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10 reasons why Canon Rebel is so good for astrophotography 2009-01-03 17:36:08 Canon’s low-priced range of Digital Single Lens Reflexive (DSLR) cameras are extremely popular between amateur astrophotographers. In this group we can find the following cameras as they appeared on the market:
Canon Rebel
(300D)
Canon Rebel XT (350D)
Canon Rebel XTi (400D)
Canon Rebel XSi (450D)
The first Canon Rebel was published in 2003 and since then the astrophotography began [...] Read more:Canon
Hutec IDAS LPS-P2-FF filter review 2009-01-03 12:19:19 The light pollution is becoming more and more annoying thing more or less all over the world. Astronomers are the ones who suffers due to that more than any others. The problem is that there are every year less locations for observing and photographing the untouched sky. Well, some manufactures of astronomy equipment decided to [...] Read more:review
Astrophotography for beginners: Star trails 2008-12-29 12:17:45 I still remember my beginnings in astrophotography some years ago. I joined some astrophotography forums and admired the pictures some masters were taking. I didn’t have a telescope, a mount or any other equipment. I had just a Canon 3000N camera and kit lens.
Many of you would say that with this equipment astrophotograhy is just [...] Read more:trails
M51 or Whirlpool Galaxy 2008-12-28 14:07:56 M51 is a spiral galaxy in constellation of Canes Venatici. It’s other name is Whirlpool Galaxy
. In fact there is not a single galaxy but it’s two of them: one larger and another smaller. They are located in a distant approximately 23 million ly from us. M51 is one of the object which can be [...]
Deep-sky astrophotography: M42, M43 and NGC1977 2008-12-27 12:18:55 Yesterday I haven’t written a post because I was travelling. I am on holidays now, so I’ll publish just one deep-sky astrophotography:
Orion nebula is reflection nebula in constellation Orion (the hunter). It is located approximately 1300 ly from us. It’s just the brightest part of very large nebula complex which stretches between almost all the [...]
The most popular DSLR for astrophotography - Canon 300D/Rebel 2008-12-25 06:38:31 In this post we will take a look at one of the most important equipment for astrophotography - that’s camera.
Only 10 years ago we’d found astrophotography as pretty expensive. The reason is that the cameras for serious work costed a fortune! Anyway, it was Canon
300D which completely changed everything in 2003. Now it’s only [...] Read more:popular
, Rebel
Merry Christmas with Pleiades 2008-12-24 11:42:17 From time to time I’ll publish some my astrophotos here. And today, for Christmas
eve I’d like to present you one of my images.
Pleiades are stargroup in our local Galaxy, Milky Way. They are approximately 440 ly (light years) distant from us which is “pretty near”. They’re also known as M45 (Messier’s catalogue), Seven Sisters, [...] Read more:Merry
, Merry Christmas
Why a good tripod is so important? 2008-12-23 12:57:29 On many astrophotography and astronomy forums I notice that there are some beginners who would like to buy a new telescope and start with an astrophotography. They buy a reasonably good telescope, a mount for tracking, a camera but at the end there is no more money for a good tripod.
Tripod or pier is just [...]
History of astrophotography 2008-12-22 12:51:38 The astrophotography has its start over 150 years ago. It was Daguerre who “invented” it in 1839. He took the first picture of Moon with the purpose to create a detailed map of Moon’s surface. That tells us that these days astrophotography was used strictly in science world and was not accessible to everyone.
Later on [...] Read more:History
About MyAstrophotography blog 2008-12-21 12:27:10 MyAstrophotography is (just another) blog about everything that is in connection with astronomy and photography.
You can find here general thoughts about astrophotography, techniques of capturing, equipment reviews, and other facts about astronomy and photography, regularly updated news from science and astronomy world, great images, critiques on them and so on.
I (the blog author, Primoz Cigler)
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