Nico Carver will lead participants through a presentation on how to use normal photography gear for shooting the stars.

Shooting the night sky can seem daunting for the beginner. The mistake many make is thinking they should immediately attach their camera to a large telescope, or go buy lots of complex equipment. With just a tripod, a DSLR or mirrorless camera, and a fast lens, one can start taking stunning shots of many of the brighter deep sky objects including popular nebulae and galaxies in the Messier catalog.

Nico Carver has always been a camera nut. After graduating college with a degree in filmmaking, he traveled around the world and first fell in love with photographing the night sky while shooting Aurora in Iceland. He now works full-time in astrophotography education, and runs a successful YouTube channel that aims to help beginners get started with Astrophotography.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library.