Welcome to Brian Combs Astrophotography
It did not take long for me to want to do more than "see" objects through the telescope. I loved the idea of actually capturing the images in a camera and printing them out for the world to see in the way that Dr. Gendler and others have done so well. I had no idea that amateur astronomers now had, with the advent of CCD cameras, such as the amazing images being produced by companies like Santa Barbara Instruments Group (SBIG), the ability to produce images that in many instances surpass the quality of pictures that we were used to seeing in textbooks in science class, and which rival many being done, even today, at the big university observatories and elsewhere.
