Astrophotography

For sure this page is a bit of a mess.

Instructional guides §

• Astrophotography 101: A Lesson Series on Photographing the Milky Way – Lonely Speck - large MOC with multiple articles to work through on all topics

Planning §

Light Pollution §

• Light Pollution Map for Bendigo - I have this app on my mobile phone.
• The Bortle Scale is a measurement of light pollution. My house is Bortle 5, “Suburban”

Setting Shutter speeds §

Société Astronomique du Havre - Règle NPF : temps de pose pour éviter le filé d’étoiles

• View in Chome and translate to English.

Input-referred Read Noise versus ISO Setting

• find a point where it begins to level off
• Canon 400D - needs to be ISO 1600 which is max ISO
• Canon R50 - ISO 800 but ISO 800 would be fine

Suitable telescopes §

• Telescopes I May Want to Buy

Guide scopes §

• Selecting a Guide Scope and Autoguiding Camera for Astrophotography

Astro cameras §

• Best ZWO cameras for planetary imaging and deep-sky (DSO) astrophotography

Lenses §

• Characteristics
  • Fast lens f2.8, f2.4, and better if faster again
  • Low aberrations
  • Bigger lenses need tracker and gets to deep sky
• Canon EF 50mm f1.8 STM
  • Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Astrophotography Review – Lonely Speck
    • The 50mm focal length is a little narrow for capturing the Milky Way, so the lens’s best use is for capturing narrower crops of detailed sections of the sky, perhaps using multiple frames for producing a stacked image or even a panorama stitch for a wide angle field of view.

Tools §

• Astrophotography Stacking Software

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starry-landscape-stacker/id550326617?mt=12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtoX5aBI8E

https://astroforumspace.com/category/astrophotography-tutorials/

For a single photo

https://www.lonelyspeck.com/milky-way-exposure-calculator/ Canon 50mm

• 1600 ISO
• 1.8 f

Shutter speed 7 seconds

For stacked photos

https://photographylife.com/night-sky-image-stacking Turn off long exposure noise reductions C.FN-2 Turn off image stablisation on the long lens Set Tungsten white balance