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  • Offline Tek_Ed

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
on: September 10, 2010, 10:52:25 AM
Check out these pictures..

Astronomy pics

I absolutely love the primal wonder and Im thinking about getting a print of photon worshippers.
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Re:Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 11:02:58 AM
Id love to order prints of some of those, they are spectacular.
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Reply #2 on: September 10, 2010, 22:41:34 PM
They are superb. I was thinking, how can I take pictures of the night sky. Id love to zoom in loads onto planetary objects.

I only have a 75 - 300mm lens however.
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Reply #3 on: September 10, 2010, 22:54:29 PM
You would need to get a mega lens for those, not just zoom, but I have taken some before, and get nothing like that, just dont seem to get enough lilghtin and ling exposure just results in the stars rotating across the sky
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Reply #4 on: September 10, 2010, 23:04:55 PM
If you had a telescope, and have an SLR, the mount thing I use to connect it to my microscope is the same for telescopes pretty much. You could get some good shots of the moon that way I guess.
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Reply #5 on: September 10, 2010, 23:33:13 PM
You would have to get enough light in to get your shutter speed down though, the moon moves quite quickly when looking through a telescope
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Reply #6 on: September 10, 2010, 23:50:34 PM
I was going by this review, that I remembered reading when I was deciding on getting the 40D:

http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Canon_EOS_40D/live_view_astro-photography.shtml
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Reply #7 on: September 10, 2010, 23:57:10 PM
Awesome, very good stuff
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Re:Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
Reply #8 on: September 15, 2010, 16:56:41 PM
Quote from: mr_roll
They are superb. I was thinking, how can I take pictures of the night sky. Id love to zoom in loads onto planetary objects.

I only have a 75 - 300mm lens however.


To start you dont need more than that to do some astronomy. Just a tripod, remote release and be prepared for very long exposure times.

Being well away from built up areas helps too. If you really want to splash out you need an 8"+ telescope and adaptor to attach your camera.
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