Easy Astrophotography : Shooting the Night Sky

Description

Everything you need to know to photograph and postprocess images of the night sky with standard DSLR and mirrorless camera equipment

Easy Astrophotography will teach you everything you need to know about
photographing:

The moon
Eclipses
The Milky Way
Star fields
Star
trails
Comets
Meteor showers

A complete list of the equipment you
will need is included, and since this book is for photography with your standard camera, lenses, and tripod, not telescopes and tracking tripods, you may already have all or most of what is
recommended.

All the camera
settings you need are also included, as well as exact processing techniques
to help you make your best images.

Illustrations with complete
technical information throughout will help you plan your exact astrophotography strategy.By David Skernick and Brian ValenteDavid Skernick spends as much time as possible traveling, photographing, and teaching workshops along the back roads of the United States. He currently resides in Warsaw, Virginia, with his wife, Ria. Brian Valente was born and raised living among the redwood forests and ferns of Marin County, California. He discovered photography later in life but quickly discovered it was an ideal medium to convey his sense of wonder about the natural world. Brian has won numerous awards and accolades for his photographic work and exhibits primarily in California. When he’s not out photographing nature, he’s behind his telescope conducting deep-space and planetary imaging.50 color and b/w imagesShooting the Night Sky50 color and b/w images