Timeline for What is the easiest way to photograph stars during daylight hours?
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| Sep 21, 2021 at 14:10 | comment | added | planetmaker | Uhm, what makes you think you cannot see stars during day? You can, even with your naked eye if you use a sufficiently large telescope and point it at a star. It's just a matter of contrast, which is not very good. In our local amateur observatory we can look at stars during day just fine - but there's little point and joy in looking at white dots on a bright-blue background. And due to the scatter and limiting magnitude not very suitable for analytic imaging. | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 11:33 | comment | added | uhoh | see also @zephyr's answer to How (the heck) was this photo of Venus at inferior conjunction (between us and the Sun) taken? | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 11:01 | comment | added | uhoh | But what about thermal IR? The daytime sky can be pretty dark, there's no Rayleigh scattering of sunlight and in some bands the atmosphere is fairly transparent. A nearby start with a dust cloud just might be photographable. You'd need special thermal IR imaging optics though. | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 10:49 | comment | added | uhoh | you have a nice answer to Is it possible to do planet observation during the day? as well. See also answer(s) to Can an average person see stars from the bottom of a well or through cardboard tubes? Definitive answer required! | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 8:11 | comment | added | James K | Good point, though I've never seen an image of that. I suspect it is just rather boring! A blue field with a single, unresolved fuzzy pale dot. You can't get wide field "starscapes" this way | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 7:59 | comment | added | David Hammen | Since the telescope image of Jupiter in daylight also caught Europa (apparent magnitude 5.29 in opposition), it should also be possible to photograph apparently bright stars by this same method. | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 7:42 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |