hall of shame

[flat nebula]

ik its a different target but it shows how much integration time helps

[graceful hatch]

idk if it was just a better integration time 💀

[flat nebula]

i mean like a loooooooootof other factors

i took first one in jpg, took 10 frames, low on horizon over industrial lights, poor camera settings, i literally chucked that unedited orion in pix and did a bad dbe and called it a day

[stiff egret]

I assume u did not dither

[storm leaf]

i dont think like 3 hours untracked you can even go without dithering

i dont think its possible

lol

[stiff egret]

Oh its untracked

Which program did u stack with?

[storm leaf]

smh doesnt know what mount every person in the sever has

[tepid kraken]

what mount do i have

[storm leaf]

untracked?

did i win

[tepid kraken]

no

[storm leaf]

mods ban me instantly

[tepid kraken]

actually kinda

bc rn ig I'm untracked

Synscan decided to become even worse and now doesn't work at all instead of very rarely working before

[storm leaf]

i survive!

[forest fern]

What mount are u having issues with?

[tepid kraken]

virtuoso gti 150p

I'm hoping that Nina will fix it once I get a eqmod cable

If not then I have to buy a new mount

[jade siren]

Yes dithered. (Duh)

Stacked in DSS

[stiff egret]

Damn thats very weird

That SHOULD not happen

[jade siren]

I can give the data if you want to play with it

[stiff egret]

Did u use darks?

[jade siren]

No

[stiff egret]

Thats the issue 1 million percent

[jade siren]

How

[stiff egret]

Re stack with new darks

Same settings

But make sure same temp

[stiff egret]

I see hot pixels

[jade siren]

This dataset is from September last year. I don't have the subs

[stiff egret]

Oh…

Send me the data tho

I will see

[jade siren]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OUfBi6H4CYAOLeBL_MkOmRelZWFk7xWc/view?usp=drivesdk

[unreal spear]

Woah

The colors are great

Do u have any advice on how to get nicer colors

I struggle with coloring even with photometric color calibration

[tender quail]

Its all abt intergration and exposure

[graceful hatch]

colors come from processing

[lethal depot]

More exposure time and better processing

A newer image better processed

[flat nebula]

sadgons of ara

[sullen wedge]

A shameful attempt at the black eye galaxy 💀💀💀

[latent nebula]

starwars blaster

[lethal depot]

Tried imaging olbers

Guess it doesnt work with small sensors

[ocean zodiac]

Rossete nebula 30 min

Either that or

Carina nebula

[meager gyro]

VERY little planetary nebula (roughly the size of jupiter)

[latent nebula]

i mean

it could be

do you mean like visualy ?

[noble summit]

I hope visually, if not that would mean it's in our solar system lol

[meager gyro]

Yeah I would need a massive scope to see something the size of Jupiter from light years away

I don't even think it's possible for such small nebula to form

[latent nebula]

depends on your definition of nebula

a bunch of gas in space? great theres 4 near by

[vernal gale]

Since when is the moon surrounded by lasers, wtf

[final quiver]

Poor moon leave her alone😭

[past tapir]

urm excuse me did you just misgender the moon ☝️🤓

How DARE you assume they/thems gender

[final quiver]

their/theims*

[past tapir]

i plead the 5th

[ocean zodiac]

Is this an American joke. I’m too Australian to understand?

[past tapir]

i ain’t american lil bro 🙏

[ocean zodiac]

Never said you were

[storm leaf]

yea

[ocean zodiac]

he alredy said tho XD

[storm leaf]

oh no its only austrailians that dont get it

everywhere else is fine

[ocean zodiac]

Bruh

[flat nebula]

i got that too

[flat nebula]

i get it moxxi is just a dingleberry

[ocean zodiac]

wtf would I need to know another countries commandments !!?

[flat nebula]

its engrained in pop culture

[jade siren]

bros a dingleberry

[final quiver]

Star cluster

I had so many hours to image and only got 36 min because of mount, wifi, nina, hand controller, and polar alignment screws issues. Also from deleting photos

As well as having to re-align my guidescope which is my only source of autocentering

[ocean zodiac]

says the one who joined friendlycosmos dumped his photos then dipped

[jade siren]

Bro that server was boring

[flat nebula]

[brave tiger]

respectable have a noice day

[flint wave]

Def my worst Images theyre from 2022 all between august and september

[stiff fox]

A few things cause it to be this bad one is the amount of dew i had on my secondary and second is the fact that my camera was runing at close to 30°C

[halcyon belfry]

*** H E L I X ***

[brave tiger]

Wdym this is badass

[rustic cairn]

From left to right, top to bottom: a terrible image of Jupiter and one of its moons, a very clipped and horribly processed 5 second integration time image of the Orion Nebula, an even more clipped image of the Pleiades, and a piss poor attempt at capturing the Triangulum Galaxy (yes, it's actually there).

[halcyon belfry]

open it in full rez

And this is 8h, which is unacceptable.

Its so bad it wont even let you preview it

[rustic cairn]

oh dear

[jade siren]

hows it 93 mb

[halcyon belfry]

exactly.

[mighty bridge]

this is sooo bad

[past tapir]

don’t ask

turned in this tho so we up

[forest fern]

Was there too dont worry...

[past tapir]

lmfao 😭😭 urs is still sm better that that tho

yk what i given up spelling

[forest fern]

XD true, for 4 hours of data though it was dissapointing at the time XD

[past tapir]

lol mine is 3 hours 😭

[forest fern]

Our glow ups go crazy though

[past tapir]

ur glow up is crazy yea 😭 this is ur mf process aswell bro

i am not fulfilled until i get that processing tut

[forest fern]

Haha but its ur data tho!

[past tapir]

my data in the wrong hands 😭

[forest fern]

Bro ive had no time this summer 😭 friends be crazy sometimes

[past tapir]

fairss

[forest fern]

I promise its coming though

[past tapir]

yayyy

[forest fern]

Tbh when i first started HOO processing, there was never really any idea what or how to do certain things. There is now so itll come out smoother and better than it wouldve IF i recorded it months ago

[past tapir]

brother i’m in the dust my processed version of my data was absolute crap

[forest fern]

Just gotta process for like 2 hours everyday for a year and a bit, then youll be there

[past tapir]

low-key thinking abt it 😂

[forest fern]

XD payed off greatly, but only if you actually enjoy processing

If youre like me, jamming to spotify and processing goes hella hard

[lethal depot]

The polar axis on my mount wasnt tightened up so half of my exposures were just startrails

[dim hill]

heres a good one, close to exactly 1y between

[jade siren]

right looks good

this isnt #1233917530989395968 worthy

[zealous minnow]

The difference is, one is good and one is Wanwabi

[dim hill]

oh yeah mb, i saw @forest fern 's image and confused this channel for #1034944406622584872

[forest fern]

My bad

[storm leaf]

get outa here

[tender quail]

Do i have your consent to put part time nina user in my username?

[forest fern]

You do

[dim hill]

look at the left one 😅

[zealous minnow]

Nah

Left one still better then anything someone could achieve in b5+ skies

[tender quail]

WOO HOO

I had to shrink my username loads 😭

[unique laurel]

My incredibly blursed stars

[spark summit]

Oh I wish I was there lol

[scarlet panther]

WHole new setup, HEQ5 just out of optimization and Rowan kit installation, new L-Extreme filter and boooom, disappointment.

[forest fern]

Seems you forgot the most important part... Dithering

[past tapir]

looks like heavy gradients, forgot to dither and what can u using?

no flats aswell

[graceful hatch]

dont blame your gear if you don’t know how to use it

[jade siren]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/342068044249563146/1181831358927089684/image0.gif?ex=65827d39&is=65700839&hm=e33276054a77664659914bd8131033d8b4c57415f556490f1d270f027b5d300d&

[tardy sigil]

That's not bad

My first attempt at jupiter and the orion nebula. These were both taken like two years ago

Can't wait for jupiter and orion to get high

[flat nebula]

New shatgons

[jade siren]

the dragons of bad dbe

[scarlet panther]

Never used it, never knew about it until this and asking my astro friends 🥲

[scarlet panther]

I didn't blame my gear, I know I failed and I didn't know about dithering 🙂

(that's the whole point of my gear, if there is an issue, it's on me, not on the gear)

[flat nebula]

Try it yourself maybe

[storm leaf]

i found my 13p olbers data! mp4 does not like deep sky objects, and i didnt dither once with a 5m video

had to use pipp lol

[viral cloak]

? That's so cool!

[halcyon belfry]

Its literally blurry miscalibrated garbage.

[tall crystal]

I got some lol

3 of these were actually taken a month or 2 ago

I improved massive with my latest one

Ok so yeah

Its in #🥛-widefield-milkyway-pics

[tender quail]

Niceee

Doesnt belong in hall of shame icl

[storm leaf]

amazing background extraction you got there

[halcyon belfry]

I dont think you all see the problems...

[storm leaf]

correct i dont

[stiff fox]

Same lmao but i still got a decent image

[unreal spear]

U saying his image isn't decent?😢

[unreal spear]

Bro still can't get the blues omg

Your image is trash JUST because u didn't get the blues

Other than that it's good

[stiff fox]

Not what i ment but now that i read i see how someone could interpret that as me saying his image is bad

[lethal depot]

I got around 4hrs of data.

[stiff fox]

At least you got more detail

[stiff fox]

Some how this is 30m

[lethal depot]

I mean its pretty bright for a dark nebula so no wonders

[lethal depot]

Also ur put of focus

[stiff fox]

Oh yeah

[dim hill]

that was taken in b5. with stock and kit lens. a year ago... so i think otherwise

[harsh iris]

*violent coughing

[rustic cairn]

ehh, well. far better than my best Pleiades, but I guess that's not saying much lol

doesn't look terrible!

[tender quail]

Isnt pleiades also nicknamed the seven sisters or am i on a completely different topic 😭

[storm leaf]

the 70 sisters

[tender quail]

I might do pleiades soon

[rustic cairn]

Pffft this is great lmao

[tender quail]

U gotta be british after saying that

[rustic cairn]

I am, in fact, north american

[tender quail]

I have never heard anybody exept somebody from the uk

[rustic cairn]

Huh ok

well there's a first for everything I guess

[astral holly]

saying what xd

[tender quail]

Fair enough

[rustic cairn]

This is my current best image of the Pleiades, taken with my phone and a monocular. 7.5 minutes of exposure time. It's uhhh... not great.

Oh god damnit

hold on

there

[tender quail]

Niceeeee

[rustic cairn]

it's really not all that good tbh, I may try to get a better shot of it with my Starblast since that can capture so much more light than a 56mm monocular

but until then this is the best I got

hopefully someday I can report back with improved results

[rustic cairn]

certainly one of the astronomy photos of all time

[unreal spear]

Don't even ask

[harsh iris]

I fixed it

[unique estuary]

SDFJKLJSFDKLJFSKLDJ

[halcyon belfry]

This is why we calibrate EVERYTHING.

[unique estuary]

I did flats etc but I think there's dew forming on the glass on the sensor - sct open circle patterns characteristic of poor focus/dust on sensor

I'll have to investigate...

[halcyon belfry]

Stars would be blurred vs how they are sharp, definitely mis-calibration

Perhaps too short or too long exposure flats?

[unique estuary]

histogram configured @ 60% through NINA on flats

Would love to discuss further but unsure if this is the place - should I start a thread somewhere...

Here are some of the frames that I removed from the 60s exposures that were integrated and the pattern appears to match the smudge. I didn't see any others like it so it's a bit perplexing. I'm not quite sure how I'd calibrate out a persistent but low level dewing of the sensor if that's the way to deal with it

[jade siren]

awful awful

[lapis trench]

For about a year I though the star in the middle was γ Cassiopeiae... Today I run it through astronomy.net and found out that it is κ Cas... It explains a lot

[tall crystal]

craziest mw

[maiden coyote]

Screenshot for everyone to see

[tall crystal]

lmao ty

worst one

also thats my pfp

but better process

[lethal depot]

What did u do to get that discord warning

[tall crystal]

that aint a warning i put it in about me

[lethal depot]

How?! Looks funny af

[tall crystal]

🛈 User is suspected to be a part of an online terrorist organization. Please report any suspicious activity to Discord staff.

copy paste

[azure elm]

Andromeda with "full" frame

[unkempt sparrow]

oh nahhhhh, this one's sick!

[azure elm]

Just a bit of Bortle art and Sky trailing ;->

[storm leaf]

nah thats cool get outta here

thr other one does fit though ❤️

[azure elm]

After this I was full Astro "geek"

Hour of stacking and could not comprehend what I've found ;->

One of most important shots in my life 🙂 I keep it dual backup to remind we all start somewhere with the journey to the Stars Space 😉

[harsh iris]

This isn’t mine but what the hell 💀

[unkempt sparrow]

someone found thor's astrophoto setup

[cerulean spear]

A fool buys, a genius creates 🔥

[tall crystal]

this isnt supposed to be in hall of shame

[unreal spear]

Why is this here

[pseudo sundial]

may or may not shot through clouds

[ocean zodiac]

Venus

[manic wraith]

seems like normal stars

[manic wraith]

but then you auto stretch...

whats wrong with this pic

[royal herald]

gotta ask all who 💩 on it when i put it in deep space gallery

[manic wraith]

what is even there to sh1t on

results like this are only in my dreams lol

[manic wraith]

can you send the link to that chat?

[royal herald]

i removed the data

[manic wraith]

oh ok

but what is there even to critique

[royal herald]

the stars
the background
the sharpening
the etc

it was a 60 min test data set in poor seeing and the worst gain on camera ............

[manic wraith]

bro theyre perfect to me😭

[graceful hatch]

nothings wrong with it

[tepid kraken]

I dont

What's wrong

[cerulean spear]

This doesnt belong here

Stars might not be the best but its still great

[pseudo sundial]

bro

literally the hall of shame has more images that look as good as I could never photograph than actual bad photos

i could legit put every photo i ever made in here and no one would question me

[tepid kraken]

ima do that after I get my astrocam

(The astrocam images will still belong here)

[unkempt sparrow]

found what appears to be my first ever deepspace pic, back from late 2017

[graceful hatch]

do people seriously just spawn with a rig

cuz how are people’s first images not phone through eyepiece

[unkempt sparrow]

first deep space pic

[graceful hatch]

its totally possible to do deep space with a phone

[storm leaf]

i had an older camera that j used for a while for "deep space"

[graceful hatch]

not very deep but still

[unkempt sparrow]

well I didn't know lol, I pretty much didn't know anything back then lmao

[storm leaf]

ok but you could also not have the astronomy equivalent of slamming your head into a spike

[unkempt sparrow]

idk if I even pointed my scope at anything deepspace before getting an EQ mount lol

I think I just ignored it (or rather was unaware) and focused on planets

[unkempt sparrow]

the way I even ended up with a telescope was that Venus has been shining bright in the sky as I was returning from school every day, and I got curious whether you could see anything cooler than a dot with a scope and my parents decided to get me one after hearing me talk about it lmao

and the reason I ended up with an EQ mount was that in 2017 there was a star in orion with suspected GIGANTIC rings that would dim the star, and I wanted to image that - and people online told me I can't image stuff other than planets without an EQ mount lol
(I never ended up imaging that star and it ended up not being a thing as the dimming cycle didn't continue, but I was now introduced to the hobby)

should prob try to dig up what that star was and image it this orion season tbh, sounds like a fun idea

[meager gyro]

I mean it does feel like it was over denoised then sharpened to make up for it but it's not bad and the stars look fine

[unkempt sparrow]

this is what my world looks like when my glasses are hella dirty lol

• streaks across the whole view ofc

[astral holly]

damn i did ap with alt az for ages

[unkempt sparrow]

but straight up looking at this confuses my brain in a "I gotta clean my glasses" way lmao

[astral holly]

with the alt az

[unkempt sparrow]

I, afaik thankfully, never had the 'joy' of using an alt az, just a dobson for the first year of owning a scope but I didn't even think of trying any AP other than iss and moon/sun/planets with it

[astral holly]

yeah i got some decent images with my alt az, and i got extra points for using a terrible optic visual scope

@unkempt sparrow

[unkempt sparrow]

I don't have a great context of how bad alt az is, but that looks really dope for that, the bottom one especially feels very crisp

[astral holly]

yeah, it was blurxed quite heavily bcz i couldnt focus with the bad scope, but its not bad

alt az isnt bad, just the field rotation is annoying. Also alt az tend to be cheaper so struggle to get longer sub times

[tame flax]

Tried imaging trifid nebula but forgot to setup my telescope and missed and took a picture of a random dog

[rustic cairn]

Great image of a DSO (Dog Space Object)

[tame flax]

Thanks

[tepid kraken]

I hate when that happens

[plucky sky]

A nice veil nebula shot through poor transparency

Z73 n uranus-c

[astral holly]

@past tapir all i got from that night with horrendous wind

[past tapir]

😭😭 idk y it’s getting windy at night here

[astral holly]

yeah, im clouded all week now. (maybe friday clear)

[past tapir]

friday i’m clear, was meant to be tonight but some forcadts say yea and no but i ain’t risking it

[astral holly]

this is my friday, met office cloud cover says different

[past tapir]

mine, met office agrees but also says tonight is gonna be clear too

[tender quail]

I am

[noble summit]

I forgot to charge the camera and this was all I got before it unexpectedly died lol

[cyan delta]

sooo umm this was supposed to be my first ever andromeda attempt

xd

and the first time i had ever used DSS

[graceful hatch]

helix?

[worthy sundial]

Andromeda galaxy

😭

[tender quail]

Better than me i cant even get it in my fov 😭😭

[tender quail]

Acc looks alright

[astral holly]

old pic of m106 with a visual scope

[tender quail]

😭

[jade siren]

why are you crying

[astral holly]

coma made him cry

[unkempt sparrow]

you can just image/observe a part of it, that's fine too!

[tender quail]

I can only get the core and a lil bit round

[unkempt sparrow]

same lol (pics from 2017/18, fits hall of shame too lol)

[tender quail]

Lol

[noble summit]

Yeah

It also doesn't help that its altitude was only 19° lol

[astral holly]

[inland falcon]

old pics of mine xd

[compact jungle]

Abell 2218

[unreal spear]

Happens to the best of us

[cerulean spear]

Dude all of these, except for the milky way, are better than my best images 😭

Yall underestimate the quality of yall's images

[inland falcon]

Not at all lol

Its just a peac of noise

[cerulean spear]

That noise can be fixed, especially the orion one

[inland falcon]

No, it cant, theres barely any signal

Not much integration time yk xd

And the cam is a s s

After a while

Its the 600d, it was gud for the beginning, would be better modded but I cant nod the cam cuz the screws are worn out xd

[tender quail]

U can get screw extractors

[inland falcon]

yep, but too lazy now xd

[tender quail]

Lol

[manic wraith]

a quick autostretch showed me another image going here

i wonder what this banding on top is caused by

and also the stars at the bottom right

i guess its the old lens lol

[fleet jay]

how did I not know this channel existed

[storm leaf]

do yall not check #1019671488200196227 ??

[granite granite]

I found this ap forum just now . HOW DID I MISS THIS 😭

[sullen wedge]

Nahh, you could make it look descent at least. May need some cropping and processing it will be hell but I think you could totally get an alright image out of it.

[manic wraith]

I’ll try!

[amber thunder]

First picture of andromeda💀

[sullen wedge]

It can only get better.

[jade siren]

this dataset is shame worthy

[rustic cairn]

Honestly not the worst ever, you don't see many image of the SMC anyway

LMC gets all the attention

[jade siren]

was refering to the dataset

the image is alright

[storm leaf]

stinky magellanic cloud

[jade siren]

yea its pretty boring

[inland falcon]

Nah

[sturdy fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-silly-something-is-off-blending-in-sneaky-gif-11458821

Basically the SMC

Two galaxies pretending to be one

[jade siren]

Smc posted on binstagram

[harsh iris]

why does that look cool

[shadow mist]

My first galaxy attempt from earlier this year. M101

[granite granite]

What happened??😭

[calm gyro]

One of my earliest stacking attempts

To be fair it was like twenty five frames

[shadow mist]

My naive ass said "okay.. 6 minutes in b8 with 14mph winds seems alright. Time to stack without taking any calibration frames too"

[ocean zodiac]

I used to think this was good 😂

[granite granite]

☠️

[granite granite]

Its not particularly bad

[ocean zodiac]

Was my first full disk shot

My old scope could only get like 70% sun

So it’s 2 images

My most recent

[unreal spear]

Looks the same as my most recent one because of light leak issues

[shadow mist]

what is it

[final quiver]

lol i was trynna get the jupiter with my point and shoot cam

XD

[ocean zodiac]

I’d recommend a tripod

lol

[final quiver]

ofc its a need lol

[amber thunder]

I dont have a phone adapter😭

[chrome nacelle]

i posted dis before but its a different process i found

[storm leaf]

is there a single good m101

ever

[chrome nacelle]

yes

shi wait i had this really good pic on astrobin

@storm leaf https://www.astrobin.com/619jfk/E/

this is with a 1 meter scope 🤯

[storm leaf]

ok yeah that's pretty good

[jade venture]

55 hours of integration in Ha...

[chrome nacelle]

what target is that

[jade venture]

the noisy blob is PNG026.9+04.4

[chrome nacelle]

erm looking at the very interesting name im guessing its really dim so thats impressive

[jade venture]

this was the only decent close up shot I could find of it

http://www.atacama-photographic-observatory.com/page_photo.php?id=175

[jade venture]

Gonna have to wait till I can go to more dark skies or send my scope to a remote place

it's stupid dim

[tardy sigil]

My eagle neb and m101 😭

[harsh iris]

graxpert please

[jade venture]

I was planning on doing that once I got more data, but since it sets too early for me now, I might as well call it quits until next year.

[harsh iris]

welp when you do get to it good luck

[stiff fox]

Try stacking with out calibration frames see what happens

[shadow mist]

This was from January when I just started, there were no calibration frames here and just 5 minutes of data

I've made great progress tho, just posted my new dumbbell attempt

[rustic cairn]

Tried getting an image of the North America Nebula with my setup, ended up being completely off target and for some reason the stacks didn't stack correctly, thereby tripling the amount of stars in the image.

But hey, I guess it looks kinda neat.

[tame flax]

BeaverCactus belongs here cus he had a bad 5k run

[frail oak]

What was ur setup

[lethal depot]

I had a 5k run and it went perfect, no walk breaks just pure running

[rustic cairn]

Orion Starblast 114mm dob, and my iPhone 12💀

oh, and AstroShader to do stacking (didn't set the alignment function correctly, probably why the stars duplicated and there's slight coma)

[tame flax]

For me I had a nosebleed that didn't stop for 2 miles. I had such a good pace too

I always do pure running but I couldn't breathe

[lethal depot]

Oof, i stopped running at 4.70km beacuse when i touched my chest i couldnt breathe

[tame flax]

Since for practice we run 4 miles+ nonstop it's not the stamina that got to me it was the lack of breathing lol

[timber night]

single cropped frame of jupiter - 1200mm FL was not enough 😩

[astral holly]

not bad for a single frame

two of my first astro images taken with an iphone se 3

and jupiter (first time seeing it too)

[lethal depot]

Its always the breathing or the legs start cramping up

[winged dragon]

yea... its uh... its certainly something

[final quiver]

i remember the first time i saw it... it instills something within u

[light spire]

Dayum! Can't believe that that pleiades one is a single frame

[astral holly]

yeah it for sure does

[astral holly]

yeah i tried to get a ‘flat frame’ to mimic an astro cam. I took a few frames and stitched them together like a mosaic

[coral orbit]

My first attempt at narrowband galaxy imaging... bad...

[lethal depot]

Waste of photons tbh, guiding worked wonders, but the transparency and the moon, clouds and i set the gain too high this is shame worthy

[astral holly]

i reckon a better process it’ll be good

[spark summit]

no clue on what went wrong

[compact jungle]

What software did you stack it in?

