About Keen Astro

Astrophotography grounded in real-world conditions.

📍 Based Gozo, Malta

🌍 Region Mediterranean & Arctic

📷 Focus Aurora • Deep Sky • Landscape

🎓 Approach Practical & Field-Based

Keen Astro combines Arctic aurora experience with Mediterranean astro-landscape work, focusing on real-world conditions, practical techniques, and repeatable results.

Keen Astro was founded to bring together more than a decade of Arctic field experience with a broader approach to astrophotography grounded in accessibility, realism, and technical understanding.

While many astrophotography experiences focus on extreme locations or idealised conditions, Keen Astro is built around what is genuinely achievable in the real world using modern equipment, careful planning, and sound technique.

From aurora expeditions in Swedish Lapland to deep-sky and astro-landscape work in the Mediterranean, the emphasis remains consistent: clarity, accuracy, and practical application.

All workshops, expeditions, and educational material are designed to give participants not just an experience, but a working understanding of how and why results are achieved.

📰 Featured In The Guardian

🔭 Published In Sky & Telescope

🌍 Travel Media Wanderlust

🎬 Broadcast ARTE • BBC

Keen Astro also operates the Maltese Islands Astronomy Education Network (MIAEN), supporting structured astronomy education across Malta and Gozo.

Work associated with Keen Astro has appeared in international publications including The Guardian, Sky & Telescope, Wanderlust, Daily Mail, and American Express Travel.

Andy Keen has contributed to television and documentary productions including The Sun (Die Sonne), produced by Spiegel TV for ARTE France, with international distribution via Curiosity Stream and ZDF.

Earlier appearances include the BBC production Little Stargazing (2012), which was nominated for a BAFTA.

About Andy Keen

Keen Astro is led by Andy Keen, a professional astrophotographer, educator, and veteran aurora chaser from the United Kingdom.

Over more than 16 years, he has spent in excess of 10,000 hours beneath the Northern Lights, guiding thousands of participants with a documented success rate of approximately 95% since 2008.

He has played a role in developing several Arctic locations into internationally recognised aurora tourism destinations.

In 2025 he founded Keen Astro to expand into deep-sky imaging, astro-landscape photography, and advanced image processing.

He now works between Swedish Lapland and Gozo, Malta, developing astrophotography projects exploring landscape, geology, and the night sky.

Earlier in his career, Andy founded and led The Neuropathy Trust, raising more than £2 million.

Today his work combines astronomy, photography, and environmental awareness to help people connect with the night sky.

The objective remains consistent: to present the night sky clearly, accurately, and without exaggeration — while helping others achieve meaningful, repeatable results in real-world conditions.