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One of the most rewarding feelings for me is noticing improvement after working hard at something. Since my start in the fall of 2016, I've found astrophotography to be an incredibly rewarding adventure. It's hard to overstate how fortunate I am to have access to my school's equipment, frustrating though it can be from time to time; it's a privilege that has sparked my curiosity and made everything you see here possible.
While some big steps have come from acquiring needed equipment (such as filters), most progress has been the result of familiarizing myself with the instruments and software, understanding and avoiding common pitfalls (I've found more than once that the telescope had been taking pictures of the wall for hours), and slowly learning the theory underlying each step of the process.
While some big steps have come from acquiring needed equipment (such as filters), most progress has been the result of familiarizing myself with the instruments and software, understanding and avoiding common pitfalls (I've found more than once that the telescope had been taking pictures of the wall for hours), and slowly learning the theory underlying each step of the process.
October 2016
The very first image I took with a telescope. |
April 2017
No longer stumbling around in the dark. |
July 2017
Recent image of M27. |
Capturing deep sky objects is like discovering buried treasure. A quick glance towards the night sky reveals nothing but distant, twinkling arrays of stars. But look closer with the aid of a telescope and these fascinating, incredibly distant, old, and unimaginably massive objects begin to reveal themselves, never fully, but continually beckoning deeper into their grandeur.