[spark summit]

Autostakkert

It worked for the other 2 tiles

[flat nebula]

Stack by using pipp and autostakkert

[rustic cairn]

I can fix him

[jade siren]

pretty strong continuium

[sturdy fossil]

My first image of the Orion Nebula from 2020

[inland falcon]

My orion with canon 600d and 8" dob:D

[cerulean spear]

Reprocessing my b9 crux region did not help it AT ALL

Discord compression makes it even worse

[ocean zodiac]

Tried shooting the sadr region

Forgot my lense was set to f/8

[sterile sinew]

XDD

[rustic cairn]

Sick looking capture of a dark nebula

[stiff fox]

At least you wont have any chromatic aberration or any aberrations for that matter

[ocean zodiac]

best i could get

[stiff fox]

Yeah look at those stars they are perfect

Also astro mod your dslr if its not youll be able to get the same details in a 10m image compared to 3hrs on a unmodified camera

[ocean zodiac]

sadly cant i use the camera for other stuff too

[unreal spear]

Ok huge misconception that modding a camera ruins it for "other stuff" it doesn't unless it's full spectrum mod

[ocean zodiac]

Try telling that to my parents 😒

[stiff fox]

All it gonna do is add a red tint to it which can be easily removed in post

[jade siren]

eh

[fleet jay]

bro went super nova just for you

[maiden dune]

How nice of the elephants trunk nebula

[stiff fox]

Also it will increase the resale value of the camera

[unreal spear]

It's true

[maiden dune]

[compact jungle]

Noise aint walking anymore, it’s running 💀

[past tapir]

my words exactly in general

[past tapir]

just differences in snr

[clear remnant]

the stars 😭

[past tapir]

oh yea cooked

try bx ig

[clear remnant]

even that didnt help

[shadow mist]

Here's my failed C27

[compact jungle]

How does this even happen

[tough kraken]

My first image ☠️

I thought i can get nice red color by just bumping the R slider in histo transform xD

This was also one of the early andromeda attempts, data maybe not that bad but shitty processing

[past tapir]

i mean ur not wrong tbh

u are boosting the red channel

do not belong in hall of shame

[past tapir]

it’s for images like this

[unkempt sparrow]

yeah those two images above are not even close to being hall of shame lol, I don't even see much wrong with em honestly

[storm leaf]

get outta here

(hall of shame)

[harsh iris]

idk wtf happened here but jesus christ

[harsh iris]

ouch

[shadow mist]

And I was so proud of it

[unkempt sparrow]

the last time I photographed andromeda, back in 2018
i guess it could have been worse given the 1 axis tracking I was using back then lol

wait I just realized, my notes say I took 45s exposures back then, my PA must have been golden that night lol (this was at 1200mm fl)

[heady reef]

what does fl mean?

[unkempt sparrow]

focal length :)

[unreal spear]

No way that's was ur first image 💀

[unreal spear]

I used to be very proud of this so yeah💀

[final quiver]

rip

[unreal spear]

What's wrong with it

[ocean zodiac]

Just kinda a bad photo

[ocean zodiac]

Quite soft. Way too small The amount of noise I had to fix. And bad gradient

That was cropped

[unreal spear]

Don't see the problem with it being too small tbh

[ocean zodiac]

It’s pretty low on the reasons

Expect me to be back in an hour ish

Shooting the ISS

[unreal spear]

Good luck

[ocean zodiac]

god dam it

exposure too long

[timber night]

What would the optimal shutter speed for the iss be?

[plucky haven]

My andromeda looks like dumb lmao

[ocean zodiac]

Idk

I use a planatary camera. It don’t use a shutter

[timber night]

Ah

[timber night]

Ok well exposure time then* same same really in ap

[storm leaf]

the one time i did iss jupiter exposure worked

[timber night]

Was just wondering as Id like to try capturing an iss pass over the moon sometime

[storm leaf]

in that case use whatever you use for the moon

[timber night]

Alr, ty!

[ocean zodiac]

just got back from shooting neptune

lets see if i add another photo today

lol

[brave tiger]

What was the integration time?

[ocean zodiac]

3h

[brave tiger]

Doesn’t look too good for me

I really wanna get that pleiades nebulosity

3h is too much for my untracked phone

[rustic cairn]

hey, my first image of andromeda looked a lot like this too

we all start somewhere, don't feel too bad about it 🙂

[unreal spear]

what even is the brown dwarf role

is it higher or lower than nerd

[distant valley]

trolling in chat

[astral holly]

it’s lower with less perms so we don’t get trolls

[rustic cairn]

that's crazy lol, didn't even know that was a role you could get here

[unreal spear]

oh ok

[amber thunder]

Beat mine

[unreal spear]

u sure that's not it's orbiting galaxy or smth lol

[harsh iris]

sub brown dwarf

[warped frost]

boo womp

[winged dragon]

is this walking noise?

[tender quail]

Nah

Running noise

[tame flax]

usain bolt cant catch up with that noise

[warped frost]

rippling noise 💀

[flat nebula]

Just noise

[storm leaf]

how is mine more pleasant to look at jesus

(not that its much better)

[warped frost]

love me some deep fried space pics

[latent nebula]

nice flame

[heady reef]

horribly failed andromeda

[flat nebula]

It was like 20x30s jpegs from my first dso experience (like 30 degrees above horizon)

[flat nebula]

Thought this was solar for like 20 seconds

[warped frost]

[warped frost]

oh hey i have one like that

nvm not one, like 5 💀

[heady reef]

I think the problem was it wasnt in focus

Also possibly that i shot it with my phone

[warped frost]

and the stars look like triangles

mine wasnt tracked and it's deep fried

[heady reef]

Nah yours is pretty good

Just a bit dark

[warped frost]

there is no data in that though

something happened in the stack and that's how stretched it can get

it is screwed

[granite hinge]

its actually my best m31

[unkempt sparrow]

not hall of shame worthy imho

[storm leaf]

get outta here

[ocean zodiac]

It sucks !tho

[warped frost]

I don't think that's shame worthy either.

