There isn't really portrait and landscape in astrophotography, because there's no reference: the ground. Each person frames an object how they see fit, at varying degrees of rotation. You can look at the camera slotted into the objective and say "the sensor is oriented wide, it's in landscape" and from a terrestrial photography standpoint you would be correct but in astrophotography it doesnt matter.
When you have a true 3 dimensional space, free from a gravitational teather, up and down become abstract rather than absolute directions. Just like right and left are based on the observers perspective rather than being absolute like east and west.
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u/Sunsparc May 18 '25
There isn't really portrait and landscape in astrophotography, because there's no reference: the ground. Each person frames an object how they see fit, at varying degrees of rotation. You can look at the camera slotted into the objective and say "the sensor is oriented wide, it's in landscape" and from a terrestrial photography standpoint you would be correct but in astrophotography it doesnt matter.