How it started… How it's going…

[fallen belfry]

okok

thanks

[vestal pike]

Before: clear skies
Now: been cloudy for a few months

[pure mesa]

Holy moly

Looks so goooood

[odd hedge]

such a pretty target. nightmare to image from scotland

[pure mesa]

It’s bright

Or do u mean cuz ur very north

[pulsar inlet]

First try imaging with a DSLR - Second try and with ASI585 - Current.

[vernal bison]

nice improvement

[pulsar inlet]

I don't know what the difference in process is from the second one to the third. I wonder if it was before I got the UV/IR filter.

[odd hedge]

Exactly, and my house has a restrictive view

[pure mesa]

oof

i have like perfect view of mw and cygnus

i can even get carina a bit above the horizon and also lmc and smc

[hexed token]

Asi585 is such a great all rounder camera.

[pulsar inlet]

It definitely is

[sharp lake]

3

old and new carina processes

3hrs untracked

[lofty mango]

3 years apart

[hexed token]

One month apart, same data just processed the one on the left a bit better.

[lament bough]

1 year apart

[whole swift]

This shows the difference pixinsight, blurx and noisex has on an image, same data, editted the same day.

[vernal bison]

fantastic comparison

[young valve]

2 year gap

[vernal bison]

oh wow, incredible improvement for just a year

[young valve]

getting an entirely new setup was quite revolutionary

[simple dagger]

Great job, that’s a great 1 year difference

[young valve]

whoops just realized i made a typo... it's 2 years 😓

[simple dagger]

Still nice improvement nonetheless

[pulsar inlet]

Getting a new setup will def make a huge difference - especially when you know how to use the equipment.

[vernal bison]

how it started, about two years ago, vs my latest and best.

[young valve]

Loving the improvement!

[jagged gale]

My progress over two years

[south fern]

Damn! Respect

[jagged gale]

Thanks!

[warm seal]

great work

[somber aspen]

2022 vs 2025

[pure mesa]

About 3 months apart

[cloud leaf]

2023 vs 2025

[vernal bison]

'Ery Noice

[whole swift]

same data, a few months apart

if you need to guess which is old vs new i might crash out

[coral hollow]

Are these with different equipment?

[sly hemlock]

Yes

[warm seal]

interesting

[coral hollow]

Ow okay

[acoustic night]

One on the right is old

[inland thistle]

same euipment

[vernal bison]

which one is how it started and how it's going

[inland thistle]

right is how it started and left is how its going

[vernal bison]

Ah ok

[south fern]

About one year difference

[vernal bison]

nice progress

[south fern]

Thanks 😄

[viral viper]

Image on the left, november 10th, 2024. Image on the right, november 7th 2023

[somber aspen]

Lovely resolution

200pds?

[dull granite]

Small Jupiter is from 2020
Big Jupiter is from a few weeks ago

[pulsar inlet]

Nice improvement!

[pulsar inlet]

I'm guessing an update in not only skill but equip? Nice work!

[dull granite]

Thank you.
Yes first pic is a single pic from an etx90 and a canon t3i,
2nd pic is a c 9.25 with an asi224mc and 3x barlow

[pulsar inlet]

The planetary cam makes a huge difference even when you're doing well with skill

[inland thistle]

it def does even a change in barlow imporves the uality a lot (left is of the barlow that came with the scope, right is with GSO 2x barlow)

wait

has the grs shrunk?

[pulsar inlet]

Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Red_Spot

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2014/news-2014-24

[inland thistle]

woah

[neat marsh]

why did the galaxy move

[whole swift]

somebody may have done a goof up with the star recombination

[neat marsh]

lol

[somber aspen]

2023 vs 2025

[viral viper]

theres a star in this black and white image thats visible and then vanishes in the second image.

[viral viper]

I love my orion scope, they are well made! too bad they went out of business

[whole swift]

first one was fully saturated btw

btw this star?

[viral viper]

yes that one

its gotta be a supernova

[whole swift]

no it dissapeared behind the galaxy bc i didnt correctly add the stars back in to the photo

it is the same data

[whole swift]

i wish

[viral viper]

How do you not correctly add the stars back in? what are you using and how are you doing it?

if you got pixinsight im about to save your life

[whole swift]

there is a program called starnet that removes stars called starnet but in the pixinsight version i used starx, it is the same thing basically. i dynamic cropped the starless, then added that crop to the stars but it added incorrectly, the project is no longer saved bt

[viral viper]

oh so you croped your image after removing the stars and just didnt crop the star image exactly the same as the background?

[whole swift]

yeah, even though i used the same crop

[viral viper]

thats bizarre. that should of worked

the way I put the stars back in is using pixel math

[whole swift]

yeah it was recombined with pixel math

[viral viper]

thats super weird

[whole swift]

thats similar to what i used

[wraith heron]

Really nice

[viral viper]

was your post directed to me?

[somber aspen]

Ye

[viral viper]

Sorry about that, I am unsure what 200pds means

[somber aspen]

One of Skywatchers newts

[viral viper]

I also appreciate the compliment. I was very proud of that image but I think my system can do even better with better conditions. If I recall correctly, the average FWHM was around a 4, which is okay seeing but its not excellent.

[viral viper]

no its a custom built newt using one of Agena astro's mirrors

[somber aspen]

Very cool

Ordered a larger secondary for my newt from agena as well

[viral viper]

yeah I didn't build it myself, I bought it used off of someone who also didn't build it themselves but its crazy.

Some crazy guy alluminum welded it himself

[somber aspen]

Dam

[viral viper]

yep, the secondary is from them too. big fat one

[somber aspen]

Custom newts are always neat to just look at

[viral viper]

the focuser is scope stuff

it didnt have a lid when I bought it though, so I had to 3d print it

[viral viper]

^

[viral viper]

I just recently got my SCT up and running, I am so excited to try imaging with it!

[somber aspen]

Lovely

[tough bison]

jupiter 2 years apart, same 6" dobsonian but switched from phone to astrocam

[bitter jacinth]

NGC 891; 8 months from when I first took it when I had an alt-az mount, just got my camera, and barely knew how to process. The left is a 30s exposure in a windy day, the right is around 2 hours of 120s subs.

[vernal bison]

that first image on the left still isn't bad for only 30 seconds, and less than ideal atmospheric conditions. What telescope, if I may ask?

[bitter jacinth]

The image in the left I used the celestron evolution 8 telescope with the provided alt-az mount

The image on the left was in a less than ideal place in the sky with more atmosphere to shoot through

[gilded swallow]

my progress on M42 :)

[vernal bison]

Really nice progress! It's gradual and natural, and provides a realistic expectation of how improvement in this hobby works, unlike some of you people here...

[oak pagoda]

i did m42 with phone and bino and didn't image it again until next yeat

[warm seal]

Same equipment but added narrowband filter on left.

[somber aspen]

Very nice cwassaant

[hexed token]

My last image of the heart nebula (left), vs my most recent (right)

Different gear, and taken over a year apart.

[wraith heron]

Same integration time, same sub length but dob twice the size, tracked and like 2 years of processing improvements

[acoustic night]

dang bro thats really good

[dim idol]

M42 over a year of progress. From when I just started to now

[vernal bison]

Really good improvement, what equipment was used to capture each?

