beginners place

[exotic rapids]

Image

Clme back in

[late moss]

can you not do that by yourself?

[exotic rapids]

And yh

Yeah

[late moss]

cause if you do it all by yourself i dont really see the problem

oh

[exotic rapids]

But theres motion caneras at the back door

What about tommorow night

[late moss]

it should look like the photo i took but flipped with mars being below jupiter

i assume

[exotic rapids]

How much worse would ir be

WAIT

ONE SEC

[late moss]

?

[exotic rapids]

nooooo

Jupiter comes over the south when its sunrise

Or i couldve imaged

Cuz my bedroom window faces south

[late moss]

ok

[exotic rapids]

Ive texted my mum even tho shes sleeping if i can setup 😂😂😂

[late moss]

what time is it for you im in america

[exotic rapids]

Its 12:40

Pm

Or am

[late moss]

midnight?

[exotic rapids]

I always get confused

Ya

[late moss]

ok

12 am is midnight 12 pm is noon

its 7 pm for me

[exotic rapids]

Ahh ok thanks

Nice

[late moss]

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/ use this website and click jupiter to see where it'll be for you

i use this all the time its very useful

[exotic rapids]

I use stellarium

[late moss]

that one is alot better for detailed checkings and the one i sent is good for simple looking where the planets and stars will be

[exotic rapids]

Ahh

Wait u said it would be just flipped tommorow

And still on top of each other?

Friday morning

Uk

[late moss]

it looks like that since its zoomed out also im in the usa so it'll look different for you

[exotic rapids]

Its clear at 5am tommroow after 100% cloud

Idk when sunrise is

Lemme check stellarium

I would have a 10-20 minite window depending when it clears because its rounded to the hour so idk when itll exactly clear

[late moss]

20 minute window would def be enough to look

[exotic rapids]

Thats if it clears at 5am

Any later i have ledd

Leds

Less

W spelling

[late moss]

real

[exotic rapids]

Sunrise is 5:20

~

[late moss]

ok i think its about impossible to view jupiter past 6 then

[exotic rapids]

And my app says clouds cleat at 5am

[exotic rapids]

Yup

[late moss]

ok

where is jupiter on the map too

[exotic rapids]

Lemme check some other sources and see when sunrise is

[late moss]

ok

[exotic rapids]

One sec i might get more time

5:49 YES

WOO HOO

YEAAAAAAAA

[late moss]

so 50 minutes?

[exotic rapids]

☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️🍪🍪🍪🍪

[late moss]

🦅 🍔

[exotic rapids]

Yh about depends when clouds clear

[late moss]

yeah

clouds are a burden

[exotic rapids]

Actually burgers originate from hamburg in germany 🤓

[late moss]

🌭 🦅

[exotic rapids]

Umm actually drake is from canada 🤓🤓🤓

[late moss]

ksad

[exotic rapids]

Lol

Im gonna risk it tommorow

100%

I wish my house faced east :frowning🥲

[late moss]

just grab your house

and move it

[exotic rapids]

Real

Just move into somebodys house

Ive only gone out like twice in my 6 week holiday

[shadow whale]

Stacked please

Or wait

How much data is in that picture?

If it's a lot then just stacked, bc I didn't even install dss

[true verge]

My 2nd try at Jupiter

[exotic rapids]

Nice

[gleaming dock]

Taken from my phone

Weather was too unreliable to try to take my scope out

[hidden flax]

The best pictures so far

[exotic rapids]

Nice

[fair scaffold]

First try at jupiter with an uncollimated and dusty mirror. 10" newt

[rare tulip]

lesgooo hayden

[fair scaffold]

Ty vro 🙏

[stone forum]

I gotta try some planetary sometime

Saturn the only visible planet tho

[exotic rapids]

Dayum

I got mars jupiter and saturn

[fair scaffold]

Jupiter and mars are quite high rn

[stone forum]

Southern hemisphere

[ivory cliff]

Better then my best attempt with a dedicated camera 😂

[true verge]

Ty! I’ve just been experimenting with it and maybe if I save up I’ll by a detected camera there expensive tho

[ivory cliff]

My one is an asi 120mc-s

[ivory cliff]

It’s about $300

I’m Australian currency

[true verge]

Ik im broke

[ivory cliff]

This is the best image I’ve gotten with it so far

I’m still learning myself

I think this one’s uncompressed

Nvm

[true verge]

Dang! I just captured Saturn too but I’ll process it later

[ivory cliff]

@ me when you do

[true verge]

K

[true verge]

@ivory cliff finally finished

[ivory cliff]

Pretty good

Did you use drizzle ?

[true verge]

No what’s that

[old ocean]

More resolution

[true verge]

Thx

[craggy snow]

I just captured the andromeda galaxy, the Hercules cluster and the ring nebula with a celestron astromaster 130eq and an iPhone 11.

[exotic rapids]

Dayum nice bro!

M31 is a bit close to the moon 😦

And i cba to align 😭😭😭

[craggy snow]

Thank you

[ivory cliff]

got my best photo last night

of saturn

[rare tulip]

nice photo

[true verge]

that’s great!

[languid slate]

Tried to photograph the sun for the first time💀
Tried everything but couldn’t manage to get a better focused image

iPhone + 5" bird jones

[dire heath]

Please tell me you used a filter

[languid slate]

Solar filter

[dire heath]

Phew

[languid slate]

I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t use a filter

[dire heath]

Sometimes dummies don't use solar filters and it pretty much looks like this

Out of focus and a lot of "fog" around the disk

[languid slate]

Doesn’t your eyes burn out if you look at the sun without a solar filter

[dire heath]

Practically

[languid slate]

I mean I could see the sun spots clearly with my eye through the telescope

But somehow couldn’t take a picture with my phone

[dire heath]

The phone probably doesn't know what it's looking at, do you have manual focus or no?

