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ArcBlue C42 Is the World's First Smart Full-Frame Astrophotography System

PetaPixel·Jeremy Gray·3 days ago
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The ArcBlue C42 is the world’s first smart full-frame astrophotography system. It is coming soon to Kickstarter and features specs and features sure to excite enthusiastic astrophotographers. A smart astrophotography system offers distinct advantages for novices, enabling people without extensive experience to easily capture night-sky photos. One of the biggest limitations of astrophotography, especially deep sky astrophotography, is its complexity. To capture sharp, detailed space photos at the longer focal lengths, photographers need an equatorial mount. This precisely moves the camera setup to compensate for Earth’s rotation, ensuring sharp photos again and enabling extended exposure times. In the case of the ArcBlue C42, the tracking and guiding system is entirely automated. Photographers level the camera setup, point it North, and then use an accompanying touchscreen to choose their celestial target and camera settings. The ArcBlue C42’s onboard computer and mount do the rest.…

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