beginners place

[opaque mist]

Here is my beginner andromeda galaxy

And my beginner ring neb

[half goblet]

Oh sick

More nebula than I’ve ever done lol

Here’s the final edit I got:

Actually fairly surprised I got the orbiting galaxy as well

[marble swift]

enceladous and mimas are out of reach for my current equipment (phone, small refractor) the rest of the spherical moons are most likely possible

given I can find them

[surreal minnow]

(Cropped) cat’s eye nebula from last night.
Equipment:
150/750 SW scope
X2 Barlow
SW eq3-pro
ASI 224 MC

Processing mainly in Siril, few touches in GIMP

[quaint depot]

What the. Hol up. Whats the integration my man. I am a 6 inch newt owner

Eq3. rookie mistake

[surreal minnow]

About 15 minutes (data was about 30, but I ended up integrating about half), from a b8-9 location

[quaint depot]

Oh god B9

I am in B3

I gotta do visual on this

[surreal minnow]

Definitely give it a try!

Can get a little annoying to frame it, but otherwise it’s pretty bright and beautiful

[quaint depot]

I have a goto mount so it wont be a problem finding it...

I dont image with my newton because i dont have a camera for deep space

[raven wren]

Hi

[ashen nebula]

Your phone is the secondary option as a camera, use it while you save up for a real astro cam

[quaint depot]

ok

The results are kinda bad

[ashen nebula]

Yeah i know, you will get used to it

Lower the exposure and you will se the stripes on Jupiter

[quaint depot]

Well the problem is...

i cant

lower the exposure

i cant control it

If i try to use the S21 Ultra is extremely hard to align it to the eyepiece even with an adapter it has too much cameras

[grave nacelle]

Use some astrocamera app that allows you to lower exposures

[quaint depot]

ok i will try

[ashen nebula]

Even in PRO mode?

[quaint depot]

Yeah

[ashen nebula]

Damn, thats the problem with samsung

[drifting hull]

hey all, can i get some advice on a complete disaster of an imaging session i had last night. I though all was going well, but after trying to stack the data multiple times i am giving up. The image has extremely weird gradients, and weird artifacts for pixels. I did not take flat files last night, but took them this morning (together with darks, bias etc) , using the same settings as last night (double and triple checked. Camera at same temperature as last night. I am attaching a shot of the stacked output showing the weird things, and a crop of M13 from the first fits file recorded - i checked several of the fits, and none of them seem to have the errors appearing after stacking. I am not sure what's causing this - i assume it is a problem with calibration somewhere, but any help would be appreciated. Never had this happen before.

[ashen nebula]

Not sure, i was never good with stacking and processing too, try asking in the #🤓-ask-a-nerd

[jagged glen]

I’m not a pro, but I’m pretty sure when taking calibration frames ( darks flats and biases/offsets) you need to make sure that they are taken at the same temperature as the light frames. Especially for darks and offsets. Gradients can also be caused by light pollution like a nearby streetlight and stuff like that, I would recommend a light pollution filter if you’re in a city, but there are some drawbacks to light pollution filters too.

And honestly your images are not bad at all

[idle violet]

Milky way and andromeda

[sullen holly]

was it hard to spot in the live view?

[quaint depot]

It has

My phone doesnt

My friends does

[surreal minnow]

Not really, once I got it into view it really popped out

[sullen holly]

like very obvious?

[surreal minnow]

in the live view it was a little dimmer than that

[sharp berry]

Allsky stack from Saturday evening.

[shadow whale]

Bro that's crazy!

[quaint depot]

crazy?

i was crazy once.......

💀

[ashen nebula]

They locked me in a room

A rubber room

A rubber room with rats

And rats make me crazy🐀🤪

[sly frost]

Bruh

It's an overused meme

[ashen nebula]

Its beacuse rats make me crazy

[median perch]

2nd ever galaxy image , been properly imaging for about a month now

all my images so far

[quick bolt]

can someone give me best iso and exposure for jupiter?

[marble swift]

i dont think there is a one size fits all option lower iso to minnimum ang go from there maybe i dunno

[feral ibex]

I know its noisy but here is my first processed image of M101 🙂

[sullen holly]

Nice

[feral ibex]

Only an hour and half total integration time

it aint hubble but its honest work 🤠

[drowsy bluff]

What is this clusters name?

[sly epoch]

Hey ya'll! Thanks for having me here! I am super brand new to astrophotography and these are my first shots of the milky way! Taken on my Sony a7iii & Sigma Art 35mm 1.2

[sharp berry]

1 year later im back

[sly frost]

Welcome back

[rose glade]

Venus and supermoon

You can see the phase of Venus up close

[raven wren]

Hi

Should I get the Sony alpha a350

[rose glade]

go to ask a nerd or should-i-buy-this,

this is beginners place

[marble swift]

man astrophotography is pay to win

[rose glade]

i mean, yeah?

[wild spire]

pls take calibration frames 🥺

[median perch]

haha i will , i re use darks and bias’s and don’t do flats , imma do them tonight tho as i’m doing crescent nebula and i’m getting a lot of data on it

currently imaging rn

but had to re plate solve coz my mount stopped tracking loool

[wild spire]

bruh, trust me: flats will improve ur image

[median perch]

yeah fr

imma start doing them again 100%

[wild spire]

you should take them to

night

[median perch]

i am definitely

my sensor is covered in rust

[wild spire]

uff that hurts

[wild spire]

how did you got them so big tho?

[median perch]

idek ngl

[wild spire]

or was the image cropped?

[median perch]

it might of been a little but my sensor is covered with dust but i don’t wanna touch my sensor

[wild spire]

just clean it ☕ ~

what focal length do u have?

[median perch]

haha i might have to

360mm

[wild spire]

oh yeah, the image of m101 should be cropped heavily, right...?

[median perch]

nah it wasn’t too bad tbh my camera sensor plays a big part too

[pale mauve]

Galaxy surrounded by black holes. Lol

[wild spire]

what

[tawdry slate]

hello fellow beginners!

just attempted East Veil

[sly frost]

Nice

[ashen nebula]

Im a beginner again, beacuse of my asi224mc

[sullen holly]

very nice

[tawdry slate]

I got 2 clear nights in a row!
Opinions?
Just over 1 hour of exposure time

[tawdry slate]

i also reprocessed my veil from earlier

[grave nacelle]

Why does the background look so noisy?

[tawdry slate]

i genuinely dont know, im brand new to processing

[grave nacelle]

Ah I see, mind dropping the data into my DM so I can have a look at it next Friday?

You'll have to send me friend request though

[tawdry slate]

sure, the TIF files?

[grave nacelle]

The stacked file only, thanks

[tawdry slate]

sounds good

[remote anchor]

That looks great mate!

[tawdry slate]

Thanks!

Anyone have any tips for reducing noise?

[wild spire]

what bortle?

[tawdry slate]

5-6 around me, I'm ordering a light pollution filter and probably a Ha filter too!

[wild spire]

nice

[sly frost]

May I process this

[tawdry slate]

Yeah I can send over the stacked file if you'd like

Want the dumbbell too?

[tawdry slate]

alright sending now

[sly frost]

Yeah, ok

[remote anchor]

I had a go at the Eagle nebula and used Cuiv the lady geeks technique for OSC narrowband processing.

[tawdry slate]

Oh wow thats really good

[remote anchor]

Cheers @tawdry slate

This was the Trifid I took on the same night. I’ve only stacked it and done minimal processing.