[languid slate]

Yes but still didn’t work

[dire heath]

That's really weird

[dire heath]

Exposure time and bortle

?

[craggy snow]

Bortle six and 1 sec x15 (on Astro shader)

[formal walrus]

Could be tilted optics?

[ripe edge]

#1233917530989395968 message

[ashen nebula]

I burned my eye once, worse 1 week at the hospital of my life

Worst*

[normal axle]

you absolute idiot.

[ashen nebula]

I know stawp it

[normal axle]

im telling zegery you did that

[ashen nebula]

Lucky my vision works perfectly now

[ashen nebula]

DOMT

DONT

I was joking

[normal axle]

@magic geyser someone who cant read

[ashen nebula]

I was at the hospital bcs someone shot me with the toy bb gun

Right in the eye

[normal axle]

then why did you say this?

[ashen nebula]

Ciz im joking

Cuz*

Gotta throw on something to start talking

Im bored

Im gonna go for a run

[normal axle]

stop being stupid

[ashen nebula]

Ok

[cyan violet]

M31 Galaxy, 1h30min total, 10sec subs, darks, Sky watcher virtuoso gti 150p, Canon 550D, bortle 4 first ever apprach

[gleaming dock]

thats insanely impressive

would you say the scope is worth it?

How did you attach your camera to it?

[cyan violet]

I bought t ring from aliexpress for lime 10 dolars and attached to dlsr and then to eyepiece, honestly after doing a lot stuff with telescope id say if ur really on budget and want to start then its good idea but its gonna be hard and painfull to get good resoults, if you want to do a lot of it i suggest someting lese, with this telescope unfurtunetly im limited to around 6-8 seconds of single exposure wihout stara trailing,

Idk why for me for planetary its pretty bad but my guess is that my camera is not good and i woud need a planetary camera to capture more details ect, so if you want to do planetary with this telescope you need dedicated camera basicly, for visual its great

[formal walrus]

Mw photo test

I think around 5m exposure total untracked

[ripe edge]

dang

what bortle?

[formal walrus]

B6-7

[bright wadi]

So I basically know nothing about astrophotography. Can anyone recommend resources to learn from?

[exotic rapids]

What u interested in?

Planets stars galaxies etc

[bright wadi]

I’m interested in everything but it’s more what I’m limited to

I have an old camera and a small cheap Celestron

[rose lotus]

nebula photos, cuiv the lazy geek, astrobackyard

[bright wadi]

Thank you 🙏

[exotic rapids]

Which camera and scope? @bright wadi

[bright wadi]

Idk if I can see the branding on the camera anymore

And I have a cheap Celestron refractor

It was on one of Astro biscuits vids

[exotic rapids]

Could you send pics?

Or send a link to the scope

[bright wadi]

Gimmi a minute

Celestron Astromaster LT 70AZ Including Smartphone Adapter & Moon Filter available to buy online at @TAKEALOT We offer fast, reliable delivery to your door.
https://www.takealot.com/celestron-astromaster-lt-70az-including-smartphone-adapter-moon-/PLID70849186

@exotic rapids

[rose lotus]

and also astrobiscuit

[bright wadi]

I’m not really a visual learner

[rough cypress]

How do you guys edit .xisf files? I try to put them on gimp and siril but its not accepted.

[normal axle]

You need pixinsight.

Alternatively, open it in graxpert and save it as a 32bit fit, then use that in siril for processing

[rough cypress]

Oh thanks

[lusty shore]

dev versions of siril can open xisf files as well

[soft zinc]

Took these shots of saturn the other day i think they are ok (i used my phone)

Sry if i dont respond cuz i got school tomorrow

[sharp berry]

how can one stack images

[old ocean]

Deep sky stacker (DSS)

[normal axle]

siril

[rough cypress]

Mainly Dss, Siril or Sequator

[sharp berry]

took a pic of jupiter n moons with nikon coolpix s6500 hand held.. not too bad for 13 y/o cam

[ripe edge]

its a start

think its decent for B6-7

[gleaming dock]

andromeda?

[old ocean]

yes bro

[gleaming dock]

better than mine

[sharp berry]

Hi place of beginners

[soft zinc]

@sharp berry Hi begginer friend 🙂

beginner

[sharp berry]

Hi beginner friend

[civic seal]

andromeda galaxy

[craggy snow]

Dumbell nebula with a celestron astromaster 130eq and an iPhone 11 camera

[sharp berry]

What bortle mister

[craggy snow]

6

[sharp berry]

Looks good for b6

[opaque mist]

i can see triangulum galaxy too faintly good job

[glass cloud]

literally just delphinus

Samsung a71
b7
nautical twilight

[queen basin]

Screenshot from one of my videos on the moon so far

[queen basin]

1st mineral moon photo has the vibrance cranked up, second one does not

all taken with my newt. and samsung s20fe

[exotic rapids]

Nice bro!

[glass cloud]

all Samsung a71

[sly perch]

Vivitar 100-200mm f/4 lens

[ripe edge]

yea I was wondering how tf you got that with just 100mm 😅

[sly perch]

my bad lol

[heavy ingot]

finally got a picture of jupiter by holding my smartphone up to the eyepiece

Saturn photo not looking nearly as detailed

[civic seal]

tried the north american nebula idk if i missed or am i just really bad

also the left side is blurry prob because of the lens?

[marble swift]

poor phone eyepiece alignment does that

might be too close, too far. def a bit too much to the left

[formal walrus]

No, that should be it. The nebula is fairly faint though, so it'd take like a 60s exposure to bring it out

[ripe edge]

The harvest full moon. nothing special

[queen basin]

My first time ever photographing a galaxy!

