hall of shame

[rustic cairn]

I would sure hope not

[tepid kraken]

but if it was celestron wouldnt they be testing it properly

that thing fell backwards so fast

[rustic cairn]

then again some of them are in office

[rustic cairn]

I mean to be fair, it got the point across

that corrector plate can hold a lot it would seem

[tepid kraken]

it probably was deforming tho

well before reaching the limit

just not visible

[warped frost]

True

[rustic cairn]

Yeah. But, if the physics is right, every object has an elastic and plastic deformation limit. For something as not bendable without shattering as glass is, the plastic deformation is basically non existent. It'll be bent and return to basically its original shape, until it can't be bent anymore I guess

Glass doesn't really like bending plastically

[tepid kraken]

i meant that

i didnt mean permanently deformed

like if you were to actually put a very heaving imaging train on it

while its imaging the glass would be bent

even if only by a little bit

[rustic cairn]

perhaps, but I'm sure there's some way to counteract that

[tepid kraken]

tho what the hell can you even reasonably put on there to bend it

[rustic cairn]

Perhaps an external structure built into the scope that holds the weight of the imaging train up without disconnecting it, or even collimating the scope slightly off center so that the weight of the imaging train actually bends it into perfect collimation

[rustic cairn]

Idk, not really many astronomy cameras out there that I'd consider to be heavy

[tepid kraken]

yeah but then when it slews the collimation thing would be messed up

[rustic cairn]

right, true

[tepid kraken]

so you mean put a spider on an sct 😼

[warped frost]

It happens anyway because of mirror flop

[rustic cairn]

Ultimately, probably not really a thing to be worried about unless you're doing pretty much everything you shouldn't be doing

[warped frost]

All SCT's and RASA's have the problem of mirror flop

[tepid kraken]

exactly, which is why im wondering what the point of doing that to the poor scope was

its being stress tested in a way that no reasonable person would ever have that kind of forces there

celestron go spend your money on improving the powerseeker not demolishing big scts

[rustic cairn]

Well, there is a sentiment when it comes to extremely high quality telescopes; if you can overbuild something and make it immensely overkill, it will be done, for the sake of the people in the market for high end astronomy equipment.

Take for instance the Obsession series of truss-tube dobsonians, those things are so incredibly well built and over the top, you can rest assured knowing that your scope, under proper care and maintenance, is going to last a WHILE, if not forever.

I really want a huge Obsession dob someday, they're so nice

[stiff fox]

Better than mine

This is the first edit i did i had bad flats retook the flats and reprocessed it

Also b9 plus moon is not a good combo

The hardest target ive done 5 different tries and this is by far the best one 💀

This doesn't need much explanation

Tbh that one just needs more intergration

[rustic cairn]

yours is better than mine💀

granted my equipment is a fair bit less advanced and/or expensive, but still. It's actually my current best shot of Flame & HorseHead

[lethal depot]

Yeah imma try making flats again after some time

[stiff fox]

Sooner the better cause the longer you let it sit the more likely it is for the dust spots to shift or maybe even worse new dust accumulates

[stiff fox]

What scope

[warm wren]

the moan

[tepid kraken]

that video definitely belongs here in the hall of shame

[rustic cairn]

It was taken using my iPhone 12, attached to a 56mm monocular. Total exposure was about 8 minutes, bortle 7.5, imaged and stacked in AstroShader.

This was before I got my Orion StarBlast

[stiff fox]

Not bad for a phone

[ivory moth]

idk what the hell i did wrong

[foggy field]

Most likely the switch is failing. Is it mechanical?

[stiff fox]

Your exposure is too high

[rocky swan]

What exactly is it you don’t like?

Moon?

[stiff fox]

Yeah id say so

He could do an hdr moon

[forest nymph]

yees its mechaanical, its been like this since i got the keyboard a year aggo

[lethal depot]

Too late i guess, that data was taken 2 weeks ago

[stiff fox]

No better time than right now

[lethal depot]

Not home so i cant

[stiff fox]

Horrible data due to a stupid street lamp that got in the way also its only 26m

My mount was acting up the goto wasnt working and i had clouds come in not a great night but luckily i had set it to binn2

[stiff fox]

Oh and another thing when i ran it thru graxpert it flipped the image and i forgot to flip it back thats why the stars are all out of place here is the corrected version

[split fractal]

hey it actually looks like a flame, like actually fire

[rustic cairn]

Well, it's not called the flame nebula for nothing

[unique laurel]

@valid briar

[past tapir]

ok but like why

[valid briar]

Jeez, "I don't think I can find focus, everything looks like Hubble's Variable Nebula". Is it really 10 degrees off-axis?

[fickle spire]

makes a cool tilt-shift effect

x5dolryrasezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzmnu80000000000000000000p898u22478809zxcvbnm,./asdfghjkkl'''/zdfgklawertyioqe34r5tyu7p[;'/c,.

sorry cat

[carmine grove]

Why am I bothering to correct tilt when I can just do tilt-shift astrophotography....

[past tapir]

don’t lie u typed this yourself

[rustic cairn]

your cat speaks the language of the gods

[unique laurel]

LMFAO

[warped frost]

I saw this on Instagram 💀

[unique laurel]

wait i just realised i tagged you in the photo.... i did not mean to lol. it is badunkies rig, wrong ping

[maiden coyote]

Probably cause he cant reach focus

[tepid kraken]

i mean i can tell its m42

[final quiver]

perfect 😭

[elder lance]

nuh uh thats definitely m16

[lethal depot]

Tbh looks like the ghost nebula to me

[compact jungle]

M42

[elder lance]

i dont even wanna

[jade siren]

You sir need more intergration

[stiff fox]

And blurx

[ivory helm]

[pseudo sundial]

minor failure

[final quiver]

what in the squiggly

[final quiver]

my eyes when i stare towards the sky too long and get that floater thingy

[worn glade]

[tawny cosmos]

What was the exposure time on this

[ivory helm]

30 sec

max I can go

[tawny cosmos]

Thanks

[ivory helm]

wait the actual integration was like an hour or two

I had 30sec exposures with 2sec between

[past tapir]

this whole channel is people coping

that’s crazy

[ivory helm]

In a bad way? 😂

[tall crystal]

A shame to humanity.

