hall of shame

[glacial mortar]

I will once I learn how to use the interface

[past tapir]

yea ok

[jade siren]

use the scripts

[past tapir]

pix solos

[glacial mortar]

Ill try to learn all that when I can actually image lol, I dont have any of my imaging setup atm, and most likely thats gonna be the case for the next 6months to a year

[unkempt sparrow]

accidental art

[glacial mortar]

Indeed

[rustic cairn]

This is actually sick looking

[stiff fox]

looks fine

[spark summit]

Windows 98 ahh desktop background

[amber thunder]

Kinda reminds me of the iPhone wallpaper

[lethal depot]

I dont understand what mini red dwarf

[jade siren]

It doesn't fix a problem

[ocean zodiac]

Attempt at the blue lake on the moon

(Ina)

[subtle lotus]

My very first Jupiter, taken with a Seben 114/1000 and a Trust WB-1400T (352x288 pixel)

[plucky sky]

sadge

[flat nebula]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/794651916646350859/1289169985557758053/image.png?ex=66f7d89c&is=66f6871c&hm=9028347b5055237caa19f2510a41ab2bdec101e84617b9a4210bb74f4d3bf306&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=947&height=700

[rocky swan]

ou thats a real unique one

[final quiver]

how do u even get this

[tawny cosmos]

Bro put an effort to get this

[flat nebula]

🤷‍♂️

[misty musk]

the slightest amount of instability in the weird ass angle I had my phone at managed fo do this

[clear remnant]

How did this even happen

[magic current]

https://tenor.com/view/gameundt-fallout-maximus-outerops-gif-4067651569052406982

[tawny cosmos]

Ngl its still pretty nice

[clear remnant]

Nah

[lethal depot]

try it out

the iris data u wanna process

[shadow mist]

Speaks for itself

[tidal sigil]

charge yo phone

[harsh iris]

I have failed

[main galleon]

Interesting spikes

[stiff fox]

Better than mine

I took bad flats

😪

Doesnt help that i am in bortle 9

Next time i will have cooling (probably not because technical difficulties)

[harsh iris]

lol did mine with seestar

[stiff fox]

Since when does seestar have diffraction spikes and no chromatic aberration

[jade siren]

desaturate stars or invert scnr

[lethal depot]

Send autosave

[harsh iris]

don't think I have it anymore

[lethal depot]

Aw dang it

[lethal depot]

KILL ME ALREADY

Autostack if someone wanna process it

[tardy sigil]

[twin flame]

This is where I'll thrive if I decide to commit to this hobby 😁

[tepid kraken]

this is a zoomed in image of the sharpcap live view of dubhe with a bahtinov mask from my phone like 2 meters away from the screen lmao

[spark summit]

I can't get my data aligned for some reason

[heady rose]

I love hall of shame

[heady rose]

bro what 💀

[warped frost]

that's deep sky stacker at its finest

ill see if i can find some more garbage

[heady rose]

dss love being a shitface

[heady rose]

LMFAO WHAT THE HELL

[warped frost]

[heady rose]

dss being bss

[cunning sandal]

2min sub of a dark wall after target dipped behind houses. Show me the yellow in grey.

[compact jungle]

Thats lime green

[cunning sandal]

Definitely do see that in the photo. Could’ve passed as a banana in person

[tardy sigil]

Oopsie

[magic current]

And now we let Orion cook for 20 mins inside the oven. And we add little bit of olive oil to help it not be stucked in the pan and then we're closing the lid.

[tardy sigil]

Added a little bit of salt to it

[magic current]

And a few onions to give a sweet flavour to it as well

[final quiver]

nice core

[warped frost]

Thank you

[tawny cosmos]

Bro got deep fried like the chicken in kfc

[tardy sigil]

The actual image wasn't any better

[twin flame]

Don't think 20 mins is enough 💀🤚

Unless it's at 400 °C

[rocky swan]

Looking through old pictures can be a nightmare

[heady rose]

is that running man

or cursed man

[heady reef]

ran over man

[maiden coyote]

https://tenor.com/view/how-did-we-get-here-minecraft-achievement-advancement-gif-25679370

[clear remnant]

Here are some smart scope fails

[heady rose]

you could say smart fails

[clear remnant]

@chrome nacelle here u go, disc didnt want to send them through dms

[chrome nacelle]

lmao i love how you posted this in hall of shame

ty

[rocky swan]

The Christmastree…

Would be ranked high in a horrormovie

[heady rose]

I couldn't even tell cuz of the middle star 💀

[rocky swan]

Its an utter disgrace to the photography Community but still

Even as an beginner I was disappointed😂

I have this one aswell

[final quiver]

horsehead(less) nebula

[dim hill]

thats beautiful

[glacial mortar]

DSS abstract art?
It is very interesting, not the result intended though x)

[compact jungle]

Sell it as nft

[viral cloak]

Aurora?

Lol

[glacial mortar]

Totally

[sacred sun]

This belong here

[storm leaf]

ive

[harsh iris]

owch

[heady rose]

tree dromeda

[astral holly]

not bad, just a bit gritty

[granite hinge]

4h with unmod canon 550d

[storm leaf]

bortle? lens used?

[granite hinge]

4-5
Tamron 70-300 f/4.5

[storm leaf]

ok yeah that's pretty pathetic for b4

[past tapir]

bruh what

looks like ok signal

processing is letting that image down

[rocky swan]

unmoded cam...

[granite hinge]

Yeah....

