Photography

As soon as Cem got his first camera, he started taking night shots. When he realized that he could make things that are invisible to the human eye visible through the camera, he became addicted to it. He has been capturing the beauties of the night sky with his camera ever since. He takes so much pleasure from being in the solitude under the stars at night that he doesn’t realize how time flies.

– Optolong NightScape Competition 2024 (Nightscape 1st place)

– Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023, Royal Observatory Greenwich (Our Sun Category shortlist) – with Tunç Tezel (TWAN)

– Optolong NightScape Competition 2022 (Nightscape 1st place)

– Photo NightScape Awards 2022, France (Mobile Phone 2nd place and Nightscape shortlist)

– 2x Astronomy Picture of the Day by NASA

His works have also been featured in Sky&Telescope magazine and on the social media accounts of organizations such as TWAN, IDA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

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It was created by composing the frames taken at different stages of the bloody lunar eclipse in 2018 to show the shadow of the Earth.

1-hour startrails at METU Science and Technology Museum.

Half Moon, Pleiades and Mars trio. It is a composite image but completely real scene. Pleiades' nebula details have been added from a separate frame. February, 2021.

A busy morning from Uludag, Bakacak. International Space Station, Pleiades, Crescent Moon, Venus, Mercury all together

The thin cloud layer over Doğanlı Kale (Phrygian Valley) gives corona to Jupiter, which was closest to the Earth at the time of shooting, and makes it brighter.

The Milky Way above the theater of the ancient Lycian city of Kyaneai in Antalya. October, 2021.

360 degree panorama from the Salt Lake, Turkey Moon and Venus conjunction in upper left, a Draconid meteor, Jupiter, Saturn, Andromeda and M33 can be seen altogether. Optolong 2022 Nightscape Competition 1st prize and Chasseir de Nuits PNA 2022 (France) exhibition awards

Milky Way, Jupiter and Saturn at moonset in Gelidonya Lighthouse. September, 2020

Selfie with galactic center and Sagittarius constellation in Haymana. July, 2021.

Mars, Pleiades and Andromeda triangle on Aslantaş in the Phrygian Valley. The photo was taken at Mars' opposition in 2020, when Mars was closest and brightest to Earth. The same scene will happen again in 2099. This photo was published by NASA on the APOD page on October 13, 2020.