astro photography

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I decided to start a thread about astro imaging equipment techniques and cameras, basically for any questions. I may not be able to answer them but others might or we can point you in the right direction. I have an array of telescopes and cameras that I use for Astro and Solar imaging. I have...

Clusters are seen in several forms, Open where the associated stars are spread out, Tight is it sounds a group of stars near each other, and Globular a "ball" of stars often looking like a Christmas Tree ornament, they can have hundreds of thousands of stars in the globular. This is M45 a open...

WARNING: Never look at or photograph the sun without special filters or telescopes! I am starting a thread of images taken with telescopes and cameras of old Sol, our sun. All my images are taken from my backyard. This was taken with a 100mm telescope and a Daystar Quark Chromosphere filter...