Astrophotography Fails

[vale glacier]

HAH

no

[dusk plume]

After imaging, I decided to do some solar. I had the filter on, everything was okay except, I left the guidescope cap on, with the guidecam slowly cooking at prime focus 🔥

It looks fine now but Idk

[teal vortex]

You can grow

[vale glacier]

update 3:

[tight rain]

that 3d printed?

[quiet walrus]

Just lost 4hrs of data cus my intervalometer wasn't plugged in right. Only got one pic

[quaint flume]

Am I the only one who checks the subs here and there?

[quiet walrus]

Nice idea. I fell asleep tho since I had school the next day

[quaint flume]

I’m always concerned something is going to go wrong

[quiet walrus]

This is the third time something has happened lol. The first time, sprinklers went on,second time, my intervalometer died, and today

Need to det an alarm at 1am so I can check lol

[quaint flume]

I recently just skipped an alarm when I was in a bortle 3 and lost half the night

All I wanted was to take a nap before Orion rose 😔

[tight rain]

SAME

When I hear of people doing fails like this, im like "wtf how"

like

I am watching the data come out of my rig in real time, if theres a problem I will know

how the hell do you forget to focus

[quiet walrus]

That is honestly a mistake beyond what I will ever do

Hopefullu

[vale glacier]

yes

[neat lintel]

Well, what I did is see a point of light thinking it was a star when it was really just bright noise.

[quaint flume]

I'm currently imaging while inside my house... i'm afraid i'll get back to the last 10 subs being unusable

[dusk plume]

noo

[viscid atlas]

First try of NGC6992

[dusk plume]

those stars

[graceful orbit]

Oof

[prisma hornet]

💀

Hey but you got it so thats awesome.

[graceful orbit]

Help Autostakkert had a stronk

[prisma hornet]

💀

[tame cedar]

what gear did you use

[elfin quiver]

So much Dew+bad transparency+full moon+bortle 5 light pollution

Idk how this much got all over my computer

[lapis vortex]

yea get some sort of plastic bin then make cutouts for usb/power cables

[dusk plume]

In the making of this photo, I accidentally left the guidescope and guidecam exposed to the Sun unfiltered for about 5 minutes 🔥

[gusty ibex]

Would make a good meal now

[safe comet]

Does it function?

[dusk plume]

Yes

[thorny otter]

was the guide cam focused then

idk if it matter if it is focused or not

[viscid atlas]

NEQ6, SVBONY 102ED, old Canon 1100D

[safe comet]

That looks like it was captured in 1905 💀💀💀

[viscid atlas]

the canon camera was super used

dont even know if the sensor was fully intact

[teal vortex]

I remember this

[thorny otter]

[graceful orbit]

Oh that hurts to look at

Still better than any of my images

[thorny otter]

what cause it was a motion light in the backyard went off multiple times i need to remember to turn it off

i am trying to see if i can make it look any better in post\

[graceful orbit]

Ya you ain't getting rid of that

Doughnuts go brrrrrrrr

[thorny otter]

I gotta redo all of my data

[graceful orbit]

😔

[thorny niche]

Take flats please!!!

[thorny otter]

I shouldve those are when they tried to fix the bad reflection and gave up i may have fixed my problem tho

[dreamy ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/2001-a-space-odyssey-hal-gif-22905370

[teal vortex]

Ok

[small cedar]

I tried to hide it

[thorny niche]

Bro i burned my phone screen

How idiotic i am

I pointed my scope at the sun and for some reason i put my phone screen on the focuser, and there is now like a golden shit flake full of dead pixels on my screen

[glossy tree]

You absoloute idiot.

Did you at least have a solar filter on?

[thorny niche]

No

[glossy tree]

Do not ever do that again.

[thorny niche]

Trust me i wont

The new screen costs 80€

Dman

Damn

[teal vortex]

DURRR

natural selection at this point

[thorny niche]

Yuh

[sterile ocean]

Wtf

Why

[elfin quiver]

Dark nebula 😭

I think I forgot flats

[thorny niche]

Idk, smooth brain moment

[tight rain]

WHY WOULD YOU POINT IT AT THE SUN

[thorny niche]

I SAID ITS A SMOOTH BRAIN MOMENT (brain.exe stopped responding)

[tight rain]

No, you were doing something

that was intentional

[thorny niche]

No

It was not

[thorny niche]

I wasnt thinking when i did it

[tight rain]

either you got possessed by a ghost or that was intentional

i think what you wanted to do

was photograph the sun

and you thought

if you take the eyepiece out

maybe the phone camera is ok

you were wrong..

