Who doesn’t enjoy gazing at a clear sky dotted with thousands of stars and a bright, shining moon? While we gaze in awe, Aditya Kinjawadekar, 20, from Pune, is perfecting the art of capturing these fleeting moments with his camera.

Kinjawadekar, who is currently pursuing electronics and telecommunication engineering at Pune University, describes himself as an amateur astrophotographer. But, if you browse through the pictures on his Instagram (@deepsky_wonders), you will realise he is just being modest, when he calls himself an “amateur”. “I’ve been interested in astronomy since I was a child, and I used to spend a lot of time watching shows related to it on TV. But, I only became seriously invested in it about four years ago, when I joined the Jyotirvidya Parisanstha (JVP), India’s oldest association of amateur astronomers, and now volunteer at the same,” he says. He started pursuing astrophotography about two years ago, and has been photographing space ever since.