[acoustic night]

damn big processing difference

[dim idol]

A skywatcher Mercury and a phone was used for the first one and a Seestar S50 was used for the other

[orchid sapphire]

My first orion vs my most recent one, same telescope, 1 year difference and different phones

[vernal bison]

Great improvement! What phone did you start and end with?

[orchid sapphire]

Samsung a52 with like 2s exposure and iphone 15 pro with 300x1s in astroshader

[jolly owl]

My M51 progress over 3y

[whole swift]

is left new?

[jolly owl]

шхат

но

oops

what

no

[acoustic night]

No 😭 this isnt the middle east evolving backwards

[wheat jasper]

first ever image of the carina constellation, vs my newest image of the carina constellation (my discovery)

bit of a weird comparison tho haha

[sharp lake]

i wanna discover stuff

[wheat jasper]

yeah for me i was firstly really lucky that steve reached out to me to process his carina data, and i had the curiosity to look around. u need super high quality (deep) data even just for surveying

i think doing discoveries (the initial detection part) is either super easy or super difficult, depending mostly on how good your equipment is (its quite pay to win), and a bit based on luck

[sharp lake]

Yea defo

[grim mango]

1 year and 1 day difference

[warm seal]

insane progress keep it up

[south fern]

Damn!!!

[charred echo]

One year difference

[narrow hawk]

Slight progress over time

Yeah i know the framings are a lil off on each crop

[agile falcon]

Few days different

[warm seal]

https://tenor.com/view/will-smith-thats-hot-cool-amazed-gif-13488740

[naive marsh]

3 years of astro

[vernal bison]

My first ever image of the Flame & HorseHead nebulae, vs my most recent and best.

[weary laurel]

My Orion over the course of 4 years

[last glacier]

Oktober 2024 vs. January 2025

December 2024 vs. Feburary 2025

[warm summit]

Close to 1yr diff

[neat marsh]

pay to win my beloved

[hexed token]

This whole hobby is p2w.

[orchid sapphire]

[vernal bison]

yeah

[somber aspen]

Skill isn't pay to win

[coral hollow]

First try of orion and recent try of orion same equipment, same location

[fresh nacelle]

moon
Aug 2023 vs thursday

[lean stone]

Nov 26, 2022 - Feb 23, 2025

[fallen belfry]

Which camera?

[lean stone]

Iphone 13 - Canon 60d

[fallen belfry]

Stock or modified?

[lean stone]

stock

Askar 71f, SA GTI, 16 minutes of data

low res cause screenshot

[fallen belfry]

Good color for stock

[lean stone]

Only wish I could get more data. Clouds rolled in after only 16 minutes.

[young valve]

Latest images of the planets compared to early photos

[cerulean bough]

Only got 8 minutes of data on m82 sadly so not much signal difference

[cloud leaf]

2024 vs 2025, 45hrs vs 100hrs

[warm seal]

crazyyy

[sharp lake]

start and what its now

[jolly owl]

slightly overkill mount

[warm seal]

is it even balanced lol

[sharp lake]

yes

[warm seal]

barely?

[sharp lake]

before getting the heq5, i was looking into getting an NEQ6

[warm seal]

eq6 supremacy

[sharp lake]

no it balences fine

[warm seal]

i’m surprised

[sharp lake]

im using a ligher lens and bc of that i've had to buy a ligher countweight

atm im running a gti counterweiht

oh yea i should show my planetary rig

old and new

[sick cypress]

started 7 months ago :)

[vestal bolt]

A 1 year diffrence

[hexed token]

That first image is beyond cursed 💀💀💀

[sharp lake]

[humble oasis]

2 year difference, loads of gear changes and processing changes!

Old scope: Celestron C8: Mount: Skywatcher HEQ 5 pro guided: Camera: Nikon D3500 full spectrum, no filters: 2h 30m of 300s subs
New: Scope: Skywatcher 200PDS modded: Mount: Skywatcher HEQ 5 pro guided: Camera: ASI 1600MM pro: ZWO LRGB and Baader SHO filters: 20h+ in 120s and 300s exposures

[lean stone]

What images did you get with the old planetary rig

[lean stone]

What FL?

[sharp lake]

400

[lean stone]

Nice

[lean stone]

So basically I can get some planetary with my 490mm FL scope

neat

[sharp lake]

its painful

does require a lot of tinkering for software to stack

very quickly youll realise how apperture limited you are over seeing limitations

[lean stone]

on second thought….. I think il stick to my 6” dob

[sharp lake]

do

[lean stone]

Nuh uh

[untold drum]

Almost 1 year difference: new one has 45 mins of data and old one is 2hr 30mins

[weary laurel]

U delusional, there is a difference

[sharp lake]

April 2024 and January 2025

fat difference

[whole swift]

i love how this spot appears in the latest version, much more care taken to protect faint nebulae

[agile latch]

2 years apart! Old sky watcher lens and d5300 vs 130pds and P1 ares c pro

[young valve]

may 2022 compared to march 2025 lunar eclipse

[arctic shadow]

September 2024 (30-second exposure) compared to February 2025 (10-minute exposure). Both were captured unguided on the same film stock but with a different mount.

[glad tundra]

Film as in photographic film?

[arctic shadow]

Yes.

[glad tundra]

Whoah thats cool

[vernal bison]

pretty great improvement

[charred echo]

About 1.5 years apart

[south fern]

I like how your orientation is the same ☺️

[whole swift]

With vs without narrowband

4 hours with 6 hours without

[sharp lake]

[weary laurel]

1 day difference in processing techniques

[bitter jacinth]

Bad seeing and transparency on the right, but I’d consider it as an improvement

[sick cypress]

1 month of processing knowledge improvement!

[vernal bison]

the right image looks so much better, great improvement

[fallen belfry]

Same data. Only different process. Both quick and dirty. Guess the newer process

Newer with an astro dedicated camera. I don't think I have to say which one is which. Around 3 months difference

[fallen belfry]

The old was a crap process

[hexed token]

Which one is the newer one?

[fallen belfry]

The Left...

[lean stone]

i thought it was the right...

[weary laurel]

Ur insulting him

[lean stone]

no: purple Orion was just cool

[weary laurel]

Yeah but the new one has better details and colours

[fallen belfry]

You really do insult me

resolution is trash but the left one is obv the newer

[hexed token]

My first ever image of M101 (left), and my most recent image (right).

[winged locust]

july 2023 vs march 2025, 8" f5 on left and 8" f4 on right both on my avx bortle 9, lots of gear and software upgrades though

[acoustic night]

B9!!! Impressive my man

[winged locust]

thanks!

[pure mesa]

Amazing

I love it

[brisk abyss]

Ay that's awesome 🥹

[winged locust]

thank you both!

[humble oasis]

Over a years difference in processing. BAT data for reference

[fading flume]

Great process on the left

[thin plinth]

1st Orion to the most recent. Staring with a DSLR and kit lens on a rickety tripod to a modest 6" newtonian, with a modest 294MC-Pro on a modest eq mount. Interestingly enough, most recent Orion data was just test data after installation of a mirror mask. Even though I was running 5 minute exposures to primarily focus on star clarity, the overall result was fun.

