Best Canon cameras for astrophotography in 2025

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[LeoDodier]

Hey Brent, thank you for informative video and hopefully starting an Astro Photography series. I have the original R6 as well as the R5 II, several nice fast wide angle lenses and good tripods. I’d like to start using them and look forward to your advice. I live on the Big Island and was able to photograph the eruption in the foreground with the Milky Way in the background, it was pretty cool.

[Suprastar]

I use a Canon 90D and I use it for everything. Tonight I shot the Crescent Moon with a Sigma 150-600mm and a 2x Teleconverter. I bought the 90D second hand and it was the best £800 I have spent!

[mcdond]

Great video Brent. The Canon 6D is also a great FF low light performer for astro.

[ronrotunno]

Nice job Brent. For budget landscape astro it’s hard to beat the original 6D. That said, the R3 is the best landscape Astro camera I’ve ever used. High ISO performance is off the charts. For deep sky (galaxies, nebulae etc.), a dedicated, cooled Astro cam is my choice.

[lionheart]

You need to do a follow up video about what to look in a lens for astrography. Happy new year!

[exrog]

Another great video.
Between the numerous camera bodies and the vast array of lenses, a person could go bonkers trying to figure it out.
This is exactly what we need, a no-nonsense get to the point video.
I can't wait until you suggest a few lenses and give a brief explanation of what will do the best job on a budget.
All the best to you and your family in 2025.

[DanBetty]

I've managed to avoid that rabbit hole for 50 + years but u keep tempting me 😂

[julese]

EOS R is good. I have the Ra which is very good (except for one or two quirks... red halo & no interval timer) but R should be fine for astro. I'm actually tempted to get one, alternative choice is R5ii because both have E-Shutter 14bits imaging.

[cgriggsiv]

In my humble opinion if you're going to do astrophotography you might as well get one with Astro tracker like the Pentax K1 or any of the other Pentax that has the GPS tracker device on the hot shoe that way the sensor moves slowly without having all of the other gear such as a tripod tracker which would work for other things for the stars that you're looking at and wanting just a camera can do it Pentax K-70 all the way to the Pentax K1 Mark II very easily and body stabilization with AstroTracker

[CecilHeidie]

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[wanderland_xyz]

Good stuff, Brent. Have you done much astro with either the R7 or R5II? I got some decent shots with the R5II when the aurora dipped down to us here in VA, but haven't tried much night sky stuff otherwise. Wondering if you're finding the R5II too noisy for astro?

[Synthpeter]

Hey, I got myself an R7 in 2023 and then an R8 in 2024. Unfortunately I live in the center of a city and the sky has a lot of light pollution and so far I've never bothered to get away from town to get cleaner images. However, I did set my R8 up on the balcony with the RF 24-105 f/4 and took a few shots. I was mainly testing to see if it was even a viable option, and as I was experimenting with the post processing I noticed I could see concentric circles appearing, like ripples from the center of the image. This was only visible if I cranked a lot of sliders up, but as it wasn't just noise I got curious. Sure enough, I googled and I found some threads where people discuss it. Is this something you've seen as well on the R8 and/or R6 II ? Any thoughts?

[cloudpandarism]

cheers brent! i just got a friend hooked today and told him to sell his old 60D and 5D mk2 to get a R10 with a normal fixed lens first. he wants to shoot stars, scenery and moon. my R7 is perfect with the 100-500L and love it. is the R10 still fine as beginner cam for smaller budget? i adviced him against the R8 because lenses are so much more expensive and everything above is too much cash for him as student

[JosdeHorde-pyrz]

A very happy and healthy new year. I took som shots of the aurora but it wasn´t that strong. Now I´am looking for som video`s on how to prosess them inn photoshop to gett the most out of it. Which of your video`s do you recommend I should watch?

[evemitchellanderson]

6d is the best value not anything mirrorless

[cgriggsiv]

Just get to Pentax K1 and don't ever update the firmware you'll be good to go with the absolute best Astro tracking camera

[papatcat]

I've said for nearly 50 years it's not the camera that makes a great photograph it's the ability to use what you have and most importantly having the eye for a great composition