"Astrophotography" Articles
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Selecting Essential Targets for Astrophotography in the Southern Hemisphere
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La Palma and Fuerteventura 2021 Pictures
About Photastro
Made in Germany, shipped from Germany About Photastro Photastro was started in late 2021 as a small business run by one person in spare time. The recent pandemic changed my sabbatical plans in 2020, and I decided to make the best of it. As a hobby photographer, I...
Going to La Palma for Astrophotography and More
La Palma - the island of volcanoes, dark night skies and tropical green tales. Fuerteventura - the most flat island of Canary Islands and so the driest one. Like on all other Canary islands, there are a lot of wind from the Passat trade winds stream on Fuerteventura,...
Getting into Astrophotography for Daylight Photographers
The page shares my experience in starting with astrophotography. If you are interested in this, this page might help you to start on the right end, save some time and potentially money too.
Do You need a Telescope and When
A Photographer Perspective As a photographer you probably own some interchangeable lenses. Depending on the focal length and the optical quality of that lenses, they most probably can be used for astrophotography with a good results. In astrophotography, optical...
From a Star Tracker to a Mount
Compensation of the Earth Rotation Star Trackers Start Trackers have only one axis. They provide a motorized system rotating a camera holder on this axis in the opposite direction to the rotation of the Earth. In order to put this axis in the right direction, an...
Understanding Basics of Astronomy
If Astronomy is not your hobby, you do not need to dive in all details of this science for astrophotography. Still, a basic knowledge and understanding is almost mandatory. Astronomy is not my hobby, and I collected a list of highlights which I found important to know...
Photography Aspects in Astrophotography
Many things you know from the daylight photography are different now! Seasonality Unlike the regular photography, the selection of your astrophotography objects is strictly driven by time and your location. On top, it is timed by the moon phases. There are some...
How to Save Your Back and Time Dealing with Star and Polar Alignment
When you start as a beginner, steps of alignment appear pretty unusual and unclear. There is a polar alignment to align the RA axis of your start tracker or equatorial mount with the rotation axis of the Earth. If you use an equatorial mount, in most cases you need to...
Astrophotography in Field Without a Notebook
Why and When a Computer-Based Control is Needed in Field When using a star tracker, you only need to do a polar alignment and setup a multi-exposure sequence to start shooting. This can be done either directly in the camera, with an intervalometer or in the app...
Seasons of the Astrophotography
Making pictures of the sky objects is driven by annual seasons as objects move, or better, the Earth travels around the Sun. Your view of the sky is defined by your location. The majorty of "a must" astrophotography objects are located in the belt of Milky Way. The...
Road Notes While Getting into Astrophotography
Which Path to Go and Why I own the Star-Watcher Adventurer Mini since 2017. Again and again, I thought of upgrading it, and then decided to keep it while creating a Go-To setup. In parallel, I wanted to enhance the Star-Watcher Adventurer Mini with an automated...
Using a Bahtinov Mask to Focus Photo Lenses
In regular photography, many people rely on auto-focus in most cases. The auto-focus as it is known available in DSRL and mirrorless cameras does not work in for astrophotography. Bahtinov masks have been invented in 2005 and are very popular today. I found out that...
Using the ZWO EAF for a Belt Driven Motorized Focusing of Canon Lenses
Are you tired of shaking preview picture when you adjust the focus? Did you notice how sensitive the adjustments are and how hard it is to hit the right position? You heard of motorized focusers and were disappointed that all of them are made to work with telescope...
Web Services and Apps for Astrophotography
I spent some time to filter and to sort tons of various apps, web sites and desktop software for astrophotography. In my opinion, only the choice of messaging apps is larger 😉 Ratings are always subjective and real unbiased and good reviews take a long time. This...
Astrophotography Objects Gallery
Astrophotography References List
This is my biased, but categorized, but not "prioritized" list of interesting information sources about astrophotography. Well, the only part which is "prioritized" are books in the first section. Books I learned for myself that astrophotography is one of those...
Custom Landscapes for Stellarium and SkySafari with an Insta360 Camera
The benefit of a custom landscape is that you can directly see which parts of the sky are obscured by trees, houses, hills at a given time and date on your favorite location. This is a big time saver in planning your day. There are quite some guides on the Internet on...
What is Next?
It will be interesting to watch the development of the regular photography gear over time. In a saturated photography market, many established photography brands are searching for attractive niche segments. Astrophotography seems to be one. The evolution of cameras in...