beginners place

[hybrid tiger]

Yep sure!

Just gimme a moment pls

[fallow rock]

Okee

Its ok

What bortle and what gear do you use?

[hybrid tiger]

Bortle 9

I use a QHY533c camera

SWSAGTI Mount

And WO spacecat 51 scope

No filter and no guiding

[fallow rock]

Nice data

[potent dove]

@hybrid tiger I can't send it here because it's 883MB

Should I use Google Drive?

Wait I can crop the vignetting immediatly so it's a smaller file

[hybrid tiger]

U have to use Google drive yes

@potent dove just put the raw file in drive

There’s no other way

[potent dove]

I'm uploading it

Give it a few minutes

[hybrid tiger]

Alr

Thanks

[potent dove]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wnwl3F1weI0WnjSz7NLTSkZbRrcgWrg-/view?usp=sharing

[potent dove]

Let me know when you start processing it

[hybrid tiger]

Alright bro thanks

[potent dove]

@hybrid tiger any progress?

[lusty shore]

ive thought about going for meteorology as well but im a tad dumb

[urban kite]

Hey me too! My gpa is trash but I’m still gettin the degree. 😄

Because of the lack of meteorology students, the job market is fairly open. Not a super lucrative major though.

I’d only recommend it if you truly love weather and that’s fulfilling.

[hybrid tiger]

Didn’t process yet sorry

I’m out

Lol

[hybrid tiger]

I’m also quite interested in meteorology

[wheat spade]

Hey I worked really hard on it it took me 3 months to make

[urban kite]

If you ever wanna know more just ask! Both me and my girlfriend are weather nuts. She use to storm chase and is currently getting her Masters and im a simple undergraduate dunce

[ripe edge]

dang

did she chase any of the infamous ones?

[urban kite]

Nah she stuck to the northern Texas Oklahoma area most of the time

Some nice shelf’s and cells but that’s about it

[hybrid tiger]

Oh that’s cool!thanks

I also like trying to predict the weather

I’m always updated on storm news too

[quaint vector]

I am crumbling at the seams

In other news I've started saving for a proper mount, maybe an HEQ5

I should be able to get it in a paycheck

[hybrid tiger]

Noice

Gl man

That’s a great mount

[lusty shore]

i enjoy thunderstorms and storms in general, have cycled after a good few during the summers here

[urban kite]

Ah me too! That’s my favorite section of meteorology

[vernal hollow]

I’m still a beginner sometimes 🥺

[normal axle]

im a beginner to tracked imaging

[vernal hollow]

I’m a beginner to mono

[potent dove]

I've a question

Has someone here used a 72ED from SW? I'm currently saving up for an apo refractor

[autumn elm]

Hello

Like mine

[quaint vector]

do you stack?

I'd assume not if you're new

[quaint vector]

if there's one thing you can and should learn immediately, its stacking

[autumn elm]

I don’t stack

[quaint vector]

then I recommend getting software to do so

it's probably the single most useful ability in astrophotography

DeepSkyStacker is a simple and effective one

[autumn elm]

I only have a apple laptop

[quaint vector]

and thats fine

there's other software

I believe Siril works

but thats a bit more complicated to use in terms of stacking

[autumn elm]

Wait but I take these pictures on my phone how do I send it to my laptop

[quaint vector]

I mean you could just plug it directly in

[autumn elm]

Now I know

Im go stack these photos

[quaint vector]

alr good luck

[potent dove]

I think there are softwares to stack that can be installed on smartphones too

[craggy herald]

Hey friends! Is there any secret trick to figure out what ISO to use for deep sky targets? Or is it all trial and error? (I live in a pretty heavily light polluted location if that helps)

[marble swift]

depends too much on equipment to really have a perfect number

trial and error works

like a 30s bare phone exposure would be like 100 iso compared to the 3200 of a 0.5s telescope frame

[craggy herald]

ooh ok thank you! I was really hoping there was a trick 😅 I'm shooting with an untracked dob + on my phone so it's such a pain to trial and error with image stacking

[marble swift]

ive had phone astro stack only twice lol

good luck 👍

[craggy herald]

thanks! hopefully it doesn't reject over 50% of my frames like last time

[marble swift]

simply get double the frames

[lusty shore]

what should one actually study/learn for the field? quite clueless about what it actually entails

[urban kite]

Well it’s very very math and physics intensive. So that’s gonna be your foundation.

Past that, meteorology itself is its own deeper science that has a multitude of facets. From climatology and pollution chemistry to forecasting and thermodynamics, each subset has its own set of distinct requirements or learning objectives.

I’m very fortunate to have found myself at one of the best universities in the nation for Meteorology, with its own dedicated and specific program.

[lusty shore]

math

[urban kite]

Me too 💀

[potent dove]

Bruh math is beatiful

[urban kite]

I spent 2-3 years just dedicated to maths before I was in deeper meteorology utilizing them

[lusty shore]

dont think thats gonna be for me then, math fries my brain real quickly

[marble swift]

math is for lame nerds, not the cool nerd

[potent dove]

I disagree a lot. Math is everything. The issue is that the math they teach in school is just arithmetic and that's boring as hell

[urban kite]

Hey @quaint vector what kind of iso do you think I should if I’m gonna go for a long exposure across multiple nights?

So far I’ve been using 6400, but I worry that across 3-5 hours of exposure it’ll blow out the brighter lights.

should I lower it or does it really matter

[hybrid tiger]

What bortle? What cam?

[urban kite]

Bortle 7, zv-e10

[hybrid tiger]

Don’t know much about that cam but 6400 is quite high yea

Keep it under especially in light pollution

[urban kite]

What do you think is a decent range?

I know with the more photos I take it’ll be fine and won’t blow it out as much

[hybrid tiger]

Maybe 1600-3200

[potent dove]

Check the noise your camera's sensor makes with that ISO

There's a website called "photons to light" that is helpful

I think it's called like that at least

[urban kite]

What am I lookin at

PDR 6400 is 5.22

[potent dove]

Photographic dynamic range is not the spec you should look at

Check reading noise first

[urban kite]

Is this correct

Or this correct

[potent dove]

The higher the iso the lower reading noise is I think

But reading noise is just part of the issue

[urban kite]

Fair game just curious to know what numbers to watch out for

[potent dove]

I unfortunately don't remember the name of the thing you should be looking for

I thought I did but I don't lol

[urban kite]

That’s ok! Cant hurt just goin at it at a lower ISO anyways

😄

[potent dove]

Yeah try 3200

[urban kite]

I’m trying to stack a bunch before Christmas here to make a Christmas gift

[hybrid tiger]

Yes, my bad. Forgot about that site

[lusty shore]

use the ISO options in that regions, basically 400-3200

doesnt matter too much which you choose from there, as long as your exposures come out good (histogram peak a third to half way to the right, no peaks on the right side touching the histogram wall)

[urban kite]

Thanks! I’ll give 3200 a try!