[thorny niche]

Uhhh

Actually curiosity took over me

And i pointed the screen at the sun, thats why there is a golden flake on the screen (burned pixels)

[tight rain]

omfg

buffoon

matija was right our generation is doomed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjOTOUeERI4

@thorny niche you're not that guy

[thorny niche]

Im his brotha

[thorny niche]

Nahhh its just that im very curious

[tight rain]

no, seriously you're not that guy

[tight rain]

well stop being curious

the sun is not a toy to be played with

[thorny niche]

Wouldnt that kill my imagination and creativity

[tight rain]

good

[thorny niche]

For me it is

[tight rain]

if it means you wont play with the sun its a sacrifice that must be made

[thorny niche]

I also didnt have a filter

Damn

I just realised how stupid i am

[tight rain]

ur gonna end up losing an eye or causing more damage to other things

if you don't stop now, it will literally be burned into your head that you shouldnt play with the sun

[thorny niche]

I know, a few times i forgot to put on my solar filter and i burned my eye

[dusk plume]

Hey, I pointed my guidecam at the sun unfiltered for 5min and am also dumb, you're not alone in that sense

[dusk plume]

oh my gosh

[thorny niche]

And? Is the guidecam alive

[dusk plume]

||what about M40||

[dusk plume]

Well, yes

[thorny niche]

Good

[thorny niche]

I dont understand

[dusk plume]

How are your eyes alive bro

[thorny niche]

Idk i got burned twice at my left eye and i got shot by airsoft in the right eye, idk but my vision is damned

[dusk plume]

I used to stare at the Sun unfiltered, but not through a telescope

[thorny niche]

Yeah my eyes hurt

[void viper]

that's wild lol

[teal vortex]

thou truth

[void viper]

mhm mhm

[teal vortex]

Avrg protostar shenanigans

Science experiment on what a burnt camera sensor or eye smells like

[void viper]

the diss is crazy

[teal vortex]

If your eyes are on the sun bru I'm on you idc

[thorny niche]

My orion neb is looking quite bad

[pulsar marten]

Better than my first by quite a bit

[teal vortex]

The noise has turned into literal sound waves

[thorny niche]

True but i missed focus, alignment and i forgot to clean the sensor

[graceful orbit]

Taken worse.

[patent vine]

When the coma is bad enough on 1/3rd of your frame that StarXterminator doesn't recognize anything over there as a star

[graceful orbit]

At least you can see stuff in it. Better Orion and horse head than I've ever gotten, and you actually got Barnards loop, the witch head, the boogie man......

[sterile ocean]

interesting.... that shouldnt happen

tried starnett?

[patent vine]

I haven't yet, just decided to start shooting on that lens at f/4 instead of f/1.8. Just got back from my dark site now and we'll see how much difference there is in the data.

I haven't had nearly as much luck with starnet as I have with StarX. Too many artifacts left over (even with starnet ++ V2). Worth a shot though to see if I can fix future problems.

[quaint flume]

By the way, I believe that’s astigmatism and not coma

[thorny niche]

Camera shifted at a wrong angle, stars are looking weird

[graceful orbit]

Looks like when binoculars are out of focus lol

[thorny niche]

Could it be? Idk but i know that the camera shifted, also its hard to find perfect focus, i forgot how focused stars look like with refractors

[graceful orbit]

Idk could just be movement

[thorny niche]

Idk probably

[graceful orbit]

My best is about the same as this but with glare from dew. Hand tracked 200P lol

[scarlet willow]

failed orion nebula at bortle 8 skies with 50mm lens

[thorny niche]

Looks like a peen

[scarlet willow]

yep

[molten quartz]

looks kinda cool tho

[lapis vortex]

Dew make an entrance ?

[elfin quiver]

Tre

[graceful orbit]

Tre

[safe comet]

Tre

[round skiff]

Tre

[dusky sinew]

Tre

[thorny niche]

Tre

[quiet walrus]

Tre

[molten quartz]

Tre

[tawdry scaffold]

Tre

[prisma hornet]

Tre

[dusk plume]

Why is the sun on fire

Oh no

[elfin quiver]

The sun burns in space cuz there’s no air up there

[dusk plume]

Guys help, my C8 shrunk

[graceful orbit]

It's just a lil guy

[elfin quiver]

Little telescope are not always bad

[dusky sinew]

one pannel is completly weird and clouds came so I could not finish

[graceful orbit]

Ya I tried taking a long video of the whole moon yesterday, but always kept one area in the fov to make sure there was something to align to. It did not work. Autostakkert just has a stronk sometimes I think it's just something to just accept

[molten quartz]

autostakkert in shambles

[dusk plume]

nice

[gusty ibex]

nice

[quiet walrus]

Nice

[round skiff]

Nice

[gusty ibex]

nice

[tawdry scaffold]

This is the way

[mystic idol]

Nice

[thorny niche]

Nice

[final kernel]

Nice

[fluid rose]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/965987732134441030.webp?size=48&name=whatcanisay&quality=lossless

[quiet walrus]

Dither or die....

[grave thunder]

Peak Performance

[elfin quiver]

Look at my HDR moon
This deserves APOD 🥳

[dusk plume]

[sterile ocean]

honestly, would not be suprised if it got apod

"extreme processing to show the extreme faint halo around the moon"

[molten quartz]

amazing, you got the lunar sodium tail

[old dragon]

8in newt gang !!!

