Telescope Lens, White with 420-800MM Super Telephoto Zoom F/8.3-16 Manual Focusing Telephoto Lens for Canon EF-S Mount Camera Aluminum Body, Telephoto Zoom Lens

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You should use a camera lens if you’re beginning to explore the world of space photography and don’t want to get extreme close-ups of very distant objects. You’d choose a telescope if you’re a professional or aspiring astronomer or want to photograph extremely distant planets.

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They’re easily adjustable. You can easily adjust and focus a camera lens to make sure you can view specific objects. The high-quality glass is neatly wrapped in a really solid casing. The rubberized manual focus ring gives a very assured grip and has a long rotational travel with a fluid feel. There’s no weather-seal ring on the mounting plate to guard against the ingress of dust and moisture. To be fair, though, if you’re photographing the Milky Way, you’ll need clear, dry and dust-free conditions. I often thread a 2″ light pollution filter to the end of my field flattener/reducer or adapter. Some flatteners, such as the Flat73, include a spot inside to screw in the filter. One of the best cameras for astrophotography is the one that you'll use most often, to paraphrase a famous astronomy idiom about choosing telescopes.

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Standard lens. A standard camera lens includes convex or concave glass panels designed to capture and focus light on a particular object. It then sends the light it has captured to a film strip and imprints the image resulting in the photograph. All camera lenses use this standard light-capturing method but may have slight adaptations depending on their purpose. The excellent RGB sensitivity is great for Solar System targets, but also brighter deep-sky objects: exposure range runs from 32 microseconds to 1,000 seconds.

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Our Nikon Z6 review found we could shoot up to ISO 12,800 with very little visible noise in the image. Perfect for evening landscapes, darkened objects, or astrophotography. The image quality only degrades slightly on the maximum and expanded settings.

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As evidenced in the Sony A7R IV review, this camera has exceptional performance and image quality. While the new Sony A7R V which we've also reviewed is a fantastic camera, we think the A7R IV is the better astro option for now because the V has noisier high ISO performance and costs more. Your computer or storage system can't handle larger files: The massive 61-megapixel sensor creates huge files that could be too much of a test for your existing file storage or computer processor setup.

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This might be because the ISO is too high (the best ISO varies between cameras) or because the exposure time is causing the sensor to warm up. The Andromeda Galaxy, captured by Tom Howard with a Nikon D7000 DSLR camera, TS-Optics 65mm quadruplet refractor and Sky-Watcher EQ6 mount. When it comes to deep-sky imaging, planetary cameras have small sensors, which means they’re not always suited. This is because they have ‘set-point’ cooling systems that keep the sensor temperature constant, which is known as ‘active’ camera cooling. This astrophotography bundle includes a foam-lined case, Lodestar X2 off-axis guide camera and SXMFW-1T mini filter wheel. The camera's sensor is a medium-format, high-resolution EXview CCD chip, with 6,050,000 x 4.54µm square pixels in a 15.98mm diagonal array.If your goals are to capture deep-sky astrophotography images, you’ll want to use the prime-focus method that does not use an eyepiece or Barlow lens in front of the camera. Yes, this means that you will be using the fixed native focal length (magnification) of your telescope to photograph all objects. Most telescopes have an opening for 2″ eyepieces (or T-Ring adapters) and a 1.25″ adapter for smaller eyepieces or 1.25″ barrels. It’s as simple as this, if you want to take pictures through your telescope, you need to properly attach your camera to it. Learning how to attach your camera to a telescope is one of the first steps needed to enter the world of astrophotography.