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Originally Posted by bmitchell82
To be really and truely honest with you brett, taking photos of anything bar the moon with a dob mounted telescope and a DSLR will be practically useless sorry to be a buzz kill
Brendan
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It's cool, yes, I have read about this. I am mucking around at the moment, moreof teaching myself. Reading a lot of IIS also helps
I think I'm going to tackle the moon first, simply because "it's there", it's big and easy. Stars and planets are a little too much for me at the moment.
Glen,
I have bought 2 remotes tonight. A tethered one and the other is the wireless (infrared?) remote (RC-6). Tethered one will be a backup to the Wireless one. Something I learnt early on is "redundancy".
The wireless one is a sure winner. Both are genuine Canon devices.
Was testing it tonight, doing star trails (well attempt anyway).
It was my first ever crack with a decent camera. Took about 7 tries to get somewhat a good look.
Was experimenting with Aperture and timed shots.
I am very new to taking shots over 8 seconds. Even manually setting aperture above F7 is new. The last compact camera I had only took 8 second pics from F2.8 to F7.
Amazing this DSLR stuff is (Astrophotography also)
The only daunting thing that is getting to me, is photo processing. I've done the HDR concept (atleast it's a start
), but I have to learn the craft of proper ways of astrophotography. That will take a bit of time, understanding how you guys achieve those great results (Bird and Quark for instance) is a little beyond me at the moment.
Inspired by them now