Any tips for stacking across multiple nights??

[quaint vector]

Bit late to the convo since I'm rotting from strep but I usually use a pretty low ISO like 800 when imaging for a while. As for the stacking, take calibration frames, they will absolutely help any anomalies that would show up like dust or vignetting

[urban kite]

I shoot untracked with my telescope so I can only really go for about .6 seconds. Is 800 too low with that in mind?

[quaint vector]

if you're planning to collect a ton of data, not really

[urban kite]

Trying for minimum 6000 frames

[quaint vector]

most people go down to 400-100 ISO

[urban kite]

Hmm

[quaint vector]

for longer projects

[urban kite]

Fair game

[quaint vector]

see if you can find a good balance in your SNR

you obviously dont want noise, but you also want as much signal as possible

[urban kite]

What’s SNR

[quaint vector]

Signal to Noise Ratio

[urban kite]

ah those charts yesterday

[potent dove]

With only .6 seconds of exposure I'd use a high iso

For 20" subs I use ISO1600

[urban kite]

Ill play around with a few single shots

see what looks the best long term 👍

[formal walrus]

It also means standing wave ratio if you're into radio

[urban kite]

I’ve been told I have the voice for it

But that’s about it

😂

[formal walrus]

Wait there no w :(

[urban kite]

quick little night 1 process. No where close to the amount of exposure I want, but decent

gonna go out again tonight and get more stacks

[quaint vector]

already as good as, if not better than my best orion data

[quaint vector]

really nice

[urban kite]

Thanks! That’s very kind

[quaint vector]

Off topic, but I think I'm gonna throw a chair

This stupid shift knob decided to slightly disassemble itself while I was driving

I figured out how to put it back together, however I may have just made reassembling it 50 times harder

[urban kite]

I do that for shits n giggles w my Toyota at long lights

Cant help

Just start poking n prodding

[quaint vector]

See I can't do that because I risk grenading whatever plastic is covering the thing I'm tinkering with

[lusty shore]

pretty wild CA on the stars, also a little green but sharpness and stretch is pretty nice

[urban kite]

Yeah sadly that's my telescope

It's really egregious, but hey that's what a $150 rig on ebay gets ya

😂

one day I shall buy something nice :3

[lusty shore]

should be able to reduce it a bit with some editing though, invert -> scnr -> invert on the star mask should make it a tad better

[urban kite]

oh gosh i'd have to see a tutorial

i assume it's easy

[lusty shore]

yeah, assuming you have siril its easy

[spice whale]

Biggest noob in the world here so please bear with me, trying my best to learn. This is a single 20 second exposure of the orion nebula I took tonight for the 30 seconds of cloudless sky I had. If I was to capture alot of these, would dss have an issue stacking them? Would there be any worthwhile outcome for a beginner brand new to dso?

This is with my beginner scope which is a 90mm mak, will be moving on to a newt very soon

I suppose I'd like some input on the downsides to this sub

[nova canopy]

should be good

ofc not a perfect sub, but it will definitely be worth stacking

great beginner stuff i would say

[spice whale]

Thank you very much, excited to try and get more

[weary dirge]

30 second exposure of Bortle 4 sky

You can Andromeda Galaxy in the middle of the first image.

[nova canopy]

lmk if you need help processing. that's easily the hardest part

[spice whale]

Yes absolutely, that would be amazing. How many of those 20 second subs should I be looking at getting to get something decent, 30 mins of data? Would I be better with a lower iso setting?

[nova canopy]

more data is always better, so there really isn't a magic number of frames i would say

tho i would say anything below 30 to 60 min is not really worth it for the image, tho it can be great practice

so definitely just get as much as possible before the clouds ruin your fun haha

[spice whale]

Absolutely 👊 I'll get as much as I can when I can and see if you're around 😅

[versed canopy]

First pictures of the Orion Nebula

From a spotter scope 60x

[hybrid tiger]

very nice!

big improvement from last time

good work truly

[urban kite]

Thanks! I ended up going out last night for about 2-3 hours and taking 3000 more photos

it’s currently stacking as we speak

If everything goes well there’s about 30 minutes of exposure!

hoping I can process it and give it to my mother as a Christmas present

[hybrid tiger]

Yooo! Nice

[hybrid tiger]

That would be so nice

Congrats

[urban kite]

Well no success yet, praying the file looks clean

[hybrid tiger]

Good luck!

[urban kite]

Hey any last minute tips for processing? Things you think I should do better?

I haven't worked on my final stack yet, but I wanna prep for a quick turnaround

[lusty shore]

youve got a gradient so id work on fixing that, you can reduce the noise in graxpert, do color calib in siril

[urban kite]

what does that exactly mean?

[lusty shore]

which part exactly

[urban kite]

What do you mean by I have a gradient?

[lusty shore]

the left is darker and is a different color while the region around the nebula is green and brighter, the area beyond the nebula on the right is also a smidge bright

[urban kite]

so how would you about fixing something like that? It's occuring again in my full stack. As it stretches it's almost like border of red/green is closing around the nebula with each stretch

[lusty shore]

background extraction tool in siril

[urban kite]

when in the process would it be best to remove noise?

[lusty shore]

after color calibration, before starnet and stretching

[urban kite]

I apologize for asking this, but what do you consider to be your step by step process?

I know a little bit but I don't quite grasp the full path

[urban kite]

also wow this tool is incredible

[lusty shore]

its fine, my process is kind of a mess since i frick around and find out along the way a lot but ideally it should be something like: crop -> background extraction -> color calibration -> denoising -> starnet star removal -> stretch stars and starless (can also do saturation and stuff) -> recombine starless and stars

[urban kite]

Fair game

and it sounds like you use a few seperate softwares to do these individually

some in the same some not

[lusty shore]

you can do all of that in siril

[urban kite]

damn I gotta learn siril quicker

😂

[lusty shore]

its great software, get the dev builds though, more features

[urban kite]

so i guess my question would be if I'm starting w a basic file, at what point do I start to see things? i might be confused in that Im currently under the assumption that stretching towards the end?