[old dragon]

Nice

[dusk plume]

yayy 8" newt gang!

[fervent bloom]

But it's a dob of course

[old dragon]

I shall not be stopped!!!

[final kernel]

Master@old dragon ,show me rhe screenshot way!

[graceful orbit]

I have a dob but I put tube rings on it

[old dragon]

the word CRlNGE is blocked

[molten quartz]

unpoggeth

[prisma hornet]

BRo crlnge is blocked 💀

[radiant adder]

גד

[neat lintel]

A dob is just a Newt held differently.

[neat lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/pingu-noot-intensifies-penguin-gif-12659856

[fervent bloom]

Indeed, was clarifying I don't use it for imaging.

[graceful orbit]

Omg

I fear no man

But that thing.....

It scares me

[thorny niche]

Hes just standing there MENACINGLY

[dreamy ridge]

76mm f/4, parabolic mirror... I wonder if you can reach prime focus? 🤔

[elfin quiver]

I think I need a new telescope now

I’m stuck with one of them “beginner” refractors you get at Walmart

[prisma hornet]

Me here stuck with one of those pos telescopes as well.

[neat lintel]

Where can this be ordered?

[dreamy ridge]

It’s called a SkyWatcher Infinity 76P

[graceful orbit]

I saw it in a catalogue once. My brain wants this to be unexpectedly good just cause it would be funny

[dreamy ridge]

From what I can gather, it’s actually ok but it’s hard to collimate because of the plastic. The Heritage 76 has the same optics but also collimation screws.

[marsh shoal]

I had a very similar artefact due to a fleck of something causing a spike on one of the baffles in my refractor. Careful removal with a small moistened paintbrush 0n a very long handle cured the issue. 🙂

[dusk plume]

calibration frames pls

[quiet walrus]

Oof

[vale glacier]

GOOD LORD WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED

[glossy tree]

What did you do

Alsonits that Carina Nebula

[vale glacier]

i have no clue

that's just the stack

☠️

[graceful orbit]

Context dude not my image

[dusk plume]

[neat lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/doctor-who-dr-who-the-end-of-the-world-lady-cassandra-cassandra-o-brien-gif-21012926

[thorny niche]

I started imaging orion thinking that im saving it in fits format but i imaged it in a SER format

[glossy tree]

At least Orion is bright enought to do lucky imaging with

[thorny niche]

Uhhh how do i stack ser files in dss

But this is what i managed to get from those 10 mins in fits format

[dusky sinew]

Idk if it work but you can load the ser files in PIPP and just turn if all the processes and let it save the images as tiff’s

[thorny niche]

Yeah i could do that

[clear pasture]

Why shoot in ser tho?

[thorny niche]

I think that the name of this forum gives you context, i was filming jupiter and i forgot to change the format

[clear pasture]

Ah, Ye

I just film in raw and let Pipp fox everything cuz I’m untracked

And Pipp converts it to set for me

[thorny niche]

Yeah but thats for planets

Nad i accidentaly used ser on dso

[old dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/matthew-perry-chandler-bing-friend-what-the-hell-is-that-wth-gif-16256652

[thorny otter]

frost it was cold and humid

[old dragon]

bruuuuuh

[safe comet]

is that fungus?

[thorny otter]

nope frost it disappeared when i brought it inside

[thorny otter]

ice on a light pollution filter yes very thin

[bronze fox]

This is what happens when AstroShader gets confused and has a stroke, not really sure how it happens but it's kinda funny

[glossy tree]

[bronze fox]

an abysmal shot of the Flame Nebula, but a cool (I guess?) demonstration of what happens when technology doesn't know what to do anymore.

[quiet walrus]

need flats but the heck going on

[late bane]

here's one of mine from a while ago. forgot to turn off the stabilizer on my dslr, and got this in almost all of my images

[bronze fox]

Man I have no idea

[dusk plume]

This entire dataset was out of focus. BlurX tried to patch it and barely worked.

[vale glacier]

still looks cool

[graceful orbit]

I'd see that as a win in my books, but this is coming from someone with almost no DS capabilities or experience lol

[glossy tree]

What

Are you showing a rejection map?

[thorny otter]

Nope the flat failed to remove the dust

[void viper]

THATS WILD LMAOAO

[night harness]

looks like a portal

[sinful charm]

One of my first work of art,
"Ignoring the effects of shooting under lp"

[vale glacier]

it's been a year and a half since i got my first newt and a year since i started playing arround astrophotography and just yesterday i've finally understood how to collimate

tutorials suck

[lucid compass]

mount hit eqmod limit faster than it performet an auto meridian flip

[analog chasm]

2 hour session all in jpegs

[glossy tree]

and you paid the price for shooting in jpg

[molten quartz]

it's also a bit out of focus

[coral island]

No that’s the Astro modification with a cheap lens. The lens wasn’t made to focus IR light

[molten quartz]

i see

[glossy tree]

why you dont stack tif files on each other

when you stack all the sub frames together

[coral island]

I've stacked TIFFs upon themselves before, isn't the worst thing. I think with DSLRs it's a lot worse though

[dreamy ridge]

Trouble is that the tiff file format is so general it could mean anything. Could be 8-bit colour, could be 16. The only thing is that it’s (probably) not lossy compressed, so certainly better than jpeg.