[hybrid aspen]

moon

[gleaming dock]

moon

👍

[glass cloud]

moon

[hybrid aspen]

green moon👍

we dont discriminate

[glass cloud]

(real)
i think it's green bc of the WB thing on my phone (changes colour), set to 5500K for moon pics, which might also turn greys green

[glass cloud]

blue moon (aaaa)

[quaint vector]

might be a good idea to lower it to something like 4000k just so red hues dont turn it that color

[glass cloud]

k I'll try that tonight if it's clear

[sharp berry]

hey not bad

[sharp berry]

that with a 130eq is very good

[craggy snow]

Thank you

[pine jay]

hi

i have started on january 11th, 2022 my astrophotography journey and i have now recently bought a new telescope, here are my very first pics

andromeda core

dumbbell nebula

[normal axle]

[normal axle]

you can look into space

[normal axle]

lol you thought you could escape the deleted message

@novel locust exposed

[ripe edge]

yea...

[glass cloud]

yk how I said I'll try when clear
we then had like 5 days of near constant rain
now the moon is last quarter and I only might have a chance at waking up to go do some photos

[quaint vector]

good thing the moon aint going anywhere

I think...

[soft zinc]

Took this picture of the sun yesterday

Not the best but i like it

[pine jay]

hi guys

[pale skiff]

Deneb

My first time trying an EQ platform!
Specs:

• Bresser f/6 8" Dob
• 30mm eyepiece

Stacked 42x6-second exposures

Stacked in

[quaint vector]

one of my first ever proper andromeda pics (10 min of data)

Camera: Canon Rebel SL1/100D
Lens: 80-200mm f/4.5-5.6 II
Star tracker: SWSA 2i

would've gotten more data but the wind was at a constant 15 mph with gusts of 25+ mph and my battery was low

[ripe edge]

much better seeing today, and the difference is astounding

[soft zinc]

Just took my first jupiter pic (not the best but i like it)
I took it in bortle 4

Took it with my skywatcher 76/900 Eq2

[soft zinc]

This is the final stacked + a bit edited image

[ripe edge]

twilight, feels nice

[soft zinc]

What telescope and eyepiece did you use?

@queen basin

[queen basin]

Solomark 130mm newt. With an svbony 32mm lens.

I do not recommend the solomark whatsoever tho

The svbony lens? Sure why not.

[soft zinc]

Well i like the pic

[queen basin]

Ty

I might get a better one tnight

[soft zinc]

Wish you great star gazing tonight

Bye 🙂

[queen basin]

About 14 minutes of data taken in 4s shots

I have pushed my optics to a degree I don't think it's supposed to reach

Who knows how it'd do if I had some real equipment for it.

[gleaming dock]

Will deepskycamera work if theres an object in the foreground?

[outer wraith]

Nevermind it's working

[ashen nebula]

Register the stars so it detects at least 25 to 40 stars

[ripe edge]

sdmeda atmpt

ful imag

[formal walrus]

You also got the triangulum galaxy on the right too

[coarse basalt]

all taken with the seestar s50

[mossy oak]

Impressive!

[soft zinc]

WOW

[coarse basalt]

rate this mosaic showcasing 30mins vs 50mins with SeeStar

[mossy oak]

8/10. Amazing shot, and good composition. But for the 50 min exposure, it seems that there are some dark patches. Im not sure if that is some artifacts, or is the nebulosity. Other than that, amazing image!

[spring siren]

if anyome need help,dm/ping me anytime

[fallow rock]

Hey guys this is my first pic of my orion nebula i use tamron 75-300mm, 17s exposure, need more data actually

[pine jay]

nice sub

[fallow rock]

Thank you

[fallow rock]

I got another exposure time of orion nebula
1s x 500 frames
8.25 minutes of exposure

[fierce briar]

i took this last night

im new here and new to skyviewing and astrophotography but its neat so far

[soft zinc]

My first pic if a comet (C/2023 A3 Atlas)

Final pic

[formal walrus]

Comet 2023 A3 ATLAS 2 hours ago!

Dslr with 300mm lens 40s exposure

I this this was at ~175mm

[ripe edge]

idk why I never bothered to post this here. Single 13s exposure (f/4.5, ISO 400) on 15/10/24

[rare tulip]

that isnt bad bro

looks sick with a whole city

[ripe edge]

I mean yea this isn't #1233917530989395968 I'm still a beginner lol

oh wait I see what you mean now

nvm

[glass cloud]

hehehehwgwgwdgfehdgfsgaddsthrhe

[soft zinc]

ISO 620
30 exposures of 10 seconds
Bortle 4

Made with astroshader

[bright night]

hi everyone!! im about a week away from having a heq5 pro, would love to meet beginners like me, theres someone who has recently received an equatorial mount as well?

[bright night]

looks like it needs to stretch the data, maybe?

[fallow rock]

I got another subs of orion
Total exposure 11 minutes
And carina nebula around 1 minute
Caldwell 85 around 3 minutes

[mossy oak]

Yes i just got it a week back

[bright night]

what setup do you have? i'll have a HEQ5 Pro + Nikon D610 + Nikkor 70-300

not the real shit but at least the mount is prepared for the upgradeable future 😛

[mossy oak]

I have HEQ5 Pro, with Canon EOS 500D with tamron 18-400mm. I also have a skywatcher 200pds, but havent tried it yet. Ill mostly use the DSLR setup, as im looking to do deep sky

[bright night]

oh and also installed Astroberry on mi Raspberry Pi3 to act as a sort of cheap AsiAIR hehe

[bright night]

woahh heq5 pro seems to be the real deal, nice setup

[mossy oak]

Thanks!