[stiff fox]

Stop down your lens

[stiff fox]

Its unmodded

Meaning there is filter in the camera that blocks h alpha and as you know NA is a emission nebula Meaning it emits Hapha

[storm leaf]

yep knew what unmodded means lol

[stiff fox]

Mod it.. Me and @unreal spear modded his camera and its the best decision he has made

[heady rose]

its risky

[granite hinge]

Ok, I know guy who can do this

[rustic cairn]

the way I would be satisfied with an image like this😭

[hushed trellis]

lmao its out of focus and noisy

[rustic cairn]

yeah, atleast the colors are kinda nice

[flat nebula]

can you do normal photography still?

[stiff fox]

Yeah

[flat nebula]

does it look any different?

[flat nebula]

and your message is pretty pathetic too but i'm the only one commenting on that

[storm leaf]

:(

[heady rose]

it will slightly

[flat nebula]

how bad

[heady rose]

u can just put a UV/IR cut filter on the front as a screw on and boom

[heady rose]

noticable but not bad

nico carver made a video on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL45mPSU9dU&pp=ygUJI2NhbWFyYXV2

[stiff fox]

Nah theres a bit of red tint to it but other than that it fine

And the red tint can be removed in post

[flat nebula]

Which mod is best for Nikon?

[heady rose]

its white balance

[stiff fox]

Yeah basically

[stiff fox]

Well depends on what you trying to image full spectrum would be the best for astro but you can just remove the h alpha blocker

[heady rose]

yea baader mod is bleh

not worth it

[jade siren]

just get a new camara instead of modding it

[flat nebula]

i wana get a dss cam so yeah

why cant i see this crap bro

look at this aurora pic from america last night

[stiff fox]

Its cheaper

[jade siren]

its better

[brave tiger]

a deep sky stacker cam?

[flat nebula]

myb i meant dso

[misty musk]

[heady rose]

mon

[rustic cairn]

Thought this was a really high magnification of Mercury for a brief moment

[vernal wren]

as we close in on one year since i first tried ghost of cassiopeia, i want to pass on some wisdom to newbies

yea it’s a cool target
do not try to image it early on in your learning phase. it is deceptively difficult

anyway. dither or die

this totally wasn’t my second image ever - big mistake

[past tapir]

is this bb or nb?

in nb is decently bright, bb it’s hell

[vernal wren]

broadband

back in the days when i was armed with nothing but a svbony uhc filter, unmodded dslr, skyguider pro, and z61

(and i had no idea what dithering was until i was processing this image)

[rocky swan]

Its a screenshot therefore the quality but still super unhappy

undfocused gradient and i didnt find that damn extension for the guiding cam so I had to photograph without guiding :/

not to mention the coma

[heady rose]

:/

[chrome nacelle]

blurx and dbe can save this image

[rocky swan]

I mean I think I can save it somewhat but ive planed to capture 20h-ish of the plejades anyway so I see no point in trying save it for now

[pearl raft]

shall work now

[storm leaf]

whats with m101 and being out of focus

like its the 3rd out of focus m101 ive seen

[tame flax]

its a canon (pun intended) event for all astrophotographers

[sullen wedge]

That is the best focus I could get 💀

[storm leaf]

run from it, dread it

hall of shame is inevitable

[outer meteor]

how do yall get pictures of the comet

[jade siren]

step 1: point camara at comet
step 2: image the comet

congratulations you have imaged the comet

[warped frost]

Light pollution here is so bad that the comet has almost no contrast against the background sky

My choices are, shoot it when the sun is still setting, or shoot it when it's about to dip behind the trees.

[storm leaf]

i did it by taking pictures of it. not sure if theres a different way to do it

[pearl raft]

M16, at 16mm...

[winged dragon]

if you're in a dark place, a long exposure (like 25-30s or even more) can bring out a very nice picture.

With light pollution it gets tricky, you have to play around with different exposures and find the sweet spot where the comet is visible, but isn't washed out by the lp

this for example was a 10s exposure

[heady reef]

look west just after sunset

[brave tiger]

My 23 second exposure from a b4

[tawny cosmos]

Atleast i can see the comet

[brave tiger]

Its just eaten up by noise

[tawny cosmos]

Yea. Stacking will drastically improve that (hopefully)

[noble summit]

Every single photo I took of it looked like that too

[uneven talon]

this was a 10 second exposure from b4 for me

[brave tiger]

How do i even stack it 😭

[tawny cosmos]

Use deep sky stacker, or import all images as layers and use mean stack in photoshop.

[spark summit]

when did you shoot it?

[brave tiger]

I meant like

The comets barely visible

And there arent any stars visible nearby too

[astral holly]

idk

not too long ago lol

[tawny cosmos]

Ah. I see what you mean. You can stack it in photoshop by manually aligning the images and using a median stack.
Nico Carver (Nebula Photos on Youtube) had a similar picture like yours (he had even less stars). He has just posted a video showing the complete comet stacking and post processing workflow

[vernal creek]

when you accidentally pull the curves adjustment the wrong way

also try to guess the target

(I'm editing my 100+ hours exposure on it rn)

[vernal wren]

[compact jungle]

lacerta ifn?

[flat nebula]

ghost of cassiopea?

[vernal creek]

No

[vernal creek]

Good job

[granite hinge]

Reprocess

[rustic cairn]

y'all order some
TREES

[heady rose]

rainbow land

[empty acorn]

True

[final quiver]

sed

[indigo zodiac]

Id probably have to go with my first ever astro picture

[tawny cosmos]

There is a first for everything.

[misty musk]

you missed step 3: get clouded out

[indigo zodiac]

Yea well I think I progressed well

[brisk sandal]

Full eclipse from my Iphone .. What was I thinking? LOL (I placed priority on live viewing rather than photography... lol )

[tawny cosmos]

Oh wow thats amazing!

[ocean zodiac]

b4 + southern hemisphere = goated image

[tawny cosmos]

How is this hall of shame?