[forest nymph]

i was so proud of this orion💀

[warped frost]

I had one like that

I was happy about it too. It was really cool to see that from a phone.

[viral cloak]

Wdym? This is great!

[warped frost]

I was proud of this 💀

[sturdy fossil]

This image is considered alright

Great would be a 10 hour integration mosaic

[sturdy fossil]

Taken by me (self promo/I still need to improve )

I need guiding nowwww

[graceful hatch]

bro just needed an excuse to flex

[rose iron]

Orion Nebula?

[flat nebula]

yes

[brave tiger]

you couldn't even tell it was orion? 💀

[rose iron]

to be fair, I had just woken up when I sent that

[rose iron]

omg is this the ISS??? I didn't even know it'd be possible

[ocean zodiac]

Y’all are glazing

It’s not that good

If yall want.

Here’s a fail

And another

Rosette nebula from last year

[viral cloak]

This is my best...

[forest nymph]

heres my best one tho

[viral cloak]

Specs

Specs

I need specs

[forest nymph]

6inch sky watcher dob and phone

[viral cloak]

Exposure time, total integration time, app if you used one etc

[forest nymph]

this is a stack of 25 1sec exposures and i used astroshader

[viral cloak]

Iso?

[forest nymph]

16000

[viral cloak]

Bortle

[forest nymph]

bortle 4

[viral cloak]

LUCKY!

I'm literally b10

[forest nymph]

i live in b9

[forest nymph]

b10 does not exist

[viral cloak]

Trust me

I'm in paris

[forest nymph]

im in athens i thinks my light polution is worse

[viral cloak]

Wait

[viral cloak]

Paris is 0,5 mag/per arc sec² less

More!

Correction

*more

[forest nymph]

see?

im like b11

[viral cloak]

LESS

RE CORRECTION

Less

**less

[viral cloak]

Still tho

[forest nymph]

bui live onn the 6th floor so im above some light polution so itss like b8-7

[viral cloak]

We are basically equal

[viral cloak]

Yeah I have a courtyard

What does Orion neb look like visually for you?

Mine is horrid

[forest nymph]

only slightly visisble

with the scope

[viral cloak]

I can see it naked eye

And w scope:

This is mine

Now that I think about it this probably wasn't in focus

[graceful hatch]

need a phone adapter

[viral cloak]

Yeah it was when I didn't have one

[unkempt sparrow]

lol my most recent one looked hella similar, I did have some success with catching it using a DSLR and a dob a few hears ago though but I haven't figured out the exposure settings on the planetary cam yet

[warped frost]

it's so deep fried that I can't blame anyone for not knowing what it was

[stiff fox]

Why is this here it looks better than anything i managed to get

[stiff fox]

Bruh thats with out guiding what mount

[unkempt sparrow]

hold on that orion neb is WITHOUT GUIDING????

[unreal spear]

because you've only gotten 8 minutes on orion while it was 15 degrees altitude with the moon out in bortle 9💀

[stiff fox]

I dont think it was full moon

[unreal spear]

it was quarter

[stiff fox]

Also i dont mean the amount of nebulocity i mean how tight the stars are

[unreal spear]

because uv/ir cut filter

[stiff fox]

Nah i don't think it affects it that much

[unreal spear]

see

you don't think you need one

the only shameful thing here is that u still have not gotten a uv ir cut filter

[stiff fox]

Also talking of which

Yeah bad collimation

[halcyon belfry]

BlurX compensating for the focus being poor.

[warped frost]

the galaxy itself

[halcyon belfry]

Ass? yeah.

[warped frost]

kind of... i mean

it had potential

[lethal depot]

please blurx my images im desperate

anyway here is my shitty process of the bubble, stars are looking bad for some reason

[zealous minnow]

From memory this was during a full moon, stock dslr no filters in a full moon

[halcyon belfry]

Not bad tbh, nostalgic if anything.

[halcyon belfry]

I am not a free blurX provider unfortunately.

[flat nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/rock-one-eyebrow-raised-rock-staring-the-rock-gif-22113367

are you sure abt that

[unkempt sparrow]

sir, this is the hall of shame forum channel

[zealous minnow]

?

[lethal depot]

Cmon man

[halcyon belfry]

Im just saying that cause I havent been able to touch the processing rig in a bit.

[lethal depot]

Ok

[rocky leaf]

So this is the worst picture that I made

[tawny cosmos]

No offence, but what is imaged in this picture?

[rocky leaf]

Yea here you go
Tracker omegon LX4
Cam Canon eos 450D
Lens some 75mm
Bortle 3
Bad seeing
1 hour of exp time

[tawny cosmos]

What is the object?

[rocky leaf]

Lagoon and trifid

[clear remnant]

no comment

[unreal spear]

what tje

did u print it on a bedsheet and crinkle it up

[unkempt sparrow]

what the

[warped frost]

Am I tripping? I feel like I'm seeing multiple of the same thing.

[tepid kraken]

how did you even do this

[granite hinge]

OOOrrriiiooonnn???

[vernal creek]

Seeing doesn't really matter at 75mm

[unreal spear]

i can tell its lagoon and trifid

[unreal spear]

bro how

were u at like f30 or smth

[inland falcon]

Why f30 lmao

[graceful hatch]

bro he’s in bortle 3

[inland falcon]

And?

Wat does the focalratio hav to do with dat

[graceful hatch]

do you know how bright the lagoon is??

and with 1h

[inland falcon]

Ooooo dis is how u mean it:D

[graceful hatch]

bro must’ve been collecting 1 photon at a time

[inland falcon]

Xdddd

[warped frost]

😭

[dim hill]

some of my earliest images

[flat nebula]

lmc gets that high for you!?!?!??!? bruh i would commit mass attrocities for that

like pizza on pineapple (not to be confused with pineapple on pizza)

[dim hill]

nah this was my first holiday in NZ

[flat nebula]

ahhhhhh i see

imagine being a litteral sheep and having better views than me

[dim hill]

LMC's max altitude at home gets to +60 degrees

which is not bad

[flat nebula]

lol dayum

you in one of the bad states are you?