[tawdry slate]

Oh wow

What's your bortle?

[wild spire]

Holy moly, why is it so bright?

[remote anchor]

I think it’s a mixture of my stretch and the fact I was in La Palma with a new moon and bortle 1-2

[wild spire]

I dont think the moon doesnt play a big role, rather your intense stretch

[remote anchor]

This is a single image. 180sec.

[tawdry slate]

looking like a clear night for me tonight

[sly frost]

Nice!

[crisp nebula]

You are now banned from the beginners forum for giving us evidence that you are an expert astrophotographer.

[polar furnace]

haha, I wish that was the case

[remote anchor]

I've reigned myself in a bit and tried another processing routine. This is using Nico Carvers' process with Narrowband Normalisation.

[mortal ginkgo]

First time taking a picture of the milky way and editing it in lightroom. This was done in a lot of light pollution and taken with the Galaxy S23 Ultra

[tawdry slate]

oh yeah my andromeda from a few days ago

that black splotch to the left is a dust spot i attempted to edit away so i kinda just left it

[grave nacelle]

Flats?

[tawdry slate]

I took down my setup and the swore very loudly as I forgot calibration frames 😅

[grave nacelle]

Oof. Happens to most of us. Don't forget it next time

[tawdry slate]

CALIBRATION FRAMES MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE OH MY GOD

reshot East Veil tonight

feeling very proud

[sly frost]

Wow

Awesome

[quaint depot]

that's not beginner

[polar furnace]

That's my 4th image ever

[quaint depot]

What gear?

[polar furnace]

#🤩-show-us-your-rig message

[quaint depot]

That setup is only in my dreams I wouldn't get even a single chance to at least touch the setup

[grave nacelle]

Bruh how are you not nerd.

[quaint depot]

Fr

[polar furnace]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[marble swift]

can really see the effects of eyepiece projection on the craters

[sharp berry]

Saturn in nice conditions with the 5” minidob

[remote anchor]

I had a go at the Eagle Nebula again, and this time used NarrowbandNormalisation to see how it came out.

[tawdry slate]

oh nice! great pillars too!

[trim terrace]

First time capturing a DSO, any advice?

[wild spire]

give more information

[trim terrace]

DSLR through my 8 inch dob. 30 half second exposures with the iso cranked to 12800. Stacked with Siril and processed in Gimp

[wild spire]

how much exposure time in the end?

[trim terrace]

In total I think 15 seconds

[wild spire]

looks good for first try!

but the stars in the corners look kinda weird. are you tracked @trim terrace ?

and do you have a coma corrector?

[trim terrace]

Thanks! It’s not tracked, I think the camera might have rotated mid way

What’s a coma corrector?

[wild spire]

it corrects a thing named coma, when the stars in the corners are coma-shaped. literally every newt owner has one

[trim terrace]

Some of these coma correctors on amazon are the same pirce as my telescope 🗿

I feel like the edges of nebula are kinda noisy, do you think that's a processing thing or I just need more exposure time?

[wild spire]

noise comes from a lack of data

[ashen nebula]

I don't

[wild spire]

Thats why you doing planetary

[ashen nebula]

Ummm, kinda, i started doing dss

[wild spire]

Show me

[ashen nebula]

Two of my first dss photos, where is way more room for improvement

[wild spire]

The noise is insulting me

[ashen nebula]

I know

[remote anchor]

I had a go at Paulyman Astros Foraxx palette on the Lagoon. I like the way it came out.

[shadow whale]

Jupiter and Saturn trough my 6"dob flextube and my phones camera

[sharp berry]

Can anyone help me? I got the Skywatcher 130/900 EQ2 telescope but the weight it should stabilize doesn't allow me to aim high. What should I do?

[tawdry slate]

Oh man, I love clouds so much

[pale skiff]

What are clouds?

[tawdry slate]

Malevolent harbingers of woe and misfortune

I live in a temperate region so I got a decent number of clouds 😭

[pale skiff]

Just hope someone finds out a way to repel clouds

I've taken a couple of photos of gianormous clouds in space, but the earth clouds just keep getting in the way.

Also I hope I don't, because I'll need fractals to describe them ;-;

[tawdry slate]

Opinions?

1h 30mins

[fleet vortex]

North American nebula

[quaint depot]

huh

[fleet vortex]

?

[quaint depot]

that's a cluster he is talking about

[remote anchor]

They look great mate. What did you use to process the stack?

[fleet vortex]

OH MB

caps

[tawdry slate]

siril

[remote anchor]

They have come out really nice. I think if you get some more time on them, it will just get better.

[tawdry slate]

oh yeah absolutely, i would like to get some filters soon for better colours

[sly frost]

Wow

[wild spire]

Needs more integration time. But really good!

[tawdry slate]

I did a 4ish hours of shooting last night and got these out of it, Crescent Nebula and Triangulum Galaxy.
Unfortunately the moon rose just above the trees so i got a bit of a gradient with it, I'll definitely revisit it on a moonless night.
i also don't have any filters so i couldn't pull a lot of detail out of the crescent
Crescent Nebula 1h 20min
Triangulum Galaxy 1h 45min

[tawdry slate]

Thoughts? Feedback?

[marble swift]

yeah pretty good

[fleet vortex]

dont ever shoot crescent broadband

[tawdry slate]

Yeah i just wanted to see what I could get, I'm getting some filters soon

[fleet vortex]

osc or mono

[tawdry slate]

OSC

[fleet vortex]

l-extreme

[noble finch]

Saturn last night, still learning, 8” DOB, Nikon D5100, 6400 ISO, Untracked, Stacked with Autostakkert3, Processed with Registax, Gimp, Darktable, Siril, Edited with Pixlr X.

[tawdry slate]

ayyyyyy, thats pretty good!

how long of exposures did you take for it?

[noble finch]

About 4 minutes.

[tawdry slate]

4 minute long exposures or 4 minutes of data total?

[noble finch]

4 minutes of Data.

[tawdry slate]

ah

[noble finch]

I would’ve done longer, but my SD was full, I’m getting a 256 GB one today.

[tall minnow]

Glad to see I'm not the only noob starting with moons.

[sharp berry]

sick saturn! better than my beginning images :)

[fleet vortex]

did you de-rotate?

4 minutes is a little to much for saturn

[remote anchor]

Looks great @Onion. This is what I got of the Crescent Nebula ealier this year. I used an ASI533MC and an L-Enhance filter.

[noble finch]

Uh oh, I got 14 minutes of data last night lol

[fleet vortex]

Damn boy

[noble finch]

how long should i go?

[tawdry slate]

oh nice! so i'll likely get something similar when mine arrives

how much data is there?

[remote anchor]

I took 52X5 minutes Lights, 50X5min Darks and 50X0.12secs Flats and Dark Flats. Processed in PixInsight.

[marble swift]

Hercules cluster

[mortal ginkgo]

Jupiter and Saturn

-- Equipment

Celestron NexStar 4SE
Phone Adapter w/ Oppo Find X3 Lite

Processed with PIPP
Stacked with Autostakkert
Sharpened, Coloured and Rotated with Registax.

[tawdry slate]

redid andromeda last night
1h 50min

[quaint depot]

how is that a begginer image

[tawdry slate]

because i havent been able to pull true colour out yet

but thank you!