[bright night]

i'm looking forward to automate all i can

[mossy oak]

Yea i might do that later this year

[bright night]

i cannot recommend you more using a bahtinov mask! it simplifies a lot the focusing

[mossy oak]

Understood. Thanks for the advice!

[ripe edge]

lunar occultation of saturn (screenshot from a video)

[soft zinc]

Yea

[soft zinc]

What is this supposed to be???

(The first image)

[exotic rapids]

Orion constellation

[fallow rock]

just increasing my subs

like around 8 more minutes

nebula definitely getting brighter

compared to first and the second

first one around 8 minutes, increased to 11 minutes, into 19 minutes now

definitely getting more subs

[soft zinc]

Beautiful!!!

[marble swift]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

also what are you processing in?

[fallow rock]

Sequator

And siril

Man doing this untracked really make my pc storage gone

[marble swift]

sequator is bad

figure out how to siril

[fallow rock]

Siril its ok, but ive 40+ gig raw data and want me to insert to siril?

No storage lmao

So i choose sequator instead

[marble swift]

ah

maybe deepskystacker then?

or just get more storage i dunno

sequator messes with the colors

[fallow rock]

Yea im considering upgrade my ssd tho

So i can stack at siril

Siril sometimes better at stacking process

[fallow rock]

Already try that but yeah.. after 1300 images
Only 200 hundred inserted

[marble swift]

rip

[pine jay]

hi

[soft zinc]

hi :]

[hybrid tiger]

Orion (:

[pine jay]

Orion 30 min

[normal axle]

Where are the stars

[hybrid tiger]

Starnet (:

[normal axle]

get them back

[hybrid tiger]

Why

I quite like it this way

[normal axle]

show us the stars

[hybrid tiger]

I have a version for it but it’s not processed the same way

[normal axle]

reprocess it with stars

[hybrid tiger]

More noisy cuz no denosiing on this

[hybrid tiger]

Ok sure

[mossy oak]

How do u denoise?

[hybrid tiger]

Use graxpert

Free denoising software

[mossy oak]

Isnt that 99 pounds

[hybrid tiger]

no?

That’s noisex from pixinsight

[mossy oak]

Oh thats gradientextermunator

Ok alr

Thx

[hybrid tiger]

Yw

I also recently downloaded it it’s pretty good

[pine jay]

i did 1 h 30 min on this

[gleaming dock]

Should I try to get the orion nebula with the 10x lens on my phone

[buoyant stream]

YES

[opaque mist]

doid u take that in bb9 or smth?the pic is good but for 2 hours u should have way more orion structure

heres my 1 hour with phone and 6" dob

[opaque mist]

10 times on phone? its digital zoom so it prob gonnna turn out really bad

[stiff horizon]

Should I get a camera adapter for my Celestron Nexstar 130?

I'm trying to take photos of planets/the sky.

[hybrid tiger]

Yea sure

[pine jay]

yep i did

sry i texted wrong this is 30 min of orion

[opaque mist]

ohhhhhhhhh okk

[pine jay]

yea i got a bit confused mb

[gleaming dock]

I have a s22 ultra so theres a 10x telephoto lens

[opaque mist]

oh then sure

[hybrid tiger]

Don’t zoom in too much tbh

[quaint vector]

the 10x can get some surprisingly good deep sky pictures as long as you're in low bortle

like low 4 and below

[hybrid tiger]

Eh still tho

[quaint vector]

I picked up the flame nebula in bortle 9 with only an hour of data

I plan on shooting andromeda once I find the time and do some repairs on my 2i

(or just buy a GTI)

[hybrid tiger]

Yea cuz it isn’t that dim

[quaint vector]

still impressive since the lens and sensor is absolutely tiny

albeit get enough data of any object and you'll eventually pick it up (to a point)

[fallow rock]

Got another subs

[hollow canopy]

why is the milky way so dim ( captured with iphone 14 and night cap, stacked with siril)

[formal walrus]

Possibly out of focus and too low iso setting

How long was your exposure?

[hollow canopy]

30 seconds

[formal walrus]

You should try 10 minutes+. You can do this by learning how to stack photos. Make sure to use raw mode too

Stacking is really easy. But for trailed stars like this, you'd have better luck in siril than dss

Or lower exposure time to 10s

[hollow canopy]

I did stack, I stacked 30 second images and got a total exposure of 900 seconds

[opaque mist]

can u give me the data pls? your process has clipped blacks and whites

[fallow rock]

sureee

suck at processing

[opaque mist]

i think i can make it really nice

[fallow rock]

really?

[opaque mist]

yh this is before and after of myy orion pic

[fallow rock]

my data its... little bit different idk

[opaque mist]

just let me try

[fallow rock]

okay

[fallow rock]

there you go

[opaque mist]

thanks im gonna processs it now

[fallow rock]

okayy

[opaque mist]

its turning out good

[fallow rock]

thats the point where i clipped my white

lmao

at that point i keep stretching it

[fallow rock]

yeahhh nice thoo

[opaque mist]

it still has a long way to fo so its gonna become way better

[rare tulip]

Did a dirty AstroShader edit

[fallow rock]

dude really?

cant waitt

[opaque mist]

i also processed mine in astroshaderr, i llike this more

[rare tulip]

Yours is goontatsic

[opaque mist]

[rare tulip]

I’m A pro frier

Also it’s 3 I should sleep

[opaque mist]

gn pook

[opaque mist]

im almost done

[opaque mist]

here it is

[fallow rock]

wowwww

at least i can see the runningman nebula there

wowww damn

thank you so much

alot better than mine

[fallow rock]

hopefully i can take this extra crisp crazy sharpness over here

[opaque mist]

no problem man! tag me when u need to andd for tiips

[opaque mist]

u can put your data in the blurx request feed, there u can ask for people to use blurx onn your image (blurx is a software that costs 100bucks and makes your immages sharper)

[fallow rock]

alright thanks

[fallow rock]

ahhh i seee

okayy

its crowded tho lmao

[opaque mist]

they blurxed mine so i think they gonna blurx yours too

[fallow rock]

alright alrigt

lemme try

thanks tho

[bright night]

not a single good weather night in my area for a week in spain 😅 got my first equipment (HEQ5+ Nikon D610 + 300mm lens) and cannot try it yet 😵‍💫

i am so amazed, astroberry is such a powerful and easy tool

[mossy oak]

I have similar equipment. Got it 3 weeks ago. Today was the first night i could try it because the clouds finally cleared. I was having a problem that my dslr (canon 500d with 400mm lens) was too light for counterweight supplied. What counterweight mass do you have?

