Astrophotography Equipment

I use a variety of cameras, lenses, and telescopes for imaging, and the arsenal of equipment is slowly but surely upgraded over time. Photographing and presenting finished images of our celestial neighbors is a complex, and technical challenge that demands extraordinarily precise equipment, and attention to detail. The cost for obtaining extraordinary images is high and requires much time, patience, and experience.

The monetary, and technical obstacles are just part of the equation - Weather, seeing conditions, light pollution from developed areas and cities, stray satellite, meteor, and airplane light trails are constant sources of imaging problems because of the long exposures involved. Wind, bugs, dew, frost, power failure, computer glitches.. The list of things that complicate astronomical imaging goes on, and on....

All of these issues contribute to the challenge and make the reward of a "good" image all the more satisfying.