How it started… How it's going…

[plucky wadi]

2024 vs 2022

[weary laurel]

Pons Brooks only a 2 week difference

[modest swallow]

1 year Moon photography evolution
The full Moon was shot with a phone
The half Moon is a 4 tiles mosaic made with a DSLR

[pure mesa]

Orion Nebula to whirlpool galaxy both same camera bortle 9 in a few months. Not much progress but yeah (:

[lunar basin]

A year apart

[undone imp]

Yoo! What are the specs of the new pic?

Oh, nvm, I found your post in deep space pics!

[humble oasis]

Old: Quattro 150p, HEQ 5 pro unguided, Nikon D3500 full spectrum, UV/IR cut, 72x60s exposures
New: Quattro 150p, HEQ 5 pro guided, ASI 294MC pro, UV/IR cut, 59x180s exposures (WIP)

[meager nest]

Old: Canon 55-250mm, Canon SL2, Star adventurer 2i, 45 minutes exposure
New: Quattro 150p, CEM26, Canon SL2 modded, 2 panel mosaic, 2 hours exposure

[sharp lake]

r

september 2023 and May 2024

previous version

[dense crystal]

First rig, new rig 😎

[wraith heron]

little difference

[undone imp]

which one is which? 🧐

[vernal bison]

Really great improvement actually!

[violet glen]

Around a 1-2 year difference, different scope, processing, and mount

[eternal dragon]

you know which one is which don’t be rude

[wheat lodge]

It was probably a joke

[eternal dragon]

hopefully

[neat marsh]

the middle one is the new one❤️

[wheat lodge]

I'm assuming that because the difference is immense

[eternal dragon]

the difference is very good yes

[undone imp]

Bro, don‘t you see the sarcasm in Poivre‘s post? 😭

[eternal dragon]

what

[undone imp]

read the post from @wraith heron above

[eternal dragon]

sarcasm isn’t easily visible to others keep your hair on ffs

[undone imp]

What does ff stand for?

[wraith heron]

My bad I'm the first to struggle with sarcasm but I'm using it anyway 😭

[eternal dragon]

no no it’s fine i was just saying to that guy it’s not easily visible to others

i got the hint that you was being sarcastic

not him

[undone imp]

and why do you have to cause a drama out of it?

[eternal dragon]

i’m not causing a drama lol

you was getting all fussy about it that i didn’t understand that the guy was being sarcastic but it literally doesn’t matter anyway

[undone imp]

yeah, life goes on

[eternal dragon]

exactly

[earnest hill]

1st image is from August of last year with an unmodified T7 and kit lens, 2nd image is from December of last year with Unmodified T7 and the Rokinon 135mm, and the 3rd image is the most recent from 2 nights ago with a modified T7 and Rokinon 135mm. All were taken with the SWSA 2i and the L-enhance NB filter

[midnight yoke]

2022 to 2024 (left two are 2022, right two are 2024)

[viscid vigil]

two years apart, same equipment

[wraith heron]

The details you get from your redcat are amazing

[acoustic schooner]

GodDAMN

[modest swallow]

What camera are you using?

[humble oasis]

ASI 294MM pro

[undone imp]

What pixel scale?

[jagged gale]

I really thought this was a comparison between your image and Hubble data, great job

[viscid vigil]

1.91”/px but new image is 2x drizzled (=0.96”/px or so)

[undone imp]

oh wow, I definitely have to try this (I could do 0.39"/px with 2x drizzle)

[viscid vigil]

You also need good to excellent seeing

[undone imp]

True, it doesn't get very high here 😢

[pulsar inlet]

So ... not gonna happen on my avg seeing night with an ASI585

[humble oasis]

Just a short test, tomorrows comparison should be 10x better

[vernal bison]

Woah, the glow up is amazing

[eternal dragon]

trash

[fading flume]

That is very nice

I would prefer less denoise, but good coloring

[humble oasis]

Agreed completely!

[humble oasis]

Fr bro

[eternal dragon]

it’s literally CGI as well

space isn’t real you clown

[humble oasis]

Bro dont get yourself banned again 💀

[sharp lake]

goofy ahh

[grand flower]

Yez it is How it started, How it's going

[eternal dragon]

bro space is literally a tv screen with goofy stars

@humble oasis agrees

[charred echo]

One with siril, the other is PI with blurx and noisex

[ember pivot]

my first milky way photo from july last year, compared to now

[neat marsh]

sword of the six sages i know andromeda only rises to like 4 degrees for you but wth is that

[sharp lake]

Is it good or bad?

It's been deepsnr nuked

[eternal dragon]

13th november 2023 vs 23rd may 2024

[forest hull]

My 1st Orion Nebula picture from December last year compared to now

[dim idol]

One day I saw a bright star outside. I looked at it, wondering what it was. That was the day I wanted to buy a telescope. Many months and many telescopes later, I finally found out what that "star" was. If it wasn't for that one bright dot, I wouldn't even be in this server.

18/10/2023 - 25/05/2024 (not the images, just when I started to now)

[vernal bison]

awesome little story, you've perfectly captured what many of the first human astronomers went through. Seeing something intriguing, wanting to know more. Devising a way to know more, and then figuring out and learning more. This is beautiful, actually.

[humble oasis]

Less than a year with the quattro, such improvements already
Old: Quattro 150p no CC, HEQ 5 pro unguided, Nikon D3500 full spectrum, no filter, 1h 25m
New: Quattro 150p w CC, HEQ 5 pro guided, ASI 294MC pro, Optolong Lenhance triband +UV/IR cut. 3h 18m

[modest swallow]

1 year apart. phone vs DSLR

[untold current]

decided to make a timeline of my long term progress and recent peogress in deep sky imaging

[modest swallow]

Amazing documentation!

[charred echo]

Left is from 9 months ago, right was last night

[vernal bison]

nice! Much sharper details and less noise

Just last night I tried getting an image of the Dumbbell Nebula for shits and giggles, pressing the camera of my phone to the eyepiece of my Starblast

[charred echo]

Its been a learning curve with a dslr

I want a cooled cam so bad

[vernal bison]

DSLR is very rewarding, I've never done Astro with it but it feels so good to get good stuff with em

[vernal bison]

it's safe to say your captures are certainly better than what my phone got in 10 seconds lmao

[charred echo]

For a phone its not even bad

[vernal bison]

I guess not

I can do better though

[charred echo]

True

Motivation to keep getting better

[fading flume]

How it started...

How it's going

[viscid vigil]

Yay

[fading flume]

Does your redcat have me beat?

[viscid vigil]

Redcat

[sharp lake]

what the hell

this is cheating

[viscid vigil]

Fwiw it’s more than 10x the integration time and some pretty heavy lifting with drizzle and blurX

[sharp lake]

true

[mental harbor]

Nah, I'd win.

[fading flume]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-christian-bale-business-gif-13484994

[weary laurel]

Aint no way you imaged that

[weary laurel]

LOBOTOMY KAISEN🗣️🔥

[weary laurel]

Better than hubble tbh

[mental harbor]

Did you have

[mental harbor]

To ping me

[mental harbor]

3 times

https://tenor.com/view/gojo-satoru-gif-949319236308169219

[weary laurel]

Y

[weary laurel]

E

[weary laurel]

S

[mental harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/domain-expansion-nerd-uhh-actually-satoru-gojo-gojo-satoru-gif-15726227975275892261

[acoustic schooner]

One night was at 8°C, the other was at 17°C, guess which ones which

[modest swallow]

What target is this?

