Questions tagged [photography]
Questions about photography of celestial objects by amateur or professional astronomers. Questions about photography of other objects are off-topic but might be asked on our sister site Photography Stack Exchange.
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Is this a galaxy?
I took a photo last night (Wed 3 July 2024) around 23:45 (BST) from a small town outside of Chesterfield, UK.
I uploaded it to a site to identify the stars which is shown via the green annotations in ...
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Stars (other than Sol) resolvable as disks
Have any stars (other than Sol) been imaged as actual disks (the way we've seen the planets and moons of our solar system)? Presumably such a star would be relatively close to us and/or relatively ...
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Vera C. Rubin's LSST's ginormous camera's shutter; why does it open/close 1000 times a night & is this typical for large-format survey telescopes?
CNET's April 23, 2024 World's Largest Camera, the 3.2-Gigapixel LSST, Is Complete says after about 02:19
That shutter is actually so big it had to be broken down into two pieces just to fit inside ...
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BVR photometry and Luminiscense
I have the values from B, V and R filters. How do I obtain the total luminescence of a star?
My ultimate aim is to find the relative masses and luminescence of various stars/galaxies in a galactic ...
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Can someone provide an image that more reasonably shows what a human sees during ideal Milky Way viewing? Both land and sky
I recall seeing the Milky Way in 1987 from the edge of the Manzanar internment camp (Owens Valley, California). It was a Moonless night with perfectly clear skies and the location was (and still is) ...
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Can emergency blanket material be used for making a homemade solar filter for a digital camera?
Can emergency blanket material be used for making a homemade solar filter for use with a digital camera? It seems to be aluminized Mylar.
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Since John Herschel was first to make a photograph on a glass plate in 1839, why was the first astronomical photograph not taken until 1840 by Draper?
Researching Who named "the 37 cluster" or at least made that name widely known via writing? I came across the Moneylink September, 9, 2020 article 9 September 1839: Sir John Herschel takes ...
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Stacking of frames drizzled using the AURA drizzle implementation hosted on github/spacetelescope (NOT PixInsight drizzle integration)
Note: this question is not about PixInsight's drizzle integration module, it's specifically about the mentioned drizzle implementation. Answers describing PI functionality are automatically off topic.
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Details of the Moon's night photographed in a total solar eclipse
I didn't know that in photographs of total solar eclipses you could see details of the Moon's night.
To my surprise, look at this beautiful photo of the solar eclipse of 2024/04/23 taken by amateur ...
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Determing timestamp of a photo of the stars using a plate solver
This question from 2016 seems to suggest that you need a powerful telescope to get a photo of the stars in such a way that you can use their proper motion to get a timestamp. If this is possible, how ...
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Finding stars that would be visible from satellite
I'm working on a mock image of a picture taken from a satellite (like ISS). Lets say I have a camera on ISS pointing in the direction of velocity (I have this velocity vector defined in ITRF and ...
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First photographic image taken with telescopes to produce astronomically useful results? What telescope was used?
comments on the question and answer(s) to What are the technological advancements that made it possible for modern large telescopes to work with alt-az mounts instead of equatorial mounts? have made ...
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With a non-motorized telescope, can 100 pictures of 0.5 seconds be realigned and merged to get the equivalent of a 50-second long exposure shot?
I have a non-motorized Newton 130/900 telescope.
Of course, it's hopeless to do pictures with exposure ~ 1 minute. Even 1 second is probably too much, as seen in Optimal exposure time for photography ...
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Elevation difference of analemmas' taken at different hours and the reason for the tendency of analemmas' being slanted with deviation from the noon
According to Wikipedia, in astronomy, an analemma (/ˌænəˈlɛmə/; from Ancient Greek ἀνάλημμα (analēmma) 'support') is a diagram showing the position of the Sun in the sky as seen from a fixed location ...
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Human Brightness perception and contrast
This is kind of an interdisciplinary question on human brightness perception and the ability to distinguish grayscales. To be honest, I wasn't sure if the Physics, Biology or Computer graphics SE site ...
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