First Light with the Orion StarShoot

So you just got a brand new Orion StarShoot™ Deep-Space CCD Color Imaging Camera and you are looking to capture your first image but are not sure where to start? This is the article for you. For the sake of brevity, we will refer to the camera as the StarShoot and acknowledge the fact that the name is a trademark of Orion Telescopes and Binoculars. The intent of this article is not to make you a master astro-imager but to help you get started along that path.

First off, astrophotography is not easy, but it can and will be very rewarding with a little patience and some practice. If your first images do not look like something off of the Hubble web site, don’t get discouraged – you can and will get better with some patience, practice and a little diligence.