1. ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY PRIMER Basic concepts, including tracking methods and equipment details. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6529/primer.html

A BASIC PRIMER ON ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY © 1997 By: Jim Pennington It was said by a good friend of mine that astrophotographers are masochists. In a sense, I suppose he is correct. Astrophotography can test one's patience and dedication to the limits and at the same time be both satisfying and rewarding. Photographing the night sky can be done by anyone if they are willing to put forth the time and effort in learning the nuances of this hobby. Equipment requirements range from nothing but a simple camera and tripod to a multi- thousand dollar computer controlled telescope equipped with a CCD autoguider and seperate guidescope. I suppose the greatest allure of astrophotography is the challenge to be successful at it. As I mentioned above, it is not impossible to learn but neither is it easy. Going outside and hand holding a camera on the stars will not work. A bit of preparation and knowing what you are doing is essential for success. Basic Concepts and a Description of the Equipment Used Rigid Camera Mountings Tracking the Stars Piggyback Photography Prime Focus Photography and the Horror of Focusing ... Getting Your Film Developed and Printed The Basic Concepts and Equipment Rigid Camera Mountings Tripod mounted cameras are limited to relatively short exposures of 15 seconds or less and a lens of no more than 100mm focal length is recommended. The reason for this is that longer focal length lenses produce less field of view on the film and therefore more magnification. As magnification goes up, we start running into the problem of "trailing" of the stars due to the earth's rotation and the apparent movement of the stars across the sky. The stars will no longer appear to be "dots" but will begin to resemble streaks which will get longer if the magnification goes up or the exposure time increases.

2. Galaxy Photography Tips and advice on astrophotography from Jason Ware. Also includes his photos of space and the equipment he uses. http://www.galaxyphoto.com/

1993 GalaxyPhotography launches 1996 Galaxyphoto.com goes online 2001 5 years on the Internet! Galaxy Photography DIGITAL Galaxy Photography Technology Partners... Galaxy Photography and Digital Imaging Email Jason Ware jware_info@galaxyphoto.com NOTE: Please Read the Meade Telescope FAQ before sending a question or asking me to recommend a telescope. Information about re-use and royalties

3. (Deep Sky) Astrophotography For Amateurs (Deep Sky) astrophotography for Amateurs. by Olivier THIZY. Everything described here is from my own experience, and covers only the basics of astrophotography. http://www.galaxyphoto.com/thizy.html

(Deep Sky) Astrophotography for Amateurs by Olivier THIZY I have seen several questions on astrophotography for amateurs, and I was thinking that I could share my experience here. Of course, it will not replace books that one can find on the subject. I strongly recommend "Astrophotography for the Amateur" (Michael Covington) as the book to own if you want to start in this field. Everything described here is from my own experience, and covers only the basics of astrophotography. I am still far away from Fletcher and Hallas, but I enjoy what I do. I tried to explain my own evolution, from simple picture of the sky to prime focus one. It is not the only way, but it helps to practice the basics before going to long focal deepsky astrophotography. 1) GET STARTED: PHOTO ON TRIPOD Before even starting with photography with a telescope, I recommend to practice photography using a simple tripod. There are many things to do with a simple tripod: Moon and Planets at dawn or dusk: choose a nice foreground landscape (trees, mountains...). Evening just after the New Moon are very nice for that. Full Moon set above cities are very nice too. I usualy use a 100-400ASA slide film. Constellations: Using a fast film (I like the Kodak Ektar 1000) and short exposures (30"-45" for a 50mm lens), one can record a lot of details on constellations. I got some nice results on the Milky way, especialy around Sagittarius. Those pictures are also a perfect test for the photo shop: is the sky coming black from their lab?

