Photographing the night sky with a digital camera — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The other problem one often has with digital cameras and the night sky is a heat issue. On a film SLR camera, you can leave the shutter open all night long. No problem. If you have a properly mechanized tripod, you can even get very clear pictures of all sorts of space objects. The CCDs in a digital cameral aren't made to stay open that long. They build heat very fast and have no sufficient way to dissipate that heat. Heat in CCDs = noise in image. There are specialized digital cameras made specifically for astro-photography, but they are very expensive. Most digital cameras just aren't made for the job. Loading...
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