[ocean zodiac]

was replying to someone not submitting'

[tawny cosmos]

AH alr. Amazing image tho

[ocean zodiac]

thanks sorry for the confusion

[tawny cosmos]

No problem

[shell river]

What did U used ?

[heady rose]

u can see it in southern?

[jade siren]

easily

[ocean zodiac]

Yes

Also

This was taken a while ago

When it was a southern only target

[storm leaf]

i used a window to darken the view just enough that the samsung s7 could get detail

[spark summit]

Guess whose mirror moved during the session? And guess who didn't notice it?

[tepid kraken]

my mirror never moves 😼

literally idk how I've gotten so lucky with the collimation

[shell river]

Bro it's good

[spark summit]

It could have been sooo much better...

[devout moat]

Pleiades shot untracked with not much data, but I still wanted to see the nebula so I over processed the hell out of it.

[rocky swan]

But untracked this zoomed in 👌🏻

[empty acorn]

Nice

[rocky swan]

Looks good?

Why hall of shame dude

[twin flame]

I can't wait to show the completely yellow images of the moon here

I just need to find them first...

[winged dragon]

diarrhea moon ftw!1!1!!

[compact jungle]

Don‘t joke about diarrhea

I have it rn

[rocky swan]

Interesting information

[viral cloak]

I pray for your health

(getting off discord and fixing diarrhea)

[sturdy fossil]

dudeeeeee

im so fcked

TRipin ABLLLLS

andddddd shhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiii

rt

jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjcodex

[flat nebula]

Did you mean this for AstroShader?

[jade siren]

hes high.

[indigo zodiac]

why shame?

[ocean zodiac]

It sucks lmao

Look at that Saturn 😂

[indigo zodiac]

Its better than anything I would ever do

i think it looks nice tbh

[ocean zodiac]

Im 99% sure. It’s my worst Saturn

[rustic cairn]

I think it only looks "bad" because the tilt of the rings atm isn't ideal for visual and photography, if they were at a nice 30° ~ 45° angle it would look better, but unfortunately there isn't exactly anything we can do about that lol

[ocean zodiac]

Taking these into consideration it’s pretty obvious that, that image sucks

[rustic cairn]

Ah, I see now

Those are really nice

[tardy sigil]

My best saturn is actually horrible. Ig that's what I get for using a phone

[heady rose]

blurx that

[warped frost]

noooo dont

BlurX has smudged planets like somebody sticking their finger in wet paint

[spark summit]

slightly better

[heady rose]

lmfao ik

[sharp karma]

Not me a year ago thinking this was a good photo of Venus

[storm leaf]

is that even the phase or just motion blur

[graceful hatch]

definitely not the phase

[vapid crest]

I think it’s motion blur

[umbral zinc]

this photo of stars i took from my window

off topic but i like the weather right now it’s cool

[heady rose]

whys thisin the hall of shame 😭

[umbral zinc]

lol

wait wdym 😭

[flat nebula]

rate the starless lol

[rustic cairn]

Oh dear

[tepid kraken]

i was happy with this image when i took it

[past tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/uhhhhh-gif-18728531

[tepid kraken]

dw that was like 5 months ago

I'd say my widefield images are ok now

[spark summit]

I would have probably posted tonight's image here if my mount had worked

[sick moat]

gradients and walking noise

[tepid kraken]

I rarely go out on clear nights unless the conditions are really good since it's just not worth getting my terrible mount to work

[candid widget]

Are you serious or nah?

[sick moat]

nah

[sharp karma]

Nope thats motion blur in a sea of noise reduction

[heady rose]

doesnt deserve HOS

[half nova]

30min on b7. I think I need a Bahtinov mask

[ocean zodiac]

First ever moon pic

(Ever)

From little over a year ago

[tidal sigil]

what did you use for it

[half nova]

Sony a6100 with 18-135mm at 70mm f5.6

I think as the camera cooled, the focus changed. I had no time to let it cool off.

[tidal sigil]

yea that'll do it

[viral cloak]

Hey

Everybody starts somewhere

And look at you now!

This was technically my first ever

This was better

The one after that

5$ binocs and 7x zoom on my phone

No tripod

No nothing

how did I have enough patients to do this😭

[misty musk]

😭 this is my oldest
moon and venus from April 2023

this is my oldest relatively detailed one, from August 2023

[storm leaf]

my first ever (surviving) image

(that i know of)

[rustic cairn]

I think this was one of, if not my first ever astro photo. Just a shoddy moon image. I still like it though, it marks the beginning of my journey through amateur astrophotography.

Taken with my phone and a 56mm monocular

[candid widget]

I also had a monocular off Amazon

I still have it with me but has serious focus issues

Was good while it lasted tho

[candid widget]

Whirlpool galaxy

Can’t wait for the upcoming galaxy season whirlpool is gonna be so good

Taken with Nikon p950

[jade siren]

Is this a single sub?

[candid widget]

No 25 mins of data

I can’t wait to try whirlpool with this gear

My fav galaxy

[jade siren]

What

[candid widget]

?

[storm leaf]

that has marginally more data than my untracked single subs lmao

[candid widget]

Yes but this isn’t single sub

So can’t be compared lol

[storm leaf]

yeah thats the joke

because my 2s exposures got as much detail

[jade siren]

Now laugh at him.

[storm leaf]

[heady rose]

laugh laugh laugh

[final quiver]

This was My 3rd attempt in ap, this is leo triplets 1min (1x60sec) exposure from b8, with a 300mm apsc camera. and ofc it had to be out of foucs.

