Astrophotographer Captures Musk's Tesla Roadster Moving Through Space

Astrophotographer Captures Musk's Tesla Roadster Moving Through Space

"Let me give you a brief description of my gear - also the one I use for most of my deep-sky images. I have a dual telescope system: two identical telescopes and cameras in parallel, shooting simultaneously at the very same area of the sky - same FOV, save a few pixels. The telescopes are Takahashi FSQ106EDX. Their aperture is 106mm (about 4") and they give you a native 530mm focal length at f/5. The cameras are SBIG STL11k monochrome CCD cameras, one of the most legendary full-frame CCD cameras for astronomy (not the best one today, mind you, but still pretty decent). All this gear sits on a Takahashi EM-400 mount, the beast that will move it at hair-thin precision during the long exposures. I brought the temperature of the CCD sensors to -20C degrees (-4F) using the CCD's internal cooling system."

"...no matter what I did, I could not find the Roadster." Astrophotographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Evan Gough