[humble oasis]

Ty! defo the better one by miles

[humble oasis]

Lovely improvement!

[jolly owl]

haha i was worried the new process was the one on the right

[tough bison]

INSANE! did u tune your mount? also how does that mount handle that scope? isnt the scope way too heavy for thee mount?

[somber aspen]

The avx technically doesn't have an issue holding an 8", but the main issue is the avx isn't known for reliability and precision.

But if tuned well and I guess if you get a particularly good copy it can do ok.

[winged locust]

thank you! I got it tuned by a local astronomy vendor, they upgrade some of the parts with better bearings and retune the mount. It handles it alright, without the upgrade it wouldn't do as good. My main issue is the backlash as these mounts are known for that, but I also basically threw the whole book at it to guide well enough like pec training, messing with guide settings, quirky balancing, etc. Even then, it isn't always consistent. I usually visually check and delete about a 1/3rd of my data before culling more in subframe selector that way I don't stack the bad exposures. Also the short focal length helps hide some errors in the guiding since my pixel scale is only 1.01"/px.

[winged locust]

yea it does great for planetary, for deep sky astrophotography you definitely have to work for it to get it to perform well. Wouldn't recommend it unless someone was already stuck with it like I was, or got it for really cheap used (and wasn't planning on putting a big scope on it for shooting dso's).

[tough bison]

oh ok, im gonna get an 8" quattro soon and i still dont know if i should get the neq6 for around 1400 euros or the eq6r pro for 2000 euros, what do you think?

[tough bison]

well if your seeing isnt under 1arc sec (95% of times it isnt) then u are getting the most out of the conditions so it doesnt matter that much

[winged locust]

yea thats true

[untold drum]

1 year of humble progress. Second image has around 300x times the integration

[sharp lake]

good job beaver

[lean stone]

Can you show the raw stack vs raw stack auto stretch vs processed?

I want to see that insane image’s raw stack

[untold drum]

ill send tomorrow

[lean stone]

I bet the raw stack will be better than my processed image lmao

[warm seal]

it’s LRGB

so can’t really send raw

this is what my LRGB combination looked like though, pretty raw

[lean stone]

damn that’s good

[jagged gale]

Imma add onto that with my progress

2 years and 600x more data

[ripe shale]

How it Started (Carina nebula edition)

how it's goin

[sharp lake]

good job

[ripe shale]

yayyy

[ripe shale]

yayy

[humble oasis]

My progression from start to now.
Old: Dec 2022, Celestron C8, HEQ 5 unguided, Nikon D3500 full spectrum, 30ish minutes of 120s subs
New: March 2024, 200PDS, HEQ 5 guided, ASI 1600MM pro, Baader Ha, ZWO LRGB, 21h of 120s and 300s subs in HaLRGB

[cerulean bough]

Damn

[whole swift]

First photo of carina vs most recent 15 mins of 30s photos vs 6x600s photos

Almost a year apart

This object is in the top left of the right image

[jolly owl]

i think ive come quite a long way. Like 3 or 4 years difference

[whole swift]

the difference is mad

[jolly owl]

only piece of equipment I haven't changed out since then was my guidecam and mount lol

[whole swift]

lol

all of my equipment has changed apart from the pc i edit on

[warm sand]

1st and second time shooting m51. this is like 2 1/2 years apart

[warm seal]

that is m51

[warm sand]

oops I was dreaming while typing this lol

I also just finished a shot of m106 so ig thats why

[whole swift]

last july vs 2 days ago

[vernal bison]

Fantastic improvement

[willow iris]

2 weeks apart (manual dob)

dont take images in JPEG

[whole swift]

Same integration

[last glacier]

What Bortle are you in?

[whole swift]

7

[last glacier]

Oh alright

[whole swift]

Is that a good thing?

[vocal escarp]

A year ago.

Start of the year

[tough bison]

1 week improvement (90% of the improvement is the change in seeing conditions but still)

[fallen belfry]

Actually crazy improvement

[glad tundra]

whoah ok the improvement is actually insane

[tough bison]

same setup, same conditions, same target 9 months apart

[sharp lake]

bob is most improved astrophotographer

[vernal bison]

Bro has been playing Peggle for 27 hours straight

nearly 28 now

[neat marsh]

listen it's a good game

[vernal bison]

I can't argue with that logic
-# (has over a thousand hours in TitanFall 2)

[neat marsh]

same vibe

[ripe shale]

dammmmnnnn

[jolly owl]

Holup

I’ve got a crazy m51 one too

[warm seal]

i kinda got one (just some test lum i got) vs DSLR and svbony 80mm

[lament bough]

The old one is 2 hours exposure time and the new one is 4 hours, but I will still collect more exposure time for the new one.

Same setup, same skies, 1 year apart

[whole swift]

cooked vs you cooked

[lament bough]

Actually I managed to process it even better, here's the comparison

I asked a friend he thinks the old one is better 🥲

[whole swift]

He lying hard

[lament bough]

Haha no he genuinely thinks that because it pops more and is more saturated and stuff xD

[whole swift]

lol

[hexed token]

He’s gotta be f’ing with you.

[lament bough]

I asked a few more friends and they are dead serious about the old one being better smh

[coral hollow]

Prob bc it has more colour

[jagged gale]

Less than a year time difference

[loud path]

same gear?

[jagged gale]

No all different gear

And processing

[loud path]

fair

the processing improved a lot

[jagged gale]

Thanks, pix makes such a difference

Best purchase you can make for the price

[loud path]

Here's my own: three years of progress on M31

1. DSLR on 150pds
2. ASI533MC on 72ed
3. ASI533MM on 72ed (and pixinsight from this point)
4. ASI6200MM on quattro 250p
5. ASI6200MM on RASA 11

[lament bough]

Great improvement

[glacial gulch]

Deneb 1 year and 6 months difference

[acoustic night]

Is that north American?

[glacial gulch]

Yeah it is

[last glacier]

9 months difference

[warm seal]

bro locked IN

[carmine hill]

3 month diff

[whole swift]

Like 5 months difference, the newer one has half the exposure time (and was a 2 minute process)

2h vs 4.5 hours

[vague portal]

2 weeks difference. On the left is the first time I used an Astrodedicated camera. On the right is the 2nd take of the same target. Both are about 2.5h. Lesson learned? Always do your homework before going out under the sky

[whole swift]

thats an indescribable changeup

[vague portal]

Thanks. The morale was that the skills will reflect in the results no matter how expensive or hi-tech your rig is.

[jolly owl]

also quite a funny comparison

even more funny

[carmine hill]

Same data 1wk processing difference

[bitter jacinth]

What processing differences did you make?

[vague portal]

Continuum Subtraction, And i used sioe scripts from Seti Astro. amazing scripts. and generaly ditched my old ways of processing and re did everything more cautiously. I also set up the camera and telescope properly. In the first try I didn't set a camera offset plus I had some bad internal reflections. I also fine tuned the collimation to a perfect state and switched to IR guiding. also took notes from the night that I shot M101 for the first time and set up PHD2 properly because it was ridiculous to have between 0.8 and 1.2 arcseconds RMS with a SW WAVE 150i. so yeah. the failure for me was a lesson that i learned how to get better

[bitter jacinth]

Failure is one of the best teachers, I assume you use pixinsight?