[acoustic schooner]

Wide angle of crux and the area arounf

[mental harbor]

1 year

[royal rain]

Top Left: 2015, Top Right: 2020, Bottom Left: 2021, Bottom Right: 2024 (June)

The first 2 were APS-C DSLR,
The third was Mirrorless Full Frame
The fourth is 533MC Pro CMOS

[uneven lantern]

First picture of the moon vs my latest picture

[olive spade]

One of my first lunar images vs my most recent. Crazy what differences can be made in a year + better equipment

[arctic shadow]

Here is my first image of NGC 2146 and my latest one.

[humble oasis]

Great work! love the blues you pulled on the new one

[untold drum]

Yeah I love the SignalX you ran on your new data

[lean schooner]

1 year

[mental harbor]

You... Got worse?

[sharp lake]

To an extent

[mental harbor]

Bro went from perfect processing to clipped whites and non-calibrated backgrounds

[sharp lake]

yea ive not really seen any omega nebla to the extent of it being purple

[mental harbor]

Real

[sharp lake]

making an image purple is a symptom of oversaturation or saturation not done properly

[mental harbor]

Or you're a gojo stan

[grand flower]

This has gotta be my favorite photo of swan neb

[sharp lake]

zegerys was pretty good

[grand flower]

Maybe if the stars were more colorful but Idk

[grand flower]

Oh shoot I forgot about his

[mental harbor]

It's absolute ass and I'm about to blow it out of the water in a month

Thats 20 x 1'

[grand flower]

If you can get decent star colors out of it, you'll have taken my favorite photo of Swan fsfs

[humble oasis]

Nice one! You’ve definitely got more signal on the new one, however it does need abit of work done, the purples are mostly fine, could be abit less but there is OIII in that region so purple isn’t a issue that much, the background could use Background Neutralisation to fix its blue/green tones, and while stretching the core could use a light mask to stop it highlighting, but on a general there is a lot of improvement in data, well done (rather than saying “ you got worse” or “it’s absolute ass” how about we stick to actual advice guys…)

[undone imp]

You are absolutely right. When are you going to record that backflip btw?

[mental harbor]

Same integration, 1 year apart, 2400 vs A7III

[somber aspen]

2023 vs 2024

While the pinks in the old image look more captivating at first glance, in general it's too over processed. I would however like to carry over that pink tone to the latest image once it's finished... Of course in a more conservative manner.

Main change is the new scope, old image was with the Z61 w/ 0.8x reducer / new image was with - new image with the Esprit 80

288mm vs 400mm

Both at around f/5

[humble oasis]

Very nice! idk if this was a problem only i had, but i noticed when denoising (both DeepSNR or NoiseX) that some of the main core details on crescent itself kinda dulled and blurred?

Heres a example, to me it seems DeepSNR is giving me less clean results than NoiseX, i actually prefer the looks of the no denoised one over the DeepSNRd one, am i doing something wrong? (Left is DeepSNR, right is either NoiseX or no denoise)
Drop shrink 0.80
Function: Varshape 1.5
Grid size: 16

[mental harbor]

DeepSNR value?

If it is too rough, try iterative valuation.

[humble oasis]

1.00, how would I run iterative values with it?

[somber aspen]

Deepsnr works best when the data is already somewhat clean, and monochrome helps. It isn't magic and will still leave color modelling + any micro details that don't have good snr will likely look soft and jagged.

Somewhat clean is kind of vague/relative

It can do wonders on noisy data but if you stretch it too much it'll just look wonky.

I also like to add back in like 10-35% of original noise back in.

[mental harbor]

Waayyy too high, use .75 to .93

You risk giving the image a plastic-y look if you use 1.0

[mental harbor]

45, then 75.

if 75 is too high again, use 60.

Alternatively, 25% strength about 7-8 times works wonders

[humble oasis]

Thats interesting tbf, ive only heard it should be ran at 1.00 or not at all lol, ill give this a shot

[humble oasis]

Yeah u do that with pixel math right? whats the formula?

[eternal dragon]

7th October 2023 vs 28th June 2024

[winged locust]

July 2023 with stock avx/c8-n/sony a6000/lightroom (1st try) vs June 2024 with hypertuned avx/150pds/ares-c pro/pixinsight and lightroom (2nd Try)

[eternal dragon]

Great improvement , I want to image this soon

[winged locust]

Thank you! Same goes to you for your eagle nebula, I’m actually shooting that next lol

[somber aspen]

Lovely improvement

[eternal dragon]

No worries! And Thankyou! Yeah defo go for it , beautiful nebula. I’m glad I could see it from my back garden practically all night from dark till light

[winged locust]

Thank you!

[winged locust]

That’s awesome how you could see it the whole night. I could only see it for a few hrs but I’m glad I could see it anyways! Good luck with shooting m27, it’s a great target to shoot. Has a nice dynamic range

[humble oasis]

11 months progression
Old: Quattro 150p: HEQ 5 pro unguided: Nikon D3500 full spectrum, UV/IR cut, 3h of 60s exposures
New: Quattro 150p: HEQ 5 pro guided: ASI 294MC pro: Optolong Lenhance+ZWO UV/IR cut, 15h 10m of 600s exposures+3h of 120s exposures

[mental harbor]

Its funny cause I think the new one has almost the same exposure

[sharp lake]

original process and new process

[weary laurel]

Wow, so many detail

You took the Nah id win to the whole next level

[sharp lake]

2023 and 2024

same equiptment, same intergration

different dataset

[cloud leaf]

Now vs October

[vernal bison]

Very good improvement! I will say there is a green coloration on the left of the improved image, but I'm sure that can easily be dealt with

[humble oasis]

11 months progress
Old Gear: Quattro 150p: HEQ5 pro: Nikon D3500 fullspectrum: UV/IR cut: 90x60s (1h 30m)
New Gear: Quattro 150p: HEQ5 pro guided: ASI 294MC pro: Optolong Lenhance: 58x180s (2h 54m)

[cloud leaf]

Yeah i’m gonna go back to it - noticed that too but was too lazy to deal with it today since pix was throwing me curveballs

[fading flume]

One hell of an improvement

[orchid sapphire]

1 year apart, same equipment, 6"dob flextube and samsung a52, 10s exposure

[marsh fulcrum]

Same everything, just learned how to use it better

[grim mango]

2023 vs 2024

[weary laurel]

2 days difference

[grim mango]

better comparison

[marsh fulcrum]

3 month difference

Also same setup, just learned to use it better

[vernal bison]

this reminds me of early astronomical observations of Saturn! Early observations and depictions saw Saturn as a dot with two smaller dots, one at each side, and as observations got more and more refined, early astronomers began to realize that those dots were actually the rings going around the planet.

There's astronomical sketches of this, maybe I can find them

[vernal bison]

found it

[grand flower]

That's sick

[untold drum]

One of my earliest pics in astro to my latest one

[plain parcel]

1.5 years difference

[vernal bison]

Hey I know where this is

don't be shy, try getting Stephan's Quintet in the frame too, that could look neat

unless that's like a lot more difficult than I assume it already is

[mental harbor]

I did.

You all cant see it for a while though since the project is ongoing

Tis but a teaser of a much, much, much longer project

[vernal bison]

Oooh ok, awesome!!

[plucky wadi]

How it started in start of 2023 and bottom right is last pic

I had tons help from @heavy crest who edited my last picture

[delicate coral]

That second one looks alot (Reminds me) like the one I took of the north america nebula

[plucky wadi]

Can I see

I used a canon 1100D at the time

Now I upgraded to a ZWO 2600MM

[delicate coral]

This is with the kit lens at max zoom (55mm?). Yours is def more detailed than mine though lol. I also forgot to take calibration frames

[plucky wadi]

my first ones didnt have any either

I used to find it so confusing

[warm seal]

about 10 months in the making

my first image (i think) vs my latest

first vs last cygnus wall

[wise shadow]

M51 around 8 months ago, VS about 1 or 2 months ago...

[keen crest]

9 months difference

1 is moon 2 is jupiter and Io

Jupiter is just rlly unfocused and bright

[undone imp]

That’s so good

[keen crest]

Fr

[dense crystal]

My first image of the eastern veil, a 2 pane mosaic captured with my svbony 80ED

My most recent image of the East Veil captured with my SVX102T

Both pictures are same camera and filters.

[grim mango]

my first mw vs my latest, both images being taken with my phone

[soft sentinel]

My first horsehead vs my recent-ish one

[glacial gulch]

270 days ago I took my first ever photo of the Moon with a 10x35 binocular with a phone.
3 days ago I took a photo of the Moon with a Sony Nex-5n with a f/3.5-5.6 18-135 lens

[keen crest]

Both r good

The first one looks like clouds are just blocking it

[narrow hawk]

1y evolution

[vernal bison]

Why is the glow from your stars oval shaped? That's really interesting, I have no idea what would cause that, but it honestly looks kinda cool

Really great improvement btw!

[soft sentinel]

The spikes are also not the same length horizontally and vertically. So i am guessing it is something connected to that

[vernal bison]

Oh I see that now, really odd

not a bad thing tbh, I like it

[soft sentinel]

Christian telescope 🗿

Turning stars into crosses

[heady steeple]

my 1yr evolution! in-between I figured out how stellarium and calibration frames worked. XD

[modest swallow]

These 2 are almost exactly 1 year apart

[vernal bison]

Great improvement!

[silent perch]

Almost 5 years
but i still using my phone.

And yes, there is an m17 there. I just lost the stack 💀

2021 - 70/700mm fixed tripod
december 2022 - 114/900mm with onstep
Same phone: Xiaomi mi9t

I have to update this Orion photo this year. It will look much better with the new phone and eyepiece

[delicate coral]

I can't wait to try orion with a real setup

[weary laurel]

Dont have the old one

[slim ermine]

its and improvment. of sorts....

[keen crest]

Lol

Just wobble

[warm seal]

makes me wanna cry in a corner fr

[undone imp]

Idk if you should, the image quality decreases, when you zoom in

[warm seal]

it doesnt tho?

[nimble sierra]

blurx:

[undone imp]

This doesn’t look extremely good to me

[warm seal]

mega nerd worth so i ain’t complaining

[neat marsh]

meganerd doesnt stop oversenoising

which i think is what that is

[warm seal]

yea probably

[nimble sierra]

it was also taken with a mobile phone

[somber aspen]

While that may be.... He produces better images than some people with rigs that cost 3x.

Not to mention anyone I've ever seen using a phone for ap.

By far

[mental harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/malevolent-kitchen-domain-expansion-sukuna-hes-cooking-gif-11631753667616509091

[sharp lake]

[sharp lake]

first ever imaging run and my most recent imaging run on that target

[mental harbor]

Silly visual astronomer

[sharp lake]

ew eyepieces

[delicate coral]

Still salty for wiping my sd card by accident.
First vs newest. Both single subs. I would've had like 30 of the new subs if I didn't delete them

[undone imp]

Why the ping?

[sharp lake]

To purposely piss you off

[undone imp]

Why though? Can‘t he handle my opinion or what?

[sharp lake]

Idk lol

[undone imp]

And why do you send your images

I‘m not even a visual astronomer

Idk, if it’s supposed to be a joke

[wise shadow]

never heard of an eyepeice, what is it?

[mental harbor]

Your

opinion

is

WRONG

[somber aspen]

The quality of an image is always relative

[silent perch]

Yes, this Orion is bad compared to the quality I get today. It was less than two hours of exposure, there were thin clouds and the moon was at about 60% 💀 .
Today, with the new eyepiece that doesn't distort the image, it would have been much better.

look how the masterlight was.. My old eyepiece distorted everything and there was a haze in the whole photo.

[undone imp]

Oof

I understand

[humble oasis]

Genuine question, how does dithering work? i mean like id imagine you wouldnt want to do it much because of the vignetting and youd get a smaller FOV, but surely you gotta dither right?

[silent perch]

I just stop the sequence every 10 frames, move the frame a little using the onstep hand control and start again... When I took this photo I didn't even do any dithering, as I had no guiding with phd2. They were 15s subs...
Now i do 1-minute subs with guiding, so I need to do the dither manually.
The Deepskycamera app developer is finalizing the pro version; It will be possible to connect the cell phone to the Phd2 and automate this process

[humble oasis]

Damn thats some dedication. Its truly inspiring to see what youre pulling off with a phone, i mean. Its unbelieveable! people spend thousands trying to achieve images like yours yet still cant, and your doing it with a phone. truly amazing! i cant wait to see the day you get a full blown setup, youd actually be a award winning astrophotographer for definite! Love what youre doing bro, keep at it

[nimble sierra]

@silent perch do you use the same phone for daily activities?

[warm seal]

selling my cam rn gonna buy a xiaomi

[keen crest]

Y u selling ur cam

[silent perch]

Thanks! I should continue using my phone for astrophotography for another few years or a year; I'm going to upgrade my equatorial mount first, as the tracking isn't good. It's blurring my photos even with my phone at eyepiece

[silent perch]

yep!

[earnest hill]

Just over 13 months difference!

[tough bison]

[tough bison]

[weary laurel]

Around 2 days difference

[mental harbor]

Yeah its relative, relatively high in my case

[somber aspen]

God-tier seeing

[half whale]

The real mystery is, where is drawing no. 3

[delicate coral]

Probably cropped out to the right

[nimble sierra]

i dont understand how people's first astrophotos arent just photos through an eyepiece

i thought that most people started visual

[sharp lake]

yea but thats phone photography - we were stupid then

[pulsar inlet]

Just then?

[serene musk]

We hadn’t spent copious amounts of time and money at that point so arguably we’ve got stupider

[humble oasis]

1.5 year processing progression

[somber aspen]

Wtf why don't I remember seeing the new one?

That's fantastic

That's with the 150p?

[delicate coral]

Is that the same data??

[meager haven]

1st vs latest Saturn (celestron 76 az with iPhone vs Celestron nexstar 6se with svbony sv105

[pulsar inlet]

😂

[grand flower]

Same data?

Holy moly, that 2nd one might be the nicest M101 ive seen

[mental harbor]

Still cant get his backgrounds right

I love messing with Ratbag

[humble oasis]

Haha it’s bat data, just purely for processing representation

[humble oasis]

Yeah Bat data

[somber aspen]

I was gonna say lmao

lovely improvement tho

[humble oasis]

If that was my data id be ecstatic thank you!

[somber aspen]

2022 vs 2024

[humble oasis]

Just under 1 year of progression!
Old: scope: Quattro 150p: Mount: HEQ 5 unguided: Camera: Nikon D3500 full spectrum, UV/IR cut: 160x60s (2h 40m)
New: scope: Quattro 150p: Mount: HEQ 5 guided: Camera: ASI 294MC pro, UV/IR cut, Optolong Lenhance: 81x180s (4h 3m) 35x300s (2h 55m)

[wise shadow]

Wow great comparison, aligned and everything

[stone badger]

Wonder what you did to make the star color pop way more

[humble oasis]

With the old DSLR stars would easily over saturate, didnt have a high full well at all. The 294 has a much higher full well so stars look much nicer

[weary laurel]

Wait, you imaged this? Daaaaamnn what gear?

[nimble sierra]

seestar s50 in equatorial configuration

[weary laurel]

Nice

[weary laurel]

4 days difference

[keen crest]

Beautiful

[wise shadow]

my rosette around a year ago, and my newest images.

[vernal bison]

Even your rosette doesn't look half bad, still really great progress though

[neat marsh]

i changed how i organized files pretty early on. does this count? i dunno

[nimble sierra]

deeznuts and DEEZNUTS2

I noticed they are gone

[neat marsh]

"randomarea"

[heavy crest]

How I've started in the end of 2022, same data LRGB

[untold current]

Documenting my progress

Featuring the picture that started this expensive hobby💀

[wise shadow]

wdym?

[vernal bison]

I mean your image of the Rosette Nebula doesn't look half bad

it looks pretty ok!

[wise shadow]

ah thanks. was pleased at the time

[patent hare]

all made with a 80mm refractor telescope, and my phone
only difference is that for the planets I upgraded to using my finderscope as barlow lens, somehow worked
for the moon I used a small phone scope first, and then I used a simple 2x barlow lens

[vernal bison]

Ooh, that Orion before and after is quite good

You should try getting flame and horsehead, just a little ways above the Orion Nebula and to the left. Should find them easily, as they're in Orion's Belt near the Star Alnitak.

They don't require too much integration time to capture, and with an 80mm you should have enough FoV to get both nebulae in frame

I only mention them because they're pretty easy to find, a fun target, and with the right amount of post processing and integration time, they can look stunning.

[patent hare]

ah yes, I actually tried it, multiple times, I actually needed 800 frames to make something visible...

[vernal bison]

Oh, that's not bad though

For an 80mm refractor that's pretty ok

[patent hare]

aye

[vernal bison]

what model refractor do you have, btw?

Also your Jupiter image is pretty good too

[patent hare]

its a skywatcher

[vernal bison]

Ah ok

[patent hare]

not exactly great but I could bring out something

[strong saffron]

2022 vs 2023 Nikon 300mm vs Sigma 600mm, Nikon D780

[neat marsh]

whoops i spread misinformation, these are different scopes

[whole swift]

like 1 month apart, shows the difference processing skills and integration make. 5mins vs 2hrs 20 mins. same gear and location

[warm summit]

Same data, different processing. 1 year apart.

[queen surge]

3 months of progress

[whole swift]

carina pfp's on top

[sharp lake]

hi

[queen surge]

the 3 muskatiers

[whole swift]

rip to every other carina i guess

[sharp lake]

LMC has carina and so does Lucas

Carina Gang

[whole swift]

does lmc count?

[sharp lake]

its eta carinae

thats carina

[whole swift]

ik

but like

🤏

[untold current]

My rig and images from 2 years ago on the bottom VS my rig that I got in November

I've only been doing planetary with the new rig for 3 days so I hope to improve more soon

[marble dirge]

Orion Nebula 1year apart with the same set up

[keen crest]

Nice bro

[jagged gale]

One year apart

Only the same camera. Left was with a celestron 5slt (5” cassegrain) on the slt mount (alt az ). Right is with wo z73 and eqm35, guided

[naive marsh]

1 year difference

[vernal bison]

Oh my god this is stunning, what an awesome photo of the Perseids!!

[naive marsh]

Thanks a lot

[orchid sapphire]

Such a big progress, the new image should be the ap picture of the day, heck even picture of the year

[wraith heron]

From 5" to 10", terrible collimation to good, 224mc to 585, untracked to 500ms subs and same exposure lenght!

[orchid sapphire]

Stunning 😍

[charred echo]

5" Newt. Left is DSLR, right is ZWO ASI224MC.

[simple dagger]

Elephant trunk with a dslr and a svbony 70ed on a swsa 2i pro vs now asi533mm pro with a Quattro 150p (before I did flocking and shower cap)

[light star]

same sky, different gear and a 1.5y difference

Bodes on the first picture looks like pure noise

[glad yoke]

March 21 vs july 13 (not stacked

[tough bison]

1 year improvement with exact same equipment and skies

[frank glacier]

Around 2 week diffrence

💀

[orchid sapphire]

[frank glacier]

Dude why are you following me in all forums

😭

[orchid sapphire]

I didn't even realised it was you

[frank glacier]

Lol

[orchid sapphire]

Bruh

[untold current]

Dumbbell was my first deep space target, and now it got me my nerd rank! here's my 8 months progress

[glad tundra]

Moon was the thing that sparked my interest in astrophotography. The first picture (left most) was my first image taken of the moon in March 2023. The images on the right were taken in April 2024 and are the most recent ones. Its crazy how much progress one can make if he puts his mind to it.
Taken from the same gear:
Canon EOS 500D DSLR (Unmodified)
Tamron 18-400mm lens
Standard photographic Tripod (Alt-Az)

[queen surge]

3 months \

[whole swift]

great improvement

[queen surge]

ive been speedruning getting better

for mars to get to oposition

lol

i need to improve fast to get a good img

[whole swift]

lol

[violet glen]

First ever image (early 2021) vs my lastest image

[craggy lantern]

Two year improvement, 2022 to 2024. This comes with a wise choice in gear and strenuous research lol

The most recent image is only 30 minutes worth of data too (same integration time as my first image)

[keen crest]

That some crazy difference

[humble oasis]

11 months progression
Old: Scope: Quattro 150p, Mount: HEQ 5 pro guided, Camera: Nikon D3500 full spectrum, UV/IR cut, 1h 30m of 420s subs
New: Scope: Quattro 150p, Mount: HEQ 5 pro guided, Camera: ASI 294MC pro, Optolong Lenhance, 1h 30m of 180s subs

[undone imp]

Great improvement!

[unreal kernel]

Both shot with the same gear, one month difference

[glad tundra]

Which gear did you use?

[unreal kernel]

Stock Canon EOS 2000D, og star tracker, basic tripod, and kit lens 18-55 f/5.6

[glad tundra]

What were your integration times?

[unreal kernel]

The most one recent was 2,5 hours, the second was about 30 minutes

[glad tundra]

Understood. Thanks

[lament bough]

The M101 picture was created from the first data I ever collected and my first processing, which I was satisfied with. NGC 6946 data was collected 2 nights ago.

This shows my processing improvement over the course of 3 months

[warm summit]

Same dataset, different processing. 4 months difference

[simple dagger]

1 year difference

[tough bison]

Almost 2 year difference same scope but iPhone 15 instead of iPhone 6 for cam

[orchid sapphire]

What exposure time?

[tough bison]

25 1 sec exposures

[orchid sapphire]

no star-trail?

what scope?

[tough bison]

6 inch dob

[orchid sapphire]

hmm

[tough bison]

there was really slight star trail but blurx fixed it

[orchid sapphire]

got a tracking mount, like a go-to?]

[tough bison]

no

[orchid sapphire]

oooh ok

mb

nice progress

[tough bison]

thx

[somber aspen]

2023 vs 2024

[vestal solstice]

2023 vs 2024

[warm seal]

rags to riches fr

[humble oasis]

Gotta keep the chain alive!

[warm seal]

how are you making his pallete man?? i wanna make these colours

[orchid sapphire]

you change the hue to some colours

[warm seal]

No i meant if it’s HOO? what curves adjustments made?

[humble oasis]

Changing hue doesnt always work, using histograms, curves and pixelmath effectively will produce cleaner results than hue change

[orchid sapphire]

I agree

[warm seal]

when’s the tutorial coming out bro

[humble oasis]

I gotta find the time for it 😭

[warm seal]

Asap

[humble oasis]

Will likely record it soon though, on some random clear night so im up late enough to record and edit it

[warm seal]

Monday clear for me, maybe for u?

[humble oasis]

Monday hit or miss, tuesday/wednesday looks really good

[cinder locust]

Data from 31st of May 2023 reprocessed today

Image on left: Today

Image on Right: Processed around 2-3rd of June 2023

Used starless photos because I stupidly (accidentally) deleted the star mask for my most recent image, and I happened to have a starless image for the old processing lying around.

[nimble sierra]

figured out how to denoise 👍

[humble oasis]

Cant lie i much prefer the right image, the denoising method you have used has killed detail, and the colours on the right look better imo

[humble oasis]

The difference between WBPP and DSS, processing identical, same dataset

[stone badger]

the dss looks better in terms of noise?

[humble oasis]

Oh my bad should’ve specified XD

Left DSS
Right WBPP

[warm seal]

lol was pretty clear to me

[untold drum]

I NEEED WBPP

[cinder locust]

You’re not wrong about the denoising, but i’d say that I did alright despite the fact I haven’t done any processing in nearly a year

I also didnt like how i washed out the OIII Colour

Definitely did not try as hard as I usually do

[marble dirge]

1month improvement

Same setup and skies (6” f8 dobsonian and phone in b4)

[neat marsh]

which is the new one?

left?

[sharp lake]

[neat marsh]

thats the same op nick thats nerd correct

just like his alt

[mental harbor]

1 year apart, 2h more data, lower gain.

[narrow hawk]

Like a year apart

[versed spruce]

my progress over two years of AP. Didn't intend for it but it seems I took a pic of M 27 around the same time each year

Left - 09.2022 (first image with a mount)
Middle - 08-09.2023
Right - 08-09.2024

[warm seal]

yo nerd this man? @fading flume

[versed spruce]

what does that even mean lmao

[vernal bison]

It's the role system in the server, beginners get the protostar role, and "nerds" get the red dwarf role. Particularly skilled individuals get the red giant (mega nerd) role, and only the most incredible members here get the pulsar role (extremely biscuity). If you're extremely good at image processing too, you get the Wolf Rayet Star (master processor) role.

they're basically saying that your imaging and skill progression is good enough that you should be awarded the title of nerd, they're saying you're Pretty Good™️.

you do already have the red dwarf (nerd) role it would seem, which doesn't surprise me.

[versed spruce]

gotcha, thanks for explaining all that

[versed spruce]

ty

[olive spade]

Roughly 2 years difference

[humble oasis]

Just under a year difference by a week (:
Old: Quattro 150p: HEQ 5 unguidedi: Nikon D3500 full spectrum: unfiltered: 180x60s (3h)
New: Quattro 150p modded: HEQ 5 guided: ASI 294MC pro: UV/IR cut: Optolong Lenhance: 129x300s (10h 45m) 86x180s (4h 18m)

[narrow hawk]

Which is which

[humble oasis]

The triangle stars must be the new one

[tough bison]

yes

[neat marsh]

which image was the new one:(

[tough bison]

left ofc

its obvious.... isnt it?

i unfried it

[neat marsh]

left looks a lot like when i used deep sky stacker to process images lol

just with a gray background

[tough bison]

i edited it with my phone

this maade me so sad

i had to have this stupid problem

[neat marsh]

its visible in the image you posted before actually

[tough bison]

ik

but it got worrse

[neat marsh]

field rotation+eyepiece distortion im guessing

[tough bison]

this is a min of data, im gonna get 30 mins with tracking next time

[tough bison]

field rotation in 1 min is imposible

[neat marsh]

oh it was only a minute? thought it was 30 mins

[tough bison]

im gonna get an eq6r pro and a year later a asi533mc pro and an 8'f4 newt

bbut in one month ill have my dob on an eq6r pro and a phone which is a pretty cursed setup

[untold current]

144 Bird Jones & phone cam -> 8SE & ASI533MC pro

[dim idol]

pretty good progress icl

[elfin patrol]

A year ago

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1283171173710037084/1283171754423877632/NGC_7000_NAN.png?ex=66fb12d2&is=66f9c152&hm=e81bb754069cb4993a6c49f7a4a105df2a807cd12aace56b19c3a75fab23998f&

Most Recent

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1283171173710037084/1283171756659707904/North_America_Nebula_1_1.png?ex=66fb12d2&is=66f9c152&hm=d8ee076756c1e6950a4a9b2d1c6b1a2dc84a6e22190aa147538e16a80e43d1ec&

Same gear. Only difference is tripod and pier extension

[vestal pike]

From my first picture to getting featured in the astronomy photographer of the year for 2023 roughly 2-3 years later

[warm seal]

now that’s cool

[glad tundra]

That is absolutely fantastic!

[humble oasis]

Also from my first nebula image (in July 2022) to getting second in Astronomy Photographer of the year in the young category for 2024 (image taken in January 2024)

[weary laurel]

Congrats, younger than me and got that

[orchid sapphire]

phone ap runner up in astronomy photographer of the year

[wise shadow]

Tha's brilliant mate. Have you got the link for the site?

[humble oasis]

Thank you (: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/young-competition-2024

[sharp lake]

🔥

[viral viper]

Crab nebula from a year ago to a couple of days ago

[humble oasis]

Old: Dec 2022 - New: Sep/Oct 2024

Old: Celestron C8: HEQ 5 pro unguided: Nikon D3500 full spectrum: no filter: 44 minutes~ of exposure time
New: Quattro 150p: HEQ 5 pro guided, ASI 294MC pro, Optolong Lenhance, UV/IR cut: 22 hour 30 minutes of exposure time

[glad tundra]

For the old image, what was your subexposure time, and what bortle zone were you in?

[undone imp]

1 year difference

[tough bison]

THATS SO GOOD whats your setuup?

[humble oasis]

90s subs, Bortle 5 skies

[eager anchor]

Same equipent around two years apart

[glad tundra]

Amazing. What equipment?

[eager anchor]

130pds and nikon d3200 on a eqm-35 🙂

[glad tundra]

Did u use autoguiding?

[full totem]

First Jupiter to latest Jupiter

Same equipment

[eager anchor]

yep although my guiding is pretty bad but 3min exposures also cooled my dslr

[glad tundra]

Understood. Thanks

[forest hull]

Saturn 4 months difference

[idle rampart]

My first vs. my last shot of the Orion Nebula.

First shot: Just a phone and a tripod
Second shot: 8" Dob and a phone

Now that I've got a new EQ platform I'll test it out as soon as I get time.

It should make my shots even better!

[untold drum]

Span of 2 weeks. Image on right is 6 hours, and image on left is 31hrs. Get more data everyone! Don't stop. It makes everything better

[warm seal]

pix makes a difference too lol

[untold drum]

Well yeah but shhhh

[balmy gate]

that was with a celestron nexstar 6se and a zwo asi224 mc

[tough bison]

nice man

[hexed token]

First image of andromeda vs most recent. 1 year ish in between.

[stone badger]

this looks so good, I keep forgetting, but is this a mosiac with the rc6? or the 150mm newt?