[glossy tree]

Main thing is stacking artefacts. You get a lot more of those

[dreamy ridge]

Looks like the pixel format is wrong or something. It’s not necessarily tiff, just that tiff may not contain all the metadata a stacking program needs.

[lucid compass]

There wasn't any snow on the forecast

[dusk plume]

Looks like windblast

[safe comet]

That just hurts

[lucid compass]

brought the telescope with camera attached inside to dry it, still hoping to make some flats 😅

[clear pasture]

That mirror gonna need cleaning

[lucid compass]

id say 9/10 times when someone asks how to clean a mirror it doesn't need cleaning and i bet that right now it is not that time

[neat lintel]

Oh crap. My frosted over OTA that didn't have anything on the optics is nothing compared to this.

[coral island]

I 1000% recommend getting a 15 dollar tarp. Never go off of weather apps, check radars and cloud satellite data. In unpredictable weather that's going right now, if it turns cloudy unexpectedly throw a tarp on and wait. It's better to lose one night to be safe rather than months worth trying to get it repaired

[lucid compass]

i was sleeping 🙂

[coral island]

I mean check all of that before going to sleep. I stay up until 2 am sometimes, but most times I just check 12 hr and 24 hr radars

And like some people were saying, might have been a windblast knocking off some of the snow off of trees. Wind speeds would also be something to check during snow. These types of things happen to everyone eventually. I've been rained on before

[glossy tree]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/342068044249563146/1181831358927089684/image0.gif?ex=65827d39&is=65700839&hm=e33276054a77664659914bd8131033d8b4c57415f556490f1d270f027b5d300d&

[vale glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/jordan-barret-model-no-nope-gif-6014133113401357020

[graceful orbit]

What is dithering though?

[thorny otter]

i dont think dithering will fix the streaks a thin cloud i could not see passed in front of it

[coral island]

No that's walking noise. A high cloud would just make the signal weaker. Definitely drizzle

[thorny otter]

use drizzle? I did that i got the same results

[coral island]

Dither I mean my bad

[tiny dirge]

Drove 7h to a Bortle 1.5 site and found my battery was discharged and sitting at 11.8V...

[dusk plume]

😭

[frank rose]

man I feel depressed now, I come here and people's fails are better than my best pictures

[frank rose]

yeah, I learned that I'm broke

[coral island]

bro dont leak the milky way collision

[thorny niche]

Dawg

[graceful orbit]

I'm sorry but what has your computer been smoking to think this is right.

I'm gonna need you to hand it over

[thorny niche]

On what pot is your pc?

[broken wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-doctor-strange-there-has-to-be-another-way-train-there-isnt-gif-23916991

[thorny otter]

it got uncollimated some how

[thorny otter]

dont stick a heavy dslr on a small scope with a fork mount its so hard to aim and focus too

[bronze fox]

Ok unironically this is really awesome looking

[untold sage]

old pic this is my worst one

[prisma hornet]

lol it looks like a picture in negative 💀

[lavish zodiac]

Failed flats for Pons-Brooks

[lavish zodiac]

I tried to comet stack it, but didn't add the comet in the best (reference) frame and thus DSS didn't comet stack.

[ashen forge]

Around 1.5 hour of exposure

Pretty sure it is because I didn’t take flats as I am beginner but i am not sure

Background extraction in Siril made the galaxy good but the background got destroyed

[lavish zodiac]

These look like reflections. Did you have a bright lightsource near your set-up?

[ashen forge]

That could be the case

I think I do

But I shot this from the same spot

[lavish zodiac]

It has to do also to where you were pointing. In this photo there appears to be an arc slightly brighter than the rest of the background.

[ashen forge]

Oh I see thank you

I will try and turn all the lights of in my house before imaging

[dusk plume]

diamond-plated stars

[lavish zodiac]

Also, if you have a lens hood or a dew shield use it to reduce stray light.

[safe comet]

How in the hell does this even happen

[glossy tree]

who wants to process this

[thorny niche]

Uhmmm, me i wanna

But tell me what object is that

Imma try and process it in siril and lightroom

[glossy tree]

@thorny niche
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OUfBi6H4CYAOLeBL_MkOmRelZWFk7xWc/view?usp=drivesdk

SMC,
100MM
4.29um

[glossy tree]

Let me know what you get

[thorny niche]

Thx, i will after i will process it after school

[glossy tree]

how did it go?

[molten quartz]

went to a dark sky site, forgot tripod and shot in jpeg, balls

[thorny niche]

Yeah about that i couldn't process it yesterday beacuse I had to study.