4. Chuck's Astrophotography astrophotography is an interest I've had since 1987. It's the part of amateur astronomy that can be the most rewarding or the most frustrating. astrophotography is unlike most other kinds of photography. http://www.aa6g.org/astro.html

A Adjust Your Monitor for Grayscale Astrophotos My Articles Related to Astrophotography These pages best viewed with 16 bit or greater color. All Pages Made on a Macintosh Chuck Vaughn Return to Chuck's Hobby Home Page

5. Dans Astrophotography Site Some of my Astrophotos. http://www.thurs.net/dan

6. Astrophotography By Bob And Janice Fera Equipment. Home. astrophotography. by. Bob and Janice Fera. Welcome to our web site. Here we'd like to share some of the astronomical photographs we've taken over the last few years. http://www.feraphotography.com/

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7. Schurs Astrophotography Extreme" Hiking" Deep Space astrophotography. By http://www.psiaz.com/Schur/astro

8. Astrophotography By Jerry Lodriguss Astronomical photographs, astrophotography tips and techniques, Digital enhancement of astrophotos in Photoshop astronomical photographs, tips and. techniques for astrophotography, and digital enhancement in Photoshop Images Index Search. astrophotography Articles Digital Techniques http://www.astropix.com/

This is a web site of deep-sky astronomical photographs, tips and techniques for astrophotography, and digital enhancement in Photoshop Catching the Light Astrophotography By Jerry Lodriguss Photoshop for Astrophotographers Click here to learn more information or to order the book Home Showcase Table of Contents Images Index Search ... License the Images since 9/2/99 Showcase Images Astrophoto Thumbnails Quote of the Day Objects Lists ... Sports Photography

9. Deep Sky Photography: Astrophotography By George Greaney Deep Sky astrophotography by George Greaney Darkroom Techniques Enhanced Color astrophotography. Digital Image Processing Digital Image Enhancement in astrophotography http://www.astroimages.com/

Imaging the Deep Sky Astronomical Images by George Greaney CCD Images Film Images Contents CCD Imaging: Getting the Images : Ash Meadows Observatory Equipment Image Processing Gallery of CCD Images : Astronomical CCD Images Gallery Film Imaging: Getting the Images Darkroom Techniques Enhanced Color Astrophotography Digital Image Processing Digital Image Enhancement in Astrophotography Refractor Gallery Images from the Astrophysics 6 inch f/7 EDF Refractor Celestron-14 Gallery Images from the Celestron-14 SCT Ritchey-Chretien Gallery Images from the OGS 14.5 inch f/7.65 RCT Biographical Information Astroimaging Links Adjust your Monitor! This site was last updated on 05/30/04 NOTE: All images and text are intended for personal use only. They may be used for commercial purposes ONLY with written permission of the author. E-mail me at gsg@astroimages.com

10. ASTROCRUISE - Astrophotography By Philip Perkins A Showcase of Deep Space Astronomical Photographs Discover the Secrets of astrophotography Guiding Techniques for astrophotography - detailed description with images. astrophotography Exposure http://www.astrocruise.com/

VENUS TRANSIT 2004...CLICK HERE FOR LIVE WEBCAST T hank you for visiting.. Please spend a few minutes sharing my photographic adventure. How nice it would be if we could walk out on a starry night and simply see the splendours of the cosmos. But the distances within our macrocosm are so vast that much of it can only be seen by means of long exposure photographs. This is the reason for the photographs presented here. To us on earth all of this seems far away, but in astronomical terms most of the objects presented on these pages are close neighbours. Our neighbourhood in space is our natural heritage - the earth and all of its life forms evolved from the same elements that gave light to these photographs. Since we are children of the cosmos, it is unavoidably important to our future. For latest results please see the New Images section immediately below. New images are being added all the time so please visit again soon to see more results. Also please check the Image Gallery section to see all of my earlier work. Philip Perkins High Quality Prints - dedicated prints with a special message See the very informatie feature article about this site on BBC Wiltshire!

