DSLR Astrophotography

[fresh frigate]

If my polar alignment is getting worse throughout the night, is it because I'm set up in the grass and should be on harder ground?

[wild jasper]

it shouldnt change at all

[spark pollen]

All these were taken with a stock canon t3i

[round salmon]

I would check any altitude bolts and azimuth bolts to make sure that it they aren’t slipping over the night, grass shouldn’t make too big a difference, make sure the surface is levelled though

[fleet latch]

are SLRs allowed here

[bleak rain]

guys is it possible to take good picture of the milky way with canon camera and tripod?

[wild jasper]

yes ive done it

veyr easy

[karmic shoal]

Unmodded dslr w cheap tripod, untracked. Exposure 10 minutes total. w calibration frames. 10s subs

kit lens 15-55mm

iso 1600

[muted night]

100% its absolutely doable! But make sure to re-center your camera enough times to avoid getting the wacky coma i got in the top right😂

[bleak rain]

oh ok thanks!

[muted night]

no worries!

[wild jasper]

3hours intergratioj

and this is 38mins

[bleak rain]

Holy you say if i stack images together i can capture this like that?

[wild jasper]

yes

thats what stack is

[bleak rain]

Dark frames and bias frams?

[spark pollen]

Depending on the lens a cheap lens can still look horrible

[bleak rain]

I have a 15-55mm

[wild jasper]

that was shot with a cheap lens.

[wild jasper]

i do bias and flats. i dont bother with darks.

[bleak rain]

Oh ok 👌

[spark pollen]

What lens u can have a somewhat cheap lens that relatively good

[spark pollen]

U should do dark if ur camera is old and have hot pixels darks is a necessity for my camera

[wild jasper]

hot pixels doesnt matter. what you mainly need darks for is amp glow

hot pixels can be removed with rejection algorithms with effective dithering

[spark pollen]

I’ve haven’t really seen dark frames do a lot besides get rid of hot pixels but ok

[wild jasper]

main thing they are for is removing ampglow

hot pixels can already be removed in the stacking phase so it doesnt matter too much

[muted night]

I agrée, although I do find when you have less than an hour worth of lights it’s good for removing hot pixels if you want to Prevew your work

[wild jasper]

you should be dithering regardless and use pixel rejection

[muted night]

too True, I get forgetful sometimes 😂

[sour ore]

Modded my dslr now it may be cooked

[fading osprey]

What’s wrong with it

[sour ore]

When I close the sd card slot cover it turns the camera off

The switch inside is misregistering

Or something

[broken cloak]

20 min integration, i want try for 2/3h

[cerulean sky]

Orion is back in the southern hemisphere, cant wait to take thousends of untracked exposures of it again 😭

[lament agate]

it is?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!??lesgooo

[cerulean sky]

Atleast at 24° south it is, probably even higher in the sky at more northern latitudes

[quaint tulip]

Hey guys currently looking of buying a DSLR camera but don't know what specs should I look out for and are the older models still good for ap and daytime photography. And what is better DSLR or mirrorless. I think I can buy a second hand to save some money but still don't know which model is good enough

[cerulean sky]

I have a 2010 Nikon D5300, pretty good camera all around, not sure if its the best for ap but its great

Took this with it

[quaint tulip]

That picture is amazing thanks for the info and do you know what specs should I look up for?

[cerulean sky]

Id say a good sensor, but any mid range dslr can do the job just fine

Its mosty about getting a good lens, one with big aperture

I have a 200mm f4.5 lens, works quite well

Though lenses can be quite expensive these days

[quaint tulip]

Thanks mate

[cerulean sky]

Np 🙌

[spark skiff]

I got the same camera, what bortle? Any advice you could give?

[quiet solar]

I was told Sigma 150-600 HSM is not usable for Astro.. What a rubbish.. This is fixed version 2h from Bortle 3.. Nikon D780

[quaint tulip]

But Bortle 3 is good tho

I am at between bortle 6 and 7 can I expect any result with DSLR camera?

[open musk]

if you're taking about milkyway widefield yes

I also have that bortle and i did some milkyway widefield with just a phone

I think my result was decent

[quaint tulip]

That is great I should try it with my phone too

Never tought of it

[open musk]

no don't lol

if you have a dslr use it and not the phone

i only do phone bc I don't have a dslr

[quaint tulip]

No I am thinking of buying DSLR but at the time I have only small Bresser 70/700 telescope and my phone

And I want to buy unmodified DSLR so that way I can use it for daytime also

To justify the money

You did short exposure and stacked them or how?

I want to try it

[open musk]

ig you could do some phone widefield while thinking about it

[open musk]

I do 8s exposures

and yea stacked ofc

[quaint tulip]

Ok thanks mate!

[quiet solar]

I live at Bortle 8 at London - 300mm to 700mm you can catch Orion, Andromeda in 2h - some Galaxies too. This is the same Sigma 600mm Nikon D780 test on Bodies and Cigar Galaxy, about 2h.

[quiet solar]

Check Siril, Gimp and starnet++ these are amazing tools free - a lot of tootorials on youtube

[quaint tulip]

That picture is amazing

[quiet solar]

Thx however it was just traker test 😉 Never belive something is impossible I was told Galaxies are no no from Big Town. The trick is to have good histogram at 1/3th and good tracking mount or traker and Siril with Background extraction will do magic - it will remove a lot of light polutttion

[quaint tulip]

Yea nothing is impossible if you are willing to put on the work. I don't have star tracker tho which should I get? And can I do anything without a star tracker?

[quiet solar]

Without Star traker - yes you can - check the rule 500/zoom this is max time exposure you can go without the traker. So 100mm zoom will give you 500/100 zoom= 5seconds without much trailing. If you take 100-200photos 5sec each you will see Andromeda even Orion Nebula - - you can do Milky Way too

[quaint tulip]

That's good news thanks

[shadow shoal]

yeah its decent, a tracker is quite important though (and a decent lens)

lemme dig out something i did untracked

40m exposure

[quaint tulip]

Is that spiral arm galaxy at the bottom?

[shadow shoal]

(eos 90d 180mm lens)

[shadow shoal]

yeah, there alao a faint comet to the left of the galaxy (gray smear)

[quaint tulip]

Oh yea I saw it

[quiet solar]

Nicko Carver from Nebula Astro took very faint Nebula around North Star no tracker at all check this out https://youtu.be/iuMZG-SyDCU?feature=shared

[quaint tulip]

It's amazing

[quiet solar]

This is Grate way to test and learn things - and the lack of the tracker makes all process more simple. Good thing is lack of the tracker will force you to understand things to get results.

All of - ok most of Astro photos are black from the camera so it takes a bit to steach it out 😉

[grizzled cedar]

I’m bortle 5, best advice for any dlsr is get it modded

[spark skiff]

Will do, thanks

[karmic belfry]

SUP GUYS

just found this forum

[sour ore]

What if my dslr is not stock

Single sub 2 minute exposures no filters just modded

[karmic belfry]

Full spectrum?