[plucky haven]

hey that's actually good tho

[tall crystal]

Thank you, but I feel like without tracking its just a mess

Look at em stars

[final quiver]

skittles :3

[ivory helm]

why tf would you do the mount

[forest nymph]

its not mine

[ivory helm]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-hankshrader-realization-smh-gif-26343260

You dish washed someone else's mount? 🧌

[forest nymph]

i didnt take this picture

i just found it lol

[ivory helm]

I was trolling lol, I am gonna find this person and take away their clear skies

[ocean zodiac]

What

[storm leaf]

you had a ping for a moment

thats it im sorry

wont do again

[marble apex]

Just so everyone knows, this is now FB famous.

[ivory helm]

[cedar grail]

Oh this was a moment in time

[coarse ether]

Please tell me, in which case scenario would you put a mirror in a microwave?

[chrome nacelle]

i dunno

its not my pic luckily

[final quiver]

steralyze :3

[tall crystal]

Well, after cleaning we need to dry it, don't we?

[humble raven]

That was exactly what he thought

That was one of the most comical events in this server

[maiden coyote]

yeah it was even pinned in the general chat

[jade siren]

zegery unpinned it

[humble raven]

He didn't need permanent shame

[jade siren]

Stupidity deserves to be shamed upon.

[zealous ridge]

I am totally good at processing

[stable junco]

nothing can help this

[tall crystal]

Tf am I seeing

[zealous ridge]

I was messing with the background extraction on a photo and that popped up.

[tall spoke]

I think thats just a gradient map

a very weird one, looks like you ran dbe 8 times

[ocean zodiac]

worst comet image taken and that says something

[iron comet]

Although it is not something you can hardly conclude it's something in space...

Imagine you have a tiny little bit of dust on your camera sensor

[flat nebula]

it actually worked fine

just focus slipped since nothing held the camera in

[maiden coyote]

[noble summit]

I have something called visual snow, which then causes starburst vision, so when I look up at the night sky is really annoying, it's all noisy and the stars look like they are exploding, I'm putting this here because I feel like it should go here due to an eye failure lmao

This is kind of what it looks like

I drew this myself as an interpretation

[maiden coyote]

Wait seriously?

[tall crystal]

Having the same problem, just with barlow lenses lol

[noble summit]

But this with with my eyes lol, not a telescope

You know your bad at astrophotography when even your own eyes suck at it lmao

[green wasp]

[maiden coyote]

how

[rustic cairn]

Orion Nebula but every star within it went supernova

[unreal spear]

I have some version of visual snow too

it could be normal I'm not sure but I saw it in a visual snow example video

https://youtu.be/wPjHOkSWvRM?si=q-zilqbmt9jifkwA

like this one but smaller

anyone else get this sometimes?

[noble summit]

That's more what it looks like to me

[flat nebula]

thats not visual snow its just high iso

[noble summit]

Lmaoo

My eyes are just stuck at high iso

[warped frost]

this is what i get when ive had too much caffeine, i get way too hungry, or i get up too fast on an empty stomach

[rustic cairn]

I have that too, not as intensely as that gif represents but it's still there

[noble summit]

I have it about what that gif looks like, it's less intense unless I look at the sky

I also get random little bursts of light for no reason, sometimes it has a pattern if I exercise a lot, kinda like a pulsing

That's actually how I count my bpm is seeing the rhythm in the pulses, it's handy with that lol

I'm assuming the reason it happens when I exercise is because of my high heart rate

[unreal spear]

is everything perfectly smooth for other people?

for me any black surface looks color noisy

[noble summit]

Same

[rustic cairn]

honestly I wonder how true that is, like do some people's eyes just have a "higher ISO" than others, and react to it the same way a camera would, i.e. having more grain and/or image noise?

[tepid kraken]

wait not everyone sees that?

[maiden coyote]

It does to everyone (becuase the eye dosent have anything to focus too)

[rustic cairn]

this has the same energy as the whole other conversation regarding whether or not you have an internal dialogue and/or visual imagination

[ocean zodiac]

No way!

We have the same thing

[ocean zodiac]

Mines this but also with very bright flickering dots mixed in. Sometimes I have to try and figure out if I’m seeing a star or my lack of functioning vision

[maiden coyote]

@ocean zodiac your moon img looks similar to mine

[maiden coyote]

purely coincidental

[maiden coyote]

not that one

the one in your prof bg

banner

[ocean zodiac]

This one

[maiden coyote]

yes

higher res

[ocean zodiac]

This is something like a 3 second exposure

[maiden coyote]

thats loong

[ocean zodiac]

Not much inc

[maiden coyote]

why 3 sec

[ocean zodiac]

My bad. 3 seconds worth of images

[maiden coyote]

oh

[ocean zodiac]

It’s like 2000, 0.2 seconds exposures

[maiden coyote]

i see

[ocean zodiac]

I’m untracked so planetary is pretty hard

[maiden coyote]

my imgs were dim thats why there was onion skining

[ocean zodiac]

Especially at nearly 4000mm fl

[maiden coyote]

woooaaahh

[maiden coyote]

4000mmfl planetary untracked. Respect

[ocean zodiac]

Yeah

It’s 3600mm but I’m just rounding

[maiden coyote]

its okay but res should def be a lot higher

[ocean zodiac]

There unedited stacks

[maiden coyote]

i see

i bileave you do planeraty mainly?

deep sky would be close to impossible

[ocean zodiac]

I have a seperate rig for Deepsky

That is tracked

[noble summit]

I also see white flickering dots

[ocean zodiac]

There annoying aye

[noble summit]

Yeah

[winged dragon]

I have normal vision most of the time, but whenever I'm sleep deprived I also see these white dots that appear and then immediately vanish. Tho this is either pretty normal, or a genetic thing seeing as my mom and sis also have this.