[vague portal]

Yes. Before I was using Photoshop

[bitter jacinth]

Nice, keep up the good work!

[vague portal]

Thank you, and I wish you clear skies

[bitter jacinth]

You too

[acoustic night]

1year difference. seestar s50 to rc6

same thing, 1 year differnce

[tough bison]

woahh insane! what did you doo different the second time?

[vague portal]

I chose a time that the weather was much better, I fine tuned some settings in PHD2 and properly set the camera, and overall more improved processing 😄

[onyx shoal]

18 hours with a stock DSLR (yes, 18h, I've triple checked) vs 2h40min with mono IMX571 almost 1 year of difference

[lament bough]

Amazing for only 18 hours

[onyx shoal]

I genuinely don't know what I did

I gotta reprocess that data some time

[somber aspen]

I wouldn't be surprised if the data is just not good, unless it was in darker skies.

Which I guess id expect a bit more signal for 18hrs

[onyx shoal]

Bortle 7-8 with full moon + stock dslr... shit data

[somber aspen]

Ahh yea

Rip

[slim ermine]

i would cut it down to 8 bit ness

if the tiny little data isnt more than a bit then it just will never be seen

[onyx shoal]

I had decent results after modding the camera but I could care less now that I'm mono

[storm jetty]

Glad those times are over!

not really satisfied with this one yet

or this one

same data lol

its insane how many memories come up with each image… especially the early ones.

[vernal bison]

Really great improvement with all of these, awesome!

[undone imp]

holy mono

[dense surge]

first image I shot of the Eagle Nebula (with a phone) vs last. Yeah, it's mostly a gear glow up, but still

[hexed token]

What’d you do to make it green and purple in the newer one?, looks interesting.

[dense surge]

SHO palette without green reduction, that's the way I like to do it.

I'm not a fan of the blue/brown you get from reducing the green

I'm also inspired by the WISE palette
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100601.html

[loud path]

It shouldn't be completely green to the point where it drowns out the other channels completely, but no green at all is also a deadly sin imo

[carmine hill]

1 week and 7hrs of int difference

[tough bison]

this has better processing

[fresh nacelle]

feel like I've seen the right image on wikipedia

[vocal escarp]

how it started

how its going

[lean stone]

Left (12-30-24) - my first attempt at the Heart Nebula, yes I missed it and got the Soul Nebula but I meant to get the Heart.
RIght (5-26-25) - Actually capturing the Heart Nebula, with my 533mc pro and L-enhance

[loud path]

missing it and almost perfectly framing another target is incredible

[fresh nacelle]

I must say, the heart nebula does not at all look like a heart

[lean stone]

Well my FOV is quite small, i think it does look like a Heart personally

[warm seal]

it’s kind of a heart

[vernal bison]

Most nebulae (and other deep sky objects tbh) do not look anything like what they're named after, not without a little imagination

[oak pagoda]

They're just blobs of gas, they arent going to look exactly like objects

[dense surge]

They look like objects, those objects being blobs of gas.

Me on my way to change all of my nebula labels in Stellarium to "Blob of Gas Nebula"

[oak pagoda]

I mean it's more accurate than the normal names

The heart nebula is not a heart

[somber aspen]

The shape that comes to most people's minds when they hear "heart" isn't the shape of an actual heart, but this ❤️ more times than not. It kinda makes sense.

[vague portal]

How about Rosette? To me it looks more like a skull than a rose😅

[somber aspen]

Depends on the orientation tbh, but I'd lean towards a skull still ngl.

[vague portal]

Seagull Nebula, I'll rename it to Phoenix Nebula... more epic

[lean stone]

Flame Nebula is an easy one to recognize

[vague portal]

And its neighbor

[fresh nacelle]

apart from the fish head nebula

[vernal bison]

yeah true, that one does look an awful lot like a fish head

[fresh nacelle]

that and ngc 7k

[vernal bison]

definitely

[mystic gulch]

How It started

How It went

No ha btw

[jolly owl]

this looks worse bru

don't force Ha out, that's not what Ha structure looks like

[carmine hill]

I like how it started

[mystic gulch]

This was like a 5 Min process

Get this sexy One now

[lament bough]

Go easy on the denoise. Or use png

[patent horizon]

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[somber aspen]

2023 vs 2025

I still like the pink tones I used to get lol

[acoustic night]

this is amazing

[dense surge]

What reduced the pink in your recent process?

[somber aspen]

Me

[dense surge]

I mean what did you do differently lmao

[somber aspen]

Well that crescent image is NB only so I used a lot more wild curves adjustments to get cool colors. The sh2 108 image is RGB with Ha added so I wanted to keep it natural. Some regions like horsehead have more pinkish Ha but this region not quite as much.

[patent horizon]

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[carmine hill]

How it started

How its going

1yr diff

Same data

[patent horizon]

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[somber aspen]

2024 vs 2025

[jolly owl]

rip blue

[somber aspen]

There's blue where it's supposed to be

[grim mango]

the 2025 version is muchh better

imo that amount of blue doesnt fit m106 well

[onyx shoal]

M106 is a Sb type galaxy so if you SPCC it as so the white balance obtained will show that theres close to no blue in it

[jolly owl]

L

[onyx shoal]

[somber aspen]

I don't even use SPCC, manual color calibration>>

[onyx shoal]

damn

[jolly owl]

yes

[storm jetty]

same scope?

[somber aspen]

Esprit 80 vs 8" f6 noot

[warm seal]

esprit actually performed decently

[somber aspen]

It's alright

[storm jetty]

Ah, not that big of a surprise that the quality increased then

still a great improvement though!

[somber aspen]

Also my processing

No more magenta ahh galaxies

[storm jetty]

haha

[scarlet prairie]

How it started

How it going

1 year different

4h vs 1h 44m

[jolly owl]

pluh

giga pluh

[humble oasis]

First attempt of NGC 6946 IFN to most recent

Old: Scope: Quattro 150p: Camera: ASI 294MC pro: ZWO UV/IR cut filter: Integration 3-5h? dont remember or have it saved anywhere
New: Scope: Quattro 150p: Camera: Touptek ATR2600M: Touptek LRGB filters: Integration 22 hours

[onyx shoal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1363873662972989560/1377657675701026866/Walking_noise2.gif

nice improvement but you have to dither

[violet glen]

Working on that. I don’t have a guide scope and camera to dither yet so I’ve been doing it manually

[onyx shoal]

as long as you are tracked and using NINA you can dither

idk about other capturing softwares

[violet glen]

I’m using a SWSA cant connect to NINA

[onyx shoal]

rip

[violet glen]

Yea

[grim mango]

1.5 year difference

[jagged gale]

The app has a dither option

[violet glen]

I somehow got the one canon camera that can’t connect to the mount

[jagged gale]

Even with a special cable?

[violet glen]

Yea

I’ll be getting a zwo camera soon tho

[marsh fulcrum]

First one was taken in 2022, the second one was taken yesterday, so a 3 year difference

Both taken with a phone and telescope

[fresh nacelle]

1 Nov 2023
18 Sep 2024
10 May 2025

(don't have pics from late may/this month so far, weathers been absolutely horrendous)

[amber meteor]

december 2024 vs end of february 2025

[cloud leaf]

October 2023 vs June 2025

[acoustic night]

What setup? And filters???