@sour ore

[sour ore]

No

Lpf2 removal

[karmic belfry]

Oh

[mint island]

My first planetary animation ever!
Focal Length 900mm
Aperture 114mm
Canon 600d
Untracked
Seeing 4/10
Collimation 6/10
Around 50 min before battery run out

[karmic belfry]

Nice

[quiet mango]

hello. so i have an unmodded canon 200D, with a 55-250mm f4-5.6 EFS kit lens that i use in tandem with an ioptron skyguider pro. i recently got a 120USD amazon gift card from my work place. i can bump it up to 200 by putting in something out of my own pocket. what would you guys recommend i invest in next.

for reference i recently shot this (north american nebula) from a bortle 8-9. It's about 51 mins integration at 45s subs, no dither. i am planning a trip to a dark sky location once the monsoons clear where i live.

i would also appreciate feedback and advice on the above shot

[spark pollen]

Some images of the northern lights I got with a stock canon t3i and a 18-55 kit lens

[mint island]

moon with Canon 600D and 900mm Scope

[spark pollen]

U should do image stacking to get it sharper and get rid of the noise

[mint island]

@spark pollen i stacked 70% of 79 raw frames

Couldn't get more because of clouds

Unpopular opinion but I enjoy noise in AP

[spark pollen]

U need more than that like 1k is a good amount

[mint island]

Yeah, but there were clouds that covered the moon shortly after, was going for more honestly

[spark skiff]

[spark skiff]

A 1000 images? I know nothing about planetary/moon AP

[spark pollen]

As many as possible the better

[karmic belfry]

Short exposures stacked are better than long exposures stacked

Shorter the better

[spark skiff]

Damn, so what are you using, like 30 GBs of storage per session?

[spark pollen]

Around that I don’t usually take image of the moon and planets because of my equipment I only have a 60mm refractor

[mint island]

I like the melancholic/nostalgic effect it gives, something I cannot explain really

[sour ore]

That's the most unpopular opinion I've ever seen ever

That's not unpopular that's unseen

[wild jasper]

yea you wanna play with my data

[open musk]

[feral ridge]

somebody who can help me to fix my cam?

[haughty galleon]

[compact drum]

Hello,i want to buy a canon eos 100d, i will need an adaptor?Can someone tell me some important things about astrophotography with a DSLR?

[karmic belfry]

Yes you will need a canon t ring which you can buy for around £10 if you go unbranded and £30 ish if you go branded

Well depends if your using a telescope or just the dslr with a lens

[weary flicker]

short question

Is a Canon eos 6D (unmodded) fine for astro?

[karmic belfry]

One sec

Yeah rlly good

Has a big sensor bigger than my 450d

[sour ore]

nah

mod that

as a person who did astro with an unmodded camera for a year

mod it

[lament agate]

as a person with an unmodded camera, mod it

[nocturne merlin]

As a ducc with an unmodded camera, mod it

[lament agate]

as a thin non german terrestrial bovine, mod your cam

[candid walrus]

As a person who has had a unmodded cam and modded it, mod it

[spark skiff]

As a camera who had an unmodded person, mod it

[twin pawn]

Modified*

[candid walrus]

Modded: “an act or instance of modifying something, especially a vehicle or mechanical part”

Says lower down about computer hardware parts too, didn’t bother adding it XD

[karmic belfry]

As a telescope with no tracker mod it

[compact drum]

Can someone tell me some things about settings for astrophotography?I want to use it at a telescope.

[twin pawn]

Dam, well modified sounds better

[weary flicker]

Won't buy it modified

Lol

[candid walrus]

True

[candid walrus]

Modded is really essential for astrophotography, most of the dust in nebulae are red, a very deep red, now the issue lies because DSLRs have a built in filter that actually cuts out that red, so you won’t really get any of that red, which is quite important

[weary flicker]

Can I habe it modded afterwards?

[karmic belfry]

You can mod a camera anytime but you cant revert it unless you buy external filters

So you would no longer be able to do daytime photography

@weary flicker

[weary flicker]

Cant I just change light balance when the camera is modded?

For daylight photography

[spark skiff]

You need the IR cut filter

You can process the image to make it look normal

But it's not gonna be fun when you take like 80 pics during a trip

[weary flicker]

Ok

Bruh

[slow moon]

Just use a custom white balance but the downside is that you would need to take a picture of white reference for each lighting setting (correct me if im wrong nerds)

[weary flicker]

Oh

I won't have it modded

xD

[spark skiff]

You should

IR cut filters aren't that expensive I think

[weary flicker]

Mhmm

Maybe I'll get it modded afterwards

At first I gonna get used to it

[karmic belfry]

I got mine for £7

Svbony aswell

Just found this amazing item on AliExpress. Check it out! ￡17.25 | SVBONY 1.25''/2''/36mm Filter UV/IR Cut Telescope Optics Infra Red Filter for Astronomy Accessories
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EwQvTm1 @weary flicker

Its £7.50 rn

[weary flicker]

Id get it for 0.99€ xD

It sais "welcome greeting"

[karmic belfry]

Oh nice lol even better

[nocturne merlin]

i heard cheap uv ir cuts have some serious issues like no coating and stuff

[karmic belfry]

He means since he is a new user he will get it for 0.99

@nocturne merlin

[nocturne merlin]

Shesh

But its still a cheap filter

[karmic belfry]

Not rlly

[nocturne merlin]

Definetly is

[karmic belfry]

Its good enough for most people i know

[nocturne merlin]

Well if it works, but i hav heard the opposite too

[karmic belfry]

Dayum

Accidentally caught ngc 1647 trying to focus on aldebaran 😭😂

[nocturne merlin]

Seems that ngc is rlly smol, u sure ur that zoomed in?:D also wouldnt it be way too dim for such a short exp time xd

[karmic belfry]

One sec

@nocturne merlin

[nocturne merlin]

u h m

[spark skiff]

Windows key + prt scr to screenshot

[karmic belfry]

I took it on the night

[wild jasper]

dont even need that, you can just press the prtscr button

[karmic belfry]

I wasnt planning on imaging thos

So why would i for one photo that i was only mainly showing one person?

[spark skiff]

Windows + shift + s gang

[karmic belfry]

And plus i had no wifi in my garden cuz of my old wifi chip in my laptop

And plus again it was like 30 mins till sunrise and i had no data so i was rushing

[compact drum]

What I need to connect my dslr at my telescope?

[wild jasper]

An T-ring.

[lament agate]

Ermmmmm do you mean a t-ring

[shadow rivet]

Captured this last night. About 10 minutes untracked with calibration frames. Does anyone know what that weird spot to the left is? I’m thinking my calibration frames might have caused it?

[wet merlin]

That's Earth's umbra and penumbra. Nah but try to stack it without calibration frames to see if it still there.

[shadow rivet]

lol, good idea! Thank you!

[hoary cradle]

Haha 350 second exposure with D5300, minor adjustment on phone editor. Got my AM3 in the mail and wanted to test tracking

[latent lintel]

This was my first time trying to stack an image with my dslr, definitely think need to try longer exposures next time

[hoary cradle]

Do you have a tracking mount or are you shooting untracked?

