{"id":2201,"date":"2023-04-30T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T01:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowedunder.com\/wpd\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2023-07-08T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T01:00:13","slug":"dons-first-astroblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowedunder.com\/wpd\/dons-first-astroblog\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;s first astroblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style>\n<h2>First blog by Don on his DSLR Astrophotography<\/h2>\n<p>I have started a new hobby to deprive him and Marina of sleep. With Marina&#8217;s invaluable help, WordPress blogs have been added to snowedunder.<\/p>\n<p>Up until I started the new hobby, most of my photography has been, landscapes, flowers, gargoyles and stained glass when traveling in Europe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I started in astrophotography using my existing equipment that I have accumulated over the years. From a landscape photography class with John Fielder, I acquired a tripod that perhaps is too light for astrophotography, but I am learning not to bump it \ud83d\ude42 One of the lenses that I bought for daylight photography, I did not use much, a 70-200mm telephoto. Wide angle lenses are better for what I like to shoot in the daytime. I first used this lens on the tripod, and took very many 2 to 5 second exposures and then stacked them and post processed them in Affinity.&nbsp; I then added the Star Adventurer 2i equitorial mount, and finally a Williams Optics 250mm fixed focal length lens.<\/p>\n<p>What I am doing, is starting very slowly, and for astrophotography, very low cost, and slowly upgrading. I am not going to spend many thousands of dollars and later decide I do not like it. So far all of my images have been in the evening. I have not yet gotten up in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>He already had a good camera, tripod, and a few lenses<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First blog by Don on his DSLR Astrophotography I have started a new hobby to deprive him and Marina of sleep. With Marina&#8217;s invaluable help, WordPress blogs have been added to snowedunder. 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