[bright night]

i have the same hypotethical issue, the guys from the shop www.telescopiomania.com suggested me that with that light equipment, i could try to not use the counterseight bar at all

[bright night]

i think we do not need balancing when the payload is so light, because the purpose of balancing is to not overstress the R.A and DEC axis if i am right. Let me know if your session was alright!

[mossy oak]

Update: I tried it yesterday, but without the counterwight, the camera is too heavy (very unbalanced RA). But with the counterweight, the camera is too light lol. I did some research and found that there is a 2 kg counterweight for this mount, so will probably have to buy that

Wanted to add this here, because it was my first night using an eq mount with an 8 inch telescope (the the 8 inch with the mount)

So i think i did pretty good for a beginner

[bright night]

oh thank you, then probably that applies for my setup too

[mossy oak]

No problem

The link for counterweight:
https://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/skywatcher-19kg-counterweight-fits-eq3eq5heq5eq6.html

[opaque mist]

❤️ahh nebula

[mossy oak]

LMAO

[soft plover]

1 h 40mins i think at iso 1600

[languid nova]

Ohhh mann, one of the best images that I have seen of the seven sisters is this one.

[hybrid tiger]

That’s so cool wth

[mossy oak]

The spikes are crazy beautiful

[quaint vector]

what's your gear

ah, it says in your bio

other than the coma, it's pretty solid

[pseudo pasture]

whys my jupiter so shitty

[hybrid tiger]

Show

[pseudo pasture]

Its so cringe photo that i cant😭

[quaint vector]

no matter what you show, we've all definitely seen or taken worse

[hybrid haven]

bro yall are cool as shit

I’m jealous of you guys I don’t have a expensive telescope

[quaint vector]

this is probably one of the few big hobby servers that almost never gets toxic

whats your gear?

[hybrid haven]

here’s a pic of the moon I got in september

[quaint vector]

just phone or a camera?

[hybrid haven]

a phone

[quaint vector]

samsung?

[hybrid haven]

iPhone 15

I had a telescope with a phone attachment

I do want that new samsung tho for its zoom

[quaint vector]

ah, i was thinking apple finally caught up in telephoto lenses

[hybrid haven]

sadly they aren’t worried about that

[quaint vector]

the 24 is probably a downgrade from the 23 and 22

[hybrid haven]

they have too much of a loyal fanbase to care

you think so?

[quaint vector]

im 80% certain

[hybrid haven]

interesting

[quaint vector]

comparing my own pics with samples from the 24

the sensor is larger by a whole 30mp but it just doesnt compare with the older gens at a distance

[hybrid haven]

it could just be you’re the better photographer

than who was taking those samples

[quaint vector]

eh, i wouldnt go that far as much as much as id love to agree

i think its just down to the optics being suited for longer FL

pixels cant really replace the sharper and longer throw glass

i hope they switch back with the 25, but that isnt looking bright

[quaint vector]

back to your gear, a phone is more than enough for beginner astro, at least for AP

binoculars would do well if youre going visual

[pseudo pasture]

Uhh ok

@quaint vector @hybrid tiger

My best one

Is bad

I can even see the planet well

It looks vetter irl that this

[quaint vector]

better than what I can get

or at least have attempted

not really a planetary person myself, more deep space

you got the bands, thats def a start

[hybrid tiger]

How is a photo cringe man

I mean like an Astro photo

[hybrid tiger]

Nice

[pseudo pasture]

Wellbad

[pseudo pasture]

Uhh thanks

Im not happy with it tho

[hybrid tiger]

Ok

Everyone starts somewhere, don’t put yourself down when ur images aren’t as great as others who have done this for a while

Ur image is great for someone starting out

[hybrid tiger]

Don’t

The moon pics from it are fake

AI

https://youtu.be/EKYJ-gwGLXQ?si=Z40AYSB2aXcc_Uqn

[hybrid haven]

the AI just enhances the photos every smart phone uses AI to enhance photos

[hybrid tiger]

no

It doesn’t enhance it literally just makes it appear

Watch the vid u will understand

[normal axle]

samsung phones in general are better than iphones imo

[hybrid tiger]

I just use iPhone cuz of IOS I like it better

But I’m planning for my next phone to be Samsung tbh

Most likely

[opaque mist]

uu dont need an expensive telescope to take good images, i use a simple 6' dob annd phone and get decent pics

[lament swallow]

stupid question - how do you get it to actually focus? My jupiter just looks like a glowing orb

[normal axle]

make it as small as possible

[lament swallow]

Oh sorry, I meant through the phone camera
It looks normal when I look at it through the eyepiece

[dire heath]

Phones just do that

It is in focus

Reduce iso and exposure but besides thst you can't really do anything

[pseudo pasture]

Sorry i put that 1 image twice

Am i considered beginner anymore?🥺

[pseudo pasture]

Bruh

[hybrid tiger]

Well, am I still a beginner?

[pseudo pasture]

No

Looks so good

Or what u think urself?

