Astrophotography Of The Sun

My photographic experience dates back to 1973 but I'm new to astrophotography. After reading lots of reviews and articles on the topic I decided on the Star Adventurer. I'm starting with daytime use, tracking the Sun and doing time lapse pans. That way I will become familiar with the controls. Properly setting the polar orientation is all but impossible during the day but I am getting used to the equipment. In the near future I will be going to areas that have darker skies and shoot starscapes. The accuracy of the motor is uncanny. I can put the Sun or Moon in the frame and come back an hour later and it may be lower in the frame due to my not polar aligning it properly but the left to right accuracy is dead on.

I was looking at this for my astrophotography work, but on a hunch, I took it to the eclipse this past week. It was wonderful! Once I got the sun centered (400 mm on 1.5 crop), I could turn a vertical and horizontal knob about 1/4 turn every 2 minutes and tracked the sun for the entire event. It also feels solidly built.

Great for astrophotography, does what it says.

I use this for astrophotography

Perfect for astrophotography.

Incredible lens for astrophotography!

It was really amazing lens to take a astrophotography.

This is one of the most informative books I have seen on Astrophotography! Explained in detail everything you want to know and how to get those amazing,spectacular astrophotography shots you have been dreaming of but thought impossible or out of reach. Very clear and precise directions to the stars, galaxies,planets, and anything else you would want to look to the heavens to capture. Love this and I highly recommend this book to everyone interested in astrophotography!

I needed this for an old Manfrotto tripod I use for Astrophotography.

A great little flashlight when setting up for astrophotography.