[cloud leaf]

SVX102T-RA
ASI2600MM Pro w/ 7x2” EFW
AM-5
ZWO EAF
ZWO OAG-L

Filters for that image are 2” Baader 6.5nm SHO - i also have 2” Antila V-Pro LRGB

for the before: Astronomik clip in 7nm Ha

Zenithstar 61
Skyguider Pro
Unmodded Canon EOS Rebel T7i

[storm jetty]

dope details!

[violet glen]

First picture vs lastest picture
2 year difference

[acoustic night]

I see what you rocking sick man!

[cloud leaf]

gonna have a second rig up and running soon(ish) with the same scope

as soon as sv returns it from rebuilding it

[carmine hill]

Same gear same data

[scarlet prairie]

Summer 2024

Summer 2025

[mild topaz]

2022

2025

the lagoon mosaic is still work in progress but i dont think ill get clear skies this month

[fresh nacelle]

20 Mar 2015
29 Mar 2025

[hexed token]

Is the first one a sketch??

[fresh nacelle]

picture
it was photocopied twice

[hexed token]

Got it

[fresh nacelle]

I found the photocopied once picture

still have no idea where the original is tho

also, 25 Oct 2022

[grim mango]

That's an interesting way to view the eclipse

[fresh nacelle]

projected through binos onto a wall

[mystic gulch]

One of the best data recoverys that i did

[mystic gulch]

Also the First One Is suuuuper denoised

[somber aspen]

Uhh why did the star field change rotation?

[mystic gulch]

Damn, i didn't see that, it's because i forgot to vertical mirror the star Mask, bcs i use siril for removing stars and siril flips the pix immage

[somber aspen]

Rip

[carmine hill]

only difference is that i got an astrocam and pixinsight

[sick cypress]

Nice

[idle trail]

What is the second one

[onyx shoal]

both are the crescent nebula

[idle trail]

Ty

[clever wraith]

Around 1/5 years difference

[carmine hill]

same gear, 5 month diff

[acoustic night]

Tbh I like that palette more than the dark red/purple

[carmine hill]

ty is not SHO but more of a HHO

[vague portal]

Kinda reminds me of a certain soviet era rocket

[viscid vigil]

eerily similar

[vague portal]

Funny how history finds a way to repeat

[viscid vigil]

At least no one got hurt I guess

[vague portal]

Look at the good side. Some parts of it might have made it into low earth orbit

[dense surge]

Kinda reminds me of another Soviet era rocket. Oh wait.

[plain parcel]

about 3 years difference

[woven parcel]

my first accidental andromeda, taken with my smartphone about 2 years ago vs my most recent try on it, taken this morning at dusk. Multiple upgrades between the two pictures obviously

[loud path]

Nice :) tho the first image is also great! Why monochrome tho?

[fresh nacelle]

im sorry I thought the right was m110 😭

[woven parcel]

Ive only shot ha for fun, might add some other filters soon

[woven parcel]

XDDDD

[amber meteor]

First Ha nebula Vs Newest

[loud path]

Rosette is better processed tbh

[amber meteor]

its a super deep crop, like 10x but fact thats 250mm is wild to me

This is actual framing

[carmine hill]

Left is neww

[edgy basin]

same equipment, half a year (powerseeker, dslr with 3x barlow)

[weary laurel]

Only 2 days difference, same data different processing

[vernal bison]

Both are absolutely gorgeous

[humble oasis]

First ever attempt at crescent vs most recent

Old: May 27th 2023, Celestron C8, HEQ 5 pro guided, Nikon D3500 full spectrum, no filter, 4h of 7 minute subs iirc
New: June 24th 2025, Skywatcher 200PDS modded, HEQ5 pro guided, Touptek ATR 2600M, Touptek 3.5/4nm SHO filters, 14h

[carmine hill]

Right is disgusting.

[vernal bison]

I don't think it's that bad, perhaps my standards just aren't as constricting.

[oak pagoda]

My guy your images are destroying my phones discord

It's glitching so bad

[carmine hill]

how

[oak pagoda]

Idk i tried to zoom in and my discord started tweaking so hard

[carmine hill]

maybe you haven’t unlocked zooming in yet

😭

[dull granite]

I took a video of Jupiter and then randomly decided to see what would happen if I pointed at m51.
Top image is a screen shot of a 15 second preview that got me hooked on deep space. Taken with a 224mc.
Bottom is my latest m51 taken with a 585mc pro and a focal reducer.

[untold current]

This is on the same rig. Ive been clouded over every night i was available for the past 8 months. Since then, ive gotten pretty rusty, the right side is the newer one.. Might practice with others peoples data when i get stretches of clouds like this from now on.

[vocal escarp]

Both with smart telescopes, just about a year apart.

[cloud leaf]

The Western Veil: August 2024 vs July 2025

main difference between these two is OSC vs Mono (and 15hrs vs 22hrs)
August was taken in B4, July in B7

[fair cloak]

woa

[somber aspen]

2023 vs 2025

[earnest hill]

2023 v 2025, same dslr, same location

[tough bison]

july 2024 vs july 2025
old: iPhone 11 pro max and 150/1200 dobsonian
new: ares c pro astrocamera with same 150/1200 tube but on a eq6r pro mount

june 2024 vs july 2025
old: iPhone 11 pro max and 150/1200 dobsonian
new: ares c pro astrocamera with same 150/1200 tube but on a eq6r pro mount

[onyx shoal]

Nice improvement Nick

[whole swift]

My progress over the last 1.5-2 years

[bitter jacinth]

The steady progression of everything

[oak pagoda]

ik this isnt the point of it but whys the m16 mirrored lol

[delicate coral]

1 year difference (and a new telescope) Same camera (Canon T100/4000D unmodded)
Last year: 70mm refractor untracked with a flimsy tripod. Around 0.5s subs, and 5m total exposures for both
This year: 150/750mm newtonian and a very cursed tracking setup. 1 Hour for Dumbbell, 30m for Ring nebula. 6s subs for both

[oak pagoda]

first one wont load

nvm it loaded

[sharp lake]

[bitter jacinth]

Couldn’t tell you

[vernal bison]

The improvement is really good

[weary laurel]

Exactly a year difference, completely different scope, went to a mono camera, got guiding, different mount... i really cant believe it that i got this far

[visual flower]

Exactly one year with 8". Last year use ZWO ASI120MC-S with cheap Svbony Barlow. This uear use ZWO ASI585MC (borrowed from my friend) and Svbony Telecentric Lens . A lot of technique and processing skills developed

[glad linden]

One piece of advice I believe EVERY beginner should use is get as much exposure time as you can, yea I know it’s sucks and you need patience. But trust me having not enough exposure time is 80% of your problems. Go for atleast 20 hours on things or as much as you can

[loud path]

I agree, but for a beginner I think 20 hours is too much. I'd probably say 4-5 hours is what to aim for as a beginner, or just what you can get in a single night

Nice images tho :)

[glad linden]

Fair enough I’m just saying if they’re trying to move on from beginning that’s what they gotta do

[loud path]