[tidal sigil]

I'm geniunely surprised you can see all 3 with just 1 unfocused exposure

so you got a tracker assuming you took a full minute exposure

[final quiver]

no tracker actually, i set my camera iso to 25600, which is way too much. But back then i thought more iso is better because i can see more stars with it.

i think due to the high iso it got some light from leo triplets, but due to high iso it got covered in noise because of which my single frames look so noisy like this here. But after stacking 60 frames a bit of noise must have reduced making them slightly visible

[jade siren]

🟩

[tidal sigil]

so you meant 60 x 1 sec

[final quiver]

ye my bad

[tidal sigil]

that makes much more sense

do you have the data?

in a master file or smtn

I wanna see if I can fight the green

and 25600 is NOT the move

bring that jawn down to like 1600

[final quiver]

no, i do have the final stacked image from dss.

[tidal sigil]

that works

already stacked saves time for me

send the tiff and i'll take a crack at it

I may not be the best at processing but I have a handle on the basics for sure

[final quiver]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cWa9X3bhXDCiIEgPGz8q-IPQbWR_ONIo/view?usp=sharing

[heady reef]

orion?

[warped frost]

yeah

[upbeat mulch]

Fireowrks galaxy

i had REALLY bad gradients in this as well

[tepid kraken]

DAMN WTH

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-shocked-cat-silly-cat-cat-kitten-gif-7414586676150300212

[split fractal]

The 1st sub vs the 1000th sub:

[misty musk]

I assume left is 1000th

[split fractal]

Right is the 1000th sub, it shows how much dew buildup on your lens can affect ur subss

[fleet jay]

you should make a lag farm on mc pocket edition so your phone get really hot and no dew can form on it

you would have to tank the noise though

[split fractal]

It's dew forming on the lens of the scope not my phone camera lol

[fleet jay]

oh then you just need to buy a cheap dew heater

[storm leaf]

right is what my phoe astro subs look like lol

phoned astro

[forest nymph]

final image?

[forest nymph]

u posted in the hall of shame lol

[split fractal]

From almost an hour of data although this only stacked around 30 mins

[forest nymph]

give data pook

[split fractal]

Most of my subs after like 100 subs were already worse due to dew

[split fractal]

Data here ^^^^

[candid widget]

Very clean

Especially for a phone photo

Your phone must have a nice sensor

[split fractal]

it came out at like the beginning of october i believe

the pixel 9 pro fold

[candid widget]

Oh cool

Google Pixel phones are so good for AP compared to other phones

So makes sense

[split fractal]

ive gotten some good info from someone in friendly cosmos about my camera specs that are a little more in depth if u wanna read thru it

[candid widget]

Okay

I saw someone I friendly cosmos had insane photos with his phone

It’s like he was using an astrocam

[split fractal]

yeah thats lucas

hes here too

he has a phone that id honestly say is pretty close to a dslr lol

a xiaomi not sure which one tho

[candid widget]

Yes

[candid widget]

Yea lmao

[unique laurel]

Shame or Fame?

[viral cloak]

What

This is what it looks like fr

[unique laurel]

Potentially ahhahahah

Not quite but almost 😭

[past tapir]

ts buns

na im joking this is gass well done

[rustic cairn]

I like this palette for Ara's dragons, haven't seen colors like that before

[lapis cliff]

Can you guess what’s wrong with it?

[storm leaf]

out of focus, urple, framing is wonk

[lapis cliff]

Hmm I’ll have to work on the focus with the Seestar and yeah I may have went overboard on the saturation and then the noise was really bad on the edges so I had to make the framing really wonky. Thank you

[rustic cairn]

Oh dear

[split fractal]

You found the aliens from Arrival!

[warm wren]

[flat nebula]

It’s the colours in my opinion

[viral cloak]

Who put Cheerios on your camera?

[tawny cosmos]

its gorgeous ngl

[sick moat]

this is gorgeous

[jade siren]

bad

[tawny cosmos]

Better than my best lol

[storm leaf]

looks like phone astro lol

[tepid kraken]

the saturn is alright

[ocean zodiac]

such incomprehensively bad seeing

this is the sharpend stack

[tender quail]

Damn

[stiff fox]

Was it low to the horizon

[ocean zodiac]

nope pretty hight up

almost at its highest

[stiff fox]

Were you collimated

[ocean zodiac]

extreamly

this was with thick heavy smoke in the sky

from some bushfires

and a horrific jet stream

prossesing some from tonight

and they look better

i hope

[ocean zodiac]

Still not great

[candid widget]

Definetly not hall of shame

That’s good

[ocean zodiac]

no it aint 🤣

its among my worst

[candid widget]

It’s great tho

I like it man idk

Different standards ig, I don’t do planetary

[ocean zodiac]

Do it

It’s better then deep sky

[candid widget]

???

I have a deep sky rig lmao

And I like deep sky more

Hopefully in the future I’ll get a dob and try it out

[ocean zodiac]

Do it

It’s better then deep sky

[candid widget]

For u, yes.

I prefer having many colorful cool galaxies and nebulae to shoot

[ocean zodiac]

Yeah but

[timber night]

Deep sky got more objects B)

[ocean zodiac]

wrong

[timber night]

Wdym?

