Astrophotography Group

Astrophotography Interest group – Introduction

Link to Member’s Astrophotography Gallery

This gallery is where members can display photographs taken with their own equipment and processed by themselves.

If you want to submit photos for display in the gallery email them to deon.k44@gmail.com with the following information included:-

Object Identification and/or description; Camera and settings used; Telescope used; number of images stacked and exposure time each; number of darks used; software used to process images. Please use jpeg images for space saving purposes. It would be useful to include the workflow of processing techniques used.

Links to useful sites:

Catching the Light – Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss

Astrophotography Books

Robotic Telescopes:

Itelescope

NASA robotic telescope

Sites with great  astrophotographs

       Astronomy picture of the day

       NASA Picture of the day

Available software page

 Image Processing

  1. Download of image for practicing image processing.
  2. Create your own Hubble images
    1. Step-by-step guide to making your own images
    2. Create your own Color Hubble Images