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Serious:
If you live in a built up area a lot of the stars you can't see are unfortunately hidden by light pollution. For proper night sky viewing you need to get away from the security lights, street lights and preferably high up.

Eggtastico:

--- Quote from: Russell on February 22, 2013, 15:04:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: Eggtastico on February 22, 2013, 14:36:28 PM ---i tried a telescope & mount for my camera. was really difficult as when zoomed in that much everything moves really fast.
I even tried hooking it all up to my computer, realised in the end my equipment wasnt up to it. I would love a computerised telescope & not living to far from brecon is handy. Just i know I woudnt have the time to use it & to much light pollution in my back garden

I believe a lot of people remove/replace the IR from the camera sensor to capture more detail.

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I've got an adaptor so I can attach my camera to a telescope but it takes out the eye pieces which give you most of the magnifictation instead your telescope just becomes a big say 700mm lens, I think most people use webcams attached to the eyepiece to get good results but yeah things move very quickly, you maybe have 10-15 seconds at most whilst watching Jupiter through a telescope so not good for a long exposure shot.

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problem I had with the adapter was Id find something interesting using an eyepiece, then the weight of the camera & adapter when fitting would move the telescope. lot of arsing around & I gave up in the end

XEntity:
I follow Trey Ratcliff on facebook who is pretty much the god of HDR, if you need to know how to do HDR visit stuck in customs, the other day he uploaded an amazing photo under this category.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2013/02/13/the-church-of-the-good-shepherd-under-the-stars/

Mind blown!
 :o

M3ta7h3ad:
Take lots and lots of shots. Layer and you'll see lots more.

zpyder:
When I went to wales last year I took advantage of being in the middle of nowhere one night and took loads of shots. Used the opensource "DeepSkyStacker" program. Didn't have a clue what I was doing, but it did give really good results with not much effort. As M3ta says, stack the shots. I can't remember what the rule of thumb is (if there is one) but I think I was stacking something like 10 shots of 30s each together. I think the idea is that combining the shots brings out the really weak stars, and by using shorter single exposures it compensates for the movement of the earth etc.

If it's clear tonight or tomorrow I might be tempted to head out into the NF or something.

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