After many years enjoying doing nothing but looking into a telescope and even more years enjoying pretending to be a amateur photographer and several unsuccessful attempts to get into astro-photography on the cheap I finally struck gold on June of 2011. I had just purchased a refurbished Cannon T1i and had it modified for full spectrum imaging and I set it on a rickety EQ-1 mount with an old Olympus lens and I pointed at the object that had been frustrating me visually for years, the North Continue reading →{"id":57,"date":"2014-03-05T02:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T02:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2025-01-01T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T00:55:03","slug":"astrp-photography-links-sw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/astrp-photography-links-sw","title":{"rendered":"Astro-Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"FirstKeeper\"$ After many years enjoying doing nothing but looking into\u00a0a telescope and even more years enjoying pretending to be a amateur\u00a0photographer and several unsuccessful attempts to get into astro-photography on the cheap I finally struck gold on June of 2011. \u00a0I had just purchased a refurbished Cannon T1i and had it modified for full spectrum imaging and I set it on a rickety EQ-1 mount with an old Olympus lens and I pointed at the object that had been frustrating me visually for years, the North American Nebula. \u00a0I took 40 images at 40 seconds each. \u00a0Of those I used 30 for this image. \u00a0I was hooked! \u00a0I had tried for years to see this object visually and failed, but this simple setup captured it!
\n $\"7000revisit\"$ It took another 11 months trying to find a scope and mount that would work to get the quality of picture I desired. \u00a0My C11 was very hard to focus and the wedge was very difficult to work with. \u00a0My Orion “short tube 80” had major coma around the edges and was riding on top on the C11. \u00a0I purchased an Orion EQ-G mount in the winter and a Celestron GP-C102 from a fellow astronomer and I was off. \u00a0This scope had some blue fridges around bright stars, but it was great to learn the craft. \u00a0It was not long before I revisited my old friend the North American Nebula.<\/p>\n

In 2013 I made one more upgrade to get rid of those blue fringes and purchased a Explore Scientific ES ED-127. \u00a0I am still processing many of these images, but they look real good even though the scope had some collimation issues that have since been corrected.<\/p>\n

The next step was to get a dedicated astro camera, so in late 2020 I got the ZWO ASI2600MC camera. I continue to be impressed with what this camera can pickup.<\/p>\n

Lastly, in 2024, I sprung for a dual narrow band filter so I could capture faint nebula from my bortle 5 home in the winter and whenever I’m unable to get to a dark site.<\/p>\n

You can see more of my images in the two galleries below:<\/p>\n