Or are we making the assumption that it's a stretched image from the get go

and those are your steps after an initial development

[lusty shore]

very much still linear before stretching, you can enable autostretch viewmode which lets you see what youre doing without actually stretching the image

[urban kite]

So the auto thing I'm doing isn't actually stretching it yet? Yet I can see it?

[lusty shore]

correct

[urban kite]

wild

this stuff really is cool

[lusty shore]

if you switch it back to linear viewmode the image is gonna be dark like it was before

[urban kite]

holy

man that's fascinating

it's like working under the hood of a car

[lusty shore]

its definitely something, takes time to get a hang of but worth it

[urban kite]

tips for removing the noise?

[lusty shore]

graxpert

[urban kite]

im a little confused on how to integret graxpert

[lusty shore]

what do you have so far?

[urban kite]

I mean I don't know how to uh download it. Am I suppose to have it with Siril or use it seperately?

[lusty shore]

you can have it be used through siril if you have the dev version of it, ill give you links, gimme a bit

[urban kite]

pog

[lusty shore]

https://github.com/Steffenhir/GraXpert/releases
https://gitlab.com/free-astro/siril/-/pipelines

on the graxpert one download prerelease version, on the graxpert pipelines page choose the weekly builds for dev one, then on the download button on the right of it choose win64 native installer

think you might need starnet too, dont remember if it came with siril

https://www.starnetastro.com/download/

[urban kite]

im gonna be honest github confuses me im pretty lost

[lusty shore]

near the bottom of the page under command line tool find windows and then click on the link next to fresh install

[lusty shore]

where are you currently?

[urban kite]

i have opened the links

💀

[lusty shore]

when you open up the graxpert link you should have something like this yeah?

[urban kite]

yea

[lusty shore]

good, then click on the assets to expand it towards the bottom and choose graxpert-windows-amd64.msi

on the siril link you can just go by that

and on starnet site just scroll down until you find that

[urban kite]

sick

[lusty shore]

lots of info dumping but results will be seen (hopefully )

[urban kite]

nah you're good

I can see the benefit of all of these

it well worth it

sick it's all downloaded

[lusty shore]

get graxpert and siril installed, we'll go from there

[urban kite]

it's all in

[lusty shore]

aight, open up siril

once thats open navigate to the burger menu top right, click, click preferences

[urban kite]

right

[lusty shore]

from there it should open up a menu like this, from that we go to miscellaneous

here youll have to specify where your graxpert and starnet executables are

[urban kite]

alright everythings in. any tips for color calibration

everything else seems semi-self explanatory

[lusty shore]

id imagine you want to do photometric color calib

[urban kite]

is there a reason it's gray'd out?

and unselectable

[lusty shore]

need to platesolve the image first

[urban kite]

ahhh

[lusty shore]

under tools -> astrometry and then image plate solver

youre gonna need to know the target name, pixel size of your camera and focal length

[urban kite]

sick

still fairly noisy

but man o man is that so cool

also CA

[lusty shore]

can see what graxpert denoise does

[urban kite]

Oddly it seems like it's hittin everything but Red noise?

Or is that just a thing

[lusty shore]

pretty common occurrence, not sure why

[urban kite]

no solution?

[lusty shore]

im assuming you stacked in DSS?

[urban kite]

yep

[lusty shore]

one thing that might be worth a try is stacking in siril with cfa drizzle

think the red comes from debayering artifacts

[urban kite]

gotcha

[lusty shore]

little script for that, gonna need lights bias and flats, no darks

[normal axle]

does this work with deepsnr?

[lusty shore]

this should be a tad better for deepsnr, havent tested which settings or which kernels actually work the best though

[normal axle]

ill give it a run

[lusty shore]

want the horrendous msgr script too?

[normal axle]

ill be fine

ill give this a shot to see if it works on my data

[lusty shore]

go on

[urban kite]

But I'm ok with this as is

[lusty shore]

solid 👌

[normal axle]

it works but the image is very green

[lusty shore]

show

[normal axle]

did a manual colour calibration since plate solver was being weird

little to no difference between linked and unlinked stretch

[lusty shore]

id guess its from just the bayer pattern, not too sure though

hows deepsnr on it?

[opaque mist]

max fan?

[normal axle]

works fine

but its just colour which is the issue

platesolver doesnt like working on LMC so i cant run SPCC

[lusty shore]

tried in siril?

[normal axle]

yes

[lusty shore]

odd

[lusty shore]

you got the autocolor script in pix? might be worth a try

[normal axle]

i dont have that

[lusty shore]

https://visibledark.ca/autocolorscript/

[lusty shore]

btw, that script is a tad borked, it didnt calibrate lights with the bias master

[normal axle]

That's prolly why

[lusty shore]

added a line so it uses bias master too, might work a tad better

yeah it works a lot better

[lusty shore]

the script i sent ya earlier had the same garbage, heres the fixed version

[urban kite]

Oh thank you!

[rare tulip]

SEND Data

[normal axle]

Sure

[normal axle]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M0U6lRWi3MaHLPuM31IjTC2FDQbPIvMH/view?usp=sharing

[rare tulip]

quick and dirty

[spice whale]

First stack of a dso

Only 5 second subs since I'm waiting on my new mount but happy with it for sure

Have no idea wether it was focused properly etc

[spice whale]

My first bit of orion nebula action

I have 0 idea how to unfudge the core without fudging the rest of the pic

[rare tulip]

what software do you have?

[dull sigil]

Hi, this is my first picture I've done. The moon decided to finally come out for a bit so I tried to take a picture with my phone. First of hopefully many more to come.

[spice whale]

Using gimp at the moment and have a good bit if learning to do

[old ocean]

nice what scope?

[spice whale]

130pds

[hybrid aspen]

first image of jupiter i did like 20 mins ago

[fallow rock]

Got my jupiter

[fallow rock]

Niceee

[hybrid aspen]

it’s kind of blurry is that to do with the focus or not enough data or bad confirms or is it just abit of everything

[sharp berry]

I'm on a trip around NSW, Australia and will be staying at a very dark place on the night of the 5th and 6th. I have a Canon 5D mk ii, a 35mm f/1.4L and a decent (enough) tripod. Cloud cover is supposed to be around 57% and 53% respectively, although I'd assess it onsite. My question is; how can I best take advantage of my situation? I will admit, have a brief understanding of astrophotography (I'm better with general photography), so please feel free to explain anything important.

[normal axle]

point south and wide

[sharp berry]

[hybrid tiger]

Nice

[abstract grove]

My first image I took this on New Year’s Eve

[quaint vector]

what equipment?