[dim hill]

thought u were aussie too

[dim hill]

vic

[flat nebula]

i is

[flat nebula]

i'm so sorry for your loss

[dim hill]

which stat

[flat nebula]

nsw

[dim hill]

coastal or inland

[flat nebula]

coastal

hbu?

[dim hill]

yeah me2

:(

cloud type shi

[flat nebula]

coastal good tho

[dim hill]

not for clear skies

rural/outback australia is mad good weather

[flat nebula]

yeah

yeah + no speed limit

thats where i wanna learn how to drive, 200kmh on a degraded road with kangaroos on standby to end my whole career

[flat nebula]

who doesnt like cats eye nebula though

[dim hill]

isnt national limit 110?

all the outback roads ive driven are max 110

usually 100

[flat nebula]

Idk I had a no speed limit in a place called tingah

Not outback but i thought they would have some there too

[unkempt sparrow]

this data is unstackable lmfao

[final quiver]

jupiter

XD

[meager gyro]

Take flats guys

[granite hinge]

Mm--5511

[forest nymph]

my first orion pic💀

[stiff fox]

What galaxy is that

[unkempt sparrow]

whirlpool

[tepid kraken]

why does it look like triangulum and whirlpool

what did you do to m51 😭

[unkempt sparrow]

I ""stacked"" it

that's not a crop btw that's the full frame, and because of that DSS and Siril just ain't having it

[tepid kraken]

i cant even find m51 with my fov 😭

i havent done any dsos with my new cam since its just too small for me to find dsos without platesolving

i need to buy sharpcap pro

[unkempt sparrow]

oh honestly finding it was a pain and I STILL think I got super lucky targetting it lol, that was my 2nd night out with a telescope in years and first time ever with an FOV that narrow

[tepid kraken]

like 2 weeks ago or smth i tried to find m81

couldnt

i have goto but

my mount is so bad i might aswell not have it

[unkempt sparrow]

have you using it with a laptop? goto a position, platesolve the image to know where you ended up, sync the position to the mount, goto your target again after the sync

[tepid kraken]

i do use it with a laptop since i literally cant use it with a phone

app broken

i had to buy a eqmod cable to stop doing untracked

[unkempt sparrow]

ye, definitely try the "go to target, platesolve where you ended up, sync, goto target again" thing

[tepid kraken]

how do i platesolve though without sharpcap pro or nina

nina didnt work i tried

and astrometry.net always fails

[unkempt sparrow]

can you send an example image you were feeding it?

[tepid kraken]

dont have any rn

[unkempt sparrow]

hmm

honestly astrometry.net can take like 30 mins sometimes, but I found it super resilient in resolving even some super weird stuff so

[tepid kraken]

also how would i sync to the mount

[unkempt sparrow]

well it depends on your setup, but the way I do it after connecting the mount to the software I just input the coordinates in AstrophotographyTool and press sync

[tepid kraken]

wdym after connecting the mount to the software

and i dont know what astrophotographytool is 😭

[unkempt sparrow]

it's something like nina but different (I'm not familiar with nina though unfortunately)

[tepid kraken]

i have to use the synscan pro app

because nina didnt work when i tried to get it working

i think with the mount i have rn synscan pro app is the only choice i have

ill get a new mount eventually

[warped frost]

[tender quail]

Altair

[uneven talon]

Might as well include my first (and only 😭) orion picture

[tepid kraken]

what happened😭

[uneven talon]

I have no clue 🤣

I stacked it and brought it into siril and was so confused lmao

[warped frost]

LMAO

[tepid kraken]

sorry I spilled acid on your pleiades😔

i won't do it again

[ocean zodiac]

Saturn occultation of dust mote 😂

[storm leaf]

woaaaa

[lethal depot]

DITHERING HAS LEFT THE CHAT

But its such good data too

Im dissapointed that i did not set uo guiding

[drifting remnant]

that looks faint

[tropic void]

that was a 1sec picture if i remember

[ocean zodiac]

deep sky stacker?

[tame flax]

Ye

[ocean zodiac]

Knew it

[forest nymph]

I confused u and me

I was like when did I use dss

Imma change pfp

[green gate]

My Saturn image

[viral cloak]

Man

I come in here for inspiration!

[stiff fox]

Nahhhhh

[warped frost]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1282959925978599466/1283117029053960252/image.png?ex=66e1d35a&is=66e081da&hm=e6a0c291586c9f34f25cb0fead8bc62adff3a1de14066df484ab0b0a410847d7&

Some of us still make the same mistakes...

This was from last night.

[tender quail]

Only green channel 😭 idk

[rustic cairn]

might still be salvageable, as long as the data is still somewhat ok

[warped frost]

I think it is salvageable, the core had no evidence of walking noise

I might be able to get around it by checking out a non drizzled version of the image too, or by changing the drizzle method.

I was forced into a predicament where I had to compromise on # of exposures before dither and exposure time, ended up not picking few enough exposures out of fear that my mount may not behave after dithering. Take forever to recover.

[warped frost]

ok that one was cooked

I tried gradient removal and it made things worse

So i decided to restack and delete every 5th and sixth sub between dithers, that way i eliminate the walking noise, it worked

[rustic cairn]

'Ery Noice

[ocean zodiac]

i droped my jupiter in the dirt :/

[lethal depot]

This is pure shame, clouds came in at 3 am ruined my guiding while i was asleep. It started raining while i was asleep soaked my whole gear but at least got 3hrs of data on the crescent, and i set the damn dither way to far

[stiff fox]

You sure thats 3hrs cause it looks identical to my one and my one is 20m

[rigid dragon]

ive got quite a few bad images to share

i dont think these images have seen the light of day in 3 years

[lethal depot]

Yes im sure, imma try stacking it again to see what its it going to look like

[unreal spear]

looks alright (not sure if it's the data) but most of that looks like processing issues

[warped frost]

wasnt the data

all i did was stack it and it came out like that

i fixed it tho

[unreal spear]

yeah all of my stacks come out weird colors

[warped frost]

this one was because i didnt dither enough

[misty musk]

me trying to draw jupiter from memory:

[clear remnant]

Seems like you used a light pollution filter

Thats how 1.5hrs look like for me

[rigid dragon]

dawg wtf happened here 😭

[clear remnant]

everything that could have happened, happened

[past tapir]

i watched it live aswell

[vapid crest]

I don’t even know what this is but it’s bad

[stiff fox]

Nope no filter b9 full moon

[heady reef]

out of focus?

