There is a huge volume of literature for astrophotography - I think most random hits you'd get on Google will be OK (the vast majority will be digital oriented)

There is a huge volume of literature for astrophotography - I think most random hits you'd get on Google will be OK (the vast majority will be digital oriented). For example: http://www.astropix.com/html/i_astrop/toc_ap.html http://www.astropix.com/html/i_astrop/toc_ap.html I can probably give a better recommendation if you have a particular goal in mind. There are plenty of guides on how to take photos of the Milky Way with an SLR, but astrophotography is a broad (and quickly very expensive) field to get into. If you're interested in a more technical angle, you can look at the Handbook of CCD Astronomy (Howell, 2006) which also discusses noise issues in detail. Nowadays we're moving to CMOS though. However when you go for astrophysics books they tend to focus more on measuring intensities accurately (photometry) rather than getting pretty pictures. Although one nitpick with the article - tracking mounts do not follow the rotation of the Earth, they rotate in the opposite direction.