Category: Astrophotography

September 16, 2021, 09:49, asked: Ali & Sara

What settings do you use for astrophotography?

• Use manual or bulb mode.
• Use a “fast” aperture of F/2.8 – F/4.
• Set your white balance setting to daylight or auto.
• Set your exposure length to 15-30-seconds.
• Shoot in RAW image format.
• Use Manual Focus.
• Use an ISO of 400-1600 (or more)
• Use the 10-second delay drive mode.

September 14, 2021, 21:59, asked: ⓃⓄⒺⓂⒾ

In astrophotography, to dither means to shift the pointing direction of your telescope (via the telescope mount) in random directions between each exposure. ... By moving the pointing direction of the telescope, dithering shifts the stars to a slightly different place in each frame....

September 13, 2021, 11:20, asked: boris.style

The most common way (for astrophotos) to do this is to either take one really long exposure (sky brightness and the Earth's rotation tend to prevent this technique from being as successful as it could be) or take lots of shorter exposures and stack them....

September 11, 2021, 13:14, asked: Michael Curran

Adobe Lightroom is a popular, easy to use and fairly powerful RAW developer and image organizer. Its usefulness in astrophotography is somewhat limited, as you cannot perform complex tasks such as histogram stretching, advanced light pollution, and gradient removal, star reduction, etc....

September 8, 2021, 16:59, asked: Dara Kovalchuk

ProCam X – best astrophotography app for Android It enables you to have greater control over your smartphone camera by being able to control things like shutter speed, IOS, white balance, etc....

September 8, 2021, 13:08, asked: sirrahnais.com

Although astrophotography is a very easy hobby in which to get started on a simple level, it can be difficult to master at its highest level. You must be prepared to spend the time learning the craft if you want to get really good at it. Don't let this discourage you....

September 8, 2021, 12:14, asked: Martin Nguyen

Focusing the lens is a straight forward process at 24mm, and even offers a little forgiveness at an aperture of F/4. Faster lenses that can open up to F/1.8 are beneficial for astrophotography but often result in a challenging focus routine....

September 8, 2021, 10:15, asked: Luxury Eco Suites Inverloch

For deep-sky astrophotography, your ISO levels should generally be set high and support your other exposure settings. For some, 800 or 1600 works in bringing out the moon and stars during long-exposure shots of dark night skies....

September 8, 2021, 03:15, asked: K.Oboch

Try focusing in daylight and learn the infinity focus point of your lens.

1. Capture daylight test images while using the widest possible aperture value.
2. Photograph a vast landscape or subject far away.
3. Use the live view mode zoomed to refine the focus in manual focusing mode.

September 8, 2021, 00:30, asked: ✧ ????•?????????? ✧

The Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM isn't a spectacular performing f/1.8 lens, but it is very good at f/2.8 and higher f/numbers. For such a cheap price, it's a very useful and affordable astrophotography tool, particularly for panorama stitching. ... I expect this lens to be one of Canon's best selling lenses for a long time....