[hybrid tiger]

Tysm bro

I’m not sure that’s why I asked lol

But Ty

Ur NA nebula looks really good dude

Better than my image

[pseudo pasture]

And thanks goes to 1 person from here (i dont remember rn his name but he processes it like that for me🥹)

Thank u

[hybrid tiger]

Nice processor

Yw

Try to process urself too

Data seems to have potential

Can I have the stacked file? I’ll give it a go tommorow

Please

[pseudo pasture]

Yes if i find it lol

But

Tomorroe

Cause im in bed gonna sleep soon

So ye

Ofc

[pseudo pasture]

I did tru

[pseudo pasture]

Processor😂😂

I got i3-6100t😂😂

[hybrid tiger]

Ok gn Bro

[pseudo pasture]

Ok

Not gonna sleep yet

But not gonna turn my pc on

😅

[hybrid tiger]

Ok lol

I’m gonna sleep soon too

[pseudo pasture]

Ok

What is the time there

[hybrid tiger]

1:58AM

[pseudo pasture]

Irs 12 am here

Or 24.00

[rare tulip]

@normal axle

[normal axle]

Cheese

[rare tulip]

hep guys i pressed a random button and now i cant see home, adjustments/layers and toolbar randomly appears when i hover where it should be

fixed

[tight meteor]

First photos of Jupiter and Saturn with my wobbly phone through my wobbly scope.

And Comet Tsuchschan earlier this year.

[timber pine]

I feel like the stars could use a bit of work

are they bloated or out of focus?

[quaint vector]

definitely seems like it's out of focus

[timber pine]

Ahhh i see. Any tips I could use to help it out?

[quaint vector]

what did you use to get the picture

as in the camera

is it anything with digital zoom?

[timber pine]

i'm only using a planetary camera

it's the zwo asi585mc

[quaint vector]

I got no idea if that has a digital zoom feature

but if you do, use it to dial in the focus + a bahtinov mask

[timber pine]

I should definitely get a bahtinov mask

don't have one yet

[urban kite]

First time trying it out. Light pollution is gnarly, my street lamps are so bright.

Lots 'n lots of noise. It's cropped, but shot it at 16mm F/1.4 800 ISO for an exposure of 15s

Still trying to figure out a bunch of the camera settings.

Ended up taking 16-20 different photos with ISOs ranging from 50-800 and exposures from 4s-25s

[urban kite]

^ These settings ended up getting me the best single photo "score" in Deep Sky Stacker

I think the next time I tackle this again, I'd try two things:

1. Try to get away from street lamps. Post processing was brutal and I could probably avoid some of the more extreme lighting issues if I took a walk and shot in a more exclusive space. Could also drive about 30 minutes for some minorly improved skies (5 vs 7).

2. If this is the right direction and there's no more tweaks to do w/ camera settings, I'd probably take a chunk of these photos and stack 'em together to try and reduce the noise. Andromeda is up early in the evening right now and I'd like to see if I can get lucky piecing even a bit of it together.

What else should I do?

[fallow rock]

Can someone process my orion data?

30 min of exposures

Mine was very noisy

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NIPQ06jaU7SSp3ThPBmdihyK9ZveKerO/view?usp=sharing

[fallow rock]

Heres the link if someone want to process it

Thanks in advance

[hybrid tiger]

Did u focus properly?

Great image but focus is wonky

[fallow rock]

Yess

Dont have bahtinov mask

So i use 10x times to focus it

In my camera

[formal walrus]

the sun today vs the 30th (Today on the left) different iso but same exposure length

[soft zinc]

very cool you can see the sun is rotating

also how much does a decent 0,5 focal reducer cost and what one is the best (budget friendly)

[urban kite]

Tried stackin Orion's Nebula. No tracker, but decent for a first try. Baby steps

[quaint vector]

bit out of focus but actually not bad for your first try

[urban kite]

I’m gonna make a bahtinov mask for my telescope to see if I can line it up

I couldn’t figure out how to make the camera digitally zoom attached to my telescope instead of having a lens

I’ll be in some decently dark skies this weekend for a bit (lvl 2). Any good ideas for what I should try and nab? Untracked mind you

[hybrid tiger]

Nice dude

[quaint vector]

The rosette nebula might be a good target depending on your FL

But judging from your picture, is should be nicely framed

[lusty shore]

rosette isnt all that easy for a stock dslr which i assume he is using

[quaint vector]

fair point, just thought it might have an easier time picking it up from a B2

[fallow rock]

how u guys think about this photo?

[lusty shore]

colorful and splotchy, background is a mess, details completely gone from what i assume is denoising, stars look like their opacity is at 75%

[fallow rock]

Rip

Untracked tho so...

Man idk how to properly process it

Kind of new of deep sky object

[urban kite]

When focusing, do I focus on the brightest star in the frame or the less bright ones I can see?

[quaint vector]

Brightest star works

[quaint vector]

You're using a DSLR right?

[urban kite]

Yep yep, what should I watch out for??

[quaint vector]

Is it on the newer side or secondhand?

[urban kite]

It’s a ZV-E10, completely new

[quaint vector]

Fancy, I'd say use the digital zoom to your advantage

Center the star you're using to focus and zoom in 5x to really get as sharp as you can

[urban kite]

I’ll absolutely try, It kept giving me errors due the camera being connected to my telescope rather than a “lens”

[quaint vector]

Ah yea, there's some settings you can fiddle with to bypass that I believe

[urban kite]

I think there’s a setting somewhere to force it 😭 but I don’t know enough abt the camera

[quaint vector]

There's a few good articles and videos on it, once you at least know the settings name, you should be able to find it on your own

I had to do some looking before I figured it out myself

[urban kite]

Man I was so excited last night

I managed to hook my iPhone up to it

And take photos remotely so it wouldn’t shake (and I wouldn’t have to put a 10s timer between presses)

[quaint vector]

That's another level that I haven't quite reached yet 😅

I'm just working with a Rebel SL1 that I picked up a year ago for a decent price

And sometimes my phone just for a bit of fun

[urban kite]

ah fair game, my cameras are from work, so I’m no better!