I mean it's not like you'll be imaging a 10 year old asteroid that's mag 20

[ocean zodiac]

i can

if i wanted to

not much point tho

theres also the 10,000,000 starlink satalites

[timber night]

I mean as impressive as that is, I find even the smallest nebulae more beautiful than a small dot super far away

[timber night]

True lol, but that isn't really planetary

[ocean zodiac]

let me put it like this

yes there might be more better looking stuff

however basically everything in planetary is dynamic

a nebula isnt going to change from one night to the other

i find it interesting to watch the solar system and its objects in motion like the clouds moving around on Jupiter or its moons swirling around it

or the sunspots on the sun and the phases of the moon

beautiful comets and clouds formations on mars

[timber night]

Fair, adds to the challenge in a way too

[ocean zodiac]

yeah

id say planetary is way harder then deep sky

im pretty crap at deep sky tho

so that dosnt prove much

[timber night]

For sure! And the gear is also demanding

[ocean zodiac]

my fl is measured in meters

lmao

[timber night]

Oml

Most I've used is 1200mm lol

And that was for the moon

[ocean zodiac]

thats 1.2 m

[jade siren]

Na planetary is so easy. Dso is harder as it's more technical

[ocean zodiac]

show me your best planetary photo

[timber night]

If you have enough money, both can be easy 😵‍💫

[ocean zodiac]

lil out of focus

[jade siren]

It's focused

[timber night]

Show yours then ;p (out of curiosity)

[jade siren]

It's seeing

[candid widget]

Holy shit.

[ocean zodiac]

.

[timber night]

Cool stuff!

[candid widget]

The thing good about planetary is it’s quite easy compared to DSO it seems

[ocean zodiac]

its not

dso you just click run then go to bed

you have to baby sit planatary 24/7

[candid widget]

No way u said this

It is NOT like that dude

[ocean zodiac]

it is

[candid widget]

it’s not

Clearly u have not experienced it

Unless ur using an observatory it is not like that

[ocean zodiac]

get yourself some auto guiding and then boom

its all automatic

[timber night]

With the perfect gear yes

But not everyone has top of the line type of stuff

[candid widget]

No.

Rigs can be automated yes but it’s definetly not how u say it “turn on and go to sleep”

[ocean zodiac]

seestar s50

$500

[candid widget]

Ok?

[ocean zodiac]

id like to see a planatary version

oh wait

you cant

[candid widget]

That’s a smart scope dude

💀

How is that even comparable

Anyways let’s make a thread for this

Oh we can’t bruh

[tepid kraken]

dso is way harder than planetary

I don't have autoguidimg but still

[rocky swan]

Setup can make it easier

But still prob harder

[candid widget]

Fr

[manic wraith]

jupiter was swollen by a big fungus

[candid widget]

How am I stupid here?

It’s literally harder and u can ask whoever u want u willl get the same answer

[jade venture]

Light pollution alone makes imaging deep space targets harder. And that’s ignoring the skill needed in processing, amount of data required, etc.

Dependence on seeing is the only significant thing that makes it harder imo

[candid widget]

Literally

[tepid kraken]

dso has transparency also

not as bad as seeing but it's still a thing

[tepid kraken]

I wonder why...

maybe because planets need a bigger aperture, which isn't cheap to automate!

[maiden coyote]

I have a 114/900 and i enjoy doing planetary with it

For me dso is hard cause i dont have a good cam for it

[maiden coyote]

As long as thwre are no mosquitoes

[tepid kraken]

yea putting a 114/900 on a fully automated mount and making it a smart scope would be much more expensive than a 50/250 frac

[maiden coyote]

Yeah thats true

[tepid kraken]

luckily jupiter is here in the winter

[maiden coyote]

Nice

I might also try jupe tonight

[ocean zodiac]

Getting a photo of a planet is easy

Getting a good one is the challenge

[jade siren]

getting a good image is just luck

[ocean zodiac]

*skill

[astral holly]

not necessarily, planets are very bright

[tepid kraken]

for detail

[uneven talon]

[harsh iris]

dawg

[indigo zodiac]

oh I should be in this channel then i noticed

[upbeat mulch]

gotta hate gradients

[jade siren]

do a background extraction

or give it to graxpert

[sturdy fossil]

This is the best seeing that I get

I hate living in Victoria lmao

Worst Australian state weather wise

[ocean zodiac]

Nah Queensland

It’s atrocious

[dusty meadow]

sir you are pointed the wrong way

[uneven talon]

I was observing the beautiful grass

[tame flax]

He was imaging carina nebula from the northern hemisphere. He has earthxterminator to remove earth from the subs

[winged dragon]

should've also got some sunxterminator

[vernal creek]

Cloudxterminator when????

[fleet jay]

guys I have worked a long time on a program, and I am proud to finally present to you: Cloudxterminator.

I haven't been able to put it on the pix website so if you'll just send me a 100$ I will make sure cloudX will be your within a day

[indigo zodiac]

sounds like a scam

[fleet jay]

trust me it's not

[candid widget]

LightpollutionXterminator

[mighty hedge]

Oof.. Gotta love some star trails 😀

This one may be my actual worst though lol

[tepid kraken]

what am i looking at

[mighty hedge]

I tried to get the eagle nebula in the first one and the second one was a aura borealis on my iPhone 8 😅

[tepid kraken]

On the first I could at least see smth

I genuinely had absolutely zero idea what the hell that 2nd image was tho

Tho it does look like an aurora somewhat

[zealous ridge]

Think I need darks

[jade siren]

you need a better background extraction

[zealous ridge]

Kind of forgot about that not gonna lie.

[meager gyro]

Whoops

[harsh iris]

I fixed it up a bit

[wise rivet]

not as bad as mine

(It started raining like 30 minutes after i took this photo)

[storm leaf]

not as bad as mine

[rustic cairn]

not as bad as mine 💀 💀

[plucky haven]

Mine worse

[past tapir]

mine worse

[ocean zodiac]

Mines worse

jokes

[past tapir]

what’s the joke?