[ocean zodiac]

Yeas but what’s not normal is all the other symptoms

[unreal spear]

why is this here

[unreal spear]

or these

[ocean zodiac]

I was talking to ppl

Not putting them there as summations

[stiff fox]

Its normal its just your rod cells misfiring everyone has it

Its like camera noise

[ocean zodiac]

It’s called visual snow syndrome and it’s an actual disorder

I’m diagnosed

It affects 1-2% of the population

The most common cause is drug abuse mainly hallucinogens like acid or mushrooms

But you can also be born with it

Like me

[stiff fox]

There is a difference between seeing it at night and seeing it in daylight

Also if its large specs thats just bacteria in your eye depending on shape could be your immune cells as well

For most it just looks like a high iso video at night

Albiet much brighter and much less noise

[ocean zodiac]

I had it since I was born

24/7

[stiff fox]

Yeah then thats a disorder

But what he's describing doesn't sound like it unless he sees it during day time too

[stiff fox]

Ok yeah i scrolled lower and saw that he did mention that he sees it during the day

[green wasp]

Photos I thought were good in 2020

[final quiver]

not bad

[cedar grail]

Everyone you say

[noble summit]

I see it in the day, I literally see it looking at a lit up wall rn lol

And I've had it my whole life

Hence me thinking it was just something everyone sees all the time

Same with the starburst vision that is a common side effect of it

LED car lights are the worst for me

That's what led car lights look like to me lol

[stiff fox]

That looks very similar to the diffraction pattern i see

[stiff fox]

To some degree

Only at night tho

[final quiver]

astigmatism

[rustic cairn]

I shot Orion at 32,000 ISO just to see what would even happen, needless to say it ended up pretty much exactly how I expected lol

[rustic cairn]

your image is the exact opposite of mine lmao

[stable junco]

lol

[unreal spear]

same

i thought that part was normal

[maiden coyote]

same but at a lower intensity

[mint pewter]

Feel like this would crunch like a chip

[iron comet]

Crispy

[rustic cairn]

radioactive image

[final quiver]

huh, why is my geiger muller counter clicking rapidly?

[golden jetty]

Why is it glowing blue and why my geiger is off the charts

[iron comet]

This needs a sarcophagus

[rustic cairn]

this looks like the result of Ai upscaling gone wrong

[final quiver]

nawhhh 😭

[carmine grove]

How'd you get 8 diffraction spikes? Is it the OTA or a mask

[pseudo sundial]

Likely is just the nnormal OTA + Fishing Line

[hushed trellis]

Something

Idek what it was

[final quiver]

myself should go in the hall of shame

[tawny cosmos]

Tyis was my first try at post processing a deep sky object. Took me an hour to get this, and i was very happy with this image 💀

[plucky haven]

Background was very messed up

[rustic cairn]

oh dear

[final quiver]

yummy

[modest forum]

Literally all I did was turn the saturation and brightness up lol I don’t know why it looks so colourful

[vernal wren]

carina?

[rustic cairn]

looks to be

[rustic cairn]

saturation will do that

[modest forum]

It’s also only a 10 second exposure and I took it on my phone

I mean, it looks pretty. It just doesn’t look natural.

[flat nebula]

because its very bright

[light spire]

Ooo what bortle?

[modest forum]

2

[high kiln]

Shorp

[rustic cairn]

man

[modest forum]

Oh no

[rustic cairn]

yeah

When your alignment fails halfway into the session and it all goes to shit

nevermind the First Light Optics "Zarkov Cloud Gun", I need an anti-satellite machine that redirects satellites away from my imaging field

[timber night]

Lol reminds me when I forget to switch the lens optical stabiliser off

[rustic cairn]

so true man, hate it when that happens (i do not own a refractor and am of course lying)

[timber night]

Almost as embarrassing as forgetting to remove my lens cap

[worthy sundial]

Nah bro once I put south hemisphere tracking on my motorised mount while I was north for 2h I thought my mount had major problems

[timber night]

Omg that might be my next stupid fail 😭 😭

[plucky haven]

yumm

[rustic cairn]

oh my

[final quiver]

Screenshot of 2 hours data on m81 and m82, plot twist my dust cover was still on.

[rustic cairn]

My dumbass was sitting here waiting for the image to load😭

[lethal depot]

Same bruh

[tardy sigil]

Mid orion

[rustic cairn]

Oof, started trailing at the last minute there

hate when AstroShader does that

[celest ginkgo]

Trees are a Neusence

[tawny cosmos]

Went a bit too ambitious on processing

[upbeat mulch]

whoops wrong area

[mild ginkgo]

ngl this my best Pleadies photo

[final quiver]

the dust on my laptops screen is even brighter then those stars

[harsh iris]

and so is using diffraction masks with a s50

ive done it before u lose detail bc small aperature

[dense herald]

7 sisters gone wrong 😭

[tawny cosmos]

That looks like paint droplets on a blackboard lmao

[tepid kraken]

lower your exposure

you could get the bands

[mild ginkgo]

what speed do you recommend?