[untold drum]

This is the 150mm newt

[stone badger]

Dude how did you get resolution like that, I have a 200mm and your seems better lol

[untold drum]

Well how good is your guiding and collimation lol? I had really good collimation for this image

Also how is your seeing? I live in a desert (no dark skies) so my seeing is pretty good

[stone badger]

its probably that

seeing not so good up here in the NE

[untold drum]

Ah yeah. My seeing is pretty good now that I think about. I just need dark skies to go along it

[scarlet prairie]

Same data (4h with unmod 10+ years camera)

[lofty mango]

Year of experience and better equipment ofcourse 🙂

[mystic sonnet]

Phone AP a year of progress.

[wise shadow]

what phone?

[mystic sonnet]

Motorola Edge 20 Lite

[south fern]

The difference a year can make

[queen surge]

About 4 months progress

[soft sentinel]

First time imaging a comet(neowise) vs 2 days ago (Atlas)

[hexed token]

Woah.

[south fern]

DAMN!!

[pulsar inlet]

Woah.

[glad tundra]

Amazing!

[hexed token]

The bubble nebula, I am a really big fan of this nebula.

[meager nest]

Gotta straighten those spider vanes

[keen crest]

Pop it

[cloud leaf]

One year later...

[jagged gale]

Exactly 1 year difference.

[warm seal]

how do you process around this star? it’s very difficult to denoise with in my data

[cloud leaf]

DeepSNR and the luminance channel helped a lot

in terms of general processing, pixinsight masks and photoshop's content aware fill helped with a lot of the starx artifacts and taming the intensity a little

[cloud leaf]

another view...

[warm seal]

brother learned to dither

[cloud leaf]

the dithering started right afterwards (i only then learned about it)

[vernal bison]

that's a huge improvement

[pulsar inlet]

Can dithering be accomplished by rotating the camera in the eyepiece?

[vernal bison]

I've actually been wondering this too

[queen surge]

Wouldn’t that just add field rotation ?

[humble oasis]

Sadly not, you must move the target in the FOV slightly without using rotation otherwise like Moxxi said, you’ll give yourself field rotation

[queen surge]

If only I had the nerd role 😒

[warm seal]

you do?

[humble oasis]

Haha i think he wouldve listened regardless of role, i only put my message there as 2 opinions is better than one!

[pulsar inlet]

@queen surge that's right. I'm less concerned about role than about information.

And what you said about moving target in FOV. So basically if the target is tracking at center of image: move the camera so now it's tracking slightly right or left. Yes?

And would that mean that the elimination of walking noise on an untracked image is near impossible?

[humble oasis]

Sadly you can’t just move the camera, as rotstion will screen you in stacking (interpolation) and field rotation. You need to move the telescope so the target moves, usually done with guiding for ease of use, however you can do it with your main cam in NINA

[pulsar inlet]

I'm all confused again. 😦 What I got out of that is to eliminate walking noise one needs guiding.

[humble oasis]

Apologies! let me clear things up. Dithering is done "usually" by guiding, however dithering can be done using your main camera (for images to see how far its moved in frame) and mount through NINA, or even done manually by slewing the target around the frame (only has to be by around 10-50 pixels if doing it manually) every 2-5 frames

[queen surge]

No. I don’t guide

And I’m walking noise free

[wraith heron]

That Atlas is fabulous

[pulsar inlet]

So, basically, "wiggle" it a little?

[humble oasis]

Sorta yeah! heres my 80 subs in Blink, you can see when its been dithered by the movement

[pulsar inlet]

If I'm on a DSLR shooting groups of 10 - 1.3 s subs, can I get away with giving it a nudge in between groups? Or should it really be every 3-5 subs?

[humble oasis]

If youre only doing 1.3s subs id dither once every 5 minutes or so

[warm seal]

ah okay so processing tut when

[pulsar inlet]

I feel like then that dithering might be more challenging if untracked/manual because the image is going to move across/down the screen and you'll always want to be able to get it for longest time without having to adjust.

I'm going to re-do my image that was with the 585 and see how that came out. Maybe should have adjusted differently at each reset since I timed it for 250ms and 1.75 min at a time

[humble oasis]

Mostly when untracked you dont have to dither left or right as frame drift does it for you, just up and down slightly

[whole swift]

4 months difference same setup

[weary laurel]

9 month difference

[vernal bison]

That's really good improvement

[neat marsh]

right is the new one?

[olive spade]

What’s the setup if you don’t mind me asking?

[whole swift]

Nikon d3300 and skywatcher 2i with an 18-200mm lens at 18mm f/3.5

[sharp lake]

planetary rig upgrade

[hexed token]

Untracked?

[sharp lake]

Yes

[whole swift]

that poor camera

[weary laurel]

before and after same data different processing technique

[lofty mango]

Definitely got the detail back

[weary laurel]

Yeah i should have used this image as my low comp entry

[lofty mango]

EvoGuide 50ed Vs Zoom lens. Plus editing experience

[weary laurel]

Nice, got the brightness in the zoom lens but nore detail in the dust on the guide scope

[lofty mango]

Brightness could also be cuz of different editing styles. I like how clean it is with the new scope

[weary laurel]

Yeah its true

[warm seal]

yea left is nice

[queen surge]

Also get urself a planatary cam!

Trust me It will be the best thing you ever buy

[sharp lake]

getting a 585 cooled

[untold current]

September '23 VS November '24

[lofty mango]

Definitely a difference 😄

[pulsar inlet]

I feel like "cooled" might be excessive for the 585 and planetary. 🤷

[sharp lake]

It's for dso imaging as well.

[pulsar inlet]

Ah, well ... chill, man. 😁

[warm seal]

hey don’t diss the 585 man

[pulsar inlet]

Not at all. I own one. And if/when seeing cooperates, get decent photos with it. Mine isn't cooled b/c planetary so all I was saying is that I thought being cooled was a little much for doing planetary.

[young valve]

Cheap department store telescope vs 6 inch SCT

[oak pagoda]

Dang it actually resolved the gap between saturn and it's rings

Barely tho

Wth happened to uranus😿

[young valve]

i'm just glad i was actually able to get something that tiny though as teh width of it is just slightly smaller than mercury

[young valve]

hmm?

[oak pagoda]

why did it turn uranus into the letter k 😭

[young valve]

Ahhhhh at that time, I didn't even have enough magnification to resolve uranus as a disk, and i just used my phone held up to the eyepiece. Very very very very VERY wobbly mount too...

[oak pagoda]

Yea I had one of those scopes

As soon as you touch the focuser the object vanishes from the fov

[young valve]

Yep. Those things are called "hobby killers" for a reason... Certainly glad it didn't kill mine

[oak pagoda]

Yeah I didn't even end up seeing anything through that scope other than the moon

Luckily the same night I got a new celestron scope there was really good seeing

But that scope was bad too, now I got a dob with great optics but terrible mount

[young valve]

i mean dobs really are meant for visual use only, so unless you're going into photography, can't be that bad, right...?

[oak pagoda]

I've been doing ap with it

I mean I'd say my planetary is ok

Dso it's terrible at

I had to fight with it for months just to get this as my best dso image so far

[young valve]

That's pretty nice though! If you ever get a goto mount, life would be much easier, but i appreciate the dedication

[oak pagoda]

It is goto...

It's just terrible

[young valve]

oh really??

