... be an extension of that first-person experience. I want to record these things, and share them, as I see them. Astrophotography is a black art of the first order, and, frankly, I suck at it. Every one of my ... be catching up with my own incompetence. The digital revolution swept amateur astrophotography a decade ago, and new cameras are more powerful and much easier to use than they were when ...

I have dipped into a new hobby, thanks to my parents. I have borrowed their Meade DS-2114 telescope, their Nikon D80 and their digital projector. That combination, along with some adapters and eyepieces I have purchased, makes for a fun hobby! I started taking pictures with a digital camera of sorts (more like a webcam) I bought from Meade. Then I tried attaching the Nikon and got some great ...

... will be best observed. He's traveled to Angola, Egypt, Russia and Shanghai, China to photograph various stellar phenomena. The WSJ article contains the best, and simplest, explanation of why so many astrophotography pictures are so brightly colored. In the case of Legault, he uses filters:ll of the deep-sky pictures of constellations, star clusters, nebulae and galaxies, meteorites and ...

... ya). With my telescope in serviceable order, I've begun thinking more about astrophotography, which I've attempted off and on for more than 30 years with varying degrees of success. I mentioned ... let it ride "piggyback" for long-exposure tracking shots. Now, most of the astrophotography I've attempted has been through the telescope, either "prime focus," in that the ...

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... About Dr. Axel Mellinger: Axel Mellinger was born in Munich, Germany and is currently an assistant professor at Central Michigan University. His daytime work is in the field of polymer physics, but he also has nearly 30 years of experience in astronomy and astrophotography. His Milky Way panorama image, as well as links to his other astrophotography projects, can be found on his web site at -