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Capturing the Cosmos, One Starry Snapshot at a Time

  • Basics
    • Introduction to Astrophotography
    • Types of Astrophotography
    • History of Astrophotography
    • Glossary
  • Techniques
    • Planning and Preparation
    • Camera Settings
    • Focusing and Framing
    • Image Stacking and Calibration
    • Post-Processing
    • Time-lapse Astrophotography
    • Widefield and Landscape Astrophotography
  • Equipment
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    • Mounts
      • Equatorial Mounts
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      • Tracking Systems
    • Accessories
      • Barlow Lenses
      • Filters
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      • Power and Connectivity
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      • Star Clusters
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Glossary

  • Altitude
  • Aperture
  • Apochromatic (APO)
  • Astrograph
  • Autoguider
  • Barlow lens
  • Bayer array
  • Bin
  • Bortle scale
  • Calibration frames
  • Celestial coordinates
  • Chromatic aberration
  • CMOS
  • Collimation
  • Dark frame
  • Declination
  • Deep-sky object
  • Drizzle
  • DSLR Camera
  • Dynamic range
  • Equatorial mount
  • Field flattener
  • f-number
  • Focal length
  • Focal ratio
  • Guide scope
  • Ha
  • ISO
  • Light pollution
  • Nebula
  • Newtonian reflector
  • Noise
  • Pixel scale
  • Planetary camera
  • Polar alignment
  • Prime focus
  • RAW format
  • Reducer/corrector
  • Reflector
  • Refractor
  • Right ascension
  • Schmidt-Cassegrain
  • SNR
  • Solar filter
  • Stacking
  • Star cluster
  • Star trail
  • Time-lapse
  • Total integration time
  • Tracking
  • Tricolor imaging
  • Wide field astrophotography
  • Zenith
  • ZWO Camera

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Categories

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  • Nebulae
  • Planning and Preparation
  • Targets
  • Techniques
  • Telescopes
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  • Tracking Systems
  • Types of Astrophotography
  • Widefield and Landscape Astrophotography
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