[ocean zodiac]

I put my best Jupiter and said it’s worse then yours

[past tapir]

oh that’s ur best juipiter? damn bro

that’s a joke do not come for my head

[ocean zodiac]

I am indeed coming for your head

[ocean zodiac]

It’s not that bad 😭

[tepid kraken]

I see bands

[storm leaf]

nah you had a moon visible

[worthy sundial]

Mines ok single sub

Still mid

10x digital zoom mb that's why

[winged dragon]

same boat as ya

[forest nymph]

shitty mw

[rustic cairn]

A very bad image of Saturn

[maiden coyote]

Mun

[rustic cairn]

yours looks better if only by a hair

[maiden coyote]

Haha

[maiden coyote]

What did u take that pic with?

[rustic cairn]

I took it with my iPhone 12, pressed against the default 10mm eyepiece of my Orion StarBlast dob.

[maiden coyote]

I see that explains the low mag

[noble summit]

I hate the moon sometimes

[rustic cairn]

So close! That is the Crab Nebula❤️

[storm leaf]

that's workable

you could do something decent with that

it would only be the main neb but you could do something decent

[zealous ridge]

Watch out🤑 🤑

[plucky haven]

Idk about this

Background kind of mess

And i couldnt fix it

[stiff fox]

I dont see anything wrong with that

Looks absolutely fine

Like look at this

The stars are the only good thing

Even tho they are bloated

Due to incorrect backfocus on my coma corrector

[tawny cosmos]

Yep

But i feel like theres something wrong with the refection nebula

[fathom matrix]

dots and blobs

[candid widget]

[candid widget]

Refracting nebula

[rustic cairn]

spooky

[chrome nacelle]

horsehead nebula

[tawny cosmos]

Lmao

[stiff fox]

That made me chuckle

[indigo zodiac]

thats a sunset wdym

[winged dragon]

no way Gaia DR2 65222518661019520 sunset 😱

[plucky haven]

This is bad

Cloudy situation

Photograph at bortle 9

And it near horzion with 90 percent illuminated moon

And polution also

[stiff fox]

I cant tell what that is

Is it small magenalic cloud

[jade siren]

large

[plucky haven]

Yes lmc

[stiff fox]

Ah

[lethal depot]

Smc has a star cluster nearby

[harsh iris]

Manuer nebula

[sweet cloud]

very quick photo i got of Orion while i was listening to Orion by Metallica live

[jade siren]

oh...

they played really well

[deep path]

My worst photo so far It’s taken from an iPhone so that explains a lot.

[storm leaf]

damn it barely got the iss lmao

[deep path]

Yeah lol

[elder lance]

my attempt at a photo of the pleiades and jupiter

with a phone

[tidal sigil]

a work of art

[harsh iris]

This is just musty

[flat nebula]

deep snr?

[harsh iris]

no deep snr

rlly deep

45mins of data is not enough

[flat nebula]

good amount of dust for 45 mins

do one without any denoise

[harsh iris]

I’ll fix the stars when I get more data

[past tapir]

grax denoise will perform much better with less amounts of data

if they have around 2-5 hours they perform similarity

5+ deepsnr wins

[harsh iris]

fixed the colors i think

brightness

[unkempt sparrow]

wasn't sure if I should post this 3min sub here or in #1087219932900638720 because only a cursed setup can get perfectly wavy guiding like this

[jade siren]

dont run starnet in siril with a png

[rustic cairn]

You've created a sea of fractals, unironically looks cool

[lethal depot]

You started a bacterial colony

[warped frost]

reminds me of this

[storm leaf]

looks like a darn 1980s film image with the wobble

[plucky sky]

Jupiter last week

[chrome nacelle]

💀

[warped frost]

EQM-35 life

[past tapir]

APOD worthy icl

[stiff fox]

Oh what on earth happened

[stiff fox]

Tbh looks like venus

[rustic cairn]

nah that's an old photo of Pluto before voyager passed by

[storm leaf]

*new horizons

voyager actually couldve gone to pluto but they decided for a titan flyby instead

[rustic cairn]

Ah ok, always thought it was voyager

[compact jungle]

Horse head?

[jade siren]

yes

[main galleon]

Give this man mega nerd

[deep path]

Crappy photo of Jupiter lol

I know it doesn’t even look like it

[wise rivet]

twin

[deep path]

I’ve got to lower my exposure by so much.

[wise rivet]

Yeah I got this with much lower exposure, but it was kinda cloudy at the time

It’s super dim and blurry but you can kinda make out the bands

[deep path]

Very nice!

[sharp karma]

First ever astrophoto I ever took

[rustic cairn]

what even is this a photo of

[tepid kraken]

probably the moon close to horizon

i think i see some very blurry crater structures

[rustic cairn]

it almost looks like mars with the way it's colored

[tepid kraken]

yeah but it's definitely not

which is why i said close to horizon, idk any other explanation for the color

[worthy sundial]

I swear when the moon is near horizon or is setting it always look super orange

Same with sunsets

[warped frost]

Thats atmospheric extinction for you

[sharp karma]

Very very blurry moon photo

[stiff fox]

Deep fried pleadies with my phone

[final quiver]

beautiful 😭

uhh

this image speaks for itself

[green gate]

It’s not bad for a phone

I also capture with my IPhone 13 1x camera in B6

[coarse ether]

Neptune 🙂

Part of my projects, one last planet and that is mercury, hoping I can get it this morning

[stiff fox]

Whats wrong with it

[ocean zodiac]

its ...bad?

tons of walking noise

bad processing

[stiff fox]

Hardly noticeable

[stiff fox]

Ive seen worse

[ocean zodiac]

dosnt mean its not bad? XD

[ocean zodiac]

now days that what my individual subs look like

[storm leaf]

not the greatest but not hall of shame material

although i guess it depends on your skill level

like id call this hall of shame

[stiff fox]

Yeah

[ocean zodiac]

These good enough for you sir?