[abstract grove]

400mm - 800mm f 8.6 Telephoto lens

I’m looking to buy me fist real telescope or lens sometime soon

And I used gimp

[spice whale]

Is that one exposure?

[abstract grove]

No 60 2 seconds

[potent dove]

Yep you want to get the Orion belt for sure. Bortle 1 is gonna be amazing

[spice whale]

Get yourself a star tracker and bump those exposure times up and you'll be set to get some real data put of it. Good job though!

My first go at andromeda. About 40 mins of 10s exposures so hopefully if I get some clear nights coming up I'm going to double if not quadruple that.

[warped oriole]

How would I go about getting good pictures with a dslr camera and a dobsonion telescope?

Or a phone camera

[quaint vector]

you'd have to find pretty small targets to shoot like a planetary nebula or smtn since most dobs have a tight focal length

I'm assuming untracked so you'll have to realign every few exposures

and those exposures probably wont be longer than 0.2 sec if you dont want star trailing

this is all assuming you can actually find the target if you dont have a go-to dob

[sharp berry]

checked weather again and it'll be 100% cloud cover :(

Got a bortle 2 on the 8th with low cloud cover though :)

[warped oriole]

Will a program auto align my pictures up and stack them? Or do I need to do that myself?

[spice whale]

Yeah dss will do that

[warped oriole]

What’s dss?

[spice whale]

Deep sky stacker

Program

[warped oriole]

Ok

Probably work best on a laptop right?

[spice whale]

Yes that's the place to do it

[warped oriole]

Ok

Thank you for your time

[spice whale]

Any more questions just ask 👍 I'm a beginner myself so I'll help as much as I can

[spice whale]

Siril with the star fix

[warped oriole]

One more question. What if I recorded a video instead of pictures?

[spice whale]

Thay would only be good for planets

Planets are best with video frames stacked

Dso's are best with longer exposure stacked

Autostakkert is the program to stack planet videos

Deep sky stacker is the program to stack dso photos

[warped oriole]

I see

I saw somewhere that you can put a cap on your telescope that would help align your camera. Do you have any ideas on what that is called and if it helps at all?

[spice whale]

I'm not sure on that one, if you have a dslr I would be looking at an adaptor to fit your eyepiece holder on your telescope

Dslr will give you a much better experience 99% of the time

[warped oriole]

Like this?

I found the video but I can’t make out what it’s called. It’s supposed to help you focus you’re telescope

[spice whale]

If your telescope accepts 1.25 inch eyepieces just yet a t ring and 1.25 adapter for your camera

I wouldn't bother with an extendable one as your telescope should do that for you. I would also look up if your telescope accepts these as some visual telescopes don't work well focusing cameras

[warped oriole]

I’m getting an 8” dobsonion.

I think I understand what you’re saying but could you provide me a visual of what your saying please?

Just so we can be on the same page

[urban kite]

bahtinov mask

That's the device you can put on the end of ur telescope to help you focus it before you shoot

i assume thats what ur talkin about

[obtuse flare]

moon photo

its blurry cause the ground was unstable

2x barlow with a 6mm lens

[mossy oak]

Almost 1 hour on pleiades with some high clouds (i think). Autostrech in siril

[warped oriole]

How do I send my tif image to my phone?

[warped oriole]

No wonder why I couldn’t make out what the person was saying

Thank you btw

[hybrid tiger]

Save it as PNG

or JPEG

PNG is less compressed tho

[mossy oak]

Night 2 and total integration time almost 1 hour 45 min now

[hybrid tiger]

Nice

[potent dove]

There's a lot of walking noise but for just 1h and 45min it's not bad

[mossy oak]

Oh yes i noticed that too. Probably due to lack of dark and bias frames.

[potent dove]

Dithering is the best way to fix that but yeah dark frames would help

I'm also noticing some strange diffraction on stars and I'm not sure what the cause is

[mossy oak]

Yes im using a (cheapish) camera lens at max aperture so thats probably causing it

[mossy oak]

I had 5 but i think thats tooo less. 40 a reasonable number?

[potent dove]

Yeah uneven blades could cause that. Try stopping it down a bit, I use my lens at f/8 just for the extra sharpness

[potent dove]

Yep 40 is fine

[mossy oak]

Got it. Thanks a lot for the help

[warped oriole]

Are you able to do it on DeepSkyStacker? I’m trying to get it off my canon camera, processed, and onto my phone. Either I’m blind or the option isn’t there

[spice whale]

In siril or gimp just open the photo and then save it from there as whatever file type you want (jpg or png for phone)

And then email it or upload it to drive etc to grab it on your phone

[warped oriole]

So process it through dss then put it through siril or gimp then send it to my phone?

[spice whale]

I mean wherever you're processing it should allow you to save it out as png or jpg

But that works too if you can't find it

[pseudo pasture]

Any tips to improve?

[warped oriole]

I’ll take a look at it again tonight

[warped oriole]

Ok. Where do I save as png from here?

Think I found it but this the only options I’ve been given

[hybrid tiger]

Why process in DSS??? Use siril for processing dude

[warped oriole]

Idk what I’m doing/ I was told to use this

What would I use dss for then?

[normal axle]

Nothing.

[warped oriole]

Ok

[hybrid tiger]

It’s fine for stacking

But siril is quite better imo

[warped oriole]

Now I gotta learn how to use Siril.

[normal axle]

It's very easy

[hybrid tiger]

Yea so simple

https://youtu.be/LtpGbEeGJOA?si=AFiHrPBg8I78WTzP

[warped oriole]

Ooh. Thanks

Uhm it says I should have green squares on my screen. I have red squares

[normal axle]

For what step

[warped oriole]

Background extraction

[normal axle]

Oh yea that's fine

[warped oriole]

Ok

Also the “Apply” button is grayed out

I can’t click it

[normal axle]

Have you pressed compute background

[warped oriole]

No

The video ain’t go over that

[normal axle]

He's posted the wrong one then

https://youtu.be/BPG_d11Iqqo?si=iELTmbTrUaPCoYP_

This is better

[warped oriole]

When searching up an image. Say it’s just a bunch of stars that I got on my camera. Will it work?

[normal axle]

What do you mean

[warped oriole]

This is what I have. It is clearer in real life than it appears in the phone camera.

[normal axle]

What do you want to work

[warped oriole]

Make the image clearer

Maybe I should wait until I get my telescope to do this

I’m trying to figure things out now before it gets to my house

[normal axle]

Need to take more photos

[warped oriole]

Ok

Too bad it’s cloudy outside 😕

I’ll just watch the video for now

How much longer will Orion be visible for?