[quaint depot]

Still this image is amazing dude

[shy rivet]

this looks flipped upside down

still very good

[tawdry slate]

i just dont know how to edit galaxies that well

[wild spire]

send data

ill try to give you a work flow

[sly frost]

Amazing

[tawdry slate]

the stacked tiff?

[quaint vector]

I am proud to say I have successfully captured a negligible amount of detail in M31 for the first time ever

rotated and slight bg extract

[wild spire]

Yeah

[shadow whale]

What telescope do you have?

[marble swift]

10 inch dob

[wild spire]

ok, i'll process it in siril, so im going to give you a work flow in siril

[tawdry slate]

sounds good, i use siril as well

[keen canyon]

Obligatory moon shot lol

[austere merlin]

Posted this in #1127675764356173885 - but i might as well post it here since it’s my first DSO image

Anyway, a monochrome North America Nebula in Hydrogen-Alpha!
I had limited time last night so I’ll get my first full-color DSO image soon, but i’m still happy with how this one came out.

~ 1 hour 40 minutes of exposure time stacked in DSS & processed in Photoshop.

[keen canyon]

Monochrome space kinda goes hard ngl

[half marlin]

So this is some what my first ever stacking of Jupiter. It was like oh what 500 frames? And it really is not the best.

You can see like 2 moons but that’s it

And yes it has no color

My SV205 does not like color so I discovered

It gives a funky green to it

[noble finch]

man this is called "Beginners place" and i still see absolutely amazing photos on here, hope my photos improve once my Uranus-C arrives

[pale skiff]

Quick question: Can I get the Andromeda Galaxy in an urban area with an 8 inch dob, 30mm plossl and mobile phone?

[pale skiff]

What settings do I use? I can't go above 1sec exposure time 😦

[grave nacelle]

Is it processed?

[wild spire]

Didnt forget about it, im just busy, maybe i can give you the workflow today

[half marlin]

No it is not

[grave nacelle]

If the stacking looks like that, it does look good in my opinion when it is processed

[half marlin]

Ill see if I can find a program that will accept .avi files because mine will not for some reason

[heavy ingot]

my first ever attempt at deep sky astrophotography

no tracker, or even mount for that matter, taken by resting my camera slanted upwards and blindly hoping it's aimed right

I'd love to know how i can reduce the noise on the finished picture though, im not sure where it's all coming from

[quaint vector]

how long was your integration?

[heavy ingot]

what does that mean 😅

[quaint vector]

like uhhhhh

[heavy ingot]

like total exposure?

[quaint vector]

yea

[heavy ingot]

1 minute 8 seconds total exposure, with 9 8 second subs

[quaint vector]

• how many frames you took as well

damn

not bad

[heavy ingot]

this was just a little test before i had all the camera gear arrive

[quaint vector]

especially for your 1st DSO

thats actually really good

[heavy ingot]

it was a clear night and i was eager to at least try 😅

thank you!

[quaint vector]

yea just try to get more frames, that'll drastically reduce noise

[heavy ingot]

i see

[quaint vector]

im surprised you caught that much nebulosity with how little data you got

[heavy ingot]

i was worried some of it might be coming from doing the calibration frames wrong or something

so am I to be honest, im super pleased with the results all things considered

[wild spire]

man, i feel you. i also did this when i started

[quaint vector]

phone + chair gang rise UP!!!!!!!

just recently got my Star Adventurer after saving a bunch over the summer

[heavy ingot]

i have an old equatorial mount from a cheap telescope i don't use that i figure i could mount the camera to, just need to figure out how best to

[quaint vector]

what camera are you using?

[heavy ingot]

Canon EOS 1000d

[quaint vector]

ah, that explains the titanic amount of noise

but still more than enough for you right now

[heavy ingot]

should i try shooting at a lower ISO maybe?

[quaint vector]

anything below a T3i has a lot of noise

yea, but you'd have to compensate with a lot more integration

[heavy ingot]

meh, who needs sleep

[quaint vector]

truth

basically what I did for the entire summer

although my goals were a little bit more ambitious 💀

[heavy ingot]

i think next time i go out I'll hopefully have an intervalometer or shutter release cable so ill try doing a lot more frames at a lower iso and exposure time

[quaint vector]

yea those are super useful

rn I'm using a Sony Cybershot so there aren't any in the market for it and pressing the shutter every 20 seconds is an inconvenience at the very least

although it has given good results for what it is

[heavy ingot]

i imagine it gets mind numbing doing that for pictures with longer integration times

[quaint vector]

yea

got around 50 min of the Andromeda galaxy doing that, but if I had a shutter release it would be more like 1hr 30min

[heavy ingot]

ooh i wonder if i could get an alright picture of andromeda actually

[quaint vector]

what bortle are you in

[heavy ingot]

i think like bortle 4

[quaint vector]

damn you're lucky

the app I use occasionally goes off the scale in chicago ☠️

I've seen bortle 9.2 here

[heavy ingot]

it's like a 15 minute drive to a nice rural hilltop location i've brought my telescope to before

[quaint vector]

that sounds heavenly

[heavy ingot]

at home though it's probably more like a 5

[quaint vector]

If I wanted to go to the nearest bortle 3 location, I'd have to drive 3 hours

[heavy ingot]

I'd probably have to drive a fair while for anywhere better then that hill too

[quaint vector]

eh, nearest bortle 1 location is a solid 12 hours away for me

and i'm not willing to cross the canadian border

[heavy ingot]

i don't think the UK even has any bortle 1 locations

[quaint vector]

yea, it is a lot denser than the US

but I guarantee you, you'd get much cleaner data than I would ever dream of getting here

what's your lens?

[heavy ingot]

still though, i figure if i was able to see andromeda through my telescope i might be able to get an alright picture

[quaint vector]

oh yea

[heavy ingot]

uhhh

[quaint vector]

18-55?

[heavy ingot]

yeah

i don't know the exact model

[quaint vector]

I got 2 of those

they're good for more widefield

[heavy ingot]

would it be worth even trying to connect the camera up to my dobsonian?

according to some of the view simulator apps online i tried the frame would be super zoomed in, i wouldn't even be able to fit the whole of m45 in frame at once

[quaint vector]

hm

you have an 8" right?

[heavy ingot]

yep

[quaint vector]

yea that mag would be sizable

even with my garbage 114mm, I can barely get M31 in frame

Canon T5)

plus

another thing to consider is your focuser

and the damage your camera can do to it

[heavy ingot]

im pretty sure my telescope has an extra beefy focuser

[quaint vector]

it might seem like that

what company?

[heavy ingot]

bresser

[quaint vector]

hm

Messier 8 in?

[heavy ingot]

yep

[quaint vector]

the white one

that focuser doesn't seem too different than the ones Orion uses for it's dobs

[heavy ingot]

yep, im not sure but i remember reading it was like a bigger focuser or something

[quaint vector]

while the focuser tube itself can hold up the weight without flexing too bad, the actual focusing mechanism can start slipping after a while

[heavy ingot]

probably best not to risk it

[quaint vector]

My friend has a SkyQuest XT10 which has the same problem

yea

and that was just from using a phone mount

I would mention that my focuser also imploded because of my camera

but again, my telescope is the definition of a hobby-killer

so it wouldn't be a good example

[heavy ingot]

oof

[lusty shore]

would be a massive pain, im guessing youre untracked so your exposures would be extremely short so you'd basically get no data

[quaint vector]

^^^

[heavy ingot]

untracked is a massive pain anyway but yeah you're probably right

[quaint vector]

I mean if you really wanted to, the only target I can really think of imaging at that magnification would be something like the helix nebula

bright enough to see through a 10 inch dob if you have good eyes, but most likely small enough to fit in frame

and a really dark sky might I add ^

do you have any flea markets near you?

