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Astrophotography 
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There are so many stars that we can't see with the naked eye. Thankfully our cameras can! Please share your pictures of the heavens here. Please be descriptive when giving details of how you obtained the shot (i.e. lens used, exposure time, f/stop, ISO, etc.) so that others may learn from your experience. Thank you.
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” -Edwin Hubble
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| My adventures in astrophotography I've recently taken an interest in astrophotography and thought I would share my misadventures!
... | 123 | 3560 | 03-30-2019 07:03 PM by omet  |
| How to avoid wasting photons with too-high ISOs (?) This is less of a tutorial than a question for discussion (and a set of links to hopefully provide... | 110 | 6226 | 05-31-2016 10:54 PM by Pete_XL |
| The Great Astro Lens Test Since we frequently seem to get questions about if some lens is good for astro or where is a lens... | 81 | 9272 | 03-05-2024 07:52 AM |
| Comet C2022-E3-ZTF For those interested I have uploaded my images from a 1 hour session on the Comet last night
Its... | 68 | 1836 | 02-15-2023 09:13 PM by Craigbob |
| ASTROTRACER - Images, Tips & Tricks? I wonder if there are any Astrotracer users among the members of this group?
I just got the... | 68 | 3540 | 11-28-2013 02:31 AM by Stone G. |
| K-01 Astrophotography A departure in astrophotography from my work with film, the purchase of my first Pentax digital has... | 59 | 1319 | 11-10-2013 09:55 AM by nightfly |
| Comet Neowise is putting a nice show part II I stand corrected, Neowise is putting an amazing show!
K-70, DA*16-50 @ 50mm f/4.0, 4 s iso 800... | 54 | 909 | 07-15-2020 06:14 PM by Lew Dite |
| K-3iii The early reviews are in, all over the place. Much praise and some confusion: "What? A new DSLR in... | 53 | 1524 | 06-12-2021 05:35 AM by Grimmus |
| camera arrives tomorrow... K3-II with an 18-55 f 5.4 lens and a 50m portrait lens. I know nothing about photography much less... | 52 | 797 | 12-29-2015 10:00 AM by fewayne |
| September Group Shoot Since there seems to be a fairly good response for doing a group shoot and some suggestions of... | 52 | 1248 | 09-30-2022 12:02 PM by batscanner2 |
| First Andromeda Galaxy Attempt! Pointers? Hey everyone. I went out last night with a Star Wheel, a Compass, and of course my photography gear... | 44 | 736 | 10-11-2015 11:02 PM by Ex Finn. |
| Comet Lovejoy 2015 This is my first pitiful attempt at Comet Lovejoy (Jan. 2015). Life has been a little disrupted... | 44 | 559 | 03-17-2015 08:44 AM by ChipB |
| M31 300mm finally located As I just responded to Mossy earlier today, it took 2.5 hours to locate this elusive guy.
When... | 43 | 564 | 01-21-2022 12:31 PM by kayasaman |
| Transit of Venus Lotsa useful info including calculations for local transit times.
Local transit times |... | 42 | 607 | 07-06-2012 02:14 AM by pixelsaurus |
| 100% K3II -> M31, M32, M101 I searched my old data to save them on a separate hard disk and had to realize that I have lost 75... | 40 | 1198 | 08-22-2022 08:22 AM by MossyRocks |
| Best work to date! :-D NGC 7000 and Cygnus Hi guys,
despite all the challenges one really motivating thing has been the quality of result... | 40 | 724 | 05-30-2023 02:39 PM by kayasaman |
| I cannot possibly be the first to post eclipse pictures here! I was going to humblebrag about all the flaws with these images, but you know what? I'm just going... | 39 | 1141 | 02-10-2019 07:20 PM by skogpingvin |
| North American Nebula - Next Steps All,
I took the attached of the North American Nebula (I think...?) last night. 20 shots at... | 37 | 981 | 06-21-2020 01:23 PM by astroTJ |
| At what point do you suspect asrotracer is actually broken? Seriously, mine won't even give point stars on a 15s exposure with a 50me lens. My flipping Samsung... | 36 | 1800 | 07-07-2016 01:09 PM by K David |
| Andromeda 2.0 Yesterday evening I applied my new workflow on a M31 image sequence shot last Thursday (ca. 70 pics... | 35 | 2161 | 01-28-2017 08:27 AM by jeffshaddix |
![A reprocessing effort of my last M42 post.
M42 400
1576x20s
ISO 400-ISO 1600
K-3 + astrotracer
SMC A* 400mm F/2.8 ED [IF]
Bortle 5 skies
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