[normal axle]

April

[warped oriole]

Oh

Where can I find such knowledge?

[normal axle]

Stellarium

[warped oriole]

Does it say or do I need to change the date until it’s no longer above me?

[normal axle]

Change the date

[warped oriole]

Ok

Thank you for the help

[sharp berry]

resized to fit disc. Probably overedited though

[rare tulip]

Nice shot of carina

[rare tulip]

wait what the actual freaky is your pfp

@sharp berry

[sharp berry]

canon 5d mkii + 35mm f1.4L
Settings (per photo): 10s / f2.5 / iso: 3200 / 15 photos total
Near Coolac, NSW (Bortle 2, 21.91 mag./arc sec^2)

[sharp berry]

uhhhh

[rare tulip]

usually people follow a filler word with normal words...

[sharp berry]

i guess i just like dogs

[rare tulip]

in what way... yeah checks out

[sharp berry]

😭

[craggy herald]

freaky uuuhhh dog pfp

look to be fair furries usually always have some sort of cool obscure hobby

✨astrophotography✨

[sharp berry]

frr >:3

[soft zinc]

My first DSLR im gonna use for astrophotography! Ima use it for milky way for some time and maybe buy a T ring so i can attach it to my scope. (I was on a tight budget but im very excited)

[warped oriole]

Nice

We’ll have to share notes

[abstract grove]

I’m still trying to figure out processing I’ve been told I crank my black point way up but when I tone it down it gets really noisy

[sharp berry]

Computers, trains, hiking and just general photography

[sharp berry]

Just mess around with the Hsl panel on Lightroom and see what happens. I've you've stacked photos to get this image, increase the exposure by a few stops and then the black point

[craggy herald]

furries try not to have an interest in IT challenge

[sharp berry]

I just build computers 😢😢

[abstract grove]

I gotcha thanks

[craggy herald]

it's ok I went through a furry phase and building PC's is one of my favourite hobbies (when money allows for it)

[potent dove]

Yeah you are clipping a lot of data, the background is completely black. We reduce noise through stacking, dithering and calibration frames.

[sharp berry]

i thought trains said trans 😭

They cool too :)

real :3

[rare tulip]

you know what else is cool?

[sharp berry]

Ok Lucius

[rare tulip]

🙂

[spring finch]

tisk tisk tisk

[rare tulip]

How are the kids

[spring finch]

lmao

[soft zinc]

My first time imaging the orion nebula (done it with my phone and telescope)

[warped oriole]

Noice

Wish I could do that but my telescope hasn’t arrived yet

[soft zinc]

I was just going out to see if there where any clouds and seen this weird circle cloud around moon (it isint cuz camera you can see it with bare eye)

[jolly edge]

I also saw something like this, the light circle was a small rainbow 🌈

[quaint depot]

Sick, i got that too

[soft zinc]

Mind asking what country you’re from

[quaint depot]

Lithuania, why?

[soft zinc]

Just asking to se if its only from one region

[quaint depot]

Oh, alr

Also why am i here

This place isnt for me anymore

[fallow rock]

carina nebula 18 minutes

[warped oriole]

I’ve also seen that. Not sure what causes it

[lyric tangle]

22 degree halo. Google it.

[ashen nebula]

My friend took this photo

[ashen nebula]

Tiny ice crystals in the atmosphere cause this

[quaint depot]

Daaaamnnn

[ashen nebula]

Yup

[hybrid tiger]

Woah

[old ocean]

i see these like really often when theres clouds, although its extremely dim i do see it

are they rare

[quaint depot]

I dont see them very often, so kinda

[golden arch]

hi friends

[sharp berry]

hawo :3

[golden arch]

hai

very fun viewing tonight Jupiter and Mars looked great

Staturn too

Dusk viewing of Venus really did improve the contrast

[craggy herald]

hey guys! I am incredibly new to astrophotography despite having a telescope for 2 years (thanks clouds). I have only stacked maybe twice. I was just wondering if there is anything I should know about stacking if im taking images with my phone?

Like are there any specific settings I should be aware of or different types of processing? I'm currently using deep sky stacker

[craggy herald]

additionally:

never had this happen before

https://tenor.com/view/what-is-wrong-with-you-why-are-you-blue-what-is-wrong-with-you-why-are-you-blue-brba-breaking-bad-gif-26777019

[golden arch]

What scope do you have? What Dso are you stacking?

I typically just use astrohshader if you have a Iphone

[craggy herald]

8inch starsense dobsonian, orion nebula, bortle 7-8, ISO 800

ive been stacking with each calibration set and so far it looks as though the bias frames are the issue

[golden arch]

nice scope!

what phone are you using?

[craggy herald]

google pixel 8 pro

[golden arch]

not familiar with that phone is astrohshader avaliable on pixel? Its a live stacking app on your phone I use

[craggy herald]

everyone keeps saying its an incredibly good phone for astrophotography but its been giving me nothing but grief (horrible vignetting in flat frames no matter what i do etc.)

ill have a look thank you

doesnt look like its available :'), ive been using deep sky camera

[golden arch]

I hear ya man

I take planetary and lunar imaging with my phone

getting it square on the eyepiece while its in the phone mount is a pain

[craggy herald]

i take this back, darks and bias frames keep creating a blue image

[golden arch]

got any flat frames?

I never took any calibration frames

[craggy herald]

i do, testing those ones now

but theyre all vignetted

example of one of them

ive tried literally everything to stop vignetting so i just gave up

happens on my partners phone too (samsung something idk)

different capture methods, different settings, different apps

cant figure it out

[spice whale]

Stscking with the flat frames should allow the stacking software to get rid of the vignetting

I'm mew myself and haven't even used flat frames yet as I haven't needed them too much but I'm aware that flat frames let the stacking software take out the vignetting from your lights by recognising the vignetting from the flats

I'm not even sure if this is what you're asking so forgive me if not

[fallow rock]

23 minutes of my carina nebula

[craggy herald]

aha its completely fine thank you :)

if i use the flats it creates vignetting in my final stack image but inverted

unfortunately

[hybrid tiger]

Nice

[naive willow]

Moon and Jupiter

All I have is a cheap 80x700 telescope and my android 🙏

[soft zinc]

wow mine is way worse

😦

Btw i just tested my cannon 450D (the files are toooo big so i screenshot so the detail is a bit worse…)

[obtuse flare]

Horrible shot of saturn

same with jupiter

[dusk wave]

Focus is just a tad bit off

[obtuse flare]

i got it to the best focus i could

i just need to colimate

[dusk wave]

Are you capturing it on a phone or anything

[long stratus]

Sun moon and Saturn

[obtuse flare]

Yes

[dusk wave]

the phone might be out of focus then rather than what ever scope youre using (if youre using a telescope or something)

[obtuse flare]

Oh i thought you ment taking the photo through a phone

its observed on a telescope

[dusk wave]

yea I have a hard time to get it focused on stuff like planets and the moon, telescope or not, it does work sometimes tho, but perhaps try and get a video and perhaps it'll focus

[rapid ledge]

Probably the best I can do with my telescope

[quaint depot]

3 stripes?

