Astrophotography with the Raspberry Pi Camera

A while back I bought a Celestron 127SLT telescope with the goal of doing some solar system observation and photography. I had a Raspberry Pi camera and a B+ board kicking around from a previous robotics project, and decided to give it a try. It’s not an ideal camera for this sort of thing, not by a long shot — but I already had it. The v1 camera can now be had for $13. It was worth a try.

The results were better than I expected. Here’s some results. Details on how I did it are below.