[night harness]

oh jeez

[graceful orbit]

Ouch.

[neat lintel]

Eep

[thorny niche]

What do ya think

[solar matrix]

my awesome horsehead

[glossy tree]

Seems alright

[solar matrix]

can someon help me edit?\

[vale glacier]

do a bp shift??

[void viper]

gradient removal, shift bp, deepsnr and starnet

[molten quartz]

on another episode of "bobjones is a moron" i found the raw's, i took raw's. i didnt scroll enough 💀

so now i only forgot the tripod

[solar matrix]

i dont have pixinsight lol

[fierce gorge]

You can do most of those things on siril

[fierce gorge]

Siril is free

[solar matrix]

what are they called in siril, bc i am clueless at it

[fierce gorge]

starnet is starnet lol

You gotta install it separately I think I don't use siril so idk

Gradient is just back around extraction

You gotta look up how to use it

[solar matrix]

starnet and deep snr say they are plugings for pixinsight

[fierce gorge]

https://siril.org/tutorials/integrated-starnet/

Starnet non++ is old news

[solar matrix]

my bad lol

[fierce gorge]

Its 2 am so can't walk you through it

[solar matrix]

k

all good

download isnt working

nvm im dumb

[lavish zodiac]

Back in 2020 I tried to get a view of Centaurus A and Omega Centauri that were lying low in the southern horizon.

I mounted the camera with a telephoto lens on a dovetail. This resulted in the lens hood being pressured against the dovetail and throwing right out of collimation ( I removed the hood after that).

A second fail is the donut which I have no idea why it is there. I have used the same camera-lens combination and it isn't there.

[solar matrix]

could you try and edit it?

[fierce gorge]

I just woke up...

[solar matrix]

dang

[solar matrix]

is this better

[deep mantle]

I mean it looks kinda cool?

[nocturne zenith]

yes just missing a subject bg looks cool

[deep mantle]

also I have chrome logo stars on the next one

[glossy tree]

its hogging your ram

[deep mantle]

also this

[glossy tree]

oh my

[dusk plume]

Experience orbs frfr

[deep mantle]

yea just got my mob ginder set up

[bronze fox]

we gonna beat the enderdragon with this one💯

[deep mantle]

another good fail - forgot to turn off the superpixels in dss lol

[bronze fox]

oh my

[lucid compass]

perfect moonless night in a dark B3 site, got git with aurora borealis or some extreme skyglow
started ~23:30 then ended about 4:20

[late bane]

tried to stack a few images with clouds in them, just to see comet pons brooks, and this is what siril gave me:

still kinda cool, but i dont even know how it got that

[graceful orbit]

I also tried pons brooks, have no idea if I even got it. Clouds all over the place that night couldn't make up their minds as to what direction to move

[late bane]

hopefully you got it!

[lapis vortex]

never posted this image here. star reflection caused big issues with dark site data lmao

i saw it in the subs but barely, but i assumed it was laptop and closed that almost fully. then walked away to have fun with night vision.

this would be some good msgr data for larger scope users if not for that crap lmao

[bronze fox]

Oh my

it almost looks kinda cool actually, apart from the fact that it's not supposed to be there at all

[thorny niche]

Bruhh the amp glow on this is crazy

[tame cedar]

flats should help 😄

[thorny niche]

Yeah i did that and it fixed itself

[tame cedar]

noice

nice horsehead!

try the crab nebula

with this magnification should look pretty nice

[thorny niche]

Yeah but the clouds and the moon

Also im more of a galaxy guy than a nebula guy

[glossy tree]

rejoining

[lucid compass]

M1 crab is like a galaxy

[thorny niche]

They say that M1 is an easy galaxy to look at, like bruh i cant even see it when its clearly pointed towards it

[lavish zodiac]

Run starnet++ on Markarian's Chain. It didn't go very well...

M84, afuera! NGC 4473, afuera! NGC 4440, afuera!

[glossy tree]

Oh my

[tame cedar]

no comment on that

[molten quartz]

has a vibe

[bronze fox]

Reminds me of those radially blurred images that are really funny for absolutely no reason

[glossy tree]

[thorny niche]

Where did you stack

[tame cedar]

Siril

[dreamy ridge]

^ That was me calibrating my EQ platform against the dining room ceiling, stacked in Siril

[thorny niche]

Bro use DSS

DeepSkyStacker

If you dont know how to use it there is plenty of tutorials on youtube

[lavish zodiac]

DSS is a straight forward as it gets

[tame cedar]

ok

[void wadi]

Imo this isn’t a fail, everyone starts somewhere

[thorny niche]

Yeah beacuse DeepSkyStacker alignes all of the stars so its basicly a normal image without the spinning going on

[tame cedar]

check general plz. Thx

[thorny niche]

Aight

[tame cedar]

I think i got rid of the data a long time ago

[thorny niche]

Oj

Oh

Ok

But what happened with the solar flares😭

[tame cedar]

the sun is going nuts

expect aurora visible in your country

[thorny niche]

Oh

When

[tame cedar]

before midnight maybe

[thorny niche]

Yeah but the date like today or tomorow?

