Astro Photography Learning Resources

Greetings all,

I enjoy taking night and astro pictures but have struggled at getting better at it. I wanted to start a thread to share astro and night photography related learning resources.

I found this youtube channel to be excellent. The person behind it, Richard, provides a wealth of free online workshops and some printed material. If you feel up to it and have the ability, he provides the opportunity to make a small donation. I've done it before as I've gotten so much out of his stuff, but once again it is completely voluntary.

www.youtube.com/@nightscapeimages.richard

What other resources do people find worthwhile?
Happy shooting!

There are a fair number of good videos there. Thanks for the link.

As for other resources, I often check with Roger Clark’s website. He doesn’t post videos but his voluminous articles are worth reading, even if you don’t agree with all of his points (as a number of people don’t).

Oh, and congrats on being the first poster on the Astrophotography sub forum.

A good article about ISO, SNR, DR
Find the best iso for astrophotography

My number one reference book (highly recommended):
The Deep-Sky Imaging Primer by Charles Bracken

Cheers, Chris

Thanks for the additional learning resources. They look great and will review them more in-depth today.

I found this useful.

Kylon, I also have The Deep-Sky Imaging Primer by Charles Bracken as well as two others: Astrophotography by Thierry Legault and The Astrophotography Manual by Chris Woodhouse. All discuss various telescopes and cameras but they also (and possibly more importantly) discuss the software/post-processing. I have yet to attempt any DSO photography (only moon shots so far). I'm planning to shoot some night-skyscapes in a few weeks. I've got a Celestron 8" scope that hasn't been powered up in years that I'm hoping to dust off for some summer visual observing.