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Astroimaging takes many different forms, necessitating the use of various types of equipment for each one. Much satisfaction can be achieved by imaging star trails, for which the only requirement is a camera capable of long exposures. If you intend to take wide field images of the night sky then it will be necessary for you to have some way of tracking the movement of the sky and, for this a cheap mount capable of tracking is also required. If your aim is to image the planets and the moon then a basic webcam or video camera will suffice without the need for a high quality mount.
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Chadwick, S., Cooper, I. (2012). Equipment Inventory for Astroimaging. In: Imaging the Southern Sky. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4750-4_10
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