[tame cedar]

today

[dusk plume]

my first mw🤩🔥🥺🥰😱🌌

[tame cedar]

Thats worth

[solar matrix]

hof

[tame cedar]

complete fail of trying to reprocess my 12p/pons-brooks data.

i mean its not a "astrophotography" fail. more like processing fail

[teal vortex]

I think your sides are a little clipped in the wrong direction

[wheat carbon]

I even caught the elusive vertical dust lanes

[teal vortex]

DAMN

I’ve had that happen too

[glossy tree]

made pixinsight save a tif tile and lefft that as the preview

[lavish zodiac]

Failed flats on comet Pons-Brooks.

Because it was a bit windy, I removed while photographing the lens hood to reduce motion blur.

So I decided to take the flats without the hood too, but, as you see that failed.

I used the flats with the lens hood on and the end result is much better.

Stretched to show better the background gradients.

[real cypress]

mmm noisy

[bronze fox]

kwispy

[thorny niche]

I can smell the noise aromas

[dusk plume]

Large Monstrous Cornea

thats horrifyjng

[ornate heart]

A week ago i travelled to a b3 sky abt 4hrs away with my cam and star tracker. When I got there, i set up everything but then aligned my tracker to the south for some reason. Then I took some images and saw that there was trailing. So, i thought my tracker was broken and decided to do untracked instead. it wasn't until I started stacking that I realised I wasn't supposed to align it to the south... 😭 Image is half decent tho for 1hr data with unmodded camera

[proud wharf]

Tracking in the opposite direction, now the 1000 rule lmao

[thorny niche]

Its not that bad tho, you can see the bernards loop and the dark loop around bettlegeuse

[tame cedar]

Faint signals of the witch head nebula

[thorny niche]

Oh yeah ur right

And m78 too

[ornate heart]

Advantages of a b3 sky ig

[elfin quiver]

I need to figure out these stars, I think my collimation is off I’ll find out next clear sky

It may not look as bad as it is because of discord compression

[lavish zodiac]

Starnet++ decided to emulate its inner Miro

[elfin quiver]

Oh

[lavish zodiac]

If I use a less extreme curve it looks like a new age painting. I think there is commercial potential in this one.

Cirrus and internal reflections are the main driving forces behind this image.

[thorny niche]

My fail at pons brooks

[dusk plume]

Single sub of the Stair Cluster✨

[glossy tree]

who wants some dorito stars

[safe comet]

yummy

[thorny niche]

I dont like doritos

[late bane]

finally processed some really bad old data i had, and turns out i somehow managed to frame orion and the rosette nebula really poorly

[bronze fox]

New Doritos flavor just dropped, Hydrogen & Nuclear Fusion

[nocturne zenith]

No not true Doritos. mine are better

[glossy tree]

zoom into the stars

[solar matrix]

Just did a histogram stretch to show circular banding 😦

is it bad flats?

i mean i have to hold a flashlight up to a white shirt so it is probs brighter in centre

[obsidian bluff]

nice doritios

[elfin quiver]

Pretty sure bad Flats cant cause that, did you take darks and biases?

[solar matrix]

yes i did

and i stacked without calibration frames and it was still there

[unreal mason]

Mooned

[molten quartz]

totes just stole your idea, whoop

s

[lavish zodiac]

If anyone is wondering how looks something shot through a wire fence look no further. The fence creates some fat diffraction spikes (the thinner are from the secondary spider).

[solar matrix]

thats not a fail at all

its pretty cool ou shot that through wire tbhg

[safe comet]

What is this target called again?

[lavish zodiac]

M83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy

[austere lantern]

I have a nikon D5600 and I wanted a cannon 75mm-300mm lens. I thought I could put a shitty adaptor on the camera body and mount the lens on it. Turns out there is something known as flange distance and the lens and the camera are not compatible. So the adaptor needed to have a lens in it. the lens was shitty and it did this to my stars.

[unreal mason]

Focal flange distance = backfocus btw

[austere lantern]

ok thx

[lavish zodiac]

Stacking failure

Waiting for the 377 frames to stack, only to get these lines

[glossy tree]

@quiet walrus had that issue

[lavish zodiac]

For the imaging was used an Olympus E-PL5 with SD cart for storage

Stacked in DSS

The star in the upper left part of the galaxy is actually a supernova, SN 2024ggi

[real cypress]

did you dither?

[lavish zodiac]

I used an SW SA 2i, in which I do a manual dither every 20 minutes

[real cypress]

doesn't look like walking noise but in ap everything is possible

[real cypress]

ok then

[lavish zodiac]

I restacked the 113 best of them and the lines aren't present.

