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Archive of posts filed under the Astrophotography category.

I caught a nebula!

Posted by Eris on 19 November 2014, 5:14 am

Tonight the skies were a bit more clear, so I tried talking photos of M42, the Great Nebula in Orion. It’s not exactly a Hubble image, but it’s at least recognizable. I tried experimenting with different settings on my camera and lens to see what worked best. This image was taken with Camera: Canon 50D …

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Pleaides – more experiments in astrophotography

Posted by Eris on 18 November 2014, 4:38 am

So lately I’ve become more curious about what kinds of photos of the stars I can make with my equipment. Tonight, clouds moved in fairly early, so I wasn’t able to do much, but I did get this image of the Pleaides. A few things I note are, in no particular order: The image was …

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Waning Gibbous Moon

Posted by Eris on 10 November 2014, 4:56 am

I can’t really take decent astrophotos with my equipment, but the Moon, at least, is accessible. This was taken November 9, 2014.

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Moon shot

Posted by Eris on 17 February 2013, 7:26 am

No, not a rocket launch. Just my first attempt at astrophotography. Tonight I set up my telescope and camera to take a photo of the waxing half moon. First, the photo itself and then a description of how it was made. I’ve never seriously tried astrophotography before, so this was a bit of a challenge. …

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Venus transits the Sun, 2012

Posted by Eris on 6 June 2012, 5:35 am

Today, Venus passed directly between the Sun and the Earth, an event that only happens every hundred years or so. I was at work today, but I took one of my telescopes with me and when the transit began, about 5:09pm CDT, I set up in the parking lot and projected the image onto a …

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Filed under Astrophotography, General, Photography

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