NightScenes: Guide to Simple Astrophotography: Imaging the night sky with just a camera and tripod

Nightscenes: Guide to Simple Astrophotography shows you don't have to have a telescope in order to capture many naked eye aspects of the night sky with a camera. Presented as the authors journey taking simple astrophotographs from the humble SLR through DSLR and now smart phone imaging, the book is suitable for beginners rather than experienced astrophotographers. This is a guide for anyone getting started on imaging the wide field night sky with simple equipment. With a wide variety of cameras, many of the techniques are also applicable to the increasingly more sophisticated smart phone cameras and in this 2nd edition two new chapters have been added covering simple smartphone astrophotography. Topics covered include basic camera settings, constellations, how to image the planets against the backdrop of the stars, imaging the moon and its phases, capturing Aurora, Noctilucent clouds and much, much more! Read more