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Here's a picture of the Orion nebulae I took [OC] (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It was taken with a Canon 6D + Tamron 600mm lens on a star adventurer tracker with some active guiding via a guidescope camera. Pretty basic setup for astrophotography :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to be an expensive hobby based on my initial searches in amazon. high barrier to entry but I think I can make it work in 2 years.

I do self hosting/de-googling/homelab but my daughter is too young to be involved in it, I think astrophotography would be a good thing for us.

I fell in love with the thought of seeing things beyond, my daughter loves learning about satellites and space trash (I'm not sure why exactly).

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it can be pretty expensive. Some tips:

figure out if you want a photography kit you can also use for astrophotography or something more dedicated to astrophotography like a telescope you can put a camera in.
camera equipment is a lot cheaper used.
A lot of deep space objects are most visible in infrared, a camera without IR filter can capture this but wont be much use for anything else.
the old astrophotography reddit is a great place to learn about equipment tradeoffs as all photos are posted with equipment details. Makes it easier to learn what you can realistically capture and what requires 10x your budget.