A friend of mine in Australia recently bought a Pentax camera (don't know the model yet), but she is trying to learn techniques for shooting the night sky to use the pictures in a book. The book is not directly about astrophotography, but she needs the celestial images. I told her to get connected to this forum, but she's in a bit of a rush so I thought I would help her out by asking for her. I passed on some beginner astrophotography & night sky web site links, but any advice from here would be appreciated. (I don't do astrophotography, so I'm not much help.) A portion of her email is below:
"I finally got a good camera! Its a Pentax dslr and I'm going over the manual to learn how to do star shots at night. I have a few weeks to get the shots I need for the book so the stress is on! I read the same sentence 5 times and still don't get it, lol...I'm trying to use my telescope stand as a tripod too."
Last edited by OrangeKx; 03-31-2014 at 12:08 PM.
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