About

V Brown, astrophotographer. Nomadstro.

I’m V. I’m 17. I shoot the night sky, and I do it from wherever my family happens to travel.

We live nomadically. That means a different sky every few weeks: Bortle 1 sites in west Texas, summit roads in New Mexico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the path of totality outside León, Spain. The road sets the schedule. I work around it.

What I shoot is most often deep-sky: galaxies, nebulae, the structure of the Milky Way. Eclipses when they’re in reach. My primary rig is a Sky-Watcher Wave 100i, SharpStar EDPH-III refractor, and Ares-M Pro cooled mono camera. The Canon Rebel T7 still comes out for wide-field work.

I think differently. I’m neurodivergent, and I’ve stopped treating that like something to explain away. It’s part of how I see, including what I notice in a frame and how I sit through the long parts of this work that other people find boring. The patience this demands is, for me, the easy part.

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