Just luckier

[quaint vector]

What scope+mount are you running if any?

[urban kite]

I have a silly little Celestron Omni that I got a few years ago

Think it’s 102?

[quaint vector]

Is it a refractor?

[urban kite]

yep!

[quaint vector]

Haven't seen those used much for imaging

Then again this is coming from the person that uses a mak as a deep sky scope

No matter

[urban kite]

😂 id love something cool but it’s definitely well out of the price range

[quaint vector]

90% of this server feels the same for sure

[wheat spade]

Took a ten second exposure on my phone

[urban kite]

Why’s it no good for imaging?

[quaint vector]

It isn't exactly bad, I'm just saying it's one of the less common ones I see

[wheat spade]

Hey I did take this in a light polluted area so it’s good for it’s area

[quaint vector]

They're mainly visual scopes so people don't think to use them for AP

[wheat spade]

True

[urban kite]

Fair game

I can’t wait to get something that tracks

I could take hundreds of photos and it works out to only like 5 minutes of total exposure 😭

[quaint vector]

I feel that

Back when I was imaging a ton, I was mainly untracked

Only "recently" I've gotten a tracker but I just can't find the time to drive 3 hours to avoid light pollution

[wheat spade]

I know this isn’t astrology related but I’m better at taking pictures of weather than the stars

[urban kite]

YOOOO my degree is in Meteorology

This is EPIC

[quaint vector]

Astronomy, but close enough

I'm an amateur storm chaser myself

At least I try to be 💀

[urban kite]

Haha my gf did that for a few years with a team

[wheat spade]

Also there’s this

[quaint vector]

Going down to the south-central US for the 25 storm season

[urban kite]

Ooh have fun that’s where I’m at

[quaint vector]

Lucky bastard 😆

Although the Midwest does get a decent bit of action

[wheat spade]

Did y’all hear about the Elkorn Nebraska tornado back in April

[urban kite]

I did see that

[wheat spade]

Yeah I was in that tornado

[quaint vector]

The EF4?

Scary, I'd imagine

[wheat spade]

Here’s that tornado

[urban kite]

Gorgeous, terrifying but so incredible

Anyways

[wheat spade]

Mile and a half wide

[urban kite]

I gotta head cross state to get some goodies before my star adventures this weekend

Thanks for answering my questions

I’ll try again tonight 🙂

[quaint vector]

Good luck!

Be safe and clear skies

[quaint vector]

Ooo that reminds me I should probs post some of my lightning pics in the photo channel

I'll do that after I get some sleep 😭

[wheat spade]

I know this has no relation to space but I made this edit and it was a pain to make

[hybrid tiger]

Bro

Am I still considered a beginner fellas? 2 hours 5 mins from bortle 9 unfiltered

[urban kite]

Day 2 of attempting the Orion Nebula

[quaint vector]

much better

[urban kite]

I hate how overblown the stars get during processing

mostly due to my lack of knowledge there :L

[quaint vector]

eh cant really avoid bad glass

you really gotta process to remove it

[hybrid tiger]

Nicee

[urban kite]

Yea I assume you'd really have to do something to them seperately

[quaint vector]

had the same thing in mine

[urban kite]

ah fair game

[quaint vector]

well of course discord hates JPGs

but you get the point

[urban kite]

5 minutes of exposure 😄 Untracked

[hybrid tiger]

It’s just bad optics sadly

[urban kite]

I'd die for more

[hybrid tiger]

U can stack data from multiple nights btw

[urban kite]

god so true

I might start doing that

[quaint vector]

as long as the data is equal quality

[urban kite]

Im not one for the cold so I can only sit outside for about an hour

[quaint vector]

I just head inside while its imaging

[urban kite]

me having to adjust my Azimuth mount every 15 shots

[quaint vector]

fair

[urban kite]

I think my next goal is try and see how many nights I can push it till I get an hour of exposure

[quaint vector]

you can probs get it done in 2 nights if you're efficient

[urban kite]

(or I could beg my family for a star tracker)

[hybrid tiger]

A star tracker is really helpful

[urban kite]

One day!

[quaint vector]

saved for my 2i since it isnt super expensive

[urban kite]

Im with it

[quaint vector]

although if you can, i'd spare the extra couple hundred for the GTI

[urban kite]

whys that?

[quaint vector]

Go-to capability

[hybrid tiger]

GOTO is so helpful

[urban kite]

??

[hybrid tiger]

Especially in light polluted conditions

[urban kite]

What's GoTo

[hybrid tiger]

Points at objects for you

[quaint vector]

basically it aligns itself to a target

[urban kite]

what

[quaint vector]

I believe the GTI is the cheapest Go-to mount on the market at around $500

[urban kite]

hold on i gotta look up a video

[hybrid tiger]

Example: u wanna image Orion Nebula. U search for it in the app and then press goto

It will point at it for you

[urban kite]

and track?

[hybrid tiger]

Instead of you pointing at it manually

[hybrid tiger]

Yes

It’s also a star tracker

It’s my mount

[quaint vector]

its what most refer to as a "mount"

rather than just a tracker

[hybrid tiger]

It’s this mount

[quaint vector]

cute setup (as a compliment)

[urban kite]

thats really cool yall

[hybrid tiger]

Ty lol

[urban kite]

Ill try n save up

[hybrid tiger]

It’s smol

[hybrid tiger]

Keep in mind u can’t put any big scopes on this

Low payload capacity

But ur dslr and lens will be fine

U can put 50-70mm refractors on it tho

[quaint vector]

although the 2i def serves its purpose as one of the best portable trackers

[hybrid tiger]

Yep!

