Raising the Bar
Imaging dimmer and smaller targets challenges everything that has gone before.
This chapter marks the boundary between imaging with lightweight systems and more substantial means. While simple trackers and short focal lengths work well with landscape vistas, star trails and the few large, bright deep-sky objects, there will come a point when the imaging bug truly bites and one needs to take the next step to progress to smaller and fainter targets. These are considerably more challenging to image and stress every part of your acquisition and processing ability, as well as your patience and budget. It is the equivalent of a black hole’s event horizon, from which there is no return! When a faint nebula is a billion times dimmer ...