11. Astrophotography By Jerry Lodriguss Astronomical photographs, astrophotography tips and techniques, Digital enhancement of astrophotos in Photoshop. astrophotography. By Jerry Lodriguss. http://www.astropix.com/INDEX.HTM

This is a web site of deep-sky astronomical photographs, tips and techniques for astrophotography, and digital enhancement in Photoshop Catching the Light Astrophotography By Jerry Lodriguss Photoshop for Astrophotographers Click here to learn more information or to order the book Home Showcase Table of Contents Images Index Search ... License the Images since 9/2/99 Showcase Images Astrophoto Thumbnails Quote of the Day Objects Lists ... Sports Photography

12. Video Astronomy video capture astrophotography, video astronomy, stellacam EX, Jim Ferreira. . . . . VIDEO CAPTURE astrophotography. Video astronomy http://www.lafterhall.com/astro.html

video capture astrophotography, video astronomy, stellacam EX, Jim Ferreira New Deep Sky video imaging with AVA StellaCam II Deep Sky video imaging with AVA StellaCam EX Side by side comparison of frame integrating video cameras using Sony HAD EXview CCD and standard HAD CCD Article: Surveillance cameras for video astronomy LAST QUARTER REVIEW ARTICLE: "SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS FOR VIDEO ASTRONOMY" Planetary images with Supercircuits' low light video surveillance camera head, the PC164C, which uses a very sensitive Sony Super HAD EXview CCD video chip. The extreme sensitivity of the camera, rated at 0.0003 lux, allows the use of larger image scale when imaging the planets resulting in higher resolution images. A 25cm Newtonian @ f/30 was used to image Saturn and a 15cm Maksutov-Cassegrain at f/50 for Jupiter. VIDEO CAPTURE ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY Saturn reappearing from behind the moon on September 10, 2001 15cm Maksutov-Cassegrain @ f/20 Astrovid 2000 As seeing conditions at my suburban home in Livermore, California are always turbulent I have adopted the use of video for my astrophotography. From the very first images made back in 1999, I was producing results several orders of magnitude better than the best film photos I had ever taken of the moon and planets through a scope. All of the images on this web site were made from video, either with an Astrovid 2000 video, a StellaCam EX or Supercircuits' PC23C, PC33C or PC164C video surveillance cameras using a 25cm f/6 Newtonian or 15cm f/10 Maksutov-Cassegrain. Prime focus, Barlow projection or eyepiece projection were utilized to vary image scale (magnification). Video was recorded to a Hi8 camcorder and individual frames were captured to computer with a Snappy frame grabber, or, video frames were captured directly to computer with a PixelSmart 512-8 frame grabber. Image processing with RegiStax and Adobe Photo Shop. All imaging was done from my suburban driveway in Livermore CA.

13. Astrophotography Articles Catching the Light by Jerry Lodriguss. astrophotography Articles, Introduction; Equipment; Cameras Focusing Screens. Films; Exposures; Fixed Tripod Shots http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/TOC_AP.HTM

Catching the Light by Jerry Lodriguss Astrophotography Articles Introduction Equipment Cameras Focusing Screens ... Search Astrophotography Articles Digital Techniques Stories Misc License the Images

14. Nishiyama's CCD Astrophotography CCD撮影による銀河・星雲・彗星、デジタルカメラによる惑星の作品を紹介。 http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~sadatosi/

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15. Astronomy And Astrophotography A brief introduction showing simple techniques of star gazing, moon watching and taking pictures of celestial events. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2071/

16. FILM ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY Jerry Pool's images of the Moon and Constellations. http://hometown.aol.com/filmastro/FilmAstrophotography.htm