[heavy ingot]

i don't think so

[lusty shore]

if you got an astrocam and stuck that on the dob you could get somewhat usable data

[quaint vector]

you can sometimes find canon lens' for cheap there

like a 75mm-300mm for $100 in good condition

and those are more than enough for beginner DSO astrophotography

[heavy ingot]

possibly, but then that's money not spent saving for a proper tracking mount or better lens

which i imagine would be better investments

[quaint vector]

just dont get any lenses that need adapters to fit to your camera

trust me, i've made that mistake twice now

there's a really good chance it pushes the focus far enough foward to where you can't even close to infinite focus

[lusty shore]

well you basically have to choose one side, either tracked dslr + lens astro or untracked dob lucky imaging/planetary

[heavy ingot]

tracked dslr + lens astro definitely seems the more sensible route to me

[lusty shore]

welp, swsa 2i and some random lens for your cam will work pretty well

[quaint vector]

SA 2i has treated me perfectly so I highly recommend it

star trackers are probably the best investment you can make (other than a proper camera+lens) for any sort of astrophotography

[lusty shore]

i got mine a little before summer started, has been very nice so far

[quaint vector]

after summer for me unfortunately

still gotta get more data on M31 with my S22 Ultra before I can't image it anymore

I'd say you don't even need a super good camera if you get a star tracker

even your 1000D can get some proper data if its tracked

[heavy ingot]

whenever i look at mounts there's always a part of me that worries that some day I'll outgrow a smaller star tracker mount, how true actually is that

i really have no clue about the capabilities or 'limits' of mounts

[quaint vector]

honestly

maybe

however

[lusty shore]

youll get sucked into the rabbit no matter what, the upgrades are unstoppable

[quaint vector]

that doesn't mean it'll be useless

you'll be able to use that tracker for a lot more

portable setup? boom you already have a good star tracker for it

even if it isn't your main setup

you'll find uses

[lusty shore]

i love how portable the swsa is, i can cycle to places and just set up, really fun

[heavy ingot]

that's true i suppose, being able to transport it easily is a big factor

[quaint vector]

its really small, so transporting it isn't close to an issue

im trying to find something to compare its size to right now

ok about as big as a roll of toilet paper

that took longer than it needed to be 💀

[heavy ingot]

lmao

[quaint vector]

but it'll support about 11 lbs (roughly 5 kg)

[lusty shore]

gotta count in the eq base, counterweight shaft and stuff

[quaint vector]

true

although I'm not at the stage of a counterweight shaft just yet

although I'm probably getting one relatively soon

using although twice 😎

I love my vocabulary

but yea if you're attaching a good size lens, get a counterweight

[heavy ingot]

5 kg feels like so little though, in my head i compare it to how heavy my big old dobsonian is even though i know that's entirely unresonable

[quaint vector]

oh yea its a small amount compared to what other mounts are capable of, but those are much more expensive

[lusty shore]

well the swsa is an entry level mount, cant expect too much

it has a decently wide range of uses though, timelapses, widefield, dso, possible solar with solar scope

[heavy ingot]

out of interest, what would be like the next step up from it

[quaint vector]

at most you can probably put on a small refractor

uhhh

[lusty shore]

something like an eqm35 or heq5

[tawdry slate]

Yeah I'd go for mount then scope

[quaint vector]

yea EQM35 is probably the next "stage"

go-to capability, much larger payload capacity being double the 2i's, but its much more expensive

[heavy ingot]

no kidding

[lusty shore]

theres diy stuff possible as well, for example onstepping an eq5

[quaint vector]

is onstepping worth it?

[lusty shore]

if youre good with diy then very much so

[heavy ingot]

what's onstepping?

[quaint vector]

about $650 for everything doesn't seem too bad for what you're getting

basically motorizing a standard mount

with a kit

[lusty shore]

doesnt have to be a kit, can also buy parts seperately

[quaint vector]

true

what i'd give to have an HEQ-5 😔

my 114mm would actually be borderline useful for me

[lusty shore]

reflector?

[quaint vector]

yep

got it for $90 on amazon

sucks doodoo tho

[lusty shore]

iirc most of the hobby killer reflectors used spherical mirrors

[quaint vector]

it probably has just that

[lusty shore]

especially at that price point

[quaint vector]

it was usually like $200ish

but there was a sale or smtn

and imma be completely honest, its barely worth it even at the $90 I got it for

and the mount is even worse than the scope itself

[lusty shore]

living up to the hobby killer name

[quaint vector]

shaky beyond belief

fr

focuser can't even handle the phone mount it came with

[lusty shore]

yikes

[quaint vector]

then again I don't think they expected people to put an S22 Ultra on it

[lusty shore]

shouldnt really matter which phone, the weight difference isnt too massive

[quaint vector]

truthful

I have yet to try out my 500mm lens I got for $40

I finally figured out how to swap out the 15,000 adapters for my canon

I think it finally reaches the focus I need

but just barely

and considering the adapter was more than the lens, it better reach focus

[lusty shore]

yeah, lenses that are gonna need adapters for your platform usually arent worth it, depending which platform it was made for can mean the flange distance is completely different so it wont reach focus

[quaint vector]

I think I got lucky with this one since it needed an adapter out of the box since it was originally a T mount so they probably factored that it when making the lens

got a male-male adapter and ordered an extremely thin T-EOS adapter

I think its maybe 1mm farther than the original one

so it probably barely focuses before infinity

and hits that sweet spot

[lusty shore]

pretty eh sounding but could work ig

[quaint vector]

I love sketchy astro

[lusty shore]

https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1087219932900638720

you might enjoy that then

[quaint vector]

I will have to order a counterweight kit for my 2i before I let this lens anywhere near it since the lens itself is more than a foot long ☠️

I love that forum

[lusty shore]

you gonna be able to balance it in the dec axis?

[quaint vector]

lens already comes with its own mount if that's what you're asking

[lusty shore]

should be good enough then

[quaint vector]

yea

its gonna be raining for like half the week so I won't be able to check

but in the meantime I got some M31 data I shared a bit ago on this forum

[quaint vector]

found it

Sony point & shoots go hard

[lusty shore]

goes hard on the noise thats for sure

[quaint vector]

I kinda want to get a 20x zoomed shot of Triangulum next

oh fr

that was probably a bit over 20 min of data too

[lusty shore]

oof

[quaint vector]

could've gotten over 1hr of data if there was a shutter release switch available for this camera

I can probs find one if I look harder

[lusty shore]

not sure how much the extra data wouldve helped tbh, feel like there should be more for 20min

[quaint vector]

mostly just testing things out since that was my first time with that setup

focusing was 100% the worst pain

I don't even think I got it fully in focus there

[lusty shore]

looks ok to me

[quaint vector]

and there was no way I was gonna move my camera to a bright star after I aligned it as good as I did

ball mounts pain me

[tawdry slate]

Huzzah!

[sharp berry]

Pleiades?

