Way back in at the beginning of 2014 I wrote about remote imaging. I know, not very analogue, but my reasoning is that using robotic telescopes wouldn’t cost me valuable observing time under clear night skies.

In this post I want to talk about how this works in practice and whether astro-imaging and astro-photography are really the same thing. I learned a bit about which one interests me the most…

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are those of a visual observer… there are many talented astrophotographers out there, but I’m not one. Whilst it’s possible to get surprisingly good astronomical images by sticking your phone up against the eye piece there are limits. If you want to push them things can get very expensive, very quickly. The mount is typically the first upgrade. If you can’t align the mount, rely on it to track smoothly, and be rock solid whilst doing it, you’re likely to get disappointing results.