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What is astrophotography?
Basic concepts
Imagers
Techniques
Guiding
Advanced concepts
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Taking images of the sky (celestial
objects or phenomena)
Basic techniques
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Take a snapshot of the projected sun
Use an SLº (similar techniques to Digital
Cameras ± next)
Film is chosen based on the subject
Can get very technical (hypered-film etc)
Is diminishing in popularity with the advent of
digital techniques
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Cheap, easy to use, lots of free software for
capturing and processing images
Stunning planetary images
Very popular
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Dual purpose ± astrophotography and
holiday snaps
Popular
Coming down in price
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Dual purpose
Very sensitive
Expensive
Can purchase variety of lenses for
different applications
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Purpose designed
Very sensitive
$300 to $40,000
Can be used for science
Superb deep sky images
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Point and click
Eyepiece projection
Prime focus
To guide or not to guide«
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[old your camera and click!
Works with webcams and digital/film cameras
Doesn¶t work with CCD¶s (no lens)
Can piggy-back your camera on your OTA or use
a guiding system to take longer exposures (more
on guiding later)
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[old your camera to the eyepiece and take an
image
Can purchase t-adapters and rings to get the
camera lens as close to the eyepiece as possible
(to avoid vignetting)
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´our OTAbecomes the lens
Webcams, DSLº s, CCD s
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