How do you photograph stars and the moon with a digital camera?
Using ONLY an automatic digital camera, what’s the best way of taking pictures of astrological stuff? No telescopes or zoom lens beyond 135mm. I can place the camera on a tripod and take long exposures (< 10 seconds). Current camera: Sony DSC-F828, but the question is really aimed at ANY digital camera.
Open it up for the full 10 seconds. For that short a time, you will not need to track the stars with a motor drive.
Note that the full moon is MUCH brighter than even the brightest star, so a 10-sec exposure of the full moon will be overexposed. (You’ll have to experiment to determine the exact exposure for the Moon; it depends on the sensitivity of the CCD inside the camera).
For stars, you will probably not get much at 10 seconds, unless you are at a very dark-sky site (rural area). But it’s worth a shot.
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