If so this makes me wanna image it alr

[heavy ingot]

yep

thought i would give them a try even though i don't have a complete setup yet

[sharp berry]

I need to up my Jupiter game, it looks like it’s taken on phone

[mighty kelp]

Jupiter last night, Telescope 70mm MK , SV 105, EQ1 mount and home made tracker.

[tawdry slate]

Redid East Veil once again! Using a Baader UVIR and boost filter so it really brought out the colours
50min of data

[pale skiff]

gear?

[feral ibex]

127mm Mak with a ZWO ASI 120 MS

And manually tracking

[half marlin]

might I ask what settings you used to get the color? I keep getting a funky green back ground when I try to get any

[mighty kelp]

Hello, except for the gain, which I adjusted to zero and the exposure I adjusted to 4 or 5, I left all the other adjustments as the factory program come, I really do not have experience with the SharpCap, I am more focused on tracking to be able to make longer exposures

[half marlin]

ahhh ok

[solid cargo]

Just got my first ever tracked photo of anything! took 120 min of data on andromeda at something crazy like F8 (using a budget telephoto camera lens), and had to discard around 50% anyway. This is stacked but not edited, not sure where to even start with editing astro photos

[lusty shore]

get siril

[solid cargo]

what's siril?

ohhhh

[tawdry slate]

Can I try processing your data? Then we could compare after you process it?

[solid cargo]

Erm sure if you're talking to me, it's pretty rough though haha

Currently looking at a LOT of noise

[tawdry slate]

could you send me the stacked file?

[solid cargo]

Yeah, how do you want it?

[tawdry slate]

TIFF preferably

[solid cargo]

no no it's in tiff i mean like, it's pretty big so google drive? idk

[tawdry slate]

ohhhhh, sure!

lemme dm you

[lusty shore]

looks pretty damn good for a first time

[solid cargo]

i'm getting a proper telescope soon, with a guide scope & cam so i should be able to massively increase my exposure times, hopefully reduce the noise

but thank you ❤️

[vernal hollow]

Hi 👋

[ashen nebula]

Ring nebula
130/900 newt
Eq2 motorised mount
ASI224MC
DSS, GIMP
all around 22mins of exposure

[royal parrot]

Hello everyone, I've taken my first photos yesterday and I'm not so disappointed actually. I have some pretty decent shots of the ring Nebula and the swan nebula. And some other. I Am currently using a Fuji X-M1 with a SCT C8 Telescope. It's a F10 focal ratio and I had a few questions since I'm still new, maybe one of you could advise ..

These are just 20 to 30 second exposures at iso 6400

I literally just focused the camera as best I could on Saturn . I do have a bahtinov mask yet I'm not sure what setting to have my camera in for decent focusing . Any advice?

[tawdry slate]

this is most unfortunate.

[jaunty fable]

that's my view of the solar eclipse

[heavy ingot]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1162497135892250684/1163952620357029928/Andromeda.png?ex=65417259&is=652efd59&hm=49b081f69c833f59f194e7361ab74b8ccfad7d30b2a1a763e4d1ffb112584d6b&

My second try at an astro pic ever

Several things went wrong but honestly I'm still thrilled with the result

(if you're wondering about the strange crop, that's a tree on the right edge of the picture, I was in a race against time watching Andromeda disappear behind it)

5 second subs, 5 minute 5 second integration time

I kinda feel like I messed something up in DSS while stacking this, it was all kinds of strange about my lights

[sharp berry]

You can get more out of it. This is just 1 raw file.
I didn't do anything else than DBE and quick stretch.

[idle violet]

Beautiful picture

[forest glacier]

What

[quaint vector]

Good To Stargaze goes hard fr

[austere merlin]

love the lowest bortle within reasonable driving distance being a 3

[heavy ingot]

I had a go at reprocessing this because i felt like i could do better, preserved more of the total frame and also got way better colours here, just a shame that half of the frame was covered by a tree that really seems to have messed up the whole process with it's swaying

in the end i think the best thing i can do is just black out the artefacts caused by the tree

[slender gate]

Does anyone have tips on capturing the Orion Nebula as the time to do so is approaching. I have an XT8 dob and I use my phone with an app to capture videos which I use PIPP to stack planetary but for DSO I don't have a go-to scope that will track.

[polar furnace]

second edit on the above

[sly frost]

Tbh, the stars look unnaturally dim, but I like the details in the nebula

[slender gate]

So take a lot of 1-2s exposures?

Last thing what should I use for processing once I get a bunch of images?

So I’ve heard people talk a lot about flats, darks and there’s another one but what exactly are they?

Sounds good, thank you for the help I’m not sure how possible it is for me to shoot raw exposures on my kind of phone but hoping to get a astrocam this Christmas.

[slender gate]

Sorry didn’t see your message and it’s an iPhone 11

[quaint vector]

augh

[sly frost]

Stretch more!

[quaint vector]

I'll probably process it more once I come from work as it was 4:00 am when I finished imaging

[heavy ingot]

My first vs second try at M45, in the new one im actually seeing sharper details rather then just a smudge, plus the noise and colours are way better

[austere merlin]

My processing progress on the North America Nebula

really happy with how it’s coming along so far!

[slender gate]

I dont see anything in the settings for shooting raw but i can get 3rd party apps that will do it for me.

[mortal ginkgo]

I stacked and processed Jupiter but registax's sharpening doesn't work on it. This is what I have.

[weak lagoon]

silly thing from last night

[wicked sail]

Lunar eclipse ?

Here's mine

[weak lagoon]

yo that looks sick

mmmm minerals

[fleet vortex]

dither

[heavy ingot]

Dither?

[fleet vortex]

move scope a little after every 10 minutes

[heavy ingot]

I was doing that anyway since this is untracked

Unless I'm misunderstanding you

[soft zinc]

All images are from a iphone 13 mini just the moon is from a small telescope

[soft zinc]

Moon trought small telescope

[idle violet]

In the center ths Andromeda Galaxy is visible

[surreal minnow]

M1 from B9, almost 1 hour integration

[sly frost]

Wow

[surreal minnow]

Thx mate, it's a bit noisy and needed some heavy editing to pull out details, but yeah...

[soft zinc]

My pictures of the milkyway and andromeda galaxy

And pleadies

Andromeda is very bad :((

moon

[limber geyser]

Thats my moon eclypse image

Samsung galaxy A13 and Celestron astromaster 70 AZ

[heavy ingot]

this is like the first picture I've taken that i feel actually looks good

most pictures im proud of, but like in the context of them being a stepping stone to getting better at taking them

it's just a shame i couldn't fit Betelgeuse in the frame like this

[soft zinc]

wow

How did you get the orion nebula to be so sharp

Mine is very bad 😦

[heavy ingot]

oh yeah i meant to ask, what are you taking your photos on in these?

[soft zinc]

How did you get such a good one

Asking me?

[heavy ingot]

it looks like you might just be slightly out of focus

[heavy ingot]

yeah

[soft zinc]

Everything is on a iphone 13 mini

Just the moon on a small telescope

What are you taking your photos on ?

[heavy ingot]

I'm using a cheap old DSLR, a canon 1000D i got of ebay second hand

[soft zinc]

How much did it cost

[heavy ingot]

and a similarly cheap 50mm lens

the camera was £60

[soft zinc]

?

