"Astrophotography" Articles

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About Photastro

Made in Germany. Shipped from Germany About Photastro Photastro is a new shop on Internet. It has been started in the Fall 2021 as a small business ran by one person in the spare time aside. The famous recent pandemic has changed my sabbatical plans in the year 2020,...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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