Night Sky ...
Astrophotography is a specialized
type of photography which involves making images of astronomical
objects in the night sky such as the Moon, Sun, planets, stars, and deep sky
objects such as star clusters and galaxies. Additionally it is one of the
most demanding of all photographic endeavors require extreme skills and
precision. The first astrophotograph is attributed to John William Draper, who
took a photo of the moon in 1840. His son (Henry) later became the first person
to photograph the Orion Nebula in 1880, which was essentially the first deep sky
object to be captured on film. While imaging things such as star trails
can be achieved with modest equipment, the cost to capturing deep sky targets
rises very rapidly due to the precision involved in have large diameter, "flat"
optical field held with sit within micron's of accuracy for many hours over a vast range of
changing temperatures.
Making an imaging of deep sky objects can take years to accumulate because of the faintness of the object being photographed. These collected images are then post processed and stacked using a computer adding the all the collected photons together to create the finial image.
My current interests lay in capturing star patterns or "asterisms" in more technical terms as stars are brighter objects and can be imaged from my light-polluted home in Michigan. Additionaly, there is a fascination with the pattern or distribution of the stars and their reference to one another visually which has attracted me to area.
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