How astrophotography has changed in the last 50 years.

[KingClinton]

Hi, found this interesting article and felt it's worth a share here.
Hope I posted this in the correct sub forum, if not, the mods can move it to the correct place, thanks.

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&u ... KCC3M6WV59

[Graeme1858]

Interesting article Clinton!

Graeme

[Juno16]

Amazing!

I was interested in photography when I was in my teens and 20’s (60’s and 70’s). I had a blast shooting and developing film.
But, I can’t imagine how tough it was to do AP back then.
Yes, compared to now, the quality was poor. Even the images from large observatories was nothing compared to today.
We are so fortunate to practice (and I mean practice) this cool hobby in these times with outstanding image capture applications and cmos cameras.
Thanks for sharing this Clinton!

[SkyHiker]

Nice article. It could have gone into a bit more detail about all kinds of software for autoguiding, stacking, plate solving, alignment, neural net image processing algorithms and video-based planetary imaging. What we can do nowadays is beyond comparison with only a few decades ago.

[Gordon]

Considering how fast we are seeing changes in cameras and processing software in just the last couple of years, it's going to be fun to see what new things come out!

[messier 111]

thx fine article .

[Ylem]

I had a darkroom back in the 70s, a lot of fun and frustration