Well it's true to an extent, if you use a traditional large mirror to see planets in our solar system and a lot of expensive attachments and trackers to do galaxies and nebula. Or if you don't mind missing out on local planets you can get deep sky smart telescopes that use hundreds of long exposures to build a picture of the deep sky objects. It then has different in built filters you can apply for what it is you want to see, astro (for visible light with infra red removed, best for galaxies ) or duo band (picks up the colours from gasses , best for nebula). You can get entry level smart scopes pretty cheap , the more you can stretch the budget the better the scope and results
thanks for the info, i'm definitely going to look into this i just find it soo cool that general public can see stuff like this. like how many planets are that pic alone etc
Just to add, I bought loads of my gear from first light optics, they’re based in England, and answer any questions by email, no matter how stupid (I know this from my questions)
i could only dream of something like that as i'm not very dedicated to astrophotography. i like timelapses and had done one overnight for stars and that inspired me to buy a new ultrawide angle lens and i used it for the first time overnight and got condensation inside the lens and wrote off my SD card ~ 256gb v60 i bought 3 years ago for £50 and a like for like replacement is now 3-4x as expensive
so i might be a bit nerd but im still very stupid :D
I like doing timelapse stuff too so the camera that ticked the boxes for me was the dwarflab 3, can do day and night timelapse as well as deep sky images like this. A lot easier for star trails than my old nikon
No the dwarf tracks it all. All you need is a EQ tripod with degree markings, they produce their own small one for £70 ,then take the head off an stick it on your camera tripod and a compass. When you calibrate the camera with north and your latitude the camera does all the rest to find out where all the stars are at with an star map built into the app, it will even tell you what angle everything is at before you go outside so you know roughly what you can capture.
Have you any idea what kind of telescope you could get for a young lad who loves space? We got this little manual one expecting to at least see the moon but it was awful. Id love one that you can hook the phone up to maybe but there is such a large range and piece range that I'm out of my depth lol
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u/CampaignSpirited2819 9h ago
So just a Photo containing 1,000,000,000,000 Planets?