[oak pagoda]

The goto does quite the opposite of what you said

[young valve]

my goto isn't that great either... the backlash is absolutely horrible

[oak pagoda]

It makes it so much more frustrating trying to get it to work

I'll get a onstepped eq5 before the end of winter tho

[oak pagoda]

but does it actually do what's in the name and goto the object?

once my mount pointed to scorpius when I told it to goto m101, yes I aligned good

[young valve]

oh geez...

i'm just speechless

[oak pagoda]

It's also allergic to astap

Never works and the one time it did, I was trying to point to m82 and it went to cygnus

[young valve]

You seriously gotta get something to make your life easier

this is worse than a hobby killer

[oak pagoda]

I will dw

[oak pagoda]

It won't kill the hobby lol, I know what the issue is and I'm already planning on getting a new mount

all i need is a mount too

it has good optics and I already have a uranus c

I need a mini pc too but that's smth to worry about later

Rn my cursed setup barely works

[oak pagoda]

#1020657687291252797 message

😭

[vernal bison]

The fact that you were able to get all the planets even with the cheap department store telescope is crazy

Really good improvement though

[oak pagoda]

Yeah how did he even find uranus and Neptune on that thing

[young valve]

://

[young valve]

I simply just star hopped until i found the planet i was looking for

[oak pagoda]

How did you star hop with the terrible mounts those things have

[young valve]

or i would just point at a star and wait until one of the planets reached the same altitude and slowly turn towards it

[young valve]

trust me, it was very painful

i don't want to ever go through that again

[oak pagoda]

I got frostbite a few times just trying to get jupiter focused in one, I can't imagine how hard it is to do that on neptune

[vernal bison]

Out of curiosity, how could you tell it was a planet and not just a background star, when looking at the smaller targets, i.e. Mercury, Uranus, and Neptune?

[young valve]

oh i simply used stellarium to check i was pointed at the right place

[oak pagoda]

Average astronomy experience

[young valve]

matches up a bit, right?

[vernal bison]

Oh yeah, it does

I don't have stellarium, unfortunately

NightSky works alright for me though

[oak pagoda]

why not

[young valve]

there's a web version you can use right here
https://stellarium-web.org/

much more expansive than the limited app on an iphone

[vernal bison]

wow so good

literally unusable unless you're in landscape mode

thank you Google play store, very cool

[pulsar inlet]

There's no cheap department store OTA that can capture Mercury, Uranus, and Neptune. All of those planets have a diameter that is less than what the OTA on a dept. store telescope is capable of even detecting per the laws of physics.

[young valve]

I'm aware of that. In those images I provided, they are just points of light like any other star from the view in a telescope. Should have made that clear, sorry.

[serene musk]

Mercury appears almost as large as Saturn when it’s near to us. Whether you should try to spot it or not is a different matter.

[dim idol]

this is from February to now btw

[delicate coral]

Last planetary season vs this planetary season. Same telescope. different camera (excluding my first pictures which were taken on a digital camera)

[young valve]

The Moon 16 months ago to now

[quasi raft]

Little bit better

December 2022-November 2024

[whole swift]

feel like the one on the right could be desaturated, gave it a try

[gloomy stratus]

Major editing improvements

[young valve]

We all have our own style! Still a lovely image nonetheless

[dim idol]

First mineral moon vs latest

[narrow hawk]

In a little less then 2 years things have slightly changed…
6th December 2022 vs November 10th 2024,
Bet you cant tell which is which 😜

[jolly owl]

a few years have passed :^)

[modest swallow]

Same gear, exactly 1 year apart, I switched from phone to dslr

[warm sand]

2 year difference, with a compleatly different rig though

spend more then a year trouble shooting with my swsa 2 (didn't produce any images) I raged and bought a swsa gti.
best decision of my life

[neat marsh]

skill issue fr

[warm sand]

I had alot of help and nobody understood why it was tracking so poorly

Prob some internals that are broke

[gloomy stratus]

RGB align that bad boy

[dim idol]

My registax is doing that dumb thing where only the top of the rgb align thing pops up

[humble oasis]

Try AstroSurface, much prefer it over registax

[wheat jolt]

2022 vs 2024

[south fern]

Good progress! A next step would be to add calibration frames to see how the data improves 👀

[warm summit]

7 Months difference

[wheat jolt]

$90 refractor with phone camera to $400 goto dobsonian with 2008 dslr

[jolly owl]

Same data 3 years apart. Ik the current process is a bit pushed, but i wanted to see how much more I could push my first tracked data :)

[somber aspen]

2022 vs 2024 - both with my XT8 dob

2023 vs 2024 - both XT8

[sharp lake]

what did you use for the 2024 mars image

[somber aspen]

2022 vs 2024

[somber aspen]

QHY 715C with the same 8" dob

[sharp lake]

no barlow?

[somber aspen]

Ye 2x

Shorty

[humble oasis]

Makes me excited to do some LI with my 715 and 8" newt, amazing stuff!

[warm summit]

I use the same camera for deep space

[stone badger]

is this from your espirit80?

[humble oasis]

8” dob and QHY715

[somber aspen]

Yea I'm not using anywhere near its full potential

[somber aspen]

Yea the new Orion was

Planetary was dob and 715c

[gloomy stratus]

Moon starting at 2021

[keen crest]

Yummy

[young valve]

Mars last night compared to the beginning of November (exact same setup)

[sharp lake]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

first untracked image and first tracked image

difference of 2 years

[balmy gate]

andromeda roughly a year later

[oak pagoda]

I cooked the image to show it but damn you have a LOT of dust

[sharp lake]

you did a bobjones

3hrs at f2.8 is a lot...just need the intergration to get it all pulled out

[whole swift]

ermmm what the dss processing

[neat marsh]

I sTOPPEd doING THAT

i waS fOOLISH

[weary laurel]

THIS MAN DESERVES RED DWARF

Wait

My bad

[oak pagoda]

not my image lol

i just made the dust in swords image brighter

[weary laurel]

Thats why i said my bad

[balmy gate]

do you plan ongetting a narrowband filter?

oh i didnt even notice the Ha

[lofty mango]

3.5 years apart 🙂

[wheat jolt]

November 2023 - January 2024 -
february 2024 - november 2024

[humble oasis]

Just under a year difference with similar integration time

Old: HEQ 5 pro guided, Celestron C8, ASI 294MC pro, 3h 20m integration
New: HEQ 5 pro guided, Quattro 150p, ASI 1600MM pro, 1h 30m RGB. 1h Lum

The C8 process was better tbf, but the mono quattro seems alot sharper

[warm seal]

i agree with your comments, the c8 data looks better processed, but the quattro, even though lacking on int, pulls through in sharpening. Well done.

bg also looks cleaner, but kinda difficult to see this cropped in

[lofty mango]

which ones wich? left old right new?

[humble oasis]

Left new right old

[lofty mango]

left atleast for my taste is too blue.

but it is sharper yes

[humble oasis]

More dust on the left

[lofty mango]

slightly more

[humble oasis]

The blue is more realistic, but it’s too saturated

[lofty mango]

thats what i meant 😅

but the stars are more pin point on the right

[humble oasis]

Higher native focal length by 3x

[lofty mango]

makes sense

[weary laurel]

Little under a year of difference, totaly different gear

[tough bison]

SHARP AF

[humble oasis]

Better process for new

[weary laurel]

Thank you, thats the power of 130pds

[warm summit]

who said i cant do rigs? 1yr difference

Crashed out and made a big hole in my wallet, it keeps leaking but its tolerable

[lofty mango]

bro built a whole observatory in a year

[wheat jolt]

why cant i buy an observatory at a home depot

[warm summit]

I am expecting an another scope to piggyback the big boy

[warm summit]

Scope depot is what you need

[warm summit]

Might aswell shoot IR

Technically NIR but who cares

[jagged gale]

How many clear nights a year do you get?

[warm summit]

1 at best. kidding. about 90, i dunno, i didn't measure it

[vestal perch]

i hope you can tell what the new image is lmao

[warm sand]

the right one?

