Yep, I was into regular photography, well the boring and hard branch of photography called bird photography and even I struggled with astrophotography.
It really feels like you can either not buy much equipment and struggle with moving the camera a tenth of a millimeter every 3 minutes or you buy an eq mount and hook up your camera to your laptop and come back after a 7 hours nap to a neat pile of pictures that don’t really show anything but after 4 hours of automated processing and some manual retouching show something about 80% good as Hubble. Which is nice, but it’s not exactly something unique. And the extra annoying thing is the only way you get better is by investing more money.
At least in bird photography once you’ve got the 600mm f/4 for 10k you’re set for life.
Yeah but if you want to switch from photographing birds to airplanes or fuckin lions or something you don’t need to change literally anything.
If an astrophotography invested 10k into DSO wants to take pictures of the sun, they’d need more equipment. Want to do lunar imaging, new stuff. Solar system objects, new stuff. Eclipse new stuff. Comets new stuff.
Yep, I was into regular photography, well the boring and hard branch of photography called bird photography and even I struggled with astrophotography.
It really feels like you can either not buy much equipment and struggle with moving the camera a tenth of a millimeter every 3 minutes or you buy an eq mount and hook up your camera to your laptop and come back after a 7 hours nap to a neat pile of pictures that don’t really show anything but after 4 hours of automated processing and some manual retouching show something about 80% good as Hubble. Which is nice, but it’s not exactly something unique. And the extra annoying thing is the only way you get better is by investing more money.
At least in bird photography once you’ve got the 600mm f/4 for 10k you’re set for life.
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Yeah but if you want to switch from photographing birds to airplanes or fuckin lions or something you don’t need to change literally anything.
If an astrophotography invested 10k into DSO wants to take pictures of the sun, they’d need more equipment. Want to do lunar imaging, new stuff. Solar system objects, new stuff. Eclipse new stuff. Comets new stuff.