Online-Workshop: Astrofotografie

In the organizer's words:

Hardly anyone can escape the fascination of the endless expanse of the starry sky above a nocturnal landscape. Where do we come from, how was our earth formed and what are we made of?

We will explore all these questions, but anyone who has ever photographed the stars with a tripod will know that after about 20 seconds of exposure, the stars turn into streaks due to the Earth's rotation. This can be used to great effect, but long-exposure shots with countless point-like stars are incomparably more fascinating. The use of mobile, digital star-tracking devices makes such images possible.

Things get really exciting when this technique is combined with night-time landscape photography to create panoramas of the entire Milky Way arc with the landscape below. A composite technique is used for this, in which the image is put together from numerous individual shots. Christian Klepp, known for his live reportage "Wunderwerk Erde", will show you all this in this online photo workshop - an exciting journey in our galaxy and far beyond, showing us that we are all stardust.

Contents

- Camera technology
- Astro lenses
- Image composition
- Equipment
- Planning
- Star tracking
- Panoramic imaging
- Northern lights
- Moonlight
- Deep-sky objects
- Light pollution and blocking filters
- Image processing

Who is the workshop suitable for?

This workshop opens up the fascinating world of star photography to both beginners and advanced photographers.