If ur okay with manually finding the objects it’s great

[quaint vector]

I've abused it far too much to admit and it still tracks well

[hybrid tiger]

@urban kite I have a question for you, from the place of ur imaging, can u see Polaris?

[hybrid tiger]

Lmao

[urban kite]

sometimes

[quaint vector]

nothing you can put on it will have the focal length to be difficult to find a target

[hybrid tiger]

Why sometimes?

[quaint vector]

sometimes...?

[urban kite]

buildings get in the way 😭

[hybrid tiger]

Doesn’t make sense since it never moves in the sky

[quaint vector]

do the buildings move...?

[hybrid tiger]

Yep. Get a GOTO mount then

I am in the same case as urs

[urban kite]

no but I also don't either

[hybrid tiger]

I live in a city

[urban kite]

😂

[hybrid tiger]

Ur forced to get a GOTO mount to polar align

For Three Point polar alignment

[quaint vector]

I'm fortunate enough to have an apartment with a backyard in a couple weeks so i'll be going ham with imaging eventually

[hybrid tiger]

Lucky

I’m in a balcony

[quaint vector]

but yea light pollution is a geniune problem here

[urban kite]

I might be moving to uh Minnesota

[hybrid tiger]

I’m bortle 9

[quaint vector]

dark

same

[urban kite]

so better skies and less buildings

[hybrid tiger]

MINNESODA!

[quaint vector]

17 SQM

SODAAAAAAAAAAAA

[urban kite]

obamna

[hybrid tiger]

I like obamna more

[urban kite]

real

[quaint vector]

god I cant wait to break out the inconvenient rig

[hybrid tiger]

Obamna 😢

[hybrid tiger]

What are u getting?

[quaint vector]

I only have 2 setups I use

a galaxy S22 Ultra and a 2i

[hybrid tiger]

Damn

U use s22 for the moon?

[urban kite]

is that a phone?

[hybrid tiger]

Yes

[quaint vector]

or an SVBony MK105 with a DSLR and tracker

[hybrid tiger]

cool

[quaint vector]

so either low power low mag or insanely high FL and not much light gathering

its truly a learning experience

[hybrid tiger]

Damn

[quaint vector]

I wanna push my phone to it's limit

[urban kite]

got any cool photos?

[quaint vector]

uh, not visually pleasing but definitely progress

this is from my untracked days

not too clean data since most of it is taken in bortle 9 summer skies

and y'know

with a phone...

its roughly 40 min of data

I think

[urban kite]

oh man I'd love to get a photo of Andromeda like that

😄

[quaint vector]

oh for you it'll be extremely easy

you would probs only need 5 minutes to match that level of data

[urban kite]

😂 potentially

I tried already and I didn't get much

but I've also learned a bit since last week

[quaint vector]

do you have a pic of it?

[hybrid tiger]

Yo nice

[hybrid tiger]

You can get wayyy better dude

[hybrid tiger]

You will prob get this in single exposures

[quaint vector]

yea keep in mind thats with nothin but a phone and tripod

[urban kite]

This was just my DLSR

[quaint vector]

you have a camera and lens

[hybrid tiger]

@quaint vector what do you think?

[quaint vector]

ough the smudge

[urban kite]

😂

[hybrid tiger]

Smudgey

[quaint vector]

tad bit red

[hybrid tiger]

Yep

Badly processed ik

[quaint vector]

but overall its pretty solid data

[hybrid tiger]

Ye thanks

Needs more tho

This is heavily denoised

And cropped a lot too

[quaint vector]

ah

I dont really do anything to my pics except stretch and maybe a BG extract

and ofc color correction/cleanup

[urban kite]

welp

another late night

another cool photo

I'm off to bed

[quaint vector]

goonigh

[urban kite]

tomorrow I've got an 9 hour drive to bortle 2

😂

[quaint vector]

I'm probs gonna stay up since I got work in 3 hours

even though I got off 2 hours ago

the blue collar life is NOT a great one

[urban kite]

god speed

[hybrid tiger]

What’s color cleanup

[quaint vector]

as in color correction and cleanup

I can absolutely go for mac and cheese bites right now

[hybrid tiger]

@quaint vector

you there?

i did a few touches

[quaint vector]

bit more balanced

can you get away with stretching a bit more?

[fallow rock]

Carina nebula reprocess

Background kind of mess 💀

[hybrid tiger]

Yep

I was also thinking, thanks for the tip I’ll try

yipeeee yep its better

tyyyyyy

[fallow rock]

You use what app to stack?

[hybrid tiger]

i used DSS here

[fallow rock]

Same issue tho, had like gradient in there

😦

[hybrid tiger]

damn

[hybrid tiger]

@quaint vector sorrry for pinging a lot but what do you think now

[quaint vector]

better

Im gonna try to get an hour or two of sleep tho

[potent dove]

First attempt at the Orion nebula. Shot with a C8 on a AZEQ5 mount. The camera is a Nikon D750 and there's a 0.6 reducer in play, that is what's causing the vignetting. What do you guys think?

I only took dark frames for calibration

[hybrid tiger]

ok

gn broski

ty

[hybrid tiger]

niceeeee

[potent dove]

thx

[fallow rock]

Look sick

But yea the core had been blasted

Recommend turn slightly down the highlight

[hybrid tiger]

@potent dove

Send me the data please , I’ll attempt

[potent dove]

Do you want the individual lights or the stacked linear image?

I have one with 165 images stacked and the other that is 99 images with 2x drizzle

[potent dove]

The one I sent is a the latter processed

[fallow rock]

Lemme try yours

Can?