[stable junco]

didnt work

[umbral orbit]

Worst stack ever

Tried to do astrophotography at twilight xd

[forest nymph]

the seven sisters? that looks more like the 7 daughters😭

[tardy sigil]

Seven stepsisters

[rustic cairn]

ohhh this is weird, seeing the planets or moon during the day is one thing, but seeing a nebula during the day is another, that's so strange looking

[final quiver]

Dither for god’s sake dither!

[maiden dune]

Haha that was an early attempt of mine with an untracked dob and phone

[jade siren]

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

[carmine grove]

Not enough walking noise in the GIF

[modest forum]

wait is that mine lmao

[trim kindle]

Walking noise? I gotchu

[tawny cosmos]

Thats insane

[carmine grove]

When your native camera app tries to find focus by having a seizure, then gives up

[peak condor]

I forgot to focus lol

[rustic cairn]

holy walking noise batman

[main galleon]

forgot to dither properly :I

[misty musk]

how did you make the skies look like the seas

I thought there was stuff in my water for a sec

[jade siren]

i have a dust mote ON MY GALAXY

[misty musk]

p a i n

[final quiver]

oh no 😭

[vestal venture]

too low

[carmine grove]

You took flats, right? Right?

[jade siren]

yes

[carmine grove]

Oh so is that a new mote? RIP

[winged dragon]

what

[lethal depot]

Image too dark and galaxies are too blue, the reason bcs of the backround is too much gradient even graxpert couldnt remove it

[flat nebula]

got really bad colour noise

[winged dragon]

The universe has been colonized by Central African Republic

[flat nebula]

just you wait for the uk to take it\

[kindred badge]

my guiding may of been a bit weird

[timber night]

Nah I think you're good

[misty musk]

perhaps a bit shaky

[carmine grove]

That's art

[mint pewter]

Neptune

[rustic cairn]

Unironically looks kinda cool lol

[tawny cosmos]

Looks like those glass filters at a Coldplay concert

[lethal depot]

I think i have seen you on tik tok

[jagged otter]

yes im on tiktok

[lethal depot]

Ahh yes I knew i saw that pfp somewhere

[flat nebula]

It would have been great if stars weren’t 🩶

[jagged otter]

good version

[flat nebula]

You even have the white dwarf now

[jagged otter]

yea it was cooked before

idk what i was doing 😭

[jagged otter]

im looking at it now and im getting nauseous

[tepid kraken]

how did you even get rid of the white dwarf before

its pretty bright in the second image

[jagged otter]

i cooked it idk

hdr

i did the error of stretching the full image

and not separated stars / nebulosity

and i did hdr

too much

[lethal depot]

First try with a dslr

[rustic cairn]

Not bad for a first try

[marble apex]

Heck of a lot better than my first try on that one

[lethal depot]

Ty, now im feeling the feeling when i was just a beginner and happy with a bad image

[stiff fox]

Yeah that's not a bad image for a first try here is my first try its with a phone and binoculars

Compare that to my latest attempt

[lethal depot]

Dayum not bad

Yeah this is my best image

[rustic cairn]

this was my first shot of M42

[buoyant hedge]

A failed three-hour exposure I took around a week ago on Kodak T-Max 100. At some point the mount moved slightly and the guiding got a lot worse causing two sets of stars on the negative, one of which is quite bloated.

[tawny cosmos]

I can never have the amount of patience you have. Hats off to you!

(Im not sure if that is the correct phrase to say honestly (im not a native english speaker))

[carmine grove]

That is the correct phrase

and I agree, it's still an awesome image regardless

[shrewd spear]

not my proudest jupiter (anymore)

[stiff fox]

help

[rustic cairn]

whale galaxy?

[tardy sigil]

More int

[stiff fox]

Yeah thats just a tad bit over 1 minute in bortle 9

[tardy sigil]

Oh wow

What camera?

[stiff fox]

Asi585 non cooled

[tardy sigil]

Niceeee

That's really freaking good for 1 minute tho

And b9

[stiff fox]

I could see it in live veiw

I can pretty much see every close by galaxy in live veiw

[stiff fox]

Yes sir

[tardy sigil]

Thats insane

[limpid radish]

tree

[shrewd spear]

sad

[warped frost]

Sadturn

[rustic cairn]

New server emoji lol

[tardy sigil]

🥜

[trim dagger]

I read it as jew beater

[noble summit]

Now I can't read it normally

[jade siren]

whoops

[tawny cosmos]

Noooooooooo

How many panels was this?

[jade siren]

8

[tawny cosmos]

I feel the pain

[green wasp]

[past tapir]

hey it’s just a massive moon over a city

[ocean zodiac]

Jupiter

Sadpiter*

[rustic cairn]

that's not awful

it's better than most peoples' first Jupiter images

[worthy sundial]

Yup much better thba mine

[marble apex]

Can concur. CA is off the charts but dang the bands are clearly there.

[rustic cairn]

this was my first Jupiter 😭

[tardy sigil]

⚪

[ocean zodiac]

It (was) my first shot

2 and a bit years ago

[harsh iris]

guys its in progress trust

[tame flax]

we both know you are showing the monochrome image because the color one looks like a 5yo with a crayon

[harsh iris]

You caught me 😭

[tawny cosmos]

i was actually proud of this and used to show this to everyone i met 💀

if you cant even comprehend what you are looking at, this is actually saturn 😭

[mint pewter]

Well

Fun fact: an alt az mount that cannot track good, and faint dso’s do not mix

[kindred badge]

this is supposed to be pinwheel 💔

[tepid kraken]

I thought that was a cloud💔

[buoyant hedge]

Out-of-focus.

[celest ginkgo]

funnly enough if you make a accromn of Out of focus

it makes oof

soo there you go

[rustic cairn]

a big oof for sure

[vestal venture]

star spikes are clean

[mint pewter]

I fixed it.