[stiff fox]

Yes sir

[ocean zodiac]

There some of my first images

[storm leaf]

yessiree

to me it has to have some other issue besides lack of int

but also who really cares

[ocean zodiac]

A few weeks ago I reprocessed the rosette image. And I’m happy with what I pulled from it

Considering what the original one looked like

Past me. Had no clue what dithering was

[warped frost]

That hurts my eyes

[tepid kraken]

why is it like silvery

idk how to describe it

[split fractal]

im trying to figure out what even went wrong here, did the galaxy move a bunch mid imaging or something?

[ocean zodiac]

It’s processing by the looks of it

Data looks fine

I think

[final quiver]

i think im about to create hall of shame material

[final quiver]

one is always welcome

wasnt :D

[zealous ridge]

The noise totally isn't that bad

[final quiver]

noise isnt bad trust

[zealous ridge]

Seems fine

[final quiver]

fr fr

[harsh iris]

https://tenor.com/view/team-america-vomit-team-america-puke-gif-3441023

[final quiver]

its beautiful

trust

has

character...

[forest nymph]

🤢 🤮

[final quiver]

beutiful 😭

[forest nymph]

no

[forest nymph]

this is, i took this like 2 months ago

[final quiver]

with a phone?

[forest nymph]

ye, paired with my 6" dobsonian

[final quiver]

my internet dying rn :D

HEWP

ME

[final quiver]

i have a 6 incher

[forest nymph]

this too deserves hall of shame💀

[final quiver]

radio static

[final quiver]

mines a newt not a dob

[forest nymph]

is it a quattro?

[final quiver]

no

[forest nymph]

a pds?

[final quiver]

skywatcher explorer 150p

my internet is still dying btw

[forest nymph]

thats a pds

and what mount?

[final quiver]

mmouunt

a eq3

mmouunt

[forest nymph]

i got a stupid keyboard that enters the keys i press twiice sometimes

[final quiver]

xD

[forest nymph]

this is the best way to clean yo scope

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/794651916646350859/1283186920871956491/nervoushello.gif

[final quiver]

NO

WHYY

[forest nymph]

cleaning your astro equipment is important

[final quiver]

WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT

i said something that is apparently offensive 😒

[forest nymph]

?

[final quiver]

it got content blocked

i said a message that contains the f word

[forest nymph]

oh ok mods dont like that

[final quiver]

i realised

[chrome nacelle]

thats how you are suposed to clean your rig tho so whats wrong with it

[final quiver]

i like to microwave to kill off the germs

[chrome nacelle]

this is a microwaved mirror

[tidal sigil]

[final quiver]

looks really pretty 😭

[split fractal]

i put mine in the washer and dryer, the spinning does wonders, ensures every nook and cranny is clean

[rustic cairn]

Oh god

[zealous ridge]

Do astro with it

Will work 10/10

[chrome nacelle]

it will in fact work

it will create very pretty images

if you dont mind the distorsions and lack of stars in a couple places

[tepid kraken]

extra details

[chrome nacelle]

lol

[maiden coyote]

newer pics are nothing compared to my old ones

[maiden coyote]

better than mine ^^

[tall spoke]

marks chain but walking noise

there are some tiny neat galaxies tho

[stiff fox]

Its a better picture of a black hole than the Sagittarius A*

[timber night]

I polar aligned on the wrong star and wasted 2 hours trying to figure out why I wasn't getting good tracking

[winged dragon]

I assume you live in southern hem.?

[timber night]

No... 😭

[winged dragon]

☠️

[timber night]

Okay in my fairness I couldn't see much stars (like I could barely see the small dipper constellation), and I focused on a star about 5 degrees off the northern star :(

[tame flax]

It happened to me vice versa once. There were too many stars (bortle 2) and I was a beginner and didn't know which star was polaris

[timber night]

Glad I'm not the only one then 😩

[storm leaf]

thats why you polar align before astrodark ends

turn your b2 into a b7

[tame flax]

I got there at 1am lol

[storm leaf]

lol

[elder lance]

note to self, dont do deepsnr on only star imagess

[flat nebula]

stinky

[unreal spear]

a little portal opening up there

[sullen wedge]

Why would you even try?

[elder lance]

i got curious

[sullen wedge]

Understandable.

[stiff fox]

Note to self if the uv ir cut filter is off center it will cause chromatic aberration 💀

Also note to self check focus every 30m or so

Because i just realized i was slightly out of focus

[split fractal]

From a distance honestly it doesn't look to bad, but yeah the CA is definitely noticeable upclose

[stiff fox]

By the way its a parabolic newtonian 💀

[split fractal]

looks like really good data too, kinda stinks that happened, but good news is that you'll more than likely be able to replicate it

[stiff fox]

Tbh could be better because not only im out of collimation but im also not guided and on top of everything my polar alignment is extremely rough no software no visual just a rough guess

[split fractal]

thats unguided? damn

[tepid kraken]

how did you get such a good image then

that does not belong in hall of shame

i mean yea it's got some issues but overall it's still a good image

[stiff fox]

On a eqm35 of all things

[stiff fox]

The starless version definitely is

This is the starless

[tepid kraken]

nah both are good

[stiff fox]

Thanks

[warped frost]

womp womp

i messed up in so many places that i dont think this particular iteration deserves a spot to be posted anywhere

[fleet jay]

are you asking for attention or something? this data is def usable

[warped frost]

No

Yes it's usable but this process is bad

[rustic cairn]

opens "hall of shame" channel
looks inside
absolute cinema

[warped frost]

It's not up to standards at all

[final quiver]

it looks like an oil painting 😭

[warped frost]

Thers a bunch of color splotches everywhere

[final quiver]

incorrectly normalised background?

