Anthony's Astrophotography

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away Canon created the first ever Digital SLR Camera for Astrophotography enthusiasts; The Canon EOS 20Da, despite it having a short lived life and no successors to it’s creation this Camera established Canon as a firm leader of choice in cameras for Astrophotographers and subsequently lead to a group of developers creating affordable and powerful tools that harness the power of Canon cameras (such as Backyard EOS).

As time went on and the 20Da was superseded by newer more powerful camera models and was no longer available for purchase people started performing modifications to their cameras to try and achieve the same level of sesitivity as the 20Da to these select light frequencies. It goes without saying that these are tricky modifications not for the faint hearted and also voided the warranties on the Camera. On the flip side for those that can afford the risk and managed to pull it off they could sit back and pump out some great photos from their Cameras.

Well guess what? Not so long ago in a galaxy like the Milkyway Canon have done it again 🙂 (albeit took a while), they have released the new Canon EOS 60Da, this is very similar to the EOS 60D model of Camera but has had the Infrared and low pass filters modified for greater sensitivity to the Hydrogen Alpha light frequency (up to 3* they state) and this is great news for imaging those diffuse nebula. A good press release can be found here and this means for the rest of us that are too scared to risk breaking our cameras or voiding their warranties can buy one already modified by the Manufacturer ready for the purpose we want them for, Who Hoo!

 Well done Canon, keep-em coming and please please please do not leave it so long between versions of this Camera. This is yet another example of a company continuing to be innovative and working hard to stay ahead of the competition. This is definitely a piece of equipment for my Christmas wish list. 🙂