[celest ginkgo]

what ever you do. DO NOT put this in the roast my image ™️ Channel or else... you'll never be the same

[elder lance]

post it in roast my image

[noble summit]

I wanna know what it looked like before you "fixed it" lol

Was it somehow worse if there even is a worse

[tardy sigil]

I added some red highlights to really bring out the nebulosity

[manic wraith]

wow the h alpha just popped

[peak iris]

Got some nice CMBR

[manic wraith]

bortle9 + f12 sure is a deadly combo

[noble summit]

I thought it was a little too dark, so I tweaked it a little

[misty musk]

i helped out a bit too

though it wouldn't change much more than this

[noble summit]

I tweaked the colors a little bit too

Now it's officially fixed

[misty musk]

I felt the file size was getting close to the limit so I compressed it down to just 5 kilobytes

[misty musk]

.

[tawny cosmos]

I wish i could process my orion like this its sooo beautifulll

[misty musk]

when I get the equipment to do so it'll be the first thing I do

[mint pewter]

Absolutely beautiful work

However I felt it was lacking some more vibrance and definition

I also thought it was a little dark

This is peak Orion

[misty musk]

otion*

[mint pewter]

Onion*

[misty musk]

no it's otion

remember back when andromeda was overbearing

[mint pewter]

Or like ơ̶̏t̷́̈́i̸͍̇ò̶̾n̴̈́͠

[mint pewter]

I feel this name is more fitting

[misty musk]

consider
owion

[mint pewter]

Pretty good too

[misty musk]

or even
oeion

[mint pewter]

Or Oein

[tepid kraken]

oron

[tawny cosmos]

NERD THIS GUY RIGHT NOW 🔥🔥🔥 REVOLUTIONARY IMAGE 🔥🔥🔥 WHAT THE HELL IS A HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

[sterile wigeon]

Coma

[tawny cosmos]

Honestly i like this image. Coma is not that noticable (for me (you could say im blind in an astrophotography sense)).

[timber night]

Bit undersaturated imo

[mint pewter]

Oh yeah mb

[timber night]

There we go! Now its HOF worthy!

[carmine grove]

#1325311113729937458

[peak iris]

This legit flash banged me

[mint pewter]

Out of focus

[lethal depot]

Womp womp (i have coma and focus problems)

[misty musk]

[trim kindle]

The chicken jockey equivalent of astro.

[tawny cosmos]

Mariakans Chain ❌
Myeyesarein Pain ✔️

[carmine grove]

The larger the guiding numbers the better right

[tawny cosmos]

the guiding seems drunk

im actually impressed at how someone manages to do this. the guiding is going on a power trip (pun intended)

[carmine grove]

Forgetting to install ASTAP on the first test run and winging it

So no good polar alignment

[celest ginkgo]

Peak onion

[stiff fox]

Questionable

[mint pewter]

Tan.

[rustic cairn]

nice astronomy sketch lol

[stiff fox]

Yup that's exactly what it is lol

[celest ginkgo]

this doesn't really count but i think i should put it here anyway

[echo badger]

What ngc was that again

Looks kinda blury

[iron comet]

stephans quintett

[mystic obsidian]

Messier 3.
E-e-e E.

[jagged otter]

e

[misty musk]

e

[tawny cosmos]

E

[elder lance]

dont ask

[wise rivet]

mars 💔

[rustic cairn]

Carina Nebula?

[jade siren]

lagoon

[forest nymph]

lagoon

[forest nymph]

🥀

[desert hedge]

look at that colour fringing! phd2 i yelling at me for my guidescope not being in focus but i guess that's the problem

[rustic cairn]

oh man, that unrecognizable lol

[proven needle]

uranus

[maiden dune]

I wouldn't say this image is a shame but I think 468mm is not a great focal length for this actually and also the data was quite unclean so yea

[flat nebula]

denoise bro

and colour calibrate

[maiden dune]

It's color calibrated

[flat nebula]

i just realised it is grey but i thought it was green

pluh

mb

i felt like playing around with it but your process is better

[elder lance]

what object is this

[maiden dune]

Coma cluster

NGC 4884 and stuff

[elder lance]

oh hell yeah, i can get it in my location

[echo badger]

Before flip

After flip

[jade siren]

[cedar grail]

Seems it was an ascom initiated meridian flip instead of nina

[tawny cosmos]

Hall of Shame???

[fair quarry]

if u dont see whats wrong with it bless your soul

[tawny cosmos]

I dont see anything wrong other than the blown out orion???

(Slightly blown out)

[fair quarry]

extreme walking noise

and horrifcally processed

[maiden dune]

Oof

[desert hedge]

ditheeeeer you gotta dither

[tawny cosmos]

I was on my phone. Now that i opened the laptop GADDAYUM

[solemn solstice]

I was very proud of myself. Carina, oion, horshead

Photogrpahed at the start of this year

With canon mk3 and 50mm lens

Cropped alot

[jade siren]

What happened to Carina

[tawny cosmos]

Carina more like Awhellna

Horeshead more like horsedead

[flat nebula]

you know you have good skies when your (no offense) shite data has taht much faint dust

[flat nebula]

what the ai

[echo badger]

i used stellavita

forgot to turn on center target :I

[valid frost]

still infinitely better than mine

[tawny cosmos]

Same. Ignoring the walking noise, the image is phenomenal.

