I’ve heard about astrophotography with registax a while back and wanted to try it for myself. The idea behind that really stemmed from imaging planets. Instead of taking a long exposure of the target, you take a video of the target then “stack” the individual frames together to form the final image. In theory, each [...]
This is my first real attempt at photographing a deep space object. So I pick one of the brightest, M7, as the target. I’m using my Sony DSC-S50, the digi-T adapter attached to a 25mm eyepiece and the Orion XT6 scope.
I used the Sony’s ultra low light mode to take this picture. According to the [...]
After the colossal failure of the webcam experiment, I looked for a easier astrophotography alternative. All the pictures I took so far uses the afocal method. Afocal is nothing more than holding a camera up to the eye piece where your eye should be and taking a picture. Its the crudest form of astrophotography but [...]