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Orion and Running Man Nebula

ByTrevor Jones November 27, 2011November 20, 2023 Blog Updates

This is an old post from November 2011. At the time, deep sky astrophotography was still very new to me. Since then, I have photographed the Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula several times, and it’s still one of my all-time favorite deep-sky targets. Interestingly enough, this post talks about my first time using an…

Photograph the Moon with a Point and Shoot Camera

ByTrevor Jones September 18, 2010September 15, 2023 Camera, The Moon, Tutorials

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Photograph the Moon with a point-and-shoot camera You can take some incredible pictures of the moon through a telescope using an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera. Some of my very first astrophotography images were of the moon in its many phases using the afocal method (eyepiece projection does not use a camera lens) method. The photo above…