[soft zinc]

Oh ok

Thx

[heavy ingot]

what settings are you using on your phone by the way? there might be something you can tweak there

[soft zinc]

Only night mode 10 sec exposure nothing else

[heavy ingot]

I'd set your camera to manual rather then any kind of preset

[soft zinc]

Yea but when its manual i cant take exposures iphone problems lol

One guy said its better if i use raw mode

[heavy ingot]

usually i think mobile phone cameras have post processing filters they automatically put over your pictures as part of those presets, since it's not made for astro

[soft zinc]

Yea you are right…

Comet 103p/hartley

From iphone no telescope

Six star system in Ursa Major

[heavy ingot]

maybe look for a camera app that can let you do manual settings and exposures if the default one cant? I don't have a nice phone with anywhere close to a decent camera so i can't comment on what would be best, but ISO 1600 or higher if it's not too noisy, 10 second exposure time and manual focus are the big ones i think

[soft zinc]

Well there are not to many apps on a iphone for astrophotography

Only star maps

[heavy ingot]

this was a stack of 120 5 second subs at ISO 1600 in Sequator

you don't need an app specifically for astro, just any camera app that can give you full manual control

[soft zinc]

Ok

[heavy ingot]

i know there's apps like that on android so i assume IOS has something similar

[soft zinc]

Yea probably

Hey

Do you want me to show you my telescope

[heavy ingot]

sure

[soft zinc]

?

Ok promise you wont laught …

….

…

[heavy ingot]

what telescope is that?

[soft zinc]

A small kid telescope

Guangexbao telescope

Only 40x magnification

I just ordered a new one

[heavy ingot]

nothing wrong with that

[soft zinc]

It should arive today or tommorow

[heavy ingot]

a little kids telescope is still a start

ooh what did you order?

[soft zinc]

This thing 100x magnification

That will be my 3 telescope

This wa my first one

[heavy ingot]

nice, though there's more to a good telescope then just magnification

[soft zinc]

Well.. there is

But for small telescope you just want to look at the magnification

[heavy ingot]

for planets a high magnification is great though, saturn is super tiny in my current visual setup

[soft zinc]

Whats your setup?

Do you use a telescope or a camera?

[heavy ingot]

I have a dobsonian that i use for visual observing, mainly the planets, and the beginnings of an astrophotography setup separate from that with my camera and lens

[soft zinc]

lol what dobsonian

[heavy ingot]

Another second hand buy

[soft zinc]

wow

Beautiful

How much did it cost

[heavy ingot]

Dobsonian is the name of this style of telescope, instead of being mounted on a tripod like other telescopes are, this one is a newtonian style telescope mounted on a wood base

i think this was like £200

[soft zinc]

ONLY WHATTTT

you got a great deal

[heavy ingot]

yeah

[soft zinc]

In Serbia its like 1000$

In Serbia the prices are a lot bigger

[heavy ingot]

second hand is the way to go if you're on a budget, this thing would be £450 new from the manufacturer

[soft zinc]

wow ok

[heavy ingot]

but i got it from a nice guy on facebook who just didn't have the time for it anymore, i think i'm actually the 3rd owner of this scope since he told me he bought it from a friend of his in london, but i'ts still in perfect working order

[soft zinc]

wow from now i will buy second hand telescopes

[heavy ingot]

if you wanna know what's good to look for, the advice i've heard is a dobsonian reflector like the one i sent with at least 6 inches of aperture

[soft zinc]

Oh

But why does everyone say that reflectors are better than reflactors

[heavy ingot]

reflectors are great because they're cheaper then refractors are

[soft zinc]

Oh ok

But some people say that they are better at collecting light why are they cheaper then?

[heavy ingot]

refractor telescopes are better then reflectors at the upper level of telescopes as i understand it, fancy refractors with lenses made from quartz and special coatings outperfrom telescopes that just use mirrors, but it's a lot more expensive to make lenses then it is to make mirrors, which means that for the same budget you can just get a bigger overall telescope if you buy a reflector

[soft zinc]

Ohhhh ok

Bro i have to go rn but i will be back in a hour or two

[heavy ingot]

no problem

[soft zinc]

Bye

[heavy ingot]

it's been great talking to you

[soft zinc]

Thanks

Byeeeeeeee

[fleet vortex]

Really nice

I'm guessing 10"?

[heavy ingot]

8 inch

[vital pewter]

pic of the partial lunar eclipse

[limber geyser]

Cool

[half marlin]

I was starting to wonder what was up with the moon

[heavy ingot]

This is probably as good as I'm gonna get orion for now

[tawdry slate]

are you untracked?

[heavy ingot]

yeah

[tawdry slate]

ah

[heavy ingot]

untracked, canon 1000D, 50mm lens

[sharp berry]

Single sub vs processed

[sour coyote]

Is that a horsehead I spy?

[heavy ingot]

just barely visible in the top left, yep

[devout jewel]

Beginner picture of star with phone

[rose lotus]

what phone

[devout jewel]

And there is a little milky way

[devout jewel]

Realme c55

And i have a picture with Andromeda

Galaxy

And i know this Orange is ugly but there is jupiter and pleiades

And a moon

And its a Saturn i know its not even look like.saturn but this is a Saturn and there is also moon and stars

[heavy ingot]

even if it's grainy, that 3rd one is a nice picture

[rose lotus]

the compression that phone does automatically is unfortunate

[heavy ingot]

I tried reprocessing this picture of M45 i took (1st image) since i learned a few things about how to do a better job with it, and im pretty happy with the difference you can see in the second image, though they're both super super noisy (not sure what to do differently to reduce that in the first place) so in the third image i did whatever i could to eliminate the noise and make the picture look pretty, though it's probably too much for some people

[ocean anvil]

orion in 8 bortel and 6 bortel

The one on the left is bortel 8

Taken with a Samsung 10+

[red anchor]

I'm weighing up which lens to use for my R7, sigma 150-500mm or the Canon 75-300mm

Also trying to find Bahtinov mask for either lens but I'm struggling to find one

[sullen holly]

the 75-300mm isn't the best quality ye

[red anchor]

I couldn't tell you, been so long since I've used it after getting the 500mm for wildlife and since I'm just starting out with astro idk which one is better for it

[sullen holly]

well,
the 75-300 is a touch higher based on aperture
but the 150-500 is generally better based on quality

[red anchor]

Ah fair, I just gotta find a mask that'll fit to help with focusing I guess

[sullen holly]

mhm

[red anchor]

Cheers mate 🙂

[sullen holly]

np

[red anchor]

Just looking forward to a clear sky to actually have some practice done...been like 6 days since the last clear sky

[sullen holly]

been 2 weeks for me

[red anchor]

Yeah it's not fun is it 😂

I tried to get my first practice run on the last clear sky but got about half the light frames as I wanted before the clouds came over and then my storage device corrupted after transferring my files off the camera 😂😭

[sullen holly]

oooooooof

dat sucks

[red anchor]

I honestly could have cried 😂

Was staying at my sister's for dog sitting, higher might pollution than at home but could still see M45 pretty well so I was like Okie let's do some test shots then...I don't have a tracker yet so it's all going to be benchmarks to compare against the tracker shots but yeah wasn't fun when the drive did that

[sullen holly]

f

[uncut thorn]

is it better to get the sony 70-200 f4 or the sigma 100-400 f5-6.3 for deep space?