[echo badger]

i can do that when i get my 135mm lens :I

i cant wait XD

[rustic cairn]

y'know what, there's an odd charm to these images

like yeah they're objectively pretty bad, that we can probably all agree on. But they're kinda neat, it's weird and I can't explain it

[echo badger]

All These satelites

[solemn solstice]

Uh

[solemn solstice]

Noise

[maiden dune]

theyre fine, nothing to worry about

[echo badger]

I know but they are getting more and more

[maiden dune]

Rejection will take care of that

[echo badger]

Go up to my meridian fail

Toupteks Update for the stellavita reset my Center Target settings

…

From 8 seccond exposure to 15 minutes

[maiden dune]

Ohhh I see, the meridian flip looks frustrating

[mighty dragon]

I’ve never had a sub get that many satellites

I barely see satellites actually

[rustic cairn]

I see dozens of satellites practically every time I do observing

it's cool the first couple times you see them, especially the really bright and noticeable ones. But after a while it just gets annoying.

[misty musk]

"Jupiter"

[solemn solstice]

Ts not jupiter ts is J

[celest ginkgo]

yeah it is.... i mean i thought Carina becuase it remind me of the core

[celest ginkgo]

that Carina nebula looks like if i ask a Free Ai image generation soft ware to make the carina nebula And it pumps out this

[celest ginkgo]

Man got musked 5 times

[final quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/the-walking-dead-zombies-walking-creepy-gory-gif-10634473

sick walkers noise

[lethal depot]

Bad seeing overall

[storm leaf]

oh my walking noise

[misty musk]

walked the noise like a dog omg

[mint pewter]

Womp womp

[desert hedge]

a little crop and it looks salvagable

[tall spoke]

The stars in the bottom right all turned into Hubble variable nebulas!

[mighty dragon]

I think you got some galaxy in your noise and dust

[mystic obsidian]

ugly

[solemn solstice]

😱

[mystic obsidian]

that was heavily denoised

[solemn solstice]

No it wasnt

It wss perfect

iotd on astrobin

Sybah

[mystic obsidian]

then why does it look round?

like

denoised

[solemn solstice]

omg

i posted it in hall of shame

its supposed to be bad

😭😭

[mystic obsidian]

ok I join in the bad images

[solemn solstice]

Horrible

Noisely

Fisgusting

Die

[mystic obsidian]

I would rather have noise than ai denoise junk

[solemn solstice]

Ok

theres a reason i posted it in hall of shame

[mystic obsidian]

M5

[ocean zodiac]

My second ever shot of Orion

From a while ago

[valid frost]

Icl it’s not that bad for a second shot

[trim dagger]

its ok we know your coping

[ocean zodiac]

Unnecessary input

[solemn solstice]

pp

[ocean zodiac]

Literal child

[trim dagger]

You good bro?

[celest ginkgo]

theres a Heatlhy amount of Denoise like i want some noise becuase it gives it depth

[dusky flint]

m4 through a celestron omni xlt 102 and canon t7i 😅 my first astro photo.

[solemn solstice]

why is this hall of shame this great for a first

much better than most ppls first

[dusky flint]

it is the shame because that one act of connecting my dslr to my visual use telescope has since cost me over $20,000 and given my east coast location, very limited use of the gear.

here is the true shameful image i guess. taken through an astromaster 80az 😂

azs i think actually the short one.

[storm leaf]

as the creator of hall of shame ur a nerd

[carmine grove]

M4 out of focus lol

[lethal depot]

Overall not happy

[noble summit]

Had some terrible seeing, as you can see

[stiff fox]

Damn ive only seen seeing that bad in the exhaust of trucks

[noble summit]

I also smelled a campfire, so maybe coincidentally the smoke was in front of the moon?

Idk though, I didn't see any

[plucky haven]

full moon

[jade siren]

nice flat frame

[plucky haven]

this frame will calibrate my images

it will show the hidden nebula

[proven needle]

i moved the slider 1 millimeter

[solemn solstice]

Noise.

[jade siren]

I keep forgetting that target exists and I go after Carina lol

[celest ginkgo]

real

[celest ginkgo]

!

[proven needle]

‼️

[proven needle]

OH NO

[jade siren]

abandoned projet

[mint pewter]

I… don’t even know

[celest ginkgo]

sSo much AI denoise that the Star in M43 is gone

[tepid kraken]

[final quiver]

This image absolutely disgusts me.

[green gate]

Field Rotation

[final quiver]

Didn't you unlock the area denoise yet?

[solemn solstice]

why i do dis

[carmine grove]

Honestly though it's a cool effect

[carmine grove]

I feel like this goes here
https://subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/pressrelease/2024/06/19/3415.html

[sterile wigeon]

the forbidden 5th diffraction spike

[marble apex]

How does that happen?

[sterile wigeon]

honestly no idea lol

[solemn solstice]

third leg

[misty musk]

comet star

[desert hedge]

looks like you have too much aberations in the edges of the frame to stack it properly, are you shooting with a phone on an eyepiece?

[desert hedge]

pfobably your focuser tube pertruding in the light path

[tawny cosmos]

Black hole relatiavistic jet ahh

[sterile wigeon]

Nah this is with a CDK

[final quiver]

Processing artifact?

[misty musk]

damn you cirrus clouds (sunspot attempt)

[past tapir]

yo bro

i think u got a ball

[unique laurel]

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[mild ginkgo]

The faint details died

[desert hedge]

if you toned the stars down it would show i think

[pseudo sundial]

Pinwheel Cloud

[solemn solstice]

i mean its ok for 30min bortle 7 with no filters……

also this is technically my first time imaging a supernova

😭

[mild ginkgo]

I see

well time to get starnet (I think)

[unique laurel]

Reminder to vote in round 2 of the thread competitions #1369694419963613295 message

[peak iris]

Deep fried

[solemn solstice]

Sir what is this

[carmine grove]

Deep fried

[storm leaf]

.

[marble apex]

Why dude.

[storm leaf]

i hadnt actually figured out how to collimate then but still wanted to do planetary

[solemn solstice]

8” and dslr how tf do you do planetary gng

[marble apex]

In better seeing.

