This something that most people don't know about me is what first made me want to take photographs, it was my love of the stars and moon. I've been fascinated by space for as long as I can remember, like it's been calling to me. Didn't like the math involved to become an astronomer, but the colors and energy that is 'floating' around out there....
Over the years I've gotten a couple different small telescopes and every time I try to grab some images, something didn't go right. My sister picked me up a Celestron refracting telescope when she was working in a camera store one year. I loved using it, but I didn't have the right mount to take pictures with it. Objects moved to quickly through the field of view.
I picked up a Newtonian telescope a few years back, 118mm I believe, that has a motor mount with tracking. The mount holding the telescope is too loose, the weight of the camera causes the telescope to rotate.
More recently I got another small telescope, compact enough that I can carry it around with me. The first time I tried using it with the camera I couldn't get it to focus properly and didn't try again for over a year. Every month I head over to Troy, MI for a mastermind meeting with Michael Angelo Caruso and I noticed how beautiful it was outside, nice and clear for star gazing. I left that meeting and made the 3 hour drive home, which put me home after midnight. Had some ideas going through my head and needed to relax so so I pulled out the newer telescope to try again and was able to get it to focus properly (not sure what I was doing wrong the first time), however, the balance is off enough that it won't track properly as the motor isn't strong enough to lift the camera attached to it. I wasn't able to do what I wanted, but I did manage to get the photograph of the moon up top.
I have a goal of getting a telescope that I can do astrophotography with. Not only to take shots of the moon, but of planets, stars, nebulae and some of the other beautiful objects in the sky.
Steven
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