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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: DarkPenguin on December 05, 2009, 02:20:22 pm

Title: Beginner's Guide to Astrophotography
Post by: DarkPenguin on December 05, 2009, 02:20:22 pm

Just saw this Beginner's Guide to Astrophotography (http://www.space.com/spacewatch/091204-astrophotography-guide.html) at Space.com (http://www.space.com).  (Actually I saw it at Space.com (http://www.space.com) via my My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) page.)

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/091204-ast...aphy-guide.html (http://www.space.com/spacewatch/091204-astrophotography-guide.html)

Dunno how worthwhile it is but I thought I'd throw it here.  Anyone do astrophotography?

Title: Beginner's Guide to Astrophotography
Post by: PierreVandevenne on December 05, 2009, 02:41:07 pm

Quote from: DarkPenguin

Just saw this Beginner's Guide to Astrophotography (http://www.space.com/spacewatch/091204-astrophotography-guide.html) at Space.com (http://www.space.com).  (Actually I saw it at Space.com (http://www.space.com) via my My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) page.)

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/091204-ast...aphy-guide.html (http://www.space.com/spacewatch/091204-astrophotography-guide.html)

Dunno how worthwhile it is but I thought I'd throw it here.  Anyone do astrophotography?

This "guide" is amazingly bad. I've done a bit of astrophotography, but not that much since I am located in one of the world's most light polluted areas and I have only a couple of clear nights each month.

Here's one taken with a 550/2.7 lens (called a FFC) and a Canon 40D

http://www.datarescue.com/life/kepler/20091017/rosette2.jpg (http://www.datarescue.com/life/kepler/20091017/rosette2.jpg)

If I remember well, several other members here are more experienced and have better skies.

Title: Beginner's Guide to Astrophotography
Post by: francois on December 06, 2009, 05:10:07 am

For a french audience, Astrosurf website ( http://www.astrosurf.com/ (http://www.astrosurf.com/) ) provides a lot of usefull info.

I know nexto to nothing in astrophoto but I like the images…