[real cypress]

yea

good

[quiet walrus]

Oh ywah

[glossy tree]

e

i am such an idiot

so i thought i was photographing the leo triplet and were framed up well

and then when i stacked it, i see this

HAMBURGER IS ON THE TOP RIGHT

I DIDNT FRAME IT RIGHT

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

guess where the leo triplet is

[dreamy ridge]

Turns out that if you use a wide-angle lens you can capture multiple streetlights at once

[molten quartz]

man i just stole your idea whoops

[lone nova]

M104444

also, maybe M104?

[dusk plume]

MIOA

[lone nova]

GradientHDRComposition didnt work all that well

[glossy tree]

i heard yall like bad flats

thats what gradient correction is giving

graxpert it worse

[nocturne zenith]

you were probably using the hyperdrive when you were capturing this image (image looks good still)

[scarlet bramble]

Im an idiot, i confused the lagoon with the trifid

and didnt get into the frame

[solar matrix]

lol

[thorny niche]

Same for me

[solar matrix]

i recorded in jpg not raw until the end of the session so only ended up getting 10x30s subs lol

[glossy tree]

[scarlet bramble]

[molten quartz]

[solar matrix]

[safe comet]

[nocturne zenith]

[thorny niche]

[bronze fox]

[dusk plume]

[lavish zodiac]

[graceful orbit]

[thorny niche]

[solar matrix]

you ruined the streak

that is kind of

[scarlet bramble]

[molten quartz]

[glossy tree]

[dusk plume]

[nocturne zenith]

[neon marsh]

6200mm

[fierce gorge]

It pooped a 6200

@icy onyx

[bronze fox]

Ohhhhh god that gives me so much anxiety just looking at it

[solar matrix]

so thats where camera's come from? i thought storks deliver them to front doors

[bronze frigate]

Why did it do that 😭

[pulsar marten]

I'm so confused why did the camera spasm off the scope?

[neat lintel]

After watching that poor OTA drop the camera/filter setup a dozen times, I've arrived at the thought that the tripod leg got in the way.

[jade gate]

pleiades untrack fail cuz I let it shift way too much each frame

[nocturne zenith]

[fierce gorge]

I think it did

ALWAYS SET YOUR MOUNT LIMITS

A friendly reminder so this doesn't happen again 🙂

Don't just blindly assume it won't crash

Cause that's how it will crash

Lol

[jade gate]

we love clipped

https://tenor.com/view/in-shock-gif-17553158948252598097

[lavish zodiac]

DSS stacks based on the frame with the highest score. It turned out that was the first shot, a test shot to check the framing

[neon marsh]

How do you set your mount limit?

[fierce gorge]

I do it within Nina

[fierce gorge]

I'm driving right now and can't text if you want me to explain hop in vc

[scarlet bramble]

[dusk plume]

My asiair thinking that upside down is home even when I manually correct it 🤩

[glossy tree]

[dusk plume]

NINA just plain doesn't work

Im getting new cables soon which might help

[fierce gorge]

Uhhhh not true

I've been using it fully automated

[dusk plume]

for me I mean

[lavish zodiac]

Still not sure what went wrong

[scarlet bramble]

[graceful orbit]

[jade gate]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-holding-head-cat-sad-cat-rahh-wahhhh-gif-11843610789762008433

[graceful orbit]

Took 120 odd MW pictures yesterday morning, and thanks to the field curvature of my kit lens only 25 were correctly aligned together

[tame cedar]

The pixels are hotter than the galaxy, a wise man once said

[bronze fox]

Oh dear

[graceful orbit]

Was that untracked?

[tame cedar]

Tracked

[dusk plume]

Dother

[thorny niche]

Guess what

He aint got no guiding

[thorny niche]

I know whats wrong with it

It aint got no gas in it

[dusk plume]

you can dither with out guy ding

[graceful orbit]

If is was tracked why are the pixels moving? Would they not remain stationary relative to the target?

[thorny niche]

I think its called walking noise

[thorny niche]

I know but why didnt he

[late bane]

tried to shoot m27 at 250mm last night and only managed to collect 8 minutes of exposure. this is after denoising and gradient removal. i think this is my worst image yet xD

i'd use the data from last night when i try again tonight, but since i was wildly off target i cant do anything with it lmao

i might actually just go for doing it at 135mm, might get better results that way

definitely wont have as much detail in the nebula, but that wont really matter if i cant manage to get it in the image at 250mm lmao

[glossy tree]

W A L K I N G N O I S E

[late bane]

so much of it

when I try again at 135mm ill definitely dither more lol

[glossy tree]

this your first tracked image?

