CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- “This is the most beautiful encounter between scientific exploration and space dreams.” Standing five kilometers away from the Shenzhou 13 launch site, Dai Jianfeng, a 33-year-old star photographer in Chongqing, is photographing the launch of the crewed spaceship Shenzhou 13. He stared at the camera viewfinder and captured the perfect trajectory of the spaceship, which was widely published by the media.

With a two-hour countdown, a spectacle of lunar halo appeared over the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. “5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1, launch!” 00:23 on October 16, the Long March II F Yao 13 carrier rocket took off.

Dai Jianfeng can’t forget the moment when China’s first Mars exploration -mission, Tianwen-1, was launched in Wenchang. Watching the rocket spit out its flame and accelerate its liftoff, the audience near the launch site suddenly cheered, and the cheers and the roar of the rocket come together, resounding between heaven and earth.

When the Chang’e-5 probe was launched, Dai Jianfeng also witnessed it. From “Tianwen” to “Chang’e” for the moon, the romantic imagination of the Chinese nation is constantly blended with hard-core science and technology.

In Dai Jianfeng’s view, pressing the shutter is a record of a great moment. This is the bright night after the Chang’e-5 probe left the ground.

For the launch of the core module “Tianhe” of the China Space Station, Dai Jianfeng also did not miss it. He once worked as an industrial designer in an automobile company, and with the reverie of his childhood when he “raised his head to look at the bright moon”, he resigned to become a professional star photographer.

This Perseid meteor was photographed on August 11, 2013 in Jinfo Mountain of Chongqing. He said that there are also many stargazing places in Chongqing, such as Shengdeng Mountain and Gujian Mountain in Qijiang.

On Mount Qomolangma, he took this picture of “the most beautiful starry sky”. Although altitude sickness and weather conditions made it difficult to shoot, as the saying goes “the body goes to hell while the eyes reach heaven”.

It took Dai Jianfeng three hours to take this picture of the moon and star tracks in the turret of the Imperial Palace.

He photographed this rare spectacle of multiple rainbows at Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River.

Dai Jianfeng photographed the “concentric orbit” over Hongcun of Anhui Province. He said that when looking at the stars in the night sky, it is not only perceptual beauty, scientific beauty, it is also poetic.

Dai Jianfeng chases stars in every corner of the world, the southern slope of Mount Qomolangma on the top of the world in Nepal, the Himalayas several kilometers above sea level, and Murmansk in Russia… In the future, he hopes to lead more ordinary people to appreciate more nature and the splendor of the starry sky. (Translated by Wang Junli, Fathom Language Limited)