Awesome Astrophotography

Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky.

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Contents

• Articles
• Books
• Tutorials
• Presentations
• Software
• Acquisition
• Guiding
• Image Processing
• Planetarium
• Planning
• Other
• YouTube Channels
• Reference
• Astronomy as a Service (AaaS)
• Community

Articles

• An Astrophotographer's Gentle Introduction To Noise - An easy to understand introduction to various sources of noise in astrophotography and how to eliminate them.
• Autoguiding - An introduction to auto-guiding.
• Buyer's Guide to ZWO Astronomy Cameras - ZWO has a diverse product line. This guide will help you make the right choice.
• Cable Management Recommendations - Some solid advice on cables in an astrophotography setup.
• Cameras and Lenses - Another interactive guide by Bartosz Ciechanowski, this time about cameras and lenses. A must-read for anyone interested in telescopes and photography.
• Color Spaces - Understanding color models, spaces, perception, white point, intensity matches and mismatches (and more!) is crucial for astrophotographers. Bartosz Ciechanowski explains it all in this interactive guide.
• DeepSkyStacker vs PixInsight - A detailed comparison of the pre-processing features.
• Drift Alignment by Robert Vice (D.A.R.V) - Accurate alignment in just a matter of minutes.
• Flat Fields and Stray Light in Amateur Telescopes - A great resource to help one identify and resolve flat-fielding issues.
• Guide Scope vs. Off-Axis Guider: Which is Better for Astrophotography? - Compares the two guiding options in details.
• Guide to Focal Reducers for Astronomy - How focal reducers work, what types are there, and how to use them.
• Guide to Preprocessing of Raw Data With PixInsight - Mistakes that happen during the pre-processing stages cannot be corrected anymore in post-processing. This guide from Bernd Landmann acquaints fellow astrophotographers with PixInsight's tools needed for recognising and avoiding such mistakes.
• How to Set the Correct Back Focus - An easy to follow guide on what back focus is and how to set it.
• Lights and Shadows - This interactive guide to light by Bartosz Ciechanowski, teaches about travel vectors, irradiance, radiance, angles, luminance, and more.
• Master PixInsight's Astrophotography Statistics: Analyze, Adjust, Enhance - Successfully processing astronomical images entails a series of informed decisions. Understanding the data is crucial. This article provides a comprehensive guide to the Statistics process in PixInsight.
• Mastering Flat Frames: Gain matching - This blog series by Willem Jan Drijfhout will take you on a deep dive into the topic of flat frames (Part 2: Flat Panels compared, and Part 3: Bias, Flat-Darks and Conclusions).
• Optical Glass Types - What makes a top-tier telescope? This article will clear up some common misconceptions.