[lusty shore]

better to get a prime lens, not zoom lenses

[uncut thorn]

im planning to use the lens for general photography too

[marble swift]

70-200 if you are physically unable to use anything else

lower f number but 4 is pretty bad (i think i need a 2nd opinion)

[idle violet]

Milky way on left, and andromeda on the right

[rose glade]

I think I already sent this but i don’t know

[surreal minnow]

Today's Iris nebula. About 30 mins from b9

[tawdry slate]

opinions? 2 hours from b6?

i feel ive oversaturated it

[sullen holly]

well done

You even caught the photobomb galaxy

kudos to you good sir

[ashen nebula]

WHERE IS IT

[tawdry slate]

???

[rose lotus]

bottom right

not sure if thats the one hes talking about tho

[sullen holly]

it is

@tawdry slate ^^ this is the one I was talking about

[marble swift]

turns out phones are trash and stacking is good

[queen basin]

Last night seeing for Jupiter was pretty poor, but stacking carried

Here's a better one, just to make my point

[heavy ingot]

that's a crazy good photo of jupiter

[queen basin]

What scope?

[marble swift]

Orion xt10

[mossy beacon]

Improved my pic posted yesterday

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/467646042498924544/1175850020784840888/IMG-20231118-WA0077.jpg

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/258962444196642817/1176151174307655721/r_pp_Light_stacked.jpg

[outer wraith]

Hey how do use my mobile and binoculars without mount and adaptor because I am broke

[sly perch]

You could probably diy an adaptor and then you could lean the phone and binos on a chair outside

[devout jewel]

The moon

[fading vector]

Listen.
Get a eq plate.

Eq plate and a camera

Boom god level images

Or go crazy and get a eq mount and mount this dob on it

Then after some years

Or months

Get a coma corrector

This sounds like horrible advice

Lmao

[heavy ingot]

If you mean like a motorized EQ mount then this is probably gonna be crazy expensive to do

I'm kinda confused as to what you're actually saying

[shadow whale]

Well... that's something

[fading vector]

Its like this

[finite geode]

First image using 8" dob, 10mm ep + barlow and samsung 21 phone 😊

[marble swift]

got that goofy ahh chromatic dob

also a fellow s21 user

[finite geode]

cheers, still getting used to my equipment, took a nice video of the moon as well, ill give that autostakkert a try

[sharp berry]

Shots of the moon I took last night it was 50 degrees outside was it worth getting sick

[marble swift]

getting sick from cold temps is auctually a myth!

[sharp berry]

Wdym

[austere merlin]

50°f is nothing tbh

[marble swift]

you do not get sick from cold weather

[sharp berry]

You do

[marble swift]

50f is not enough to trigger hypothermia or frostbite (i think, 90% sure though)

[sharp berry]

I spent 2 hours out and I live Florida

[marble swift]

yeah no u fine

wear a coat or something

[sharp berry]

Mate I feel like sh*t rn

And I don’t have the cold neither the flu I got a fever

[austere merlin]

ohhh that makes sense

50° is a cold snap for y’all

[marble swift]

weak

[austere merlin]

though tbh 40°f is sorta cold for me here in georgia

typical winter temperature

[half marlin]

well this is probably by far the best I can get my little SV205 camera to go with quality. like 2 nights ago I got this decent picture of jupiter and 3 of its moons including a 4th with its shadow casting on the planet on the edge. And yes its monochrome because if I try and add color it looks very ODD so if anyone has tips please tell me.

telescope is a Nexstar 102GT
Diameter: 102mm
Focal length: f/9.8 = 1000mm
frames stacked: 600 ish

[sullen holly]

9.8mm focal length?

[half marlin]

If I am correct thats in inches not MM its 1000 in mm

nvm I was wrong about the inches IDK what that measurement on the telescope is then

[sullen holly]

gimme a sec

[sullen holly]

660mm native focal length

[half marlin]

ahhhhh ok

[sullen holly]

Sorry wait

I thought the refractor

no the GT is 1000mm correct

mb

[half marlin]

oh lol there is a lot of different versions of the GT series

[sullen holly]

yep

[red anchor]

Atm I'm using a stock mirrorless camera, trying to learn as much as I can while saving for a star tracker,

Can someone give me an idiot guide to HA, O3 and all that with the filters, narrowband/broadband...all not much making much sense to me but if there's a link which has a nice easy guide to it all itd br appreciated

[heavy ingot]

Tried taking a recording of the moon with my phone through my 8 inch dob and stacking it, pretty underwhelmed with the result, not sure where in the process it went wrong but it's way sharper through the eyepiece then it is in this image which is annoying

[rapid ledge]

New to this, I've got a relatively small telescope and have recently started taking some photos. Respectively: Saturn, Overexposed jupiter with what I believe to be its moons, Jupiter and the moon.

[devout jewel]

When you zoom into this photo you see the moon is little blur and its not good for me but i think the photo is ok

[shadow whale]

What telescope do you have, cuz the photos are good, especialy the moon

[rapid ledge]

very old etx70

plus an eos550D

no other attachments or stacking

[shadow whale]

Well the camera is carrying ngl

[rapid ledge]

Absolutely

[red anchor]

Second attempt of Andromeda, Untracked shot.

[half marlin]

decided to try editing one of my jupiter pictures again and I this time used Gimp and I would say it came out pretty good along with 3 moons

can't really see the moons but they are there lol

[marble swift]

very noisy picture of saturn's moons. iapetus is barely visible in the bottom right

[half marlin]

if I am correct it is from one of its moons passing over

[compact bolt]

Filmed jupiter tjis night with my phone

[vital pewter]

my first image of the orion nebula 2.1minutes of exposure 1.6 sec exposure lenght 800iso 81 pictures

[marble swift]

camera?

[prisma oriole]

You can get a really good picture if you stack it

[compact bolt]

Got alot of pics, maybe K can search someone to stack em

[marble swift]

not sure, Jupiter is like 5 pixels in diameter and overexposed

[prisma oriole]

If you look at the video and zoom in you can see the bands and the moons meaning its exposed fine

Size really doesn’t matter in this case

[torpid veldt]

Hello

Very bad jupiter image with phone

[charred haven]

i have this.. almost same brand, omegon.. quite awesome scope

[idle violet]

Orion nebula. It's really faint but its barely there. First attempt

[idle violet]

I tried again

No, I cant afford a tracking nount

[marble swift]

are these images hadnd held or do you have a phone adapter?

[idle violet]

Phone adapter.

[marble swift]

phone seems to be slightly too close to the eyepeice, depends on the adapter but you can tilt the phone in its holding to get it a bit farther away

or move the adapter itself

[idle violet]

K

[idle violet]

It bloody worked

[slender parcel]

Gemini from my window

[sharp berry]

finaly i captured it, its a bit blury becouse i dont have an electric mount i only have an eq2

[lusty shore]

how your name got no colour ☠️

also, lower the exposure time, your stars are mildly trailed

[lusty shore]

bro pinged ryan for that 😭

[untold elk]

33 sec total exposure untracked Orion yesterday under a high luminous lamp🙃😅🥲

From a point and shoot camera

[fleet vortex]

Could you of moved spots

[rapid ledge]

....does it count if I used selective masking to only increase the exposure of the moons?

[hybrid aspen]

Took this tonight through my dobsonain with my phone. (iPhone 13 pro)
3 seconds of exposure just through the eye piece

[zenith solar]

what can i shoot with a 60mm aperture (ik its bad) i have 2mm,12.5mm,20mm eyepiece and 3x barlow with 700mm focal length?

