I know it is fun to take pictures right away
but reading
a good introductory text such as
Astrophotography for the
Amatuer by Michael Covington or Deep Sky
Astrophotography
by Robert Reeves will give you a good idea of
what you
should start with.
Shekhar, thanks for the vote of
confidence. I have no problem recomending Covington's book as well as my
own. We approach the subject from different directions and there is not
a lot of overlap between out two books.
However, the name of my book is Wide-Field
Astrophotography, not Deep SDky Astrophotography (perhaps another book in the
future <G>).
Robert, if you are starting astrophotography
through the piggyback route using a 35 mm camera, I recomend my book. If
you are familiar with that technique and want to enter the area of
astrophotography shooting through the telescope, then Michael's book will
cover that area that I do not address. But I am obligated to myself
to mention that regardless of which way someone enters the field of
astrophotography, I think you will find a massive amount of useful
information in Wide-Field Atrophotography, available from Willmann-Bell at www.willbell.com
Good luck in your celestial
adventures.