[past tapir]

i wanna say venus

[tawny cosmos]

I think bro is out of focus by 10 metres

[green gate]

Nah bro stacking bad and not much details 16,5min total exposure

[humble raven]

That's a black hole

[rustic cairn]

Funnily enough, because of the way the spherical aberration in the image lines up with the dark area, it actually kinda does look like a black hole, complete with gravitational lensing of background stars.

[warped frost]

Holy mother of resolution, there's 5 stars in the trapezium

[vapid crest]

Probably

[vapid crest]

I hope 🤞

[halcyon belfry]

I count 7.

8, sorry.

[warped frost]

Thats way clearer.

Btw, don't shoot me, I went ahead and got the RC6 for the time being.

[halcyon belfry]

That sounds just fine to me.

[warped frost]

It's actually cheaper than my refractor and I will 100% get better results.

I'm really excited.

[halcyon belfry]

enjoy :]

[warped frost]

Oh and it's lighter so my mount will be happier

I'll save up and then sell up to the 8 when I'm ready.

I can get the 0.67x reducer since it works for both the 6 and 8

[shadow mist]

I didn't notice the trailing 😭

Gonna try again next weekend if it's clear

[clear remnant]

Dumbbell in ha

[ocean remnant]

Ok what the actual fck happened

Is this field rotation?

It’s not star trail bc of too long exposures bc this is a stack of 105x500ms taken with my untracked 6” dob and phone

[warped frost]

Man what the flock did you do.

[harsh pulsar]

I'd like to add a piece to this thread. I think this could be one of the most important threads of all time. Simply because we all share our mishaps and lows, showcasing how this is a hobby of constant learning and evolving 👍

My first ever astrophoto, manually timed the exposures with my watch and a shutter release cable. Using a C6 sct at prime focus 1500mm on a wonky cg5gt mount using an old Sony A300 dslr. Forget about calibration frames and guiding 😅

But this image made me jump down the rabbit hole so I kept it as a reminder of were I started out 👍

[clear remnant]

I flocking sharpened this to it's own demise, then the stars became triangular

[lethal depot]

Maybe pinched optics

[clear remnant]

Maybe

[maiden olive]

Which galaxy is this?

[graceful hatch]

caldwell 30

[rustic cairn]

NGC-7331, the "Deer" of the Deer Lick Group.

[viral cloak]

Something is up here....🤔🧐🕵️‍♂️

[warped frost]

The Orion Fart Cloud

[halcyon belfry]

IR assigned to R, R to G, and G+B combined into B

[flat nebula]

did you get nerd?

[warped frost]

are you using a planetary IR pass filter or something fancier?

[halcyon belfry]

Baader 685+ 2", I'm going up to a Sloan I' soon

[graceful hatch]

yes

[flat nebula]

Yippee

[misty musk]

an attempt was made

(moon hidden behind pole)

[vapid crest]

https://tenor.com/view/vote-dont-vote-voting-is-dumb-handsome-filipe-mexcian-hiding-gif-20334648

[noble summit]

Lmao

[misty musk]

Lmao

[harsh iris]

Lmao

[distant valley]

Lmao

[final quiver]

MY saturn IMAGE

lmao

[rapid bear]

throwback to my untracked days

[unkempt sparrow]

I fried it :(

though quite unideal conditions and first time stacking mw landscape so I'm less disappointed than I probably should be

[misty musk]

this I found in my lunar eclipse photos
the one on the right is a reference to show what it should've looked like around then

[tidal sigil]

not the smartest idea to shoot in a full moon and twilight
I dont even know why the lines appeared

[harsh iris]

banding alert

[tidal sigil]

is it because I shot in JPEG or a different issue?

I was shooting a canyon a little bit back and didnt remember to switch back to RAW

in all the time i've shot in JPEG a while back, it's never given me banding this bad, although I never shot under 2" exposures

[warped frost]

likely

i would shoot raw always

any time i shot with jpeg it came out really bad

[tidal sigil]

fair, I also was untracked so my exposures were short

[brittle girder]

pleades

[final quiver]

ok

[forest nymph]

...

[green gate]

… but it looks cool with the galaxy

[past tapir]

the reflection from the phone is so funny lmao

[tawny cosmos]

Ngl thats still impressive

[tawny cosmos]

The reason why its called whirpool galaxy

[sturdy fossil]

Looks like the lagoon nebula

[harsh iris]

[misty musk]

looks like someone dragged the orion nebula to the side while u were taking the pic

[main galleon]

Is that Seestar with spikes 💀

[tepid kraken]

my bad

[sullen wedge]

Are those fake diffraction spikes???

[harsh iris]

no I used a spike mask

[lethal depot]

How can my stars less blown out

[stiff fox]

Stretch them separately

[lethal depot]

What do you mean

[unkempt sparrow]

starnet or starexterminator out the stars, then stretch the stars and the rest separately and combine the two back together

[lethal depot]

I understand now but where combine the two together?

[unkempt sparrow]

in siril there is a recomposition option under star processing 🙂

[lethal depot]

Ahh thanks

[fleet jay]

euh

[harsh iris]

fixed it lets go

[final quiver]

whats this dawg

[rustic cairn]

appears to be the Pleiades

[lethal depot]

A lot better but the moon washed out the details and the backround a bit

[past tapir]

no comment

[lethal depot]

How is this hall of shame worthy?

[glacial mortar]

I dont know if you can call this an image necessarily, but this is what happens when DSS is angry.

[past tapir]

processing my friend

[lethal depot]

How do you let this happen

[lethal depot]

Looks good to me

[glacial mortar]

I have no idea, restacked it with the exact same settings and it worked perfectly when I did that stack, so just some weirdness I guess

[jade siren]

dont use dss
use siril