Astrophotpography

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dhandawalla
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Astrophotpography

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Hi all am very new to this ,need advice on what camera to get to do astrophotography and filters. I have a celestron 5se .
Thanks in advance
pjwack
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Re: Astrophotpography

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Hi-
I started about a year ago and have a Celestron 5se. I haven a zwo 224 and zwo 290. Both have been
excellent. The biggest difference is that the 290 has a very small pixel size, so more detail. This is
a good link that describes all the zwo cameras, but also more general parameters.
https://agenaastro.com/zwo-astronomy-ca ... guide.html


Honestly, I have not had much success with filters. I've found the "light" pollution/nebula filters make
finding enough stars to stack difficult, and the results are only marginally better. Have not found much value in the color filters.

Also, one good investment was a williams apo 70 refractor for wider field shots. I just replace the celestron tube with the williams tube.
dhandawalla
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Re: Astrophotpography

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Post by dhandawalla »

Thanks for the link , only got the 5se 2 months ago .Now to save money for the camera
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