The February 2017 meeting presentation by Mary McIntyre, her second talk on Astro Photography, covered quite a lot of detail. Mary has kindly written up some notes from this session. Click on the links at the bottom of the each of the following sections.
Photographing The Night Sky: An Introduction to Astrophotography
Basic equipment you need
Get familiar with your camera
Settings
Rough guide
Shooting the photos
shooting the constellations
Shooting Conjunctions
Shooting The Milky Way
Shooting Star Trails
Shooting Satellites
Shooting Meteors
Shooting Aurora
Shooting Noctilucent Clouds
Optical Phenomena
Solar Optical Phenomena
Shooting Lightning
Shooting With a Zoom Lens
Shooting With a Bridge Camera
Tips for using a Nikkon Coolpix (from David Blanchflower)
Tips for using a Canon SX50 (from Angela Garrod)
Tips for using a Lumix (from Dr. Steve Wainright)
Shooting With Camera Attached to Telescope
Afocal Photography
Eyepiece Projection
Prime Focus Photography
Prime Focus Lunar Photography
Prime Focus Solar Photography
Shooting Solar Images
Prime Focus Deep Sky Photography
Stacking (Registax & Autostakkert and Deep Sky Stacker)
These notes will talk you through how to get started with image stacking and then onto basic Photoshop processing Image stacking is the process used to layer multiple images of the same thing on top of each other using computer software. This increases the signal to noise ratio and will allow you to build up much longer total exposure time which will bring out much more detail than you’ll get in one image
Shooting the photos
Calibration Frames
Image Stacking
Autostakkert! 2 Basics
Stacking Solar/Lunar Images
Stacking Planetary Images
Registax 6 for RGB Realignment & Wavelet Sharpening
