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    Astrophotography is Taking images of the sky (celestial objects or phenomena) any time of the day or can be done night a typical session Choose your subject Choose your technique techniques vary from very basic to highly technical Why do it? Recording events (conjunctions, phases, solar activity, deep Impact) uA picture paints a thousand wordsP Before you take the plunge Decide what you Short, want to do and set clear goals medium and long-term Where will you be living in 5 years?

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    Astrophotography is Taking images of the sky (celestial objects or phenomena) any time of the day or can be done night a typical session Choose your subject Choose your technique techniques vary from very basic to highly technical Why do it? Recording events (conjunctions, phases, solar activity, deep Impact) uA picture paints a thousand wordsP Before you take the plunge Decide what you Short, want to do and set clear goals medium and long-term Where will you be living in 5 years?

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    Astrophotography

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    Astrophotography is Taking images of the sky (celestial objects or phenomena) any time of the day or can be done night a typical session Choose your subject Choose your technique techniques vary from very basic to highly technical Why do it? Recording events (conjunctions, phases, solar activity, deep Impact) uA picture paints a thousand wordsP Before you take the plunge Decide what you Short, want to do and set clear goals medium and long-term Where will you be living in 5 years?

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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)

    Can be done any time of the day or


    night
       
    
     Choose your subject
     Choose your technique
     Take the image(s)
     Process the image(s)
     Display your results

     Techniques vary from very basic to highly technical


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    ºecording events (conjunctions, phases,
    solar activity, Deep Impact)
    Advancing personal knowledge
    Share your experiences
    ºeal science

    µA picture paints a thousand words¶


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    Decide what you want to do and set clear goals
    Short, medium and long-term
    Where willyou be living in 5 years?
    What are you prepared to spend?
    ºesearch, research, research
    [
    
    Types of imager

    Basic techniques
    r!
    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
     !   3"!
    Cheap, easy to use, lots of free software for
    capturing and processing images
    Stunning planetary images
    Very popular
     !  #  
    Dual purpose ± astrophotography and
    holiday snaps
    Popular
    Coming down in price
     !  # $%&
    Dual purpose
    Very sensitive
    Expensive
    Can purchase variety of lenses for
    different applications
     
    
    !||! 
    Purpose designed
    Very sensitive
    $300 to $40,000
    Can be used for science
    Superb deep sky images
    a ' ( 
    Point and click
    Eyepiece projection
    Prime focus
    To guide or not to guide«
    £
    
    [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)
     
    )
    
    [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)
    £ !
    
    ´our OTAbecomes the lens
    Webcams, DSLº s, CCD s
    ë

    The sky moves«


    If you take an image, trailing increases with
    exposure length (can be an advantage!)
    Can use a camera guiding system
    Can use your mount s guiding system
    (piggy-back, projection or prime-focus)
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     CCD and OTA matching  Focusing
     Collimation  Filters
     Orthogonality  Image reduction (darks,
     Polar aligning bias, flat-field)
     Guiding  Software/hardware
     PEC, mount training
     Advanced processing
     Integrated CCD guiding
     Dual CCD guiding  Photometry/astrometry
     Cooling  Nova searches
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