[warped frost]

It wouldn't correct

The gradient extraction was the problem

[final quiver]

oof

[rustic cairn]

Ah well, perhaps my standards are just low, potentially a byproduct of me being far worse at the whole astrophotography thing than 99% of the users here

I think it looks nice

I do notice the color splotches the longer I look at it, but it also looks like something that could be easily dealt with and edited out.

[warped frost]

I tried, couldn't do it

Maybe if I was more talented on the processing side of things I could salvage it, but I've got to start over.

[stiff fox]

💀

Just a bit smooth cause its unguided

And rough polar alignment

Like try polar aligning with a blind fold

Thats basically what i did

[elder lance]

how much hours was put into this?

[warped frost]

17 narrowband almost 10 broadband

From bortle 7

[elder lance]

from a bortle 7?

god damn nice man

[warped frost]

yeah

[lethal depot]

Bad flats, bad weather, only 3hrs of data and without a coma corrector😭

Was out of focus but @uneven talon fixed it with blurx (Thank you)

[reef jewel]

U sure?

[carmine grove]

First light through my 8" RC. Yeah, literally just a moon picture with my phone through an eyepiece.

I am curious if anyone has a less impressive first light image

[rustic cairn]

to be fair, for just a quick single exposure image through the eyepiece with your phone, that's not a bad moon image

[rustic cairn]

haha hold on gimme a quick minute

[tepid kraken]

sure lemme find one i have a ton

[carmine grove]

The moon was also like 5 degrees above the horizon so it's full of atmospheric distortion

Better one from that night, but I only took 3 photos total

Wait that's the same image just cropped lol

[rustic cairn]

on the topic of the moon, this was one of my very first moon images, taken with my phone through a 56mm hunting/bird-watching monocular. I guess that counts as first light?

At the time I thought it looked pretty alright! I still do to some extent, considering how I took the image. But it's by far not even close to the quality I aim for anymore.

Granted said quality comes nowhere near what most other people here strive for, but I do what I can with what I have I guess.

[carmine grove]

There we go

[tepid kraken]

first light on my uranus c

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1129924121971675216/1273530243285651497/bruh.png?ex=67816837&is=678016b7&hm=5163ca86a9e449fa7b1a63e478d887ab0f548e84c50807591a13fc7efdea3bd1&

[rustic cairn]

I can't wait for Saturn's rings to angle themselves nicely again

[tepid kraken]

that was a few months ago

[rustic cairn]

to be fair it will be cool to see what they look like almost perfectly flat, but it's not the same

[carmine grove]

This was entirely intentional, btw: I thought it would be funny to have the first light image for this fine instrument to be a sloppy moon picture

I haven't done any imaging since lol

[rustic cairn]

damn

[tepid kraken]

first light on the sv106 (today)

[rustic cairn]

oh my goodness 😭

[carmine grove]

(I have taken it out for visual use – I still need some equipment to arrive before I can image)

[tepid kraken]

i did try shooting orion but i think a jupiter screenshot was the best image i took bc of the diffraction pattern the window i was shooting through made

[rustic cairn]

it's literally the 🌔 emoji

[tepid kraken]

the orion literally looks like it was taken with a really bad newt

[carmine grove]

Ok this is lowkey fire though not gonna lie

[tepid kraken]

how

[rustic cairn]

wow I've never seen the elusive SharpCap Pro Trial nebula

[carmine grove]

The diffraction spikes are beautiful. I'd genuinely consider shooting though a mesh like that

[tepid kraken]

you should

the jupiter came out nice

[carmine grove]

Is it the best scientific data? Probably not, but what other astrophoto looks like that?

I may experiment with diffraction masks on my RC

[tepid kraken]

i like how stars look like tiny m27s

[rustic cairn]

Jupiter looks like it's about to fire the galactic empire super-laser

[tepid kraken]

hot pixel found 😾

[tepid kraken]

everyones been shooting jupiter thinking it would never shoot you back

[rustic cairn]

If I ever become one of those amateur astronomers with just way too much money to play with (not even remotely feasible for me lol), I wanna try to do imaging with a shattered telescope mirror, just to see what kind of insane patterns it makes in the final stack

I think that might look unique, I'm sure it's already been done by someone before

whether intentionally or not

[tepid kraken]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800149179615150090/1326825916135116850/VID_199970525_085126_784.mp4?ex=67817f2d&is=67802dad&hm=fed1eafeb2a8925f762d6d9dacaddddffe4cfad0c8279e7eb072c0e1f9bb2c0b&

[rustic cairn]

nooo not this video again

[maiden coyote]

what the

[rustic cairn]

It's atleast reassuring to see just how ridiculously strong that thing is

[carmine grove]

Hey maybe you can find someone's hobby killer and use it as a piñata

[rustic cairn]

We'll see just how much power the powerseeker can really take

[tepid kraken]

good idea tbh

get a cheap scope

and experiment with it

[rustic cairn]

The only problem with that is I wouldn't be able to return it if it got damaged

[carmine grove]

It's after Christmas, unironically check your local dumpster

[rustic cairn]

true lol

[warped frost]

This hurts my soul 😭

I think they were stress testing the corrector plate for some reason

[tepid kraken]

im still trying to figure out what the goal was

yea that was my original guess but

what next

now you have a massive sct shattered

[warped frost]

Exactly idk

Thats just a loss/loss

You gain nothing for doing that

[rustic cairn]

Weren't those people members of Celestron? Like the people that make the scopes themselves

[tepid kraken]

i hope it was intentional by celestron

[rustic cairn]

if anything it was likely an intentional stress test

[tepid kraken]

i dont think anyone who can afford smth like that is dumb enough to do it