Polaris dust - untracked

[hazy ore]

Untracked dust around Polaris
Meteor shower gazing trip, light imaging.

~358x14s - 83mins
Bortle 4/5. Nautical dark
2600mc pro -10c, UV/IR cut
Samyang 135mm @ f/2.8

Processed with Pixinsight and some GHS in Siril

Polar aligned my camera and lens with a ballhead and turned the lens in its collar every 60subs (15mins).
Aimed for 4degrees each time but i messed it up. Tryed to scalvage it at the end with the last 120 subs but had to crop alot anyway

Actually have no mount at the moment, it is taking it's sweet time entering europe.

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[random jewel]

Oh my

That’s amazing

especially for untracked

I really wanna image Polaris

[barren badge]

Tf, how were you using 14s subs untracked at 135?

That's insane

[somber drift]

Stuff around polaris basically doesnt move (or at least moves wayyy less than stuff on the horizon )

[hazy ore]

with 200mm i could push longer subs. allmost 20s before the corners have field rotation

[barren badge]

I keep forgetting that, I literally had the same experience when I was shooting untracked.

Insane photo @hazy ore

[indigo yarrow]

@hazy ore

Good pic my man

[hazy ore]

thanks tohudoshies

@indigo yarrow now i know the darksite is really good

[indigo yarrow]

[hazy ore]

@indigo yarrow 10 - 12km from my place to a island's southern tip. City's light dome is big but mostly covered by trees.

and the horizon towards south has no LP and gradually goes to b1

no gradients what so ever

[indigo yarrow]

[timid portal]

I kinda wanna like use the night to image this becuase oh woow that looks brilliant. But idk if I should capture some meteors instead

[hazy ore]

dont unless you are doing some sort of composition

with a super wide lens

there are like 8 - 11 meteors per hour honestly

[timid portal]

yea and I alr got like 8 of them 2 days ago so I'm fine

[timid portal]

yea I alr did that

[somber drift]

Thats a nice shot @timid portal

[timid portal]

Thank you

[timid portal]

yea no I can't beat u

[clear pumice]

Hey @hazy ore ; do I need to have a uv/ir cut on my camera to capture the dust? It’s essentiallly a reflection nebula, right? So I wouldn’t need to?

[hazy ore]

yes you need to capture all the visible light

just uv/ir cut for a astro camera

for a dslr, it can be stock.

IF its modified, you need to make sure it has also uv/ir cut

dark skies mandatory. Bortle4 and darker

The nebula photos long video is pretty good honestly. For gear i say the fast lens is more important the people might realise

[clear pumice]

I’m curious as to why the answer is different for the two cameras; is it just because for the Astro camera, if you bought the camera you already want the best quality you can get?

[hazy ore]

astrocamera's have just plain optical glass over the sensor. you dont want to capture ultraviolet or infrared, just visible light. Thats why UV/IR cut filter is needed

stock dslr's have the filters preinstalled

modified dslr's require a removal of a filter over the sensor, depends how its done -> might need a uv/ir cut filter

need to capture the whole visible spectrum, not UV or IR