[hexed blade]

planetary camera

[maiden coyote]

Its camera + stacking selectively + time management + seeing + focus

[marble apex]

It can be done. This was taken in decent seeing with an OTA whose collimation was significantly less than ideal.

[chrome nacelle]

what the hell is this 😭

i wasnt expecting it to be real

[solemn solstice]

deepfried

[dusty meadow]

this isnt the right thread for this

[green wasp]

it is

[lethal depot]

Even tho its good, the image looks a bit too much saturated

[solemn solstice]

It is

[stiff fox]

Looks fine just do a green noise removal and it will look perfect

[solemn solstice]

It is NOT fine

Same data btw, i reprocessed it

[stiff fox]

Oh you messed up the background extraction didn't you

[solemn solstice]

Yes and i over stretched it and I just did to much

cooked it

[sullen wedge]

Awful data, and awful processing,

[hexed blade]

i dont know what happened here
if its not obvious this was supposed to be the moon

[tepid kraken]

i can kinda see it at the top?

[lethal depot]

Way too cooked💔

[solemn solstice]

Ugh

[carmine grove]

Imaged the wrong part of the North America Nebula lmao

[crude dragon]

i photographed 100 photos and i forgot the change from 3200iso to 1600iso 🥲

[timber night]

Bit out of focus as well? 👀

[solemn solstice]

Wjajdoskdjklqokwkdnfkr

Bray falls this one

[austere basin]

I've been there

[lethal depot]

coma

[misty musk]

I want to be put into a coma after seeing this

[lethal depot]

Im already in a coma

[lapis cliff]

What’s wrong with it?

[worthy sundial]

Look at the edge of the image

[lapis cliff]

Ah I see now, how does that happen?

[carmine grove]

If using a reducer, setting the backfocus improperly can do it

If using a Newtonian, not using a coma corrector, especially with a faster scope

[waxen field]

You know what? It worked like a dream as well 😂

[sullen wedge]

Why’d you color it in???

[waxen field]

Just bits not to cut

And give it a premium finish 😂

[vapid crest]

I don’t even know what this is 😭

[tepid kraken]

oumuamua

[chrome nacelle]

Its a ufo!

Unidentifiable Fuzzy Object

[crude dragon]

Thats something

[vapid crest]

Lmao

[crude dragon]

i shot 600 photos of the milky way until 4am on a school night ( last day of school) and all the 600 photos where out of focus😭

[tawny cosmos]

That is so sad

Dw ive done the same thing

[solemn solstice]

noooo

[crude dragon]

part 2 today or next day cuz it will be after 12am

so since i have no school with a total of 7h of sleep in 2 days i will let my phone do the photos and go to sleep cuz i cant function with 4h of sleep

[harsh iris]

https://tenor.com/view/skull-reaction-dead-flabbergasted-skeleton-fall-gif-27160363

[kindred badge]

the sub after 💔

[noble summit]

It's kinda cool looking

[crude dragon]

its redemption day

[carmine grove]

It was too windy to shoot exposures of any reasonable length. So uh. Here are some stars.

[tawny cosmos]

HOF worthy

[lethal depot]

Why not try lucky imaging on some bright nebula

[carmine grove]

I actually took this by accident by saving a bunch of frames unintentionally with SIRIL while checking collimation

This is like 100x2s frames

[solemn solstice]

Uh

[trim dagger]

Yeah no need to Shame it it just sucks 💔

[solemn solstice]

Ik

[solemn solstice]

Surprisingly this image got me mini nerd

Somehow…

[trim dagger]

Mini nerd just means you know how to take a photo and process it to a extent

I have seen some horrible photos get people mini nerd

[marble apex]

Tell me that I stink at this without telling me I stink at this.

[marble apex]

Say it again

[tepid kraken]

mininerd is too lenient imo

[trim dagger]

I don’t think I have seen any of your photos

Man your confidence 😭💔

[marble apex]

It's quite ... purple.

[marble apex]

See, I'm not sure if it's bad confidence or just spectacular at roasting myself.

[trim dagger]

Let me see some of your photos

I bet they better than most in this server

[marble apex]

You in the solar system chat?

Gah, not chat.

I meant the solar system channel.

[solemn solstice]

They should up their standards

[marble apex]

Here.

[marble apex]

And here.

[solemn solstice]

wow

[trim dagger]

Saturn is amazing

def better than most

[marble apex]

Thank you both.

(Personally I think I need to work on getting Saturn's color just right)

[carmine grove]

Pardon my idiocy but I don't see what's wrong with this image. I want colors like those lol

[desert knoll]

part 2:

[solemn solstice]

Sperm

[solemn solstice]

Blotchy bg, noise, bloated stars, cooked image, bad detail alot tbh

[desert hedge]

well. you got plenty of abberations to inspect

[final quiver]

Starx vs no starx

“Warning coma”

[lethal depot]

Just get a coma corrector it cant be that hard

[final quiver]

🤓🤓🤓

[lethal depot]

Trust me i thought that i didnt need a coma corrector until my friend gave me his to try. It even sharpens your stars

[crude dragon]

out of focus 200 photos stacked

[final quiver]

Whats hall of shame about this i mean yeah the colour looks depressing but you got some nice detail

Well done sir

[proven needle]

neptune

[final quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-spongebob-season-1-the-paper-spongebob-the-paper-gif-17386612228447282475

[hexed blade]

neptune pixels*

[heady reef]

neptumor

[hexed blade]

holy

[tawny cosmos]

How does this even happen like wtf?