Depends on what you call a beginner. If you're using an unmodded DSLR, there's just a limit you can never break with more integration time

You need gear at some point to not be a beginner

Just look at that guy in #🔭-astrophotography-chat who got 10 hrs with unmodded dslr

[glad linden]

That is a fair point lol so I had one of those

[glad linden]

And yea that’s rough

[vernal bison]

Both very beautiful shots of the dragons, the overall quality is better in the second image but the color palette in the first is better I think

[vernal bison]

I think it depends more on how patient of a beginner you are (which also depends wildly on knowing what you're doing before you begin, learning from more experienced individuals first). 20hrs is by no means unachievable for anyone, beginner or advanced. Just a matter of patience (and having the right equipment to some extent).

basically, if you're willing to put in the effort then you can reap your benefits

[carmine hill]

First one is cooked asf what are you talking about 😭

[vernal bison]

still pretty looking, regardless of quality

[carmine hill]

uh

id honestly put the first pic in hall of shame

[vernal bison]

Ah well, differing standards I guess. Mine are low, but I still know what's good. I wouldn't be so harsh on your image, for you it might not look good at all, but most people would probably see it as acceptable, despite its flaws. Atleast that's what I'd imagine.

Like yeah you zoom in on the first one and you can see lots of artefacting and smudgy detail here and there, but the color and the somewhat ethereal feel the image has overall makes up for it I think, from an artistic standpoint atleast.

there's a weird phenomenon I've noticed with some astro photos, where the processing and/or data is bad, but the image still looks decently cool. There's an odd sense of soft emotion to the image, I can't explain it

I forget who posted it, but this image of M16 someone sent here has that same effect. It has a strange ethereal vibe to it, the fuzzy stars and the soft undefined details in the nebulosity.

Idk, it's 2:20 AM and I can't really think of what it is, aside from what I've described just now.

[dense surge]

That's kinda what I aimed for with the M24 process I submitted to the competition. Is it a little overcooked? Sure. But one of my friends said it reminded her of an overexposed film image

[carmine hill]

Thats my friends image that I processed lol

he shot that with a phone which is very impressive

[carmine hill]

This was M24????

Looks so different lol

[dense surge]

It's this section but I shot it in NIR/R/G

[carmine hill]

ghats cool

[dense surge]

I don't think I have anywhere near as much integration as you but I mostly just wanted the stars tbh

[carmine hill]

I havw 5hrs

[grim mango]

nearly 2 years apart

[glad linden]

I got you

[next vapor]

55mm lens at f5.6 untracked M101

[full totem]

About 1 ish years with a new setup and camera

[next vapor]

same photo but the right one edited in pix

[untold current]

Same target, 11 months apart

Same setup too

[lean stone]

Did I improve ?

October 12th, 2024
August 6th, 2025

[onyx shoal]

Only a bit

[wise shadow]

Crazy improvement man well done

[oak pagoda]

the yellow looks a bit off imo but very nice

[south fern]

about a year difference. Switched from OSC to mono

[clever wraith]

A lil over a year

btw, I tried editing the left one on Photoshop express on my phone and cooked the ever loving shit out of it (lol) but I have been using Siril ever since and was able to do it some justice this year

[south fern]

Damn!

[glad linden]

Osc isn’t thaaaaat bad 😭

This was an Osc cam

Osc is very capable if you use it right and give it enough time

[oak pagoda]

nobody ever said it isnt

its just that mono is much more capable with the same amount of time

[south fern]

Absolutely true!

[dense surge]

You get more natural color reproduction with OSC unless you go out of your way to get filters with ramping, overlapping bandpasses

[simple dagger]

First time on North American nebula vs most recent image

[young valve]

same data (<30 minutes) in b9 skies

[vernal bison]

'Ery Noice

[past drum]

1 year difference

[lean badge]

1 year difference

[grim mango]

1.5 year difference

[sharp lake]

10mins 30s untracked and 7hrs tracked
~2 year difference

[past drum]

damn

what lens r u using?

is it a 50 1.8?

[sharp lake]

left was with 55-250mm kit lens and right was 70-200 f/2.8L

[past drum]

stars are incredibly sharp

[sharp lake]

left is 70mm f/4.5 and right is 70mm f/2.8

[past drum]

across the whole fov

heres my photo of the same framing last yr

stars are practically lines at the edge

this was wide open with the 50 1.8 though

[sharp lake]

are you untracked?

[past drum]

back then yes

[sharp lake]

ah yea

get your data blurx'd

[past drum]

nah ima keep it like that

for the memories

be a representation of my skill back then

i might redo it though if i get time

[vocal escarp]

@sharp lake dms good sir

[sharp lake]

yes

[south fern]

Less than a year difference

[vernal bison]

Really good improvement

[south fern]

Well… it is a new camera 😅 but other than that the setup is the same

Switched from a ZWO 183color to a ToupTek 585 mono

[rich marlin]

How its going vs how it started

[lament bough]

2 nights vs 12 nights. Still going

[fallen belfry]

huh. Wtf

scope and camera??

[vague portal]

Did you just went backwards?

[rich marlin]

The only thing that stayed the same between the rigs was the camera lol

Better image:

EOS 1500D unmodified
EQ6-R
uniguide 50mm + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
SW 200PDS (visual version, borrowed from my schools science department lol) F5 focal ratio
Controlled using NINA
1hr 20mins data

Worse image:

Celestron 4se (alt-az configuration) f12.5 focal ratio
Same camera
Unguided
No control software
45mins data

[rich marlin]

Accidentally and couldn't be bothered to fix lol

[fallen belfry]

crazy

[rich marlin]

For reference, this is me now but with my main scope (WO GT71)

But after borrowing that 8" newt, I want one now

[vague portal]

you dipped your toes into the reflector cult and it felt good huh?

[rich marlin]

Well the thing is, this specific reflector was terrible because the school has owned it for years and it's tattered, screws are jammed, paint peeling...etc

But a new one would be perfect

So I want a new one hehehe

I already had plans for either an 8" or 10"

[whole swift]

Same data damn I just realised I’ve regressed

I think the new one used the wrong stack

Half the integration damnit

New is left one

[pulsar inlet]

Eh, skip that and go directly to 16" or 24". From the guy who currently has an 8".

... which honestly I'm quite happy to have, really. She's taught me a lot of things and is named "Rio".

[rich marlin]

haha im not too high on apeture fever... for now

[vernal bison]

that's how it all starts lol

one moment you're happy with an 8" dob, the next moment you want a 20" obsession

[sick cypress]

~7 month difference
300mm vs 85mm lens
Star adventurer 2i vs EQ-AL55i
~2.5h from b8 for both

[lean stone]

Progress of about 10 months 🙂

[sick cypress]

Nicee

[twin thistle]

4 years of progress, I have some in-between shots as well, these were much better, but still this first try, versus last try is night and day

[slim ermine]

first deep sky on a dob to now what i can do with it

proof its not alwayts about the equiptment

[glad linden]

dam thats crazy 😭

1 year difference

[fallen belfry]

rig?

[glad linden]

first was a seestar, second was a bigger lens XD

[fallen belfry]

Bruh

Define „bigger lense"

[lament bough]

Cool, but the M31 image looks almost starless

[whole swift]

Reduced the stars way too much

You have potential though

[ripe shale]

Oh hell yeah he does.

