The Basics of Astrophotography

The evening of Jan 31, 2018 witnessed a beautiful lunar eclipse starting before moonrise and ending well into the night. A lot of Primes & Zooms customers were out shooting the moon that night and a few of them got great results while some came back with images that did not quite do justice to the beautiful sight.

Shooting celestial objects is not an easy task unless you have some practice with it. If you are a beginner and would like to understand how to take simple but great shots of the moon and planets, this article is for you!

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Close-up of the rings of Saturn shot by the Cassini spacecraft: your images will NOT look like this!

Astrophotography refers to photographs of the moon, planets and deep-sky objects such as nebulae, galaxies and star clusters. A popular misconception is that astrophotography involves taking high-magnification shots of deep-sky objects (such as the one above, for example). Unfortunately, you will need your own private equivalent of the Hubble,

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