Tag: Astrophotography
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More astrophotography
The advantage of waiting a little longer to take some more shots is that the sky gets darker and you can drop the exposure time to 20 seconds. The disadvantage is that clouds appear… But here are some more shots: (a) Deneb, Cygnus and the Milky Way (b) Altair and Aquila – milky way visible…
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Vega, Lyra and the Milky Way
It’s a clear night here in Norfolk, so here’s a shot – 30 seconds at 1600 ISO – of Vega, the rest of the Lyra constellation and the Milky Way (bottom of frame). No apologies for the size of the picture!
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Astrophotography advice please
Already looking forward to this year’s summer holiday – in a relatively Moon-free fortnight – and a chance to get the telescope out. Last year I shocked myself with this: – produced by just pointing the second-hand DSLR at the eyepiece. This year I want to go better but don’t want to spend a fortune…
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The Moon
Here a few photographs I took of the Moon, using the same method as with Jupiter, last night.
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Jupiter, last night
I took this photo of Jupiter at about 3am BST last night but only looked at it this morning and was amazed to see that it was good enough to show the two main gas bands on the planet’s surface. And, believe it or not, if you look closely at the picture at full magnification…
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Need to get a tripod
Finally worked out how to use the full range of manual settings on the Canon digital SLR – so here’s the Plough (Ursa Major) at 2.5″ at 1600 ISO and a lot of camera shake.
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Astrophotography – an inspiration
Stephan Pot has examples, from this very morning, of astrophotography. I have to get a camera though!
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So, I bought a telescope
I took the plunge today and bought a telescope. Years ago my ambition and interest was in astronomical photography – but the best I managed was to attach a camera to the equitorial mount on the telescope and use that for photography as one of my ‘O’ level projects – I got an ‘A’ grade…
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