[cerulean sky]

You should try doing background extraction in it

Could you also share the raw file, please? I kinda wanna give it a try

[hoary cradle]

Haha sure I can share it when in at home. I think I made some more that evening. Didn't bother background extraction on the single file yet

[hoary cradle]

haha pretty good for a single exposure

here is the raw file

Heavily edited though and used topaz for denoising

[slow moon]

Dont use topaz 😕

[hoary cradle]

got nothing else rn haha

astrosharp keeps crashing

[slow moon]

Yeah do however you can, its just about it creating false details sometimes

[karmic belfry]

Can somebody process some jupiter data for me?

[hoary cradle]

Hard target for a stock dslr, 11 hours in and not sure if I'm getting more

[slow moon]

Looks good, any filters ? What fl ?

[hoary cradle]

650mm, broadband light pollution filter

[slow moon]

Very cool

[hoary cradle]

Thank you! Not sure if it's worth it to add about 10 more hours. Idk if I'm getting more red haha

[jovial minnow]

Wanna upload the current stack, I would love to give it a go

[hoary cradle]

I'm resetting my PC today so it can take a while but I can dm you when its possible again

[jovial minnow]

Sounds good

[hoary cradle]

Do you have pix?

[jovial minnow]

Yes

[hoary cradle]

Nice, I don't haha

[karmic belfry]

Nice

[weary flicker]

:>

3min of Integration

With Canon 6D

[slow moon]

What lens

[weary flicker]

50mm

A lot of coma

Had to crop most off

7min of integration

[weary flicker]

50mm f/1.8 stm

Works really well for normal photography but at night coma kicks in

[slow moon]

Makes ypur andromeda even better cause its a short focal length

[weary flicker]

Na

Though I like the detail I got from only 3min I rather would have had a higher fl

[slow moon]

Thats what I mean, 3min with a 50mm, and still got some detail

[weary flicker]

Whatever 🤷🏻‍♂️

[dense yew]

my second attempt at andromeda galaxy!

[pastel wren]

Few questions:
What was the gear you used?
What was your exposure time per subexposure and what was total integration time?

Same questions for @brisk shale

[dense yew]

I used a nikon d5200 and a sigma 150-600 also tracked.

30 sec subs at f5.6

Total integration time was around 50min

[dense yew]

Do i need to put that in every post?

[pastel wren]

Lol no need for that. Im just starting out so just seeing what equipment people use for their imagea. What was your mount?

[dense yew]

oh okay. i used a swsa gti

[pastel wren]

Understood. Thanks very much for the info

[dense yew]

no problem!

[brisk shale]

I used the canon 800d modified and Samyang 135mm f2 with swsa2i

25sec f2.8

Total 1h 10m
I used pixinsight for the first time so the colours are not that great but it still look good

[languid haven]

12h with a stock d750

[spark skiff]

Filterless?

[languid haven]

yess no filters or anything

[spark skiff]

How

[languid haven]

bortle 4 I guess

[spark skiff]

Damn, nice image tho

[languid haven]

thankyou!

[brisk shale]

how did you get that pink in your photo?

[slow moon]

Integration time

[noble dagger]

Processing

[pastel wren]

Thanks for the insight

[pastel wren]

What mount did you use?

[languid haven]

SWSA GTI

[compact drum]

Guys what do you think about an canon 1100d?

[karmic belfry]

Not rlly worth it imo when u can get a 450d its only gonna increase ur sensor by a little bit and for the price not worth it but get other opinions

[compact drum]

@karmic belfry i don't gonna buy it new

So i can't find any camera

Unless this one

[karmic belfry]

I mean used

[compact drum]

Yeah but i can't find any other camera

A Canon Eos 100d is better?

[karmic belfry]

What scope

[compact drum]

What?

[karmic belfry]

What telescope u using

[compact drum]

200/1200 dobson

[karmic belfry]

Alr one sec

[compact drum]

K

[karmic belfry]

What do u focus on

Planetary?

[karmic belfry]

?

[compact drum]

Deep sky

[karmic belfry]

Alr

There all basically the same size

Thats with the 450d 100d 1100d

[sour ore]

I wonder why dude

[dense yew]

What nebula is that?

[sour ore]

NGC7000 North American Nebula

[compact drum]

A 650d is better?

[karmic belfry]

One sec

[karmic belfry]

Not rlly

[compact drum]

A bit or ?

[karmic belfry]

Like the 1100d

A 6d is the best

[compact drum]

One sec to search more

[compact drum]

Its 1000 euro💀

[karmic belfry]

Ik

For me £300

[compact drum]

550d?

[karmic belfry]

So 400 euro ish

[karmic belfry]

Still abt the same as 450d

If ur on a budget get a 1100d

Cuz it had video

Has*

[compact drum]

5d?

[karmic belfry]

One sec

[compact drum]

5d better?

[karmic belfry]

Mkii?

[compact drum]

Whatz

What is that

[karmic belfry]

Send a pic of the 5d

The listing

[karmic belfry]

Alr

MUCH BETTER

[compact drum]

I think i will get this one

Is a bit expenisv but if its much better i will get it

[karmic belfry]

Good stiff

Stuff

[weary flicker]

Buy a Canon EOS 6D. Recently got one myself. Very fat pixels, full frame and 20,3MP. You can get one for under 350€ with lens and batteries included

[compact drum]

Its very expensive

[weary flicker]

This only 3min integration of Andromeda with a 50mm

[compact drum]

In my country a used one is 1000$

[wild jasper]

18mins at 70mm

[weary flicker]

There are offers on ebay for 300€

With the 6d?

[weary flicker]

Where do you live?

[compact drum]

Romania

[weary flicker]

Mhm

Buy one from other country and pay shipment

Still worth it

[compact drum]

I wikl get a 5d

I can get a 6d

But ita not mark 2

[weary flicker]

Doesn't matter

There is mkII of the 6D too

But it's bit more expensive

Just because it's mkII it doesn't mean it's better

[compact drum]

Ok

I will try to get a 6d

[compact drum]

Its a problem if its says "body"?

[weary flicker]

The Body of a camera is just the camera without a lens

[weary flicker]

This is a body

[compact drum]

And its good?

[weary flicker]

what?

[compact drum]

Oh ok

[compact drum]

Nothing

[weary flicker]

As you have a really low budget you may also consider the Canon eos 600Da

'a' stands for astromoddifictated

But if you want to use it for daylight photography you have a put a filter on it and have to adjust white balance

Because you also have to buy a lens, which is normally quite expensive you rather should choose a low budget camera

[compact drum]

I want to put it into the eyepiece

[weary flicker]

only for astrophotography?

[compact drum]

Yeah

[weary flicker]

Not for anything else?

Then a canon eos 600Da will probablybe sufficient

But you need a adapter for camera in order to attach it the scope

[compact drum]

I have onw

And i need an t ring

[weary flicker]

yap

[compact drum]

Idk i can use it if i want to photograph a sunset or milkyway?

