The technique that makes it possible to see colour and shape in our night sky with a camera but not with our own eyes. Imaging is taking a picture with a camera of an object. A digital image is created for each pixel on the camera’s sensor based on the quantity of photons (particles ofContinue reading “The amazing world of astro-photography”
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How far have I progressed from my first image?
The image of the Orion nebula shown above was the start of my interest in astrophotography. It was taken using the Open University telescope in Teneriffe as part of an Open Learning course. At the time I was building a Pikon telescope that used a ventilation tube as the OTA, a raspberry Pi camera insteadContinue reading “How far have I progressed from my first image?”
Night Sky over Middleton 