![]() ![]() TripodĪs with any astrophotography equipment, you’ll need a stable, heavy-duty tripod. Most often this is more than enough time to capture your target. Usually exposure times of around 3-5 minutes are possible depending on the weight of your camera and lens, and setup. Once properly polar aligned, they can all offer several minutes of accurate tracking to keep the stars in your images round. These are great for travel portability and quick setup. Some of the smaller recommended mounts that can be used on standard camera tripods are the SkyWatcher Star Adventurer, iOptron SkyTracker, Vixen Polarie, and the Astrotrac. When you’re ready to upgrade and add the telescope, check the payload capacity of your mount to ensure it can accommodate it. It will hold far more than just a camera, so when you get a telescope, chances are it will handle it just fine. That being said, if you plan to travel a lot and need something small, or if you only have aspirations for DSLR and camera lens astrophotography, then a smaller budget mount can work wonders for you.įor larger mounts, we can easily recommend the Celestron Advanced VX mount. Some of the best advice for a beginner astrophotographer is to buy the best mount your money can buy, and get the telescope later. Read our tutorial on how to use the free application Stellarium to choose the perfect focal length for your target! An example setup of a DSLR and autoguider on a SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Tracking mount And a zoom lens, anywhere from 100mm-300mm can work wonderfully with nebula and even large galaxies, like Andromeda (M31). ![]() Tracked wide-field images can look amazing with lenses from the 24-50mm range. You are going to be able to shoot very long exposures, only limited by the sky conditions and your mount’s sky-tracking quality, so even a quality f/4 lens will do just fine. This is where it’s easy - almost any good-quality lens will do. The LMC in HaLRGB with a QSI 683 CCD and Canon 24-70mm lens. These are definitely the stuff of the best astrophotography photographs out there, but it’s big step from the standard DSLR methods. ![]() Regardless - this is NOT a necessity.Īnother choice, if you want to up your game, is an astronomical cooled CCD camera. Your normal DSLR will do just fine! It always helps to have one that has been IR modified (replacement or removal of the stock standard infrared filter) so you can capture that beautiful red hydrogen alpha (Ha) that is the stuff of most emission nebulae. Luckily, the number of available targets worth shooting with just a standard camera lens is huge! 1 Gather your equipment Camera When shooting astrophotography without a telescope, you are only limited by the magnification of the lens you are choosing. The short answer: almost anything! Remember, a telescope is just a big (huge) lens. Photo: Cory Schmitz What can you shoot without a telescope? No telescope? No problem! You can still shoot deep-sky astrophotography images like a pro. ![]()
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