[old ocean]

lol

[sharp berry]

somethin dont seem right

[rapid ledge]

🤷 I'm happy to share the raw files

Maybe dirt on the lens or something?

That's really strange I'm not sure why it looks like that

[lone owl]

planet 9

[rapid ledge]

only conclusion that can be made 🤣

[formal walrus]

More noisy, but I fixed the color and made the bg darker#🥛-widefield-milkyway-pics message

[sharp berry]

i think you may have lowered the black point too low

[fallow rock]

Clipped somehow

[valid zephyr]

Noise would become more ewvidwnt

So he cant

It is a bit clipped

And there is a lot of walking noise

[quaint depot]

There can be improvements made, but this is an awesome image

[versed canopy]

Impressed with what a phone can do on a 10” dob

Was able to capture The Great Red Spot

[spice whale]

That's very good for a live video, nice

[valid zephyr]

lower the exposure by a nice amount next time. When stacking it would produce overexposed image

[versed canopy]

Ok thanks

[versed canopy]

Thank you!

[shadow whale]

did you stack it?

the video

[zinc timber]

Regular Dslr + Tripod + 10min in DSS

[shadow whale]

looks nice

[zinc timber]

ty

[sharp berry]

your black point a lickle low :3

[zinc timber]

yup but it was so noisy

[sharp berry]

shoot me the raw stack

ill see what i can do :3

[zinc timber]

can i sent raw?

raw is to much data i dont have nitro

[zinc timber]

try with this it is a bit smaler so i can sent it...

[sharp berry]

ive got the best i can do

[zinc timber]

whaaat

wich programm

[sharp berry]

siril and graxper

[zinc timber]

ty omg

[sharp berry]

amma push it to the extreme

see what tomfoolery i can do

turns out thats the limit of the data xD

[zinc timber]

already good enough xd

[sharp berry]

okay

ive sharpened and denoised

better

• bg extracted better

[zinc timber]

i really need to practise editing xd

[sharp berry]

you do :3

you can get stupid amounts of detail out of places

even when you dont know it

[zinc timber]

what gear are u using if u shoot?

[sharp berry]

skywatcher 150p and asi 585 mc :3

[zinc timber]

so you use a dob?

[sharp berry]

nope, a newt :3

[zinc timber]

is there an actual difference

[lone owl]

dob is a newt on an alt az mount that you put on the ground or on a table

[zinc timber]

alr ty

[fallow rock]

mineral moon

[sharp berry]

mini rals

[sharp berry]

also btw that image mininerd worthy, post it in #1127675764356173885 pics :3

[zinc timber]

why

[sharp berry]

so the mods see it

:3

[zinc timber]

what then

also wich image do you refer to

[sharp berry]

oiron

[spice whale]

First go with the new rig at a galaxy that isn't andromeda. 1.5 hours, 5min subs. Any advice welcome.

I have absolutely no idea how to process it properly

Didn't do it justice

[lyric tangle]

Nice one man

[kindred atlas]

My first ever try to shoot a dso. I’m pretty sure it’s the orion nebula. This picture was taken with a 10s exposure and slightly edited, on my phone tho. Telescope is 80/400. (I have a maksutov too, but i think it’s only good for planets. Or am I wrong?)

[kindred atlas]

Aaaaa how does your’s look so good, we photographed the same thing but mine is all shaky

[sharp berry]

ask @zinc timber its not my data xD

[kindred atlas]

O alright, ty 😂

[zinc timber]

this image is taken with a dslr 200x1 second and callibration frames stacked in deepskystacker😁

[zinc timber]

Actually worked my way into siril and tried to make it look a bit more like the one you edited but i cant get the amount of detail you can… 😅
any tipps?

[sharp berry]

try graxpert denoise :3

should improve the signal to noise ratio

[zinc timber]

ill try ty

[lone owl]

stretch some more, its quite dark

[zinc timber]

but the bg gets oversaturated then

[lone owl]

oversaturated?

are you setting your symmetry point

[zinc timber]

wait im getting outnerded again 😂😭

sry bro ive no clue what you are talking about😂

[lone owl]

its one of the bars when ur doing ghs stretch

most youtube videos can explain it a lot better than i can

basically it sets the point where it centers the stretches around

[zinc timber]

wait can siril sharpen?

[sharp berry]

graxpert

[fallow rock]

pleiades

15 min integration

[sharp berry]

bit blurry

were there clouds

or r u out of focus

[fallow rock]

Itsss... so foggy

And i had to crop it alot

Maybe noise reduction from photoshop makes it blurry

[sharp berry]

the issue is the fog xD

[queen basin]

What equipment?

[lone owl]

its mostly just halos from fog, but PS denoise doesnt do great either. graxpert is a way better option for astrophotos and its free

however PS does great at reducing color noise, so usually one of my last steps is to reduce only color noise with PS

[fallow rock]

I see

Ill use graxpert

[fallow rock]

Yeahh

[fallow rock]

Just 1300d Canon witj 70-300mm lens

[spice whale]

Once you get a clear sky try again and I'm sure you'll be much happier with the result

[fallow rock]

Pretty much i think, its rare had a clear skies in my city, cuz the polution is too much, and i live in b9 haha

But ill try wait a clear skies

[hybrid tiger]

Yea it’s great

[zinc timber]

yo i can see some progress thank you

[sharp berry]

looks a little clipped but ur doing good

you will get better over time

clipped is where the black point is too low

[hybrid tiger]

Yo bro

[sharp berry]

WHAT IS YOUR SEEING

[mossy oak]

36 minutes with some sinple stretching

Was a bit cloudy, which explains the stars

Hoping to get a few hours over the next few weeks

[zinc timber]

this is tracked isnt it?

