My Astrophotography

Astrophotography is really fun. I always desired to capture the starry sky in my camera in the times of my visual astronomy sessions. I began photographing the sky with my Panasonic point and shoot digital camera (DMC FS-15). The Panasonic camera had an option for taking long exposure shots. I took some shots of the night sky using this camera during Messier Marathon. Here are some shots taken with this camera!



My interest in astrophotography grew after that and I purchased my first Canon dslr camera. This camera improved my photography than my previous camera and eventually I developed interest in Deep Sky Photography. I then purchased an Equatorial mount with Right Ascension Motor and also bought the Sky Watcher 102/500 refractor OTA for deep sky photography.

Some of my latest astrophotos...







Below is the link of my Flickr Album
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rahulzota/albums/

Comments

Unknown said…
Hi, Rahulbhai,

I m Kartik from Morbi. I am interested in starting astrophotography. Though I have been using DSLR since 10 yrs I haven't taken photos of sky objects. At school I use 8" DOBSONIAN for my students. We have spotted Saturn, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Hearts / Soul Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy and several clusters.

I have also build a barn-door trap for rotating the camera.

Please help me from where to start.

Also white Raan is good for gazing milky way.
October 8, 2015 at 3:16 PM
Rahul Zota said…
Hello Kartikbhai, you can start astrophotography by shooting nightscapes, i.e, shooting the stars, the milky way or star trails with your dslr. You will need a good tripod for that and a shutter release cable. There are thousands of videos on Youtube which will help you to learn more about shooting star trails. All the best :)
October 12, 2015 at 6:40 PM
sandeep said…
Need help for barefoot tracker can u give me kartik Bhai's email or whats app no.
October 1, 2017 at 9:20 AM
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