[weary flicker]

Without a lens?

no

[compact drum]

And how much its a lens

[weary flicker]

200$ ... increasing

[compact drum]

ok

[weary flicker]

Secondhand cheaper

[compact drum]

PRETTY MUCH

[weary flicker]

yap

[weary flicker]

Look for them

Ebay

or mpb

Depends on what you want to do

There are zoom lenses

Widefield

[compact drum]

So if i get a canon eos 600da its ok?

[weary flicker]

Prime lenses

[weary flicker]

Ig

Better inform yourself of others too

The eos 600Da is basically the camera everyone recommends for beginners with low budget

[pallid tulip]

i have a canon 2000d is it also ok

[upper willow]

It's ok'ish
Any camera will work. Some will be better.
Do not ask which one will be better, it is out of your budget ( and mine too )

[shadow rivet]

Awesome! Do you have any other pictures with this setup?

[languid haven]

sadly not, this is like the first picture I have taken in over a year

[spark skiff]

When you modified it, did you add any Ha filter?

I sent mine to modify and I was watching your images, wondering if you just removed the UV/IR cut

[spark skiff]

I'm asking because I've seen some other astromodification service and they claim to add a Ha sensible filter

[grizzled cedar]

They should only take the UV/IR cut filter, if they just added a HA one it would be impossible to do broadband.

I’ve never heard of modification websites doing that tho

Unless you got HA mod and a actual HA filter mixed up

[spark skiff]

Yeah that's what happened. Yours just got the UV/IR filter removed?

[grizzled cedar]

Yep

[spark skiff]

Awesome, thanks

[grizzled cedar]

No problem

[karmic belfry]

Ima do full spec then see if i can get some glass to put infront so its not naked

[dense yew]

m31 3.5 hours exposure time, 390 30 sec subs, iso 160, f5.6. any tips to make this better?

[karmic belfry]

More data always helps

Try maybe 5 hours total

[spark pollen]

Then it’s not full spec if u have glass over it the dust protection filter is pretty much just glass

[karmic belfry]

I dont think i will cuz its not worth breaking my cam

[spark pollen]

Yeah I’d just leave the dust protection filter on all it does is make the stars a little less sharp pretty much unnoticeable

U gotta look really hard to see a difference

[karmic belfry]

I aint modding it

I have no use tbh

[spark pollen]

U should it makes a huge difference

[karmic belfry]

Nah

I dont do emission nebulae

Yet

[spark pollen]

Stock dslr can’t see the ha wavelength pretty much at all so it will help with every nebula and galaxy

[candid walrus]

Theres 2 filters inside the DSLR, the LPF-1 and LPF-2, you just want to remove the LPF-2 as that is the one that blocks out Ha, you can remove both to do a full spectrum mod, and do what i did (leave the sensor bare) or get a glass protection layer, itll help unbelievably with nebulae, wont change galaxies themselves though as they do not contain much Ha

[sour ore]

stop down lens

[dense yew]

Why?

[sour ore]

sharper

[dense yew]

To what Aperture?

[sour ore]

also run some graxpert on it

[sour ore]

7.1

if ur at 5.6 do 7.1

[dense yew]

Already did

[dense yew]

Okay

[sour ore]

dude how

it's kinda noisy tbh for that much integration

[dense yew]

Its not The image I posted I did it after I posted it here and didn’t bother to post again

[sour ore]

I did 1.5 hours in b9 with the moon out, with a lens at f5.6, while I couldn't see polaris and has less noise

[sour ore]

what

that's not the image?

why would u post smth and not post the actual image

[dense yew]

I can send the latest image

[dense yew]

I did some tweaks to it

[sour ore]

guys look at my 5 picosecond integration on ring nebula, not actually the image u see but I wasn't bothered to actually post it

[sour ore]

oh

I thought it was just completely different images

[dense yew]

Oh okay

There is the tweaked image

[sour ore]

still

why the noise

[dense yew]

Can’t get rid of it

And my camera has pretty bad noise control

[sour ore]

integration.

I don't mean like why is there noise I mean like why is there so much

[dense yew]

Isn’t 3.5 hours good?

[dense yew]

No idea

[sour ore]

should be alright for a decent picture of andromeda

I mean urs is good

I like the colors and all

just oddly noisy

[dense yew]

Yea idk why

[timid flint]

i have a filter but im so confused how you attach it to the camera because if i attach it to the camera i cant put the camera onto the telescope

[karmic belfry]

Wym

@timid flint

[timid flint]

like

i am attaching my filter to my t ring

then i can’t go from there

[twin pawn]

Show the scope your using @timid flint

Since you have what looks like a 2" mounted filter, it's gonna have to thread onto the scopes focuser if it does actually have threads.

[timid flint]

thats the thing

the filter doesnt stick out enough to catch on the threads so it just doesnt hold in the focuser

[twin pawn]

Could you show the focuser?

Or just tell me the specific scope being used.

[timid flint]

1 sec

this good ?

as in the filter sticking out is too shot to catch onto the threads

so i have to use the camera without the filter with this adapter. Adapter screws on t ring then gets threaded into the focuser and tighten in the two screws

the the filter cant screw onto that adapter

so i think i need another adapter so the filter screws on to it but also the camera but i dont know which one

[timid flint]

idk if u get it

[twin pawn]

It looks like your only option is a clip in filter that slots in directly into the camera body. Unfortunately iirc its Nikon and there's little to no clip in filters for Nikon aps-c.

Which Nikon do you have?

[timid flint]

d3500

[twin pawn]

Ahh yea

Also, I will say that using a filter when doing untracked astro is hardly worth it.

I assume that was a Dobsonian scope?

Or was it on a motorized eq mount?

[timid flint]

i dont think so i am very sure that there is a adapter for it

but i just dont know what it is

cuz why would there be two thread things on each side of the filter

[twin pawn]

It's for a coma corrector, field flattener, or even a filter wheel.

They usually accept 2" filters such as the one you use

Your focuser likely doesn't accept 2" filters natively.

[timid flint]

would something like a M42 Male To M48 Male Adapter not work

[twin pawn]

You have to find out what the specific threads are for the end of your focuser.

Or that adapter you have

I guess thats what you were referring too

Not the focuser

[timid flint]

im trying out new stuff with a 1200 fl tube with a dogdy focuser that just doesnt wanna fit the filter in and im trying to make it work

[timid flint]

i was refering to the filter its got two sets of threads one where you connect it to the t ring and another on the other side where im like 90% sure you can sure an adapter to it so you can put it in the focuser and lock it in

[twin pawn]

The filter shouldn't be holding the cam in the focuser. It's not design to take that type of stress.

[twin pawn]

Is your t ring an M42?

Astromania 2" T-2 Focal Camera Adapter Ⅱ for SLR Cameras - Simply Attach Your Camera to The Telescope https://a.co/d/7NSAZDV

This right here threads onto your t ring (assuming it's M42) and allows you to thread on that 2" filter.

Also

One big thing you need to ensure, is if you can even reach focus with your DSLR.

Most newtonian scopes don't have the amount of back focus DSLRs need. I couldn't reach focus using my Nikon d7200 and 8" Newtonian.

