Kodak Pixpro?

[Dark Adaptation]

So I've been curious about what camera would be good for astrophotography, and whether a really expensive DSLR would be strictly necessary. I would only want something for amateur photography, not really deep sky objects. There's one I found, would this be a good camera? If I attached it to a telescope with an adapter, perhaps? I'm very amateur, so I wouldn't know 😅.

[CraigT82]

The lens isn’t removable on that camera. You need a camera where you can remove the lens completely (like a DSLR) and when you attach it to the telescope, the telescope becomes the ‘lens’

[JOC]

As above - to attach a camera to a telescope the lens needs to come off.  However, remember that you don't need a telescope to take nice interesting pictures of the sky.  Any camera mounted on a tripod which has some control over appature and exposure can be used to take wide field images of the stars with each being exposed for a few seconds, you can then experiment with 'stacking' using freeware to see the effect.  However, if you have to buy a camera, then get a full DSLR with a removeable lens.

[Steve Ward]

6 hours ago, Dark Adaptation said:

So I've been curious about what camera would be good for astrophotography, and whether a really expensive DSLR would be strictly necessary.

You can pick up good 'Used' or 'S/H' DSLRs for not a lot of money from various sources like "WEX Photographic" , "MPB Cameras" or "Park Cameras" ... 😉

https://www.wexphotovideo.com/used-dslrs/#p=categoryPath%3A"used>used-cameras>used-dslrs"&facet.multiselect=true&filter=brand_uFilter:"Canon"&variants=false&variants.count=5&fields=&sort=sellingPrice asc&pagetype=boolean&rows=12&start=0&version=V2&viewType=LIST&facet.version=V2

 

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/newly-listed?filterQuery[modelBrand]=Canon&filterQuery[modelCategory]=DSLR cameras&sort[productPrice]=ASC&showAll=true

 

https://www.parkcameras.com/used/cameras/canon?pi=1&psc=ProductPriceMatrix.VatInclusivePrice

[Dark Adaptation]

Ah, okay, thanks to all above! (And below, if anything else comes in). Especially good to know that the lens doesn't come off too.