[halcyon umbra]

Thanks for the feedback

Didn't realize, but I sent an older processed image

[onyx shoal]

Better, nice

[charred echo]

2 years worth of saving for better gear and processing

[ripe shale]

Keep going btw

[south fern]

About 1 year between each image

… and two cameras too but isothermal than that I still have both telescopes and just kept upgrading them

[silk oar]

2017 through 2025, admittedly with increasing aperture but also capture and processing experience too.

[viscid vigil]

Low key annoying that rings are trying to hide

[odd hedge]

what a comparison, what you can capture now is actually crazy

[oak pagoda]

Difference between 2nd and 3rd is crazy

[vocal escarp]

the rings are scared of you

[mighty lynx]

what is next?

[pulsar inlet]

Looks like, in order:

• My first image taken through my 8" w/ a cell phone;
• First halfway decent image taken using my 8", 2 stacked 2x Barlow lenses, and an SV105
• What I'm getting to (Edited to add: cursed seeing)
• Last 2 are what I want to do ... and hope to do if I can ever get my 24" so I can finally share something comparable to you/Damien

Oh and did I mention? Cursed seeing.

[vocal escarp]

i have a question

why did saturns beatiful light-blue rings become boring

[vernal bison]

I think it's to do with the angle they appear to us at the moment. They were angled towards us before, and therefore received more light as they had more visible surface area. Now that they're almost perfectly flat to us, there's less visible light reflecting off of them, making them appear darker and duller.

That or it's just a difference in processing between Tom's newest images and his older images, which would not surprise me.

[silk oar]

They are dimmer due to the angle to the Sun, that’s correct

And they back-scatter blue light a little more when close to opposition so they indeed change colour too

[past drum]

Congrats on winning the ppl and space on astro of the yr

[silk oar]

many thanks

[vague portal]

if the first attempt would have been as good as the last image, you reckon you would have resolved the Saturn's hexagon?

[silk oar]

With ease.

You can barely see the southern hemisphere decagon in final image

[vague portal]

your image really is inspiring. like... i really want to invest in a big S dob and try it myself 😂

[willow iris]

Both untracked, one with a dslr and the other with a 585

[onyx shoal]

did you invert the colours for the recent one?

[willow iris]

No, idk what happened

[onyx shoal]

did you colour calibrate?

[willow iris]

Yea

[onyx shoal]

[delicate coral]

Did you do anything else with the color before that?

[willow iris]

It came out purple from the stack

[onyx shoal]

definitely not normal

[delicate coral]

Did you have any weird color setting on while stacking it?

[untold current]

maybe try checking of the software you're using has the wrong bayer pattern. Also, if youre using Siril, you can try inverting the colors, making the purple green, then removing green noise, and finally reverting the colors to normal

if all else fails, see if you can do some hue adjustements in Photoshop/Gimp

[sharp lake]

21hrs on helix and 8mins untracked

what 2 years difference does to a mfer

[whole swift]

Holy shit bro

Good stuff

Testing the limits of dslr since like 2023

[sharp lake]

this dslr has seen shit

and been through it

[whole swift]

Yessir

It’s time for the minicam

[past drum]

Fr

[past drum]

More fr

Is it modded atleast

[sharp lake]

nope. is stock

[past drum]

I got a chance to borrow a cooled cam and compare it to my modded DSLR and legit 1 sub on the cooled cam is like a stack of 5-10 with the dslr

And this is during the winters so I bet it's even worse in the summers

[carmine hill]

only difference is a duoband filter and a mount upgrade (and more knowledge)

[oak pagoda]

the duoband filter carried trust

[carmine hill]

trust

[oak pagoda]

i really need to get one

i still only have one filter and its a 7 dollar svbony uvir cut 😭

[whole swift]

Cooked on the saturation

[carmine hill]

which one is cooked

[whole swift]

Right

[carmine hill]

😢

i will desat the stars

i think the galaxy is fine

[whole swift]

Not bad data or anything I just think you’ve pushed sat way too far

[whole swift]

That’s should do the trick

[whole swift]

@carmine hill How’s it going

[carmine hill]

i fogor

processing shiv's 67 tub

tub

tuc

[whole swift]

Bruh

[carmine hill]

gooder?

[whole swift]

Send full file

[onyx shoal]

gud

[whole swift]

Better

[past drum]

Difference with and without the svbony 7nm duoband filter

100% recommend

[dense surge]

did someone say GREEN

[past drum]

Lol

Idk why Nina previewed it like that

[dense surge]

I mean I processed my Lagoon image like this, I embrace green

[past drum]

Green supremacy

[south fern]

https://tenor.com/view/green-ninjago-ninja-sensei-sensei-wu-gif-6467414812525449281

[oak pagoda]

🟢

[cloud leaf]

2023 (unmodded DSLR) vs 2025 (RGB and SHO)

[loud path]

Sick processing on the SHO one

[hexed token]

The second one is the newest just a few months difference in processing.

[flat fulcrum]

2023 -> 2024 -> 2025

[carmine hill]

wow

[jolly owl]

2021 vs 2025

[onyx shoal]

1 year apart. Left is 8h with a DSLR and right is a WIP project, 6h of Ha

[glad linden]

I think i have the one your talking about and yes this thing makes a hell of a difference please use it on full moon or light polluted nights

[warm seal]

unc been doing ts since covid 🥀

[jolly owl]

before

[warm seal]

this vs last year

this vs last

gone through like 3 rigs in the process

[vernal bison]

'Ery Noice

[sharp lake]

Why did I feel youve gone backwards

[warm seal]

cause your feeling is so so wrong

[next vapor]

Why i cant post img

[fallen belfry]

You are not >=mininerd

[flat fulcrum]

you only need protostar prem, not mininerd

[sharp lake]

3hrs 30mins untracked and 31hrs tracked

2 years difference

same imaging train

[willow iris]

only change was the camera

[oak pagoda]

kinda looks splotchy

hold back on the denoise

[willow iris]

i told sam to go light on the denoise

[oak pagoda]

image it for so long that the rotated spikes make a circle and it looks like an sct image

[willow iris]

good idea

[next vapor]

I posted before

[fallen belfry]

Ah, my bad

makes sense xD

[vague portal]

On the left is the original processing from 2023 using Photoshop and on the right is the reprocess in Pixinsight.
While Pix did had better control over the data, I wish I knew better how to handle the blue fringes around the stars.

[sick cypress]

There are channels in which anyone can post but not this one

[glacial gulch]

Must be a recent change or smth maybe to stop spam

[somber juniper]

currently i have no actual photos of stuff but im getting a phone adapter is that okay

[onyx shoal]

Thats more than okay

[carmine hill]

Alot changed, same scope tho

[sharp lake]

i remember the days of your crappy processing and look where you are now

[carmine hill]

thankss

[glad linden]

Brother what hell did you have to carry with 31 entire hours of untracked

[sharp lake]

31hrs tracked

I litterslly said that

[tough bison]

these 2 orion shots were taken EXACTLY 1 year apart ( I got tracked and got a dedicated astrocam, same OTA though)

[fallen belfry]

Huh. How same OTA?

