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wth is that thing
āSmartā telescope. Apparently the results are reasonable and it is easy to use for beginners.
Iām absolutely shocked. But the tech presented at NEAF were telescopes that could image the Sun & I noticed a lot of upgrades for existing systems.
You wonāt get the flexibility of different focal lengths, different cameras, different filters etc that you get with a real astrophotography set up but also a lot less pain!
Everyone weāre going on about filters - but I saw & experience tech that need no filters
Itās not all integrated INFRARED
Now, thatās my jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*I saw & experienced tech
*itās all integrated INFRARED
A lot of people will use dual narrowband filters (passing just Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen III) in light polluted cities to get a decent image. Or if you are imaging with a monochrome camera then filters are essential so you can build a colour image at the end.
MƔs intersantƩ
& very very trueā¦
I had trouble capturing the Northern Lights on my own, so this is all foreign to me.
I run data sets on massive telescopes & overall estimate where exactly my superiors & their monster telescopes should point to/focus on š but Iām more of a conceptual Rocket Scientist - so this is all a learning lesson for me. Lol.
Meaning, from my abstract mind,
Filters are so important! Lol
Until infraredā¦IMO š
How would one do astrophotography with a telescope and well-known DSLR camera brand like Nikon or Canon?
Lens. Lens. Lens!
Itās possible! Iāve done it!!!!
Like, a lens with a special adapter or something? Maybe just duct tape the camera to the telescope? š
Honestly, I can respond more soon but being able to film, & take multiple images over the span of hours with a low shutter speed is the key.
Then you blend all the images to formulate an entire imageā¦ thatās usually how itās done for beginners at this, I have found.
You can use a DSLR and a standard lens as a starting point but there is a very deep astrophotography rabbit hold to fall down! This video on YouTube was one of them that got me started on this:
I will be trying this š
FYI ā #[3]ā is the astrophotography expert of Nostr.
I am just here to assist.
You need a time & location with clear skies as well - itās called āfull visibilityā
Youād be surprised how far your normals lens can go & how much of the distortion you can manipulate
Hence, why I believe our images of space are mostly skewed as evidence because itās all very heavily treated photographs
Fight me over this too š«”šš½š„
If you look at the images of an object on Astrobin you find that the colours in particular are all different. Itās somewhat of an āartisticā decision in the processing as to how the final result looks.
Especially when using narrowband filters and the mapping colours to them like the Hubble images.
Is that a telescope?!