[mossy oak]

Yes. 1 minute exposures

[shadow whale]

Looks interesting to say the least

[sharp berry]

stockphoto galaxy

[marble swift]

what did you process this with????

[fallow rock]

Siril, graxpert and photoshop

It looks bad?

[marble swift]

yeah

i dont even know how you got the core blurry and the outside like that

[fallow rock]

I dont even know

[marble swift]

use this 20 minutes untracked as a reference or something

[fallow rock]

Its fine when autostretch in siril

It looks good actually

[marble swift]

thankfully the only way to go after that image is up

(apologies if im being harsh)

[fallow rock]

I dont have an any fancy setup, like expensive camera or something

Just an old fashion camera and cheap lens and tripod

And i wanna best result actually :/

Actually i forgot something, i was shooting orion nebula while it was foggy

Frick i should not have done that

Messed up my data

[hybrid tiger]

DSS, he learned from you

[fallow rock]

just increasing my subs

i tried to not heavily denoise it in photoshop so i did left a grainy bit in the nebula there

idk, is it any better than last one? ik last one was shit

shot with 300mm fl, and this was heavily cropped

[lone owl]

the nebula itself is a lot better

btw, dont use photoshop for denoising, use graxpert which is free

u can also use graxpert to extract out the background gradient, which you have a lot of on the edges

[fallow rock]

alright ill try, thanks

[hybrid tiger]

I always say this

[obtuse flare]

how can i make it look like this through my telescope

[lone owl]

not your image? also what telescope do you have

and do u mean visually or with a camera

[gilded frost]

what is the easyist best and free proccesing softwere i can use on mac???

[normal axle]

Siril

[gilded frost]

That’s what I use, but I’m having the bayering issues thats all

[normal axle]

whats the issue

[fair scaffold]

Deepskystacker is really good and super simple

[zinc timber]

dslr untracked
any advice welcome

[gilded frost]

i would but i hve mac

[urban kite]

These look cool

[lone owl]

run starnet to clean up the stars

[mossy oak]

Mt first orion nebula, with dslr and 400mm lens

[zinc timber]

tracked?

[mossy oak]

Yes

[gleaming dock]

time?

[mossy oak]

4 hours approximately. 1 min subexposures

[opal flame]

Oooo, wanting to get a DSLR and a star tracker, but could easily add up to a grand so would rather upgrade what I have now

Right now I have a skywatcher virtuoso 150p, which is great however sometimes has slewing issues. And a phone as a camera. I’m still able to get decent planetary and deep sky shots but want to get a ccd camera. I’ll share some of my images below:

All of these are from bortle 6 skies. Noise and colour gradients from issues in stacking as im only using a phone app to stack right now (looking at dss and siril soon)

[quaint depot]

for b6 this is rly good

and for phone

[mossy oak]

True. Impressive for a phone

[mossy oak]

Get second hand. I got an out of this world deal (sky watcher 200pds, heq5, 2 planetary cameras, guide scope and cameras) for only 500

Just keep looking at websites like astrobuysell or ebay everyday, and eventually you'll get a good deal

[opal flame]

I do follow second hand a lot. All equipment I own is second hand. Lifesaver

[soft zinc]

Those are some good loking pics

Looking*

[opal flame]

Thank you, i try my best 😊

[soft zinc]

Also your Jupiter is 10/10

How did you get so much detail, mine looks like poop lol

[soft zinc]

Hey are yall ready for the partial solar eclipse on march 29th?

[mossy oak]

Yes. Lets just hope the clouds are on vacation that day

[open ingot]

It’s going to be cloudy for me AGAIN 😭 what are the chances

[ruby socket]

Philmont scout ranch in New Mexico U.S. has pretty low light pollution and iPhone post processing is kinda crazy
(30 sec exposure)

[soft zinc]

Oh my thats beautiful

[grizzled lion]

Put exposure up

And take a recording of around 2-3min then process

Your jupiter has potential

[soft zinc]

It would be a pain to manually track for 3mins lol

[grizzled lion]

Hmm put lower magnification try manually track like that

But trust me you'll get good results

Astrobiscuit did it before he got real good results

I can process for you if I have time

[shadow whale]

Holy you even got some glow on scorpion region

[fair scaffold]

Wow this is nice

How did you do this and not get star trailing?

[ruby socket]

I don’t know, iPhone might instead of taking one long 30-sec exposure, take multiple shorter ones and automatically stack them.

[fair scaffold]

Oh neat

[fallow rock]

40 mins integration

i forgot to take dark

walking noise :/

[opaque mist]

aand forgot to dither

[opaque mist]

not that bad

[radiant iris]

single exposure taken with a Nikon d3300 through a mead etx 90

[sullen coral]

Omg this looked like my first few

[opaque mist]

it just occured to me im not a beginner anymore..... damn thats crazy

ima share my newest shots here one last time

[queen basin]

Revive beginners place, I'll start

[shadow whale]

Thats pretty beginner right? I mean its phone ap so ill count it as a yes

[sullen coral]

very old photo

[formal walrus]

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

Seeing the ring nebula back to back makes me wanna redo the Trifid nebula too

Especially with how bright it was in the red, like omg

Didn't expect that much signal there from an unmodded dslr

[sullen coral]

this is so goated

[gleaming dock]

what do you use for tracking?

[formal walrus]

Eq3 and meade electronic drive motor

Balanced with a half jug of water. But the gears slip, so I wouldn't recommend it

It's just what I have currently

[soft zinc]

Ivy tbh i dont think you a beginner anymore, bro that is masterpiece this is beginner

Your sun is so beautiful my looks like poop

[soft zinc]

Just centre dotted my telescope mirror, took a pic and outlined and made a cross shape and relized i did pretty good! Im so proud lol (btw my first time centre dotting)

[hoary zodiac]

First picture. Was taken on the a6400.

[pseudo pasture]

You moved

And how long lens

[hoary zodiac]

I think 16 mm without crop. And yea the exposure was like 20 seconds and I moved out the shot after like 10 seconds or something

[pseudo pasture]

Ohhok

[lone owl]

you have some signal in your artifacts and noise dude

[soft zinc]

Bro we need to revive beginners place ngl

[normal axle]

there are no more beginners

[soft zinc]

There are, im one and there will be!