[timid flint]

thats a very simple problem to solve tho

already done it too so isnt a problem

go to your local hardware store buy like a 10 pack of (i think) m5 bolts roughly 50mm long and push the primary mirror up

makes the focus point go out of the focuser and able to reach the sensor

[timid flint]

this is my t ring

[timid flint]

annoying thing is that this ships from america to uk so i think i gotta pay extra also it takes about 12 days to ship

hopefully ill be able to find another one like that but from the uk

[timid flint]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204923800539?chn=ps&_ul=GB&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=204923800539&targetid=2361039923645&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006960&poi=&campaignid=21697381820&mkgroupid=170109506289&rlsatarget=pla-2361039923645&abcId=10027101&merchantid=231832131&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwrp-3BhDgARIsAEWJ6Sy5jdYhezINFqMMWOlgEgHnPhG4eKxBc0KA-vKwTk_NX8csOOOfNecaAksJEALw_wcB would something like this work also

feel like its the same thing might be mistaken though

[twin pawn]

Yea should be the same thing

[woeful phoenix]

Cygnus loop, taken with a D5300 and an EvoStar 72ED mounted on a EQM35-Pro. Bortal 5 location, 7hrs of light-frames (2min subs)

[karmic belfry]

Some recent pics

Altair Jupiter jupiter processed different and the moon

I have better images of the moon just not on my phone

[shadow rivet]

M31 before and after Dithering using Rebel T7 kit and skywatcher star adventurer gti

[pastel wren]

Amazing shot! A few questions:
What bortle zone were you in?
What was the exposure time for each subexposure?
What was total exposure time?
What lens/telescope did you use?

Thanks in advance!

[shadow rivet]

Bortle 4
First night of auto guiding and dithering so I did 60 second exposures
Total of about 50 minutes
Rebel t7 with the EF 75-300mm f/4-
5.6 III -it was included in the kit I purchased from Best Buy.

[pastel wren]

Thanks for the info!

[shadow rivet]

Early shot at M45.
Rebel t7 ISO 1600
60S total 2.5 hours guided with the Sky-Watcher star adventurer gti

Still using the kit lens that comes with the rebel t7

[sterile matrix]

Don't close it

[sour ore]

that problem was solved like a few months ago lol

it was a faulty connector

[sour ore]

sd card wouldn't even be read

[sterile matrix]

Yeah, I was joking, don't take me seriously. Sorry.

[sour ore]

had some glue on it because I tried to glue it down because the clip broke

[sour ore]

lol ur good I was just explaining what happened

[sterile matrix]

Yeah, sounds pretty interesting. Good thing you were able to fix it.

[shadow rivet]

120s exposures, 3 hours total.

[pallid tulip]

46min m45 with 1min subs and no flats, homemade tracking system, canon 2000d (unmodded), cheap 70-300mm lense

[brisk shale]

Canon Rebel T7i (Modified) Sky-watcher 150pds 3hours 25 sec sub

[lament agate]

Milk

[hoary cradle]

made a mosaic containing 6 panels of about 1 hour each. not getting the panels to look the same sadly

stock nikon d5300 with a 130 pds on a am3

[sour ore]

lots of wind so no detail

[karmic belfry]

Still sick tho bro!

[pastel wren]

27 images, 2 sec each. Canon 500D with 18-400mm lens. Focal length set at 200mm

[sour ore]

ty

[karmic belfry]

No problem bro keep ur the sick work

[shadow shoal]

bump since it died lol

[open musk]

is a dslr better than a cheap planetary cam?

by cheap i mean like >150 dollar

player one sells mars c cheaper than that

[desert rampart]

I have the same question lol

[open musk]

i do already have a uranus c and it's obviously better than a dslr, but thats staying in my main setup

so no im not raising the budget to get the imx585

I just want another cheap cam for another setup

[desert rampart]

It's great Dan!! Whats the settings and equipment?

[quiet mango]

6 hours from a bortle 8 and unmodded dslr

any recommendations on what i can do to improve (other than getting myself some dark skies ofc). i currently use an unmodded aps-c dslr, with a 55-250mm f4-5.6 kit lens, and an ioptron skyguider pro. i am thinking of investing in one of the following: a. filters, b. better lens, c. modified camera

[desert rampart]

It's great, still need more integration due to high bortle sky 🫡

[quiet mango]

i am not sure how much more detail i can gather, because this was 3 hours lol, feel like i am close to hitting some sort of barrier with my location and equipment

[desert rampart]

I think give someone your data to edit and see if it's improving, if it does
Practice on processing
If doesn't improve then upgrade equipment

Also make sure you are doing capturing perfectly with no mistakes

[desert rampart]

It's cloud dude

If it's nebulosity, then maybe give data to someone else to process

[quiet mango]

i am actually getting much better at capturing i feel. my balancing has gotten to a point where i dont really see any tracking errors. i am thinking of bumping my subs up to 60s from 30s. dont know how much that would help though

[quiet mango]

i will be happy to share my data. its supposed to be done in #1021002743080558642 yeah?

[desert rampart]

What's the focal length? Maybe try to go with lower fl..

[desert rampart]

Yeah I will try and some other people will also edit it

Share like your Google folder link but make sure it's only allowed to JUST SEE THE DATA not edit or anything.

[quiet mango]

yeah i just posted it with my stacked file.

[desert rampart]

focal length??

which focal length did you shoot at??

[quiet mango]

it's at 250mm

f5.6

[desert rampart]

bruh

[quiet mango]

ISO 400

[desert rampart]

thats the problem

dont go for higher fl at 8bortle skies

maybe like 135-150mm

[quiet mango]

for real? tbh my images come out worse at 55mm from bortle 8. like the light gradients are impossible to deal with. also i am pretty much limited to either 55mm or 250mm on my zoom lens because anything in between is going to be impossible to replicate on subsequent nights and i am afraid of it being knocked down to some other focal length when i am taking flats for example

[desert rampart]

not like 50mm thats too wide, go for 135 or like max 150

[quiet mango]

any reason why higher focal lengths are worse under light pollution?

[desert rampart]

its worse in general

[quiet mango]

in 1 year of doing this i have only tried 55mm and 250mm, nothing in between, so i am not sure of the advantages of 135mm for example

[desert rampart]

even our lens are not good

[desert rampart]

due to our lens quality

if we have a astrograph we can go for higher focal length but we are already behind in comparism of lens quality

[desert rampart]

ngl you tried your best, the data is also good but the light pollution is making soo much noise

i am happy that you didnt got upset and left the data to only 3 hours

🫂

i am editing your data rn, its good like really good but the noise is too hard to cancel

[quiet mango]

yeah i get it. i mean you do raise an interesting point, i can't really visualise it in my head though. tell you what, i will try doing like an hour on pleiades tonight at a lower focal length around 135mm or so before i get more data on the horse. i have done pleiades before at 250mm so i will be able to compare them.