[late bane]

nope, haven't purchased the tracker yet

probably gonna be like a week or two

[glossy tree]

how did you not dither then

[late bane]

kinda just forgot lol

ill make sure i dither tonight tho lol

[unreal mason]

Funky

[late bane]

that it is lol

[jade gate]

these pixels are hortter than my laptop while running wbpp

[scarlet bramble]

Veil nebula

[jade gate]

I almost saw nothing

until I lookerd down there

[lavish zodiac]

May get salvaged a bit with better flats and starnet++ (star reduction)

[jade gate]

and blurx

[elfin quiver]

Guys I somehow missed one of the brightest objects in the sky right now, have to redo it now…

I lucky only got 1 hour of data before I realized and I have 2-3 more clear nights so I should be good

[jade gate]

Oops

[lavish zodiac]

Manual dither fail

[dusk plume]

Literally same thing I did

[wicked rover]

This is hell

[lavish zodiac]

NGC 6823 - unmodified camera, faint target, quite some wind. What could have gone wrong....

[jade gate]

barnards loop wuth unmodded is nice\

[thorny niche]

Heavy dither fail

[jovial ermine]

What nebula is this?

[mossy ruin]

cocoon

or IC5146

[visual violet]

What is the cause of this? Is it because you forgot to dither? I've had a similar looking photo before couldn't figure out why

[thorny niche]

I forgot to dither

[wheat carbon]

I had been looking for the comet for several nights now and last night I saw it for the first time, even naked eye. I took several hundred photos of it and right before the comet set my memory card got full, so I absentmindedly formatted the card, erasing all the photos. 😭

[visual violet]

Nooo!

[shut gate]

Dither and flat fail

[graceful orbit]

Can I remove these lines? I haven't used darks on the data yet would that fix it?

[glossy tree]

no

its walking noise.

[graceful orbit]

How do I get rid of it or is it possible

[glossy tree]

you dither while imaging

[graceful orbit]

It's not tracked I can't exactly dither

[glossy tree]

you dont need to be tracked to dihter

you just need to make slight movements manually with your tripod

[graceful orbit]

the field was moving all over the place lol. just chose two random images.

[quiet ore]

Dont ask

[tame cedar]

Yes.

[fathom bluff]

what

NINA is free🙏

[glossy tree]

Untracked

[bronze fox]

atleast your donuts look good lmao

[tame cedar]

How often do you reccomend dithering?

[mossy ruin]

i know you aint asking me but i personally dither every 3 frames

[tame cedar]

I tried dithering every 10 or so subs and i still got walking noise

[mossy ruin]

why tf did i say drizzle

anyways

how many pixels are you dithering

[tame cedar]

lol

im talking about untracked dithering

[glossy tree]

Every 20-30.
I get ~300 subs a night

[mossy ruin]

oh

[tame cedar]

ik how to do tracked dithering, but what about old dslr sensor dithering

[mossy ruin]

is untracked dithering just lightly knocking on the scope?

[glossy tree]

Yes

[tame cedar]

i just slightly move my rig to the sides or up and down

look this was dithered every 10 subs. NOT A FAIL

so i should dither every 5 subs?

[tame cedar]

on my main i can dither every 15 subs and not get walking noise

[mossy ruin]

well i take way longer exposures

[tame cedar]

ah, alr

[mossy ruin]

15 subs for me is 1/5 of the night

[tame cedar]

dang

my nights last 12hrs

look

[mossy ruin]

mine too but my lazy ahh doesnt want to get out and set the scope up at the start of the night

i usually wait 3 hours lol

worst mistake you can make :(

[tame cedar]

all i gotta do is align the dome and open the shutter

[mossy ruin]

yeah you got a dome so for me its a lil harder

you dont have to pa as requently, your scope is already there setup etc.

[tame cedar]

yea

[tame cedar]

Just throwing out valuable imaging time :(

[mossy ruin]

ya but i wake up at like 2 pm because of the winter break

i want to spend some doing smth on my pc

at home

[tame cedar]

winter break is over 😛

[mossy ruin]

not for me haha

[tame cedar]

atleast for me

[mossy ruin]

it ends in 2 days 😭

[tame cedar]

bru

[mossy ruin]

man i hate school

[tame cedar]

20th?? its made in the 19th

[neat lintel]

Try 18th century system with 17th century tech.

[fathom bluff]

[scarlet willow]

Pleiades with a 50mm lens
Clouds literally came 5 mins after i started imaging

also out of focus

[scarlet bramble]

Starnet

[tame cedar]

Lovely

Horrible dwarf 3 fail

I set the gain to 190 by complete mistake

[glossy tree]

Starnets done its job properly, you've just got a bad lens

[coral island]

are you using the ef 75-300 lens?

[scarlet bramble]

Tamron 70-300

[graceful orbit]

not me last night trying to image and for 10-15 minutes baffled as to why my images all have massive vertical trails only to find out i hadn't secured my mount properly after aligning and then bumped it knocking the polar alignment out by like 2 / 3 degrees out

[eternal cliff]

This is an a stacked output from DSS, I swear I put orion nebula images in there.

I think I managed to change the reference frame and then stack without recomputing the offsets....

[graceful orbit]

nice

sounds like fun

[tame cedar]

Lovely lens

[bronze frigate]

Not sure if I posted this before, but this is (supposedly) the carina region, from b9