings out what the eye will never see.
Images displayed on this site are hosted on 
AstroBin
, the leading platform for amateur and professional astrophotography.