The cameras that are built in our smartphones are incredible pieces of technology. Today, many people use their smartphone cameras to capture images of the night sky using ‘Night’ or Low Light’ settings, or even dedicated apps. These are great for photos of bright things, such as lunar haloes, planetary conjunctions and bright comets, but eventually anyone wanting to take astrophotos of constellations, nebulae and other celestial delights will have to consider a better option. They need to bite the bullet and buy what many people still consider ‘a proper camera’ – a DSLR, or Digital Single Lens Reflex camera.
The only problem is, then they have to use it…
This feature is going to take you by the hand and lead you gently through the minefield of taking and processing your very
