My kingdom for a telescope!

Archnemesis_Goldenhair

Step #1: Purchase surplus Hubble Space Telescope.

Joey B

sweet!

miguelpineiro

Where else would I photographing them?

El Tejon

Ooh, something for me to do with my Canon Powershot S5 IS! (instead of using to zoom into women's bedrooms)

adelossa

Patience. Lots of patience. Especially for deep sky stuff with a telescope. I'm just getting into astronomy, and for all beginners looking to get into astrophotography, the main piece of advice I've heard is "DON'T!" The really good guys have tens-of-thousands of dollar setups, and dedicate entire nights with thousands of long exposure shots of just one object, and then even more time stacking and registering those shots.

I've done a few sans-telescope, just of the sky. Satellite tracking is fun, to get a long trail going through the sky that is the ISS or something. [flickr.com]

I've just got an old Canon S60, with a max exposure of 15 seconds on manual mode, does anyone know of a way to get longer exposures out of these? Or am I stuck having to buy a DSLR for that feature? I've always wanted to do the classic earth rotation star trails shot.

LastVigilante

"Especially when you are (you're) camera is pointed ..." Of course, you mean "when your camera ..." This is the opposite of the mistake normally seen.

pkopco

@El Tejon: You could be photographing them in a reflection on water!

urukhaifive

Awsome, thanks Gina.

Also, I stumbled on those so-called Mystery Space Machines, I don't know what to make of it. They appear like any other stars or bright points in the heaven, but this is what a smart observer was able to catch on film after some geek-fu:

Mystery Space Machines part 7:
[www.rense.com]

Here are the previous links about the Mystery Space Machines:

[www.rense.com]
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It doesn't appear to be the space station or any kind of satellites, I don't know....

SamVed

If you want to catch the International Space Station flying over your neighborhood, go to
[spaceflight.nasa.gov]
and find your nearest city. When the ISS is overhead it is easily the brightest, and fastest moving, object in the sky.

dchall8

@LastVigilante:

Heck, there is/was a version of my camera (canon 20D) that was made specifically for astrophotography (canon 20Da). That had an IR filter removed or some such.

/One of the changes made to the 20Da over the 20D is the replacement of the "hot mirror" IR filter which covers the CMOS sensor on the 20D.[2] In conventional photography, the IR filter is used to make the spectral response of the CMOS sensor more like that of the human eye. In this way, the pictures gathered by the sensor more closely resemble the world as we see it. In astrophotography, many objects of interest emit strongly in the so-called H-α line, which is heavily attenuated by the IR filter on the 20D. The IR filter of the 20Da passes 2.5 times as much light at around this 656 nm wavelength as does the filter of the 20D, allowing more fine detail to be revealed in long exposures of emission nebulae. A separate IR filter must be attached to the lens in order to use the 20Da to capture images similar to those seen by the human eye.

lordargent

With all due respect to the article creator. You might want to proof "you're" post. :-)

iain010100

@El Tejon: Hollywood! =D

Johnay

That's 'your camera', innit?

NatLorozob

Sorry for the grammar lesson, but it's "your camera's," not "you're camera's." It is probably important for a life hacking blog to make sure the grammar in its articles is correct.

gdpmumin