[vestal perch]

[clever wraith]

Wow

[vernal bison]

Woah, huge improvement on the left image

[nimble sierra]

thats the same data correct?

just not puked on

[clever wraith]

Yep same just not puked on

[queen surge]

less then a years differance

[tough bison]

same data after 3 months of processing improvement

[past drum]

2 years difference

[manic vale]

1 year! The difference an upgrade in phones can make (first one heavily edited to bring out colour, second one not edited at all :D)

[vernal bison]

not just the color, but the sharpness and visible details are an improvement too

[neat marsh]

oh jpg compression hammered that one

[somber aspen]

2023 vs 2024

[oak pagoda]

how come the spikes in the 2023 image look like that?

i mean like the orange cyan alternating color

[somber aspen]

I used an l enhance duoband filter, and then scnr'ed the stars only layer causing it to have that orange blue look.

That whole image is full of bad processing methods

[undone imp]

Bruh

[neat marsh]

i love how all the nebula is the same color in 2023

(lies)

[somber aspen]

Yep duoband data alone on that target is usually not a good idea

Needs to be added to good RGB data

[whole swift]

the progression of my rig over the past year (yes the tripod collapsed in one of these)

[somber aspen]

Wtf, why was the tripod tilted so dam much in that 4th image??

[untold drum]

it hurts my eyes a lto

[vernal bison]

it's giving me anxiety just looking at it lol

[humble oasis]

Quote from the poster "yes the tripod collapsed in one of these" think that sums it up pretty well

[whole swift]

i was right next to it looking through the finderscope and just got headhshot

it just dropped instantly

imagine if it fell

[vernal bison]

Ah, scope-kissed by a telescope! That's a new one

[somber aspen]

Oh dam, didn't even pay attention to the title fully after seeing that 4th image.

[humble oasis]

XD i didnt either till i saw everyone elses messages abt the 4th image lol

[pure mesa]

Orion is from like 2 months ago or so

Same equipment

[south fern]

Roughly three years difference

[pure mesa]

Cool

[south fern]

Thanks 😄

[pure mesa]

[whole swift]

Month difference

[balmy gate]

74 is INSANE

[whole swift]

it sometimes would hit hundreds

[lofty mango]

DSLR difference (Stock vs Modded)

[grim mango]

74 is like excellent guiding compared to this

[humble oasis]

Bro how in the world did you manage to move by 0.3 of a degree

[grim mango]

uhh

i have no clue

[humble oasis]

[grim mango]

this is the graph

(it was like this for 40 minutes)

[tough bison]

https://tenor.com/view/look-at-this-graph-nickelback-gif-12683147

[earnest hill]

I reprocessed my Rho Ophiuchi (It took 6 hours lmao) data from May. I am still surprised how much my processing has improved. This is the EXACT same data. (Also before you say that there's a gradient it's intentional because that's what the MW core does)

[jolly owl]

really nice stuff

[pure mesa]

Woah

[modest swallow]

My first ever pic vs my last. Same gear (except for major modifications and upgrades on the lego tracker), almost exactly 1 year apart

Also, first pic was from B4 while the last from B6

[full totem]

Got a new camera from the svbony105 to the zwo662

[whole swift]

orion nebula exactly a year apart, christmas morning and christmas night, 4.5 mins of exposure each

[somber aspen]

2023 vs 2024

[modest swallow]

Those deep blues mixed with the bright oranges🫠

[tough bison]

same setup 2 years later (phone astro is overpowered)

[plain parcel]

2 year difference

[untold current]

January 17 VS December 26

(using the same rig)

[hexed token]

Every image of M42 I have taken so far.

[somber aspen]

2023 VS 2024

[fading flume]

Both are pretty good but that's a nice improvement

[somber aspen]

Yea the biggest difference is equipment

And riddance of some weird ass processing methods

But tbf the new M42 isn't finished yet.

[olive spade]

I don’t know why but I like the 2023 image more, I feel like seeing the abundance of stars is more appealing but again both images are really good

[olive spade]

What happened to the top left corner in the newer image?

[somber aspen]

Just zoom in

Also the phat ass stars take away from the dust

But yea I see what you mean

[wheat jasper]

its my telescope's microlensing from the bright star

[warm seal]

processing improvement over almost exactly 1 year using pixinsight. Not my data. Data from @woeful marsh and collaborator.

[warm seal]

2023 data had lots of potential but looks like u borked ur dbe

[somber aspen]

DBE was fine

Did you notice something odd or something?

[warm seal]

yea on the mid right it looks like the dbe ate a lot of nebulosity, same on bottom left.

This is about 6 months lol. First image primarily bad because i didn’t yet have guiding or a lp filter for the imaging train yet

[warm seal]

why does everything look kinda soft lol

[somber aspen]

On the 2023 image?

[warm seal]

on this

[somber aspen]

Cause gear and not enough integration time?

[warm seal]

have u still got the stack? or na

[somber aspen]

Nah

Old ash

[warm seal]

ah alr

[somber aspen]

Trust me, the noise wasn't nice.

Had to pull every trick in the book

[warm seal]

lol fair enough

deepsnr then grax denoise is a combo i hold close to my heart

[somber aspen]

But yea that previous image the DBE was fine, I just didn't push reds in the background, which is arguably a little more natural.

Also I remember I may have done some masking to the background to reduce color noise by desaturating. Another no go, so yea in another sense it is borked.

[warm seal]

oof, yea that’s prob what i’m seeing

[somber aspen]

Lol, this is a recent HOO.

[warm seal]

way nicer, with esprit 80?

[somber aspen]

Ye

[warm seal]

nice nice

[fading flume]

I like that HOO

Might have to try reprocessing my fish head now

speaking of fish head

how it started vs how it's going

[young valve]

10 month gap with the same telescope (left with an iphone camera, right with a dedicated astronomy camera)

[fading flume]

Same target

[manic vale]

insane difference! you can very faintly see the core of the nebula in the first. I wouldn't know they're the same target without being told

[fresh nacelle]

not of progress, but of time.
April 2022 and January 2025
left is the 7th picture I have on my phone, right i took an hour and a half ago.

(moon and Venus btw)

[scarlet nimbus]

Saturn Venus and Jupiter through a 60mm spotting scope and iphone 12mini (2023)

vs 2024 saturn venus and jupiter through my 5inch maksutov ,2x barlow, uv ir cut and neptune 664c (havent reached its full potential yet)

[oak pagoda]

Saturn looks like a elongated m27

[hexed token]

Woah it does.

[limpid vessel]

70/700 and an iphone 12 mini

Started like a month ago

[marsh fulcrum]

First one is from 2022, second was from 2 days ago

[mental harbor]

3 years seperation, about the same integration IIRC, better skies, better camera.

[tough bison]

great! keep it up

[limpid vessel]

thanks

[grim mango]

(second image is my data combined with astrosteff's data so gotta give him credit)

[undone imp]

Throwin my first M81 in here too

[glad tundra]

What was the integration time for these images?

[mental harbor]

Like 1h 40m- 2h each

Something like that

[glad tundra]

Pretty nice 👌

[dim idol]

Best Jupiter image yet 👍

31st of March 2024 to a couple of days ago

[onyx shoal]

2 months apart and the only difference between the images is that I modded the camera.

[vernal bison]

That's an insane amount of improvement for just modding the camera

[onyx shoal]

It is, I didn't use a narrowband filter either because I didn't have it at the time. They are both 3h of exposure from a bortle 2

[fallen belfry]

what is your setup?

[onyx shoal]

that image was taken with the skywatcher ed80, eq6r, modded canon 4000d, guiding