[sullen coral]

hi guys i am new astrophotographer how to take foto like bray fall 😊

[slender parcel]

I'm beginner astrophotographer, how to shoot planets like Tom Williams? I have only xiaomi 14 pro super mega pro max

[soft zinc]

My first ever susceful stack

[ivory cliff]

I’m new guys how to take photo of Saturn with my Nokia 33010

[foggy coyote]

Ok, my first ever attempt at astrophtography. M31, made up of 24 minutes worth of 20 second subs. Nikon D7500, Sky Watcher 150P & EQ3-2 mount. First stab at stacking and processing, mainly in Siril with a bit of photoshop while following bits of tutorials and trying to get some sort of result!.

[lone owl]

thats really frickin good for a first time

get more data and bring out the dust lanes :D

[iron minnow]

i did some extra rocessing on ur pic

[jade hearth]

im back (i forgot the password to to my old accound which was the op)

[fierce imp]

I beginner

[slender gate]

Says the mini nerd 🧐

[fierce imp]

Nah I am because like I don't have tracker 🙁 and I am on a DSLR

[slender gate]

There’s some untracked dslr people here that are insanely good

[fierce imp]

Yea well I try but I am now printing a tracker

OpenAstroExplorer

[slender gate]

That’s sick, I know someone that did that and coded it to rotate with the Earth

[fierce imp]

Thats awesome!

[tired cedar]

took these with a FujiFilm X-T5, a 230mm zoom lens, and a star adventure mini star tracker I had laying around for a few years.

First image: Andromeda, 12 minutes, my first deep space photo
Second image: random patch of sky exposed for 10 minutes
Third image: dumbbell nebula exposed for 30 minutes
Fourth image: Andromeda exposed for an hour

[fallow rock]

carina nebula

[normal axle]

is this the 3 hour massive project?

[fallow rock]

Nope, I just shot a new one collected 40 mins of it, I stacked my 3 hours carina, but it seems the stack artifacts are very worse, even influencing the nebula itself

I can't process it, so yeah I delete it haha

[normal axle]

awww

did you have a screenshot of it

[fallow rock]

Apperantly no... : (

I perma delete it, since it's... Very very worse

[fallow rock]

helix nebula

shot at bortle 9 city

30 mins exposure

[nova canopy]

...helix?

there's no way that's helix

as in this helix

[fallow rock]

I shot with short fl

Like 135mm

[fallow rock]

I'm not sure but it's like shot at 900mm, and definitely not a beginner set up

And some filters, mine only stock dslr camera with short focal length

[nova canopy]

of course, but the structure just doesn't look the same

[fallow rock]

It's helix... Probably a short focal length and I did some massive crop make the structure looks like that

[lusty shore]

platesolve it

[nova canopy]

was just about to lol

[fallow rock]

?

told you its helix

wth

[fallow rock]

done

[lone owl]

wtf its so cooked lmao, how is there so much structure in the center

[gleaming dock]

i think theres just less red on the sides

[lone owl]

no the structure is just straight up different

[gleaming dock]

nah not really, just missing some details. the stars inside the nebula line up with a reference image

[lone owl]

the previous image shows ha filaments in the center, unless this is some goofy compression thing

[gleaming dock]

prob, i mean the stars align properly

[fallow rock]

I mean like it's 30 minutes exposure with bortle 9, bad seeing weather

It was pretty low

And I did massive crop for it

[fallow rock]

....

I already platesolve it

Man how come people will not trust the image, though I already platesolve it...

[lone owl]

i understand the platesolve im just saying there are some wacky artifacts that make it look different

[fallow rock]

Orion nebula and Horsehead nebula untracked for 2 hours

[lone owl]

why is the transition to bg like that, did u use masking

2 hrs untracked is crazy dedicated

[normal axle]

#1019718599922946089

[fallow rock]

Yes I created a new background

It's hard to fix the bg, so I use masking

[lone owl]

where is the bg from?

[fallow rock]

I use new layer from photoshop, create new layer and then alt + del it

[lone owl]

but where is it from i mean

like is it stretched differently

[fallow rock]

From the new layer from Photoshop

[fallow rock]

No it's the same

[lone owl]

so what masking did you do

[fallow rock]

I seperate the nebula from the background itself so it leaves me 2 object which is the Orion and the Horsehead
Then I made a new black solid color background, then I match the luminosity of the nebula

Then you have a nice background

[lusty shore]

almost definitely deleting some dust by doing it that way lol

[fallow rock]

Well I don't really bother that much cuz I live in bortle 9 light city, and I use no filter at all to get the dust, 2 hours at bortle 9 city isn't enough to get the dust in there

[lusty shore]

what does the raw stack look like with a rough dbe and autostretch?

[normal axle]

Looks fine

Just needs a better background extraction

[lusty shore]

forgor about this icl 😭

[lusty shore]

compressed by discord but you still lost something probably, that technique just isnt gonna be better than a solid dbe, especially on a region that you know would be heavy on dust

on an image where you have standalone galaxies or sth it could be fine but still

[fallow rock]

Idk about this, I cannot look the dust, or maybe I need more longer exposure to make the dust appear?

I removed the point where it's the nebula area, is it good background extraction?

[lone owl]

u should show us the bge, and yeah you should not place bge points on nebula

[waxen meteor]

🥲

No other way to get decent pics with my dob other than being magnified waaaaaay to much 🙂

[fierce imp]

2 hours

mwahahaha

[lone owl]

goodness gracious please take flats

[gleaming dock]

kinda curious if background extraction can handle this

[fierce imp]

Want the data?

[gleaming dock]

bet

[fierce imp]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oE6IqZEWNwSmiFVOZa3FhCZ3zDsLRNgQ/view?usp=sharing

140mm 4.22um

Good luck 🫡

@gleaming dock how that go 😭

[gleaming dock]

my wifis so bad its still downloading 😭

[fierce imp]

😭😭😭😭

[gleaming dock]

my pc doesnt like this

[lusty shore]

[gleaming dock]

well damn

i think i broke my installation

whoops

[fierce imp]

Nah it'll be fine trust

[gleaming dock]

well siril isnt starting anymore 😭

[fierce imp]

😭😭 my bad gang

[lusty shore]

go stack it in siril now

[fallow rock]

orion nebula 40 mins

oh yeah fyi, i use diy star tracker right now, so no more untracked, im done with untracked right now

[normal axle]

Now your 3hrs untracked Carina would actually be feasible

[normal axle]

Feels so satisfying to do longer than 1 seconds subs

[fallow rock]

i hope soo.... haha

[fallow rock]

YESSS

i used to do 1 sec and 6400 iso, and it shows no detail at all

only noise

i can do 30second without trailing

heres my sample frame of 30 second exposure

this is my 2 second exposure

[fierce imp]

you get it working?

[gleaming dock]

nah ill install it later