[tough bison]

same 6" dob tube lol

[fallen belfry]

Crazy. Which one? (Name?)

[tough bison]

the 150/1200 classic skywatcher dob

[fallen belfry]

damn, its sharp

[onyx shoal]

Its a newt so

[fallen belfry]

https://www.astroshop.de/teleskope/skywatcher-dobson-teleskop-n-150-1200-skyliner-classic-dob/p,15559

This one?

[tough bison]

yes

[fallen belfry]

Damn. Did not know they are so sharp

[tough bison]

They arent, mine is just superior

[fallen belfry]

Did you mod it?

[tough bison]

no its just amazing idk😭 got the best copy or smth

[fallen belfry]

bruh. Image truely looks amazingly sharp

[tough bison]

thx, that dob isnt meant for astrophotography at all lol

[fallen belfry]

Does the secondary mirror holder flex or smth?

[lean stone]

October 2024 vs October 2025

[halcyon umbra]

quite an improvement!

[tough bison]

makes me wanna quit astro and gauge my eyes out with a spoon (jk this is pretty )

[flat fulcrum]

yo this isnt the roast channel 💀

[cloud leaf]

2023, 2024, 2025.

[sharp lake]

Difference between apperture and focal length
1st - 11hrs with stock dslr 55-250mm kit lens
2nd - ~2hrs with ASI183MC pro with C9.25

[carmine hill]

2025 is one of the best images ive ever seen of this region

[rough ledge]

1st is my latest second is my first stack

[woven parcel]

Nice Progress!

[rough ledge]

Thank youuu

[ripe shale]

Just don't mind the circular Noise all around the edges

[south fern]

Roughly exactly one year difference

[loud path]

Roughly exactly 🗣️ 🔥

[south fern]

… I just realised that 😂😂

[sick cypress]

11 months appart 🙂

[fallen belfry]

Looks like Graxpert bge

:}

[sick cypress]

Bruh

Well I did manual bge after graxpert...

[fallen belfry]

mhm

Graxpert somehow thinks that the bg of m45 has to be red

[sick cypress]

Oh

[humble oasis]

Don’t do both, DBEs can harm dust in the bg or the colours of things. Typically I stick with manual DBE in pix

[sick cypress]

Oh alright

[vestal perch]

first vs second iteration of pac man (2022 vs 2025)

[whole swift]

Which is which????

[vestal perch]

🥀

[tough bison]

[unique gazelle]

Very first M31 (first ap in general) vs the last M31 I shot a few months ago

[humble oasis]

Following up the M31 train!
Old: Astromaster 80mm F11, Nexstar SE mount, Nikon D3500 unmodded, 20-40 minute integration?

New: WO Whitecat 51, HEQ 5 pro, Touptek 2600MM, Touptek LRGBSHO 3.5nm 36mm filters, 26h 50m in LRGBHa

[unique gazelle]

me looking at your images
More seriously; the evolution is amazing, the fov is incredible, colors as well, the ha as well, and the stars it's inspiring !

[cloud leaf]

2023 vs. 2025 (still a wip)

[pulsar inlet]

Geebaz that's a nice Pleiades. I haven't even taken a photo with my new camera.

[dense surge]

pay2win (last year's Orion was taken with a DSLR I borrowed, a Mak-Cass on a mostly manual mount, hand dithered with an intervalometer; this year's was taken with the RC lmao)

[loud path]

which is which?

[ripe shale]

I like the old one more

[dense surge]

Good. I put more effort into it.

[ripe shale]

Yayy

Looks nicer to me

[tough bison]

exactly 1 year apart, left is untracked phone astro with the dobsonian and right is tracked with astrocam but same dob tube

[woven parcel]

Theyre both great

[tough bison]

but one is a lot better

[woven parcel]

That indeed

But for an untracked Photo this is great

[tough bison]

ye it was really hard to get

[woven parcel]

Can Imagine
I tried untracked for a VERY short time with the roki and i pretty much emidiately gave Up (If i dont Count the Polaris ifn but thats Kind of cheating)

[tough bison]

polaris ifn is always cool to see

[willow iris]

9 months apart, only change was my camera, right is 9 months ago, other 2 are recent

all untracked

[oak pagoda]

is the old one my process too

[willow iris]

yea

[willow iris]

nvm its kayque stars who processed it

[vague portal]

On the left was the first good shot that I got of this region using a DSLR and the 130PDS. March 11th, 2024. On the right is the second time I shot it but with a full mono setup and same telescope. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the monumental difference achieved in such short time. I gotta say that most of the improvements were achieved in this server from people who actually gave me useful advice. Thank you all

[whole swift]

Years difference between first two and the current one

[empty coyote]

1st one is 10h other one is 2h, same telescope, same skies, 7 month difference

[amber meteor]

March vs last night

New lens + new mount same camera

[sick cypress]

Your lens produces diffraction spikes?

[amber meteor]

I had a friend 3d print a diffraction mask so that I could experiment a bit

I personally love the look of them on some targets

[sick cypress]

Yeah they look very good

[flat fulcrum]

sept 2024 --> dec 2024 --> nov 2025

[smoky moth]

2023 vs 2025

Same location btw

[past drum]

processing improvement all on the same data (not my data btw but my processing)

about 2 weeks of intense learning fueled by the motivation of achieving what the original data acquisitor managed. i still i havent gotten there yet though:

[whole swift]

2 days ago vs last night

[onyx shoal]

Alnitak is wild

[lean stone]

where’d the star go

What’d you do with my precious Alnitak

[whole swift]

Crop and she

Dbe

[lean stone]

put it back

[whole swift]

Hell nah alnitak sucks

[lean stone]

I love Alnitak

[tough bison]

ring neb 2024 vs 2025

[orchid sapphire]

Ive seen this pic more than my mom

[tough bison]

[orchid sapphire]

Ok this is fire

[smoky moth]

This makes me wanna redo ring nebula

[vague portal]

You did a very good job on M81 and M82. Congrats! I wish you clear skies so the next images are gonna be even better

[grim tiger]

Thank you!!

[edgy basin]

fantastic i stumbled on this on astrobin earlier today lol

wait was it astrobin

[empty coyote]

Please man tell me the setup on the 2nd image

Of Saturn

[smoky moth]

Probably 12 or 16 inch dob with Barlow

[somber aspen]

Iirc rat had a 8" SCT (nvm wrong rat disregard this )

All you need is good seeing to get something like that from an 8", I've seen a 5" get close.

[sick cypress]

9 months appart!

Same canon 600D & 300mm f/5.6 lens
Star adventurer 2i vs EQ-AL55i
Both in bortle 9

8 mins vs 3h30

[carmine hill]

same lens

same amount of data

[vocal escarp]

How it started..

How it’s going…

[lean schooner]

1 year difference

[vocal escarp]

How it started...

How its going...

[carmine hill]

kitlens vs rokinon 135

[smoky moth]

A bit overstretched on both

[south fern]

3 years difference... the only thing that stayed the same is the laptop which I used for processing

[onyx shoal]

Huh

[smoky moth]

The image on the right the background is a bit cooked

But like I'm pixel peeping

[onyx shoal]

You dont know the region and it shows

All of orion and eridanus is surrounded by strong Ha emission