[quiet mango]

haha thanks man, i mean an year ago i was doing untracked without an intervelometer so this is really not that much hard work in comparision 😅

[desert rampart]

yeah thats great i am planning to start untracked this vacation

[quiet mango]

thanks, yeah i know i personally do it like really slow and do a bunch of noise reduction layers in photoshop

[desert rampart]

any tips from you will be great as you have done that

like gears and all, i have budget of 500us dollar

i have nothing beside a phone and tripod(cheap 20dollar)

i think because you are doing those layers thing the details are washing out

[quiet mango]

bro honestly, the BIGGEST difference maker is always a star tracker honestly. i mean my stuff from before getting a star tracker and after getting a star tracker is like a day and night difference. i think ioptron are doing like a christmas sale right now and the skyguider pro is like 300ish bucks. i honestly dont think the camera and lens matters that much in the beginning. i am using my sister's old dslr which she never used and just had lying around at home.

since you will be starting from scratch, i would recommend you get the best deal possible on a star tracker, and then compromise on the camera and lens with whatever you have got left.

though i am sure more experienced people on here could have better advice for you

[quiet mango]

yeah lol, tbh i usually edit with the mindset of "i need to get this on print and get my mum to hang it up in her room". so removing noise is a big deal for me. basically, i go for looks >> details

[desert rampart]

thanks for the advice but as i dont have any other equipments i dont think i can get everything under 500 bucks

so i will start as untracked and when i save some money i will buy a star tracker

i know star tracker are lot helpfull but no choice

[quiet mango]

isn't there anything on the second hand market you could go for?

[desert rampart]

soo...

i am going for canon t3i 200 dollar used(max), 75-300mm lens(100 dollar max), tripod used: 70 dollar, intervalometer like 30-40 bucks, dew heater 25 bucks

this will come under 500 dollar

so no chance for star tracker

[quiet mango]

i mean fair enough, i dont really know much about camera and lens prices seeing as i never bought my own. didn't think it would be that expensive. from what i have heard the t3i is quite good for beginners though right? also make sure you get the 75-300mm EF lens. idk if they have a EF-S variant of it, so just make sure you get the EF one, otherwise you wont be able to play around with filters in the future. that's the problem i have lol

[desert rampart]

ohh thanks for the help

[quiet mango]

i guess that's pretty solid advice - futureproof your present buys

[desert rampart]

i hope you get to go somewhere with dark skies soon

🤠

[quiet mango]

thanks my man 🙇‍♂️

clear skies to you too

[desert rampart]

heres the result

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MmD8fqFXlQRDNoxVOOAhDQi1bzPhBbgg/view?usp=drive_link

the walking noise is too much to handle lol

but i think its better than that version

😆

you fried the flame nebula and thats why it was looking bad

[quiet mango]

i mean yeah fairs lol. the flame does look better in this one. the one thing we can definitely conclude from this though, is that i really need me some dark skies xd

[desert rampart]

i am in bortle 5 skie

[desert rampart]

yeah

let me show you my try on orion constellation

yours is way better than mine

[quiet mango]

that's pretty good. i visited bortle 5 a couple months ago. it makes a massive difference lol

[quiet mango]

woah that's really good man i think i can even see the barnard's loop a bit

and rosette to the left i think

its really good. all from your phone?

[desert rampart]

yeah

41 min integration

[quiet mango]

nice man, really cool

[bleak meadow]

1 min subs, 281 lights (around 4.5 hours) under Bortle 4 skies, Canon Rebel Xsi (H alpha mod) with 55 - 250 mm kits lens set at 135 mm

[spark pollen]

Like 5 hours on the horse head and flame nebula Astrotech 60ed, skywatcher gti, modded cannon t3i and a uv/ir cut filter

[desert rampart]

55-250 lens or 75-300 lens?I mean which one should I go for ? And the image is amazing 😋

[bleak meadow]

It’s 55 - 250 mm, it came with a rebel t6i but that camera belongs to my sister. I bought my rebel Xsi second hand with no lens. And thank you!

[languid haven]

sorry guys I bought a 533

here are my last 2 pics with a stock dslr

[desert rampart]

533?

[karmic shoal]

I think they're referencing a sensor type. Aka they got a deep sky camera

[desert rampart]

Ohh nice

[shadow shoal]

mid

[north leaf]

very nice

[rare atlas]

how to achieve this kinda pic tho like dark out there

and theres only the galaxy in there

my background kind of like this

what a mess

[karmic shoal]

Star removal program

You can use one for free with Siril

[open musk]

star removal doesn't fix blotches

[rare atlas]

yessir

maybe ill photoshop

using mask tool

did some fix...

kind of hell to fix

idk with this

thoughts?

Nvm still sucks with those noise and gradients

Ill just add more integration time

[twin pawn]

Flats are very important

If done properly they can remove those circular gradients

[cerulean sky]

How much was this image?

[rare atlas]

Onyl 11 minutes

Only*

[rare atlas]

Yeah i did the flat also

[zenith thicket]

I have a as new Nikon D200 but after reading many articles I realise I need to upgrade it. I don't have a lot of budget and reading articles like this https://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/camera_summary.html#SonyA7SII_A7III_A7RIIII
I am not sure what the hell to buy. I can get a D300 which has live view for not a lot of money <£100 and possibly a Sony A7S for under £300.

My main interest is in taking shots of Orion and other DSO

[primal grail]

hey i use a CANON 450D and all my images look...soft, there is no sharp detail in there is that a resolution problem? i use it on 750mm fl telescope, the camera has a 5.1um pixels and a APS-C sensor if that matters. here the issue is mostly visible in the nebulocity in andromeda, in my opinion it's lacking detail for some reason

[shadow shoal]

thats probably just noise and suboptimal processing

how much exposure was that?

[primal grail]

60x30s i think

[shadow shoal]

untracked?

oh the cam is from 2008

[primal grail]

but it's on all my images this is the most recent one, i have a 4h exposure on NGC 4406 and it looks the same

[primal grail]

tracked, unguided

i have guiding now but weather doesn't let me take anything decent with it

[primal grail]

that's why im asking if it's the camera, i bought it for 50$ so i know ill have to replace it but i just wonder if thet's the problem

[shadow shoal]

my guess is either poor seeing, poor processing, limits of the scope or the camera being from 2008

probably poor processing or cam badness

[primal grail]

scope is a 150/750 so i think it's fine
seing is the thing i still can't figure out how to mesure
and the camera is introducing a lot of noise according to internet
and about procesing i don't even know what could make it blury

[twin pawn]

I used the 450D for almost 2 years

It's very old now but has plenty of potential for a 50 USD cam

What you want to focus on is dithering, since you have a guiding system. This will eliminate the walking noise present in your images, which is quite difficult to reduce as your eye notices it instantly.

Here you can see the noise is "traveling" horizontally. This is due to the frame slowly drifting left or right during the night as your images are being taken.

[open musk]

would you say it's worth buying?

or is there smth else better for really cheap too

[twin pawn]

What cam do you use now?

[open musk]

uranus c but that's for my main setup, planning to buy another really cheap dslr to do some widefield while my main images

the ease of use stuff like flip out display doesn't matter since ill use it with a pc

[twin pawn]

I mean it's solid for the price, also fairly easy to modify. It honestly should be modified to get the most out of it.

Would you be using it with camera lenses?

Such as a 50mm prime or more ultra wide angle?