[marble swift]

stick with wider field objects, 2mm and Barlow most likely useless

[tawdry slate]

opinion on my orion? (yes i know about the satellites)

exposure time is an hour

[shadow whale]

Orion and Running Man nebula with my 6"heritage dobson and my phone camera

[lusty shore]

pretty good, dbe might be a little wonky, the region near the edges of the nebulae are a little darker than the rest, seems that you might have a dustspot to the top left but doesnt affect it too much, as for the satellite trail you can prob just clonestamp it out or use different stacking settings with a little bit more strict pixel rejection

the core is also rather bright, could try masking to stretch it less, also noise reduction would be good, after noise reduction you can saturate the nebulae a bit more, along with the stars since theyre lacking colour

[coral frigate]

My frist photo of M42. 1 minute of data exposure time 200ms
Camera: ZWO asi 224mc
Telescope: Sky-Watcher 8" dob
tracking: by hand

[untold elk]

I'll be doing that soon will share the data

[untold elk]

Will be going that

[jolly tendon]

1 hr 40 min exposure time

didnt want to get the core too bloated so

[marble swift]

bortle?

[hard flint]

Took with my cellphone, is it good for a first photo?

[marble swift]

yeah its better than mine lol

[open zealot]

Just a phone?

Thats insane

[jolly tendon]

4-5

[sullen holly]

maybe not put them down as a beginner

[last wyvern]

Finally, a place for me

[zenith solar]

My first moon attempt

[proud urchin]

First DSOs

[pulsar wedge]

Taken a few nights ago with my Panasonic Lumix GH5M2, 150mm f/5.6. Roughly 2200 1-second exposures stacked with DSS, processed with Starnet and Photoshop. I can only assume the gradient is from the light pollution--shooting south over a city in Bortle 6

[vital pewter]

m45 133 pictures 800iso , 2,5 sec shutter time, 200mm f/4, stacked with sequator and processed with siril and gimp. after i went in i realised the stars had trails:(

[glacial jacinth]

My first attempt with an old sony A6000 + kit lens at approx. 300mm (croped in). I made 60x2min subs and processed it with deep sky stacker, siril and starnet+.

[buoyant sparrow]

Flip it (rotate)

Looks cursed upside down

But nice image

[cyan violet]

I know it might be weird question but coud anyone grab my moon picture and add some cool colors to it? Or even mąkę it better adding some background like clouds? Write on pm i woud be glad to upgrade them

[lusty shore]

you might as well just use ai to generate them in ☠️

[cyan violet]

No, i spend a lot time to mąkę them, point is im new to IT and i wanted mąkę it look Cooler like evrybody else

[slender gate]

Does anyone have suggestions on how to improve these images?

[pulsar wedge]

More exposure time, stacking, and stretching

[slender gate]

Exposure time absolutely will try and work on and stacking is done through the Seestar itself but I think I can get each individual sub so which processing tool do you suggest? Also what does stretching do I’ve heard it used a lot before but don’t know what it actually does

[pulsar wedge]

I mostly use DeepSkyStacker for stacking, Siril for some of its processing tools, and then final stretch and nebula editing in Photoshop. I'm not great at it yet tbh, but practicing a lot

Stretching is a process where you manipulate the image levels and curve to bring all of the very dim data up to a luminosity that is easily visible

For example on the left of this image is a stack of the Orion Nebula without any stretching or processing. Continuing to the right is further and further stages of processing and stretching. Again, it isn't perfect, but demonstrates the editing process

I think I was much happer with #4 than I am #5 in that collage

[marble swift]

yeah 5 is overcooked

[pulsar wedge]

I got a little crazy with masking trying to get rid of the background gradient 😅

[buoyant sparrow]

Why are you getting 3 mins of data

Go for as long as possible (but being reasonable)

[slender gate]

I would like to go longer but I was having issues with the Seestar constantly rejecting frames

[buoyant sparrow]

Alr alr

[noble finch]

afew weeks ago, got my Uranus-C first light! (seeing wasnt perfect fyi.)

[slender gate]

What’s the set up?

[noble finch]

apertura ad8, sharpcap, uranus-c, <average seeing, transparency average i believe, clouds maybe 1%?

[slender gate]

Oh okay right on and is this your most recent image?

[noble finch]

yep

[slender gate]

Do you have a good Barlow? As I would recommend using that next time

[noble finch]

i did use a barlow, specifically an Omni 2X

heres a picture with a DSLR, its a huge improvement ()

also btw the pic with my Uranus was with only like 40 seconds of data, so i couldnt get much before clouds rolled in and my laptop died

so i couldnt get the full potential of it

[slender gate]

Oh okay and do you live relatively north? Just due to seeing being poor, clouds and laptop dying? As I’ve had all of those issues before and it’s truly a pain

[noble finch]

yeah, im pretty upnorth

[slender gate]

But one good way to get around the laptop dying due to temperature is to wrap it on a towel or blanket as that keeps the exterior heat out, this has helped me recently

[slender gate]

lol I figured, just have to love the seeing conditions we have

[noble finch]

truly

[slender gate]

4 in the morning is looking pretty alright lol, and just checked my Astrospheric and I only have a day of clear skies over the next 4 days and it’s very poor transparency

[noble finch]

im already getting tired, staying up to 4 am gonna feel like

[slender gate]

It’s truly a grind and do you mainly capture planetary or DSO as well?

[noble finch]

im planetary, only DSO i can find atm is M42, and yet its still a challenge to find (i once found M31 but it was way too faint, b6 is painful)

[slender gate]

Right on and yeah DSO is annoying especially with a dob and you’re not wrong about b6 it’s truly a pain to deal with but thankfully I’m an hour from a sky preserve except I went during an almost full moon

And heading to bed now so I will see you around, goodluck with your possible early morning imaging and let me know of the results if you do go out to record

[noble finch]

im doing the same, ill get out there when the next seeing conditions are good and skies are clear, and ill snap a pic if i could, jupiter is getting lower in the sky everyday sadly, but ill try, goodnight!

[charred haven]

how does it shows transparency?

i see, its north america.. nothing like that in europe? 😦

[slender gate]

I used an app called Astrospheric on my phone to check the weather and seeing conditions I don’t know if it’s available in Europe or not but you can also go into #🤖-ask-a-bot and mention @uneven brook click on the account then say “weather in _____” then it’ll find the weather for the location

[rose lotus]

it’s only north america

[marble swift]

i use the hit website zoom.earth (yes thats the url)

[slender gate]

Have you tried using the astrobot? If not there also should be a website that shows you the detailed weather conditions, I will find the link for you

[rose lotus]

no im just informing you its only NA. I'm in NA so I also use astrospheric

[slender gate]

Oh okay, for some reason I thought you were the guy who was asking about Astrospheric earlier but also do you find that Astrospheric isn’t usually accurate

[rose lotus]

yeah ive found its off sometimes, like it’ll say its clear but the sky is covered with clouds

i guess it’s just a reason to buy the premium version

[slender gate]

Oh okay so it’s not just me going crazy and I feel like upgrading would be a waste especially if they’re already wrong.

[austere merlin]

i’ve found it’s reasonably accurate sometimes

i mostly use it to know my seeing and transparency tho

[fathom shoal]

I took some photos with an Skywatcher N200/1000 and a phone..

[idle violet]

Got a new solar filter today. It was cloudy today though.