Main Astronomy htmlAdWH('7002588', '234', '60'); Jerry Pool's FILM ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY Most astrophotography today is done with ccd cameras and automatic star tracking devices. I am a member of the old school, regular off the shelf film and a 35mm SLR camera. The first section below deals with Piggyback photography, a camera mounted on top of my Celstar C8 telescope. The scope is motor driven at the same speed as the stars move across the sky allowing long exposures with no streaks as you would have with a fixed tripod. The second section has images taken with the same camera mounted directly to the scope. This arrangement is referred to as Prime Focus. My equipement for piggyback is a Pentax SP 500 SLR camera. It has a 50mm f/1.9 lens but rather than use it wide open I step down one stop to f/2.8. For widefield star images this helps to decrease viginetting or out of focus stars near the edge of the frame.It is not dependent on batteries for extended exposures and I use a cable release to trip the shutter to avoid any shaking to eliminate blurred images. The piggyback images are Widefield, that is they are of a large section of the sky. I tried to capture constellations in each shot but in some cases the larger constellations were too big for the 50mm lens. For those a 35mm or 28mm wideangle lens would have been better. If I ever become satisfied with my results I will have to purchase a wideangle lens. There are numerous websites that describe the basic methods I use. Do a web search for astrophotography to get some tips. There are many types of images you can make with just a camera and a regular tripod.

17. Axel Mellinger's Astrophotography Page Axel Mellinger s. Welcome to my astrophotography web site! What s new (May 12, 2004). http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/astrophot.html

Axel Mellinger's Welcome to my astrophotography web site! What's new... (latest image: May 29, 2004) Three Crosses Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) near the SMC Southern Star Trails other images from 2003: North America Nebula (CCD RGB image with 50 mm lens) IC 2177 (The Seagull Nebula) First CCD mosaic: North America Nebula (completed) First CCD image: North America and Pelican Nebula Cassiopeia Mosaic PDF presentation on image processing (in German, 6 MB) M35 Region on New Year's Day ... Sculptor Galaxy NGC 253 and Globular Cluster NGC 288 Deep Sky Images All-Sky Panorama The All-Sky Milky Way panorama has moved to a separate server Click here for the Virtual Reality All-Sky Panorama Image gallery Film images wide-field telephoto prime focus (Vixen 8" f/4 Newtonian) Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 CCD images Special features Comet Hale-Bopp Astrophotography from the White Mountains (California) (this page is presented for historic reasons and no longer maintained. Some links may be broken.) Total Solar Eclipse page Miscellaneous My telescopes Links hits since Oct. 25, 1999 Axel Mellinger axm@rz.uni-potsdam.de

18. Astroscopic Laboratories [telescope And Binocular Reviews, Articles, Tips And As Offers reviews, articles and astrophotography. http://www.licha.de/AstroWeb

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19. Astrophotography Related Articles astrophotography Related Articles. Drift Alignment is the method I use to polar align my mount for long exposure astrophotography. http://www.aa6g.org/Astronomy/articles.html

Astrophotography Related Articles Here are some articles I've written on a few selected topics. Collimation of your telescope is very important for successful astrophotos. This is how I collimate my Ritchey-Chretien. Drift Alignment is the method I use to polar align my mount for long exposure astrophotography. The SBIG ST-4 autoguider has allowed me to do astrophotos of up to 3 hours. Previously my manual guiding time limit was one hour. I've related my experiences with the autoguider and some tips for its use. Knife Edge Focusing is the method that I've always used to focus my telescope for astrophotography. Here is a detailed explanation of how to do it. Color Photography of Emission Line Sources is a discussion of the problems of photographing emission nebula with color film or by tricolor photography. Adjusting Your Astrophotos with Photoshop Levels is a discussion of the proper way to adjust your astrophotos with this basic function of image processing. Assembling a Tricolor Astrophoto is discussion of the tests I ran to determine what exposures were required through tricolor filters and how to compensate for improper exposure times.

20. Starmatt Astrophotography Please tour this gallery of astrophotographs of celestial objects in deep space. These images are exposed at darksky locations, using http://starmatt.com/

Starmatt Home The Photographer Buy Print Publishers ... Site Map Please tour this gallery of astrophotographs of celestial objects in deep space. The colors of the photographs are real. New Images Nebulae Wide Field Solar System Star Trails Star Clusters Remnants Galaxies From Chile Prints and posters of these images are for sale at Astrographics Want to see LIVE astro images? Check out Slooh! English to Chinese English to French English to German English to Italian English to Japanese English to Korean English to Portuguese English to Spanish

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