[twin pawn]

But to more clearly answer your question, the image is soft because of the extreme noise. You need more integration time, and as I explained above, dithering. Also, do you take dark frames at the end of each session?

Taking darks that are temp matched within at least +- 3° will also heavily reduce thermal noise and any amp glow.

[open musk]

Yes

Probably pentax takumar 200mm f/4

[open musk]

Would smth like a t2 be worth the extra price?

[primal grail]

i take all the calibration frames, but like you said i probably need more integration time

[twin pawn]

Probably not

[quasi breach]

To buy a 450d and astromod it? Or to stick with my 5d mark iii and just use it (I'm way too scared to astromod the 5d mark iii and there doesn't seem to be a massive amount of info online about doing it)

Can get a 450d for like 60 euro on mpb right now

[spark pollen]

U could just Astromod the 5d so u don’t have to spend any more money

[quasi breach]

Is it something I could do on my own? Or should I try get a camera repair shop to do it

[fading osprey]

astromods r easy

U just need some small screwdrivers and a razor blade

I’d also recommend a screw organizer

[quasi breach]

Yeah there's just no guide on doing it to the 5d mark iii itself it seems. If there was I'd definitely do it. Especially if it was reversible

[lament agate]

see you guys later

[twin pawn]

Ain't no way bros getting a new one

Aren't there used ones for like 800 aud?

[lament agate]

the only used one got sold a few hours ago

i literally just asked the guy but didnt get there in time

[wild jasper]

That's how much a 585 cooled is

[twin pawn]

There was only 1 used one on all the internet? That's a big rip.

[lament agate]

looked for ages

[twin pawn]

Dam

[lament agate]

even on those websites straight out of myspace days

[fresh frigate]

Brand new Player One 533 is a hundred cheaper

[lament agate]

I have an ASIAIR

[fresh frigate]

Ahhh 💀

[twin pawn]

Asiair moment

[rare atlas]

23 minutes of my carina nebula

[frank dragon]

My fist astro image. 127mm Triplet with 17 year old Nikon d700. It has some weird banding going on which I have seen a few people comment on.

[rare atlas]

I want to ask something, when shooting stars pic, is it ok to change the temperature or keep the same temperature? When you do like alot of session astrophotography

Cuz i shoot the stars with auto settings, sometimes it goes purple, or green

[spark skiff]

Your background is clipped, you raised the black point a little too much. About the banding, there's a banding reduction tool in siril but, for me in most cases, doesn't work on my data properly

[wild jasper]

Are you referring to white balance or sensor temperature?

[rare atlas]

White balance

[rare atlas]

Idk with mine with this

[wild jasper]

I leave it on daylight

[rare atlas]

Is it clipped?

[wild jasper]

Whitebalence isn't used for astro

[wild jasper]

Looks fine

[rare atlas]

Alrighr

But if keep going to shoot with auto

[wild jasper]

Keep it on daylight

[rare atlas]

Is it going to disturb the stacking process?

[rare atlas]

Alright

Thanks

[wild jasper]

Not nessesarily disturb...more just keeps your data consistent

[rare atlas]

Alright

Thanks

[frank dragon]

Will look out for not pushing th BP too far. Thought it looked okay but thanks for advice.

[north leaf]

has anyone attempted the seagull with a stock dslr?

[wild jasper]

Yes

It was during a full moon and I didn't get much intergration

[north leaf]

I'll attempt it on the 25th

Will get atleast 7 hours

there's no moon

[vast stirrup]

quick question, if I'm in bortle 5-6, will I need to invest in an LP filter or will I be alr using no filter?

[primal grail]

lp filter cuts out mostly the sodium spectrum, and it can help a lot if you mostly have sodium street lights in your area(the orange-yeallowish ones) but if you live in a place where there is a lot of modern lighting it's not gonna help

[languid haven]

you'll be alr without a lp filter, but a lp will help

[ancient dew]

I'd say it's better than nothing, but it's also not a dramatic difference. I'd get something like a dual narrowband or UHC with that cash for nebulae

[fallen bear]

Hey I was wondering what the best beginner-friendly dslr is, I also want one that will take nice pictures if I acquire more experience throughout the year

Is the canon t7i or t5i a good one?

[wild jasper]

Good

[brittle mirage]

The T5i (700D in the uk) was my first DSLR, it still hold a special place in my heart and I've still got it knocking about the house.

[fallen bear]

Could u show me some pictures u were able to obtain with that camera if possible?

[brittle mirage]

I must say, I never used it for astro, mostly for normal photography but I know people astromod them

[fallen bear]

Oh ok sounds good

[fallen bear]

Oh wow

[brittle mirage]

Dunsfold 2019 with the 70-200mm f2.8 mk1

[fallen bear]

That’s cool

[brittle mirage]

Canon 100mm macro

Canon 50mm f1.8

Also the 100mm macro

I should stop as these aren't exactly astro photos as per the channel name

[shy hollow]

im a complete beginner and im stunned what you can do with just a dslr an tripod

and u can also combine it with a dob

[wild jasper]

same gear

[shy hollow]

how long is the total exposure on this one?

[wild jasper]

3 hours.

[shy hollow]

huh

[wild jasper]

3 hours.

[shy hollow]

how long whre ur subs?

[wild jasper]

No star tracker

2 seconds

3320x2s iirc

[shy hollow]

damn

[wild jasper]

Raw subs only were 108gb

[shy hollow]

wel did u wait 2 days for dss then ?

[wild jasper]

Stacked In pixinsight. Had to stack each night Individually

If I wanted to stack it all together at once, it would've taken up 3tb

[shy hollow]

crazy but i like it 😂

[wild jasper]

Yea it was a mad project

[shy hollow]

how is this nebula called?

[karmic shoal]

Tarantula nebula in the LMC (Milkyway's larger satellite galaxy)

[ancient dew]

No that's the Carina Nebula

[karmic shoal]

Oh yea

MB.. But the tarantula nebula is still cool! You should look it up :>

[ancient dew]

It is my #1 target for when I visit Australia

Ideally if I can take my 8" RC with me, it's a great target for using all 1624 mm of focal length

[karmic shoal]

Nice

[north leaf]

should I do lucky imaging with my mirrorless camera? by lucky imaging i mean 5 to 10 sec exposures, if yes should I use the electronic shutter?

[wild jasper]

5 second subs is not lucky imaging

[north leaf]

on sorry, I wrongly termed it then

but will many 5 sec images work for whirlpool? as its a bright target

[wild jasper]

should be ok

[lament agate]

2.5min sub with astro cam vs 2.5hours with dslr, same scope

[median pond]

ive got an unmodded apsc mirrorless, 180mm lens, and a swsa 2i
any target recommendations for the upcoming new moon? preferably without any super bright stars since my lens has bad coma. also lat 35

[ancient dew]

What's this image?

[wild jasper]

statue of liberty nebula

[primal grail]

Flaming star nebula
13h21min

im supprised there isn't much more to see than on the previus 8h image

Canon 450D (no IR cut filter)
SW150/750

[pallid tulip]

8,2h with roki 135 and unmodded canon 2000d

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[red light]

Is my a6400 good enough for astro?