[rustic cairn]

the simulation is collapsing

[austere basin]

I think it's a weird denoise setting on autostakkert

I had it happen where all of my moon recording would turn out corrupted after going through autostakket and turned off a weird setting, and that fixed it

[solemn solstice]

Balls

[heady reef]

#🏆-hall-of-fame

[solemn solstice]

Hell no

[solemn solstice]

Old one lol

[proven needle]

i think i under processed this one what do you guys think😁

[solemn solstice]

😭

[harsh iris]

thin pizza slice looking

[harsh iris]

his mount sure doesnt look at the walking noise in his pfp goddang

[outer haven]

I think Im winning

[misty musk]

that noise sure is getting its steps in

[harsh iris]

this is somehow the most agressive walking noise ive ever seen

[outer haven]

Oh I can give you better examples than that one

Hold up maybe not

That may be my worst one

[solemn solstice]

How does this happen

i think i see the pillars of creation

[jade siren]

in the video pipp made it was fine but then in autostakkert stuff happened

[austere basin]

Go into autostakkert, then click image calibration and turn off any setting there that is on

That'll fix it

[carmine grove]

mon

[meager gyro]

Alpha centauri ⬜ ⬜

[misty musk]

this is what a jupiter-venus conjunction looks like to me when I have my glasses off

[misty musk]

macular degeneration nebula

[trim dagger]

This is what I see when I rub my eyes too hard

[harsh iris]

do your worst on this steaming pile of garbage

[outer haven]

I hate that I find results with this amount of noise to be impressive 😭

(with regards to how little noise there is)

[tepid kraken]

https://discord.com/channels/794642864218439681/1337566901496320101

[harsh iris]

shit mb

[tawny cosmos]

LOL

[tepid kraken]

What target even is this

I don't think I've seen it before

[vernal wren]

cave nebula

[desert knoll]

@jagged otter just gonna post this here for you, no need to thank me

[jagged otter]

stop thats good 😭😭

[steep bobcat]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[maiden dune]

holy gradient and bloat

[brave tiger]

Yeah, you went all the way back lol

I got another hall of shame tho

0 contrast and no mineral

[solemn solstice]

stars…

[solemn solstice]

sperm

[tepid kraken]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-cat-creating-a-ball-of-energy-ball-of-energy-meme-gif-10614975417988890394

is this going on in the right edge of your image

[carmine grove]

Focus drifted somehow and I'm really not sure what happened

[solemn solstice]

still better stars than me

[blazing hatch]

are you speedrunning to get banned

[solemn solstice]

No?

[stiff fox]

Whats wrong with it

[stiff fox]

A little blurx and everything will be good

[trim dagger]

ehhhh

ehhhhh

[pseudo sundial]

"marital issues? blurx it."

"parental issues? blurx it."

"blurry image? blurx it."

[solemn solstice]

Alot

Blurx wont save ts

[stiff fox]

Yup 👍

[lethal depot]

Perms

[lethal depot]

It will, it saved alot of my data when my focus shifted kr when i didnt have a coma corrector

[carmine grove]

What if I tried Richardson-Lucy deconvolution instead

[jagged otter]

“waiter waiter! a cup of attention please!”

[solemn solstice]

Hi

[jagged otter]

b

[rustic cairn]

stop.

[misty musk]

go.

[pseudo sundial]

stop.

[tepid kraken]

continue.

[desert knoll]

@jagged otter here’s your reminder to post all your images here

[jagged otter]

@desert knoll i wanna tell you something but i believe id get banned 😅🥰

[desert hedge]

xDDD
"WALING NOICE"

[velvet ridge]

fake ahh spikes

third ever image

[tepid kraken]

you have a bit of nebula in your star glow

[velvet ridge]

what no flats does to a mf

[timber night]

think its more of a fog/cloud/dew issue than flats 😭

[tepid kraken]

probably but dew kinda just makes my images dimmer

tho i haven't imaged a super bright star with a dewed up mirror

[velvet ridge]

it was both because i was shooting right near a street light

[mint pewter]

M

[plucky haven]

lets goooo

[marble apex]

Awesome image of a streetlamp in the fog during a snowstorm. Little static at the edge though.

[plucky haven]

I might be going for a competition

Wish me luck

[plucky haven]

I'm going to post this

[crude dragon]

2333 photos unfocused m101 and m51

[harsh iris]

this is just sad

[plucky haven]

noo wayy

[crude dragon]

Yeah😭

[crude dragon]

But its redemption night

[harsh iris]

rotten tomato makes out with moldy peach

[iron comet]

Oh my

[rustic cairn]

how do you even get it to look like this 😭

[proven needle]

Reminded me of this

[misty musk]

its like the one with the frogs

[cerulean spear]

Taken in 5 seconds with my phone 💔💔

[solemn solstice]

Cooked

[cerulean spear]

Why do yall post genuinely good stuff here 💀

Like this is actual bad

[tepid kraken]

everything is good to someone and bad to another

you have the horsehead, a beginner might not be able to do that

[cerulean spear]

Ik but like 🙃🙃

[cerulean spear]

True

[tepid kraken]

just over a year ago, this was my best image

i consider it terrible now

the biggest improvements come from skill rather than your gear

[mint pewter]

This was my first image with my 533

[tepid kraken]

this is very obvious when you take a look in #1021002743080558642

the same image can look so so different

[cerulean spear]

Damn yeah makes a lot of sense

[stiff fox]

Welp b9 sucks this is 4hrs 💀

This is 2hrs b4 for comparison

[austere basin]

Cant beat dark skies

Though I'm not surprised. B9 sucks

[blazing hatch]

so beautiful

[stiff fox]

I really need a cooled cam

[heady reef]

just blow on it a bit

[stiff fox]

Lol

[proven needle]

pillars of creation

[stiff egret]

The book of the orion nebula

[stiff egret]

@frail nymph

[lethal depot]

Lower the saturation bruh