As a beginner in astrophotography, I would like to share my experiences in this hobby.
As Astrophotography is complex it's totally dependent on equipments you are using , your interest , time, patiance and your processing skills.
Most of the dedicated astrophotography cameras are very expensive and also need a good maintenance. So in my upcoming blogs I will share how you can do good Astrophotography with simple equipments. So first type of astrophotography, I would like to start with is "Eyepiece projection Astrophography" .
1. Eyepiece Projection Astrophotography
As the name suggests in this type of Astrophotography you have to project light from Eyepiece on your camera sensor .In this type you just need a good telescope with atleast 750mm focal length and 100mm aperture to get good results.
This type of astrophotography you can do with just your smart phone and telescope. According to my experience as beginner this type of Astrophotography is best for planetary Astrophotography.
So to start with this you need a universal smartphone adptor for telescope which is available cheep in the market. You have to attach your smartphone and telescope eyepiece to it in such a way that when you open your camera you should get eyepiece field of view visible. Most of the beginners do mistake is that they capture single shot of planets and end up with noisy and poor results. So I will suggest a best way to capture planetary deatils like red spot of Jupiter, cloud bends on saturn etc . So the method is very simple , you will have to capture a short video (10s ) of target and process it with softwares called PIPP and Registax. These softwares you can download it free. Firstly you have to open your captued video in PIPP( Planetary Imaging Pre Processor) software and do processing in planetary option. This software makes your video more stable and suitable for stacking in Registax. In Registax you have to select the best frame and stack it with the others frames from the video and by adjusting layers in wavelet we get a final image.
These are the image of saturn captured with the same method
Equipments used
Telescope- 114/900mm
Eyepiece- k4mm
Mobile camera - asus 13mp
Softwares used - PIPP and Registax