[karmic shoal]

Should be

[languid haven]

even though I have an astro cam rn I reprocessed some stock dslr data from last summer

[ancient dew]

Dang, what DSLR? It did a good job with the red

[languid haven]

Nikon d750

[primal grail]

how much exposure?

[languid haven]

12h, 90s subs at iso 3600

[primal grail]

how did you chose the ISO?

[languid haven]

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm

[primal grail]

i don't understand it, is that the amount of noise in Y and iso in X? if that's the case should i just always use 1600?

[languid haven]

Yea keep it at 1600

[primal grail]

if i took 13h40min on IC 405 at ISO 400 can i start adding the rest of the data at ISO 1600?

[languid haven]

Yea ofc

From now on you want to keep shooting at 1600

[primal grail]

alright, thanku

[vast stirrup]

Itching my head

[vast stirrup]

[spark skiff]

You should drop the asiair and get a minipc with a 220mm

Why is badunkie a protostar

[open musk]

im going in reverse progress, i already have an astrocam but ill be joining you guys

[vast stirrup]

My brother

I too have a 2000D

[twin pawn]

Imagine using a DSLR

Lmao, man... The pain...

Discord making you wait to speed through all the messages to after clicking on that is the most infuriating thing.

[vast stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/out-of-line-anthony-mackie-sam-wilson-falcon-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-gif-21182970

[frozen tinsel]

Curious, where did you get this graph data?

Id love to know what iso to shoot at for my camera

[primal grail]

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm

[frozen tinsel]

Thanks!

[primal grail]

np

[uncut falcon]

B

[karmic shoal]

Unmodded dslr with 150/750
1h on Dumbbell nebula

[karmic belfry]

Dayum im trying dumbell tonight

Canon 450d 114/1000

💀

[uncut falcon]

gl

good luck

[karmic belfry]

I need it im struggling rn

Lol

[frosty sorrel]

Gonna image ring tonight

254/1270

Canon 1100

[lament agate]

wait people still use dslrs??

big oof

(im sorry i feel you guys, dslrs can be pretty good and are tough to use)

[wild jasper]

[uncut falcon]

dslr on cdk1000

[rare atlas]

Andromeda Galaxy 1 hour and 30 minutes, untracked
Canon 1300D
Tamron Lens 70-300mm
Shoot at 135 mm f4.5
Shutter 2s, iso 1600
2300+ frames stacked

[bright swallow]

Untracked is crazy

[wild jasper]

Carina image when

[rare atlas]

Dude I've no storage to stack, last time I stack my PC got blue screen 😂😂😂

Nahh I gotta upgrade soon

[wild jasper]

youll need to stCK in baches then

[rare atlas]

Yeahh, I guess

Lemme try lemme try

[karmic shoal]

Get an external hardrive

[rare atlas]

Hardrive are slow

I've got 10k images to stack

You want to stack it for me?

[karmic shoal]

I guarantee my pc has less storage and ram

And I couldn't even transfer that many even if I wanted 💀

[rare atlas]

Lmfao, my files total like almost 300gigs because of Carina

Man untracked is pain

[karmic shoal]

Fr

[rare atlas]

eastern and western veil nebula untracked 1 hour

[karmic shoal]

Upgraded from my 114mm spherical to a 6" f/5 parabolic . It's been a little over a month and this is what I've gotten so far :3

[rare atlas]

6 hours eastern and western veil nebula

I couldn't make the nebula pop out, kinda sad

Untracked btw

[wild jasper]

tracker wen

6hrs untracked is mad commitment

interested in seeing the carina project tho

👀

[rare atlas]

Lmaooo

[rare atlas]

Sadly I do not have one : (

[wild jasper]

get

[rare atlas]

Yeah collected like 7 nights

[wild jasper]

your poor shutter...

[rare atlas]

10k images

Surprisingly my pc didn't crash when stacking

[vast stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/toy-story-toy-story2-jessie-cowgirl-excuse-me-gif-15957708

[rare atlas]

Andromeda galaxy
Untracked
4k images stacked
2 hours and 30 minutes exposure
Tamron lens 70-300mm
135mm lens f4.5
Canon 1300D

[median pond]

4k, insane dedication

[shy hollow]

4k images is crazy
nice job

[thorny birch]

Self astromodified canon 550d

13.5hrs of integration time

[wild jasper]

sir this is #1034767907495874572 not #1337566901496320101

youre gonna have a field day there

[thorny birch]

Nah I know him so it's fine

[wild jasper]

bro got kicked

[thorny birch]

Lol

It was coming

[rare atlas]

Thank you thoo

[median pond]

i wonder is that blue from oiii or reflection? most lagoon photos i see are all red

[thorny birch]

I used a duo band filter

So oxygen

Probably the cleanest oxygen channel I've gotten in any of my photos

Kinda looking a bit magenta ish

[thorny birch]

Duo band vs no filter

[thorny birch]

thats some nice colour in the star trails

[digital ginkgo]

yeah

i like that too

at first it was bad

[digital ginkgo]

it looked like that

but i changed some settings in siril

and it looks better

[thorny birch]

is this the new one or the old one?

if its the old one then the new one is a big improvement

how come the old one has waves going through it

looks like a moire pattern

[digital ginkgo]

old one

its more green

[digital ginkgo]

thanks

i removed the green noise and stretched it a bit

and added some more saturation

[thorny birch]

yeah really improved the image

[digital ginkgo]

rest of the images was kinda hard to capture

with a 1200mm untracked dob

[thorny birch]

for a dob theyre great

[digital ginkgo]

thanks

goto for me will be a huge upgrade

[thorny birch]

the orion photo might need a colour calibration

and a background extraction

otherwise its ood

[thorny birch]

what dob do you have?

[digital ginkgo]

solid 10" skywatcher

[thorny birch]

have you seen the skywatcher goto upgrades?

[digital ginkgo]

yeah

the 10" upgrade kit

i want to buy it in march

bc the price will be -20%

[thorny birch]

theres also onstep

bit more diy but alot cheaper

also for the price of the 10" dob you could kinda create a full rig

[digital ginkgo]

what is this

[thorny birch]

*upgrade kit

[thorny birch]

its an opensource astronomy control software

like synscan

its used to turn non goto mounts into goto mounts

[digital ginkgo]

but i need to make rotors myself

[thorny birch]

you just buy motors and connect to the control box

something like NEMA 17s

but yeah its more diy

they have kits as well but idk if those will work with dobs

if you havent worked with this kind of stuff then the skywatcher is more plug and play

but onstep will cost probably sub 500$

[digital ginkgo]

idk

i don t like to do things myself

bc i am worried i will ruin something

[thorny birch]

https://www.reddit.com/r/telescopes/comments/1dnm4cy/my_10_stellalyra_dob_with_onstep_goto_controller/

heres someone who did it

[thorny birch]

yeah if you havent done this stuff before then its a risk

[digital ginkgo]

but its not harder to control it?

[thorny birch]

no

supported by all the major softwares

[digital ginkgo]

damn

[thorny birch]

like NINA and asiair

[digital ginkgo]

the photos is nice

[digital ginkgo]

nice