soul nebula

[light vault]

redcat 51 250mm
Uranus c pro 2.9 pixel size
4.7 hours
Heres the raw if anyone would like to process it. I tried doing sho but it was kind of hard.

[opal mica]

might do

i have a list already like 3 datas to do today lol

[opal mica]

wow this data is crazy

[light vault]

It’s so good, I’m going to try to figure out the corner noise. I’m taking 1 minute exposures, but with the guide camera I’m going going to try 3 minute

And of course more data

Hopefully mixing b8-9 data with b4-5 doesn’t make it bad

[placid phoenix]

my attempt (really nice data)

[opal mica]

actually not just might have a bit more gradients

[opal mica]

the corner noise might just be stacking artefacts

[opal mica]

idk the stars where a bit blown i think 1 min is ok

[light vault]

im noticing when other people stack my data its darker, but more noisy. When im in siril it looks dark to me, but when i post it, its bright around the nebula and barely any red. I like a non noisy image but i need to have a darker background with the less noise

[light vault]

Im back in bortle 9 look at my frames

[opal mica]

loll

whats that black thingy?

i'm imaging rn too

b9

not even close to be as bad

the live stack is 20 mins btw

the total is like almost an hour by now

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[light vault]

bruh the clouds just came in, i only got 30 minutes
i need to set up live stack too
I didnt want to walk to the field next to the house because i wanted to set up guiding first
so im set up right next to a street light in the backyard with super limited viewing

@opal mica

i have no idea what that black is, its my first time doing 3 minute
im just going to blame it on light pollution and the street light

[opal mica]

my live stack is just for viewing a preview ill stack everything latter on too

my images literally cant be more than 30 secs

i can rarely get +8 secs images

but when i do man i get happy

[light vault]

star adventure

r?

[opal mica]

127slt

alt az

1500mm

[light vault]

damn

[opal mica]

everything wrong to dso lol

but i still try

[light vault]

whats the target?

[opal mica]

i'm brazilian i'm made diferent

[opal mica]

centaurus A galaxy

[light vault]

beautiful, i wish i could target that

[opal mica]

i wish i could image m81 and m82 too lol

they are my favorite galaxies

specially m82

but its just too low at the horizon any time of the year

my camera also likes to capture noise but signal

[light vault]

m82 is amazing, i wanna do the sadr region but i have to wait for summer also

[opal mica]

so most of my images would look like dog poop if i even could image m82

[light vault]

whats the camera?

[opal mica]

i'm waiting almost a entire year to image this target

[opal mica]

sl3 camera canon

rebel 250 i think

[light vault]

Im telling you right now, the camera upgrade is so worth it, like really really worth it

it blew my mind

[opal mica]

ik man

i just can aford it

a need to change literally everything in my setup

but i already have a plan

my dad works with photografy and publicity

once his camera gets old and he buys a new one i'll get his

its a r7 canon

mirorless

way better

my mount will need to stay since its too expensive to buy a new one

but i'll get a new 300mm lens so dso will get lost easier

look at the details of this live stack

[light vault]

you know what i did. I sold my sony a6100 and my gaming race wheels and pedals. Theres so many things around here i dont use

[light vault]

ooooo

[opal mica]

i could try selling some things but its not gonna work since i dont got many things to sell, and most astro things here when used loose too much its price

so people usually sell then after they are almost broke so second hand isnt an option

[light vault]

things are more expensive over there right?

[opal mica]

yep

[light vault]

dang

[opal mica]

how much is a normal eq mount there?

like a medium sized one

[light vault]

expensive lol, the star adventurer gti(what i have) is 600 for the head itself, but with the kit its 700

not too bad

but thats entry level goto

[opal mica]

man ngl this is good af

this one?

6.6k

[light vault]

yep

[opal mica]

10 times expensier

[light vault]

omg converted to usd its 1000

[opal mica]

yeah

[light vault]

that actually sucks

[opal mica]

it has a lot of importation fees and taxes

how much does a normal family make there?

a month

?

[light vault]

7k a month if this is good data and around 80k a year

texas

[opal mica]

bruh

lemme check here

but whats minumum wage?

[light vault]

it says 7 usd but most people make around 15 a hour

[opal mica]

here the avarage is 2.5k to 5k a month

[opal mica]

whats that in a month?

here we do all in monthly pay so idk how to do this math lol

[opal mica]

São paulo tho, biggest metropole here

here the minimum wage is 1500 a month

[light vault]

ok heres the math. The average hourly wage is 25 which is like 4k a month
translated into brazil dollars its 36k monthly

per person

if your working 40 hour weeks

[opal mica]

bruh this is 18 times what we make a month

here most of us work 44 hour weeks

yeah i think brazil is screwed

like

everything here is broke

lol

[light vault]

yikes, im only 18 working for 14 dollars a hour. I work like 20 hour weeks so i make 5.5k brazil dollars a month

im about to go to college for engineering tho i cant wait to break out this hell

[opal mica]

bro is 18 getting more money than most 25-30 make in 3 months

[light vault]

chilll😭

[opal mica]

i'm still 15 so its specially hard for me to change setups

[light vault]

oh for sure, i started working right when i turned 16

[opal mica]

my camera is almost out of battery once it runs out i'll stack and process

[opal mica]

my mom dont want me working till i make it to college

[light vault]

One thing of advice right now. If your not paying attention to school like i did, you need to start NOW.
right when i was graduating everything started to hit and i noticed i didnt focus at all
you can make it out of brazil

[opal mica]

i have 56 minus worth of data rn

[opal mica]

lol i'll make sure of that my mom wants me to go out like my older brother

he went to itally becuz he was born there but i want to go to the us

they got better physics universitys as i know

i want quantum physics

lol u like it too?

[light vault]

no one understand quantum so i dont think i would lol
I like everything software and maybe mechanical. Looking at things and wondering how they were built is super cool to me
like the nina software, how the camera works, ect

when i start college is when ill find out though

[opal mica]

i know i want quantum physics cuz of two things

1 i understand it and like it, i sometimes use it as entertainment

2 i'm kinda trying to dilacerate the uncertanty principle

i hate how it states that "god plays with chances"

i already made an early theory of how a world without this principle would be but just cant prove my theory cuz i dont own a freaking eletron telescope

neither a giant computer to simulate things

[light vault]

hmmm, youll like philosophy class in college for sure. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0hpR00CGFk i saw this video about quantum which made me super interested.

[opal mica]

dont think so i didnt like philosophy at all when i first heard it lol but i'll give it a try

[light vault]

it makes you challenge your views, its interesting

[opal mica]

cool vid this is pretty real

but i kinda want to change this

try to think with me

imagine a steel 100kg ball

try to lift it

u cant

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ok

[opal mica]

now a small little 1kg ball

now u can lift it

the 1kg ball can move freely in 3 dimensions

the 100kg ball cannot

becuz there is not enough energy

now put this to perspective with a electron

what if instead of if ur observing it it becomes instable and u cannot see it, its actually moving through time becuz u are inputing energy in it

but it dont happen to u becuz ur just too massive

ud need way too much energy, way above our own sun can produce

so then the uncertainty principle is actually just that if u input evergy in something by observing it ur just moving it in time, just like the small ball can be lifted and the big one not

thats basically it, its not too hard but u need to connect some points to understand

hope u understood it tho lol

[light vault]

W T F
wait give me a minute

[opal mica]

ok lol

oh btw i call this the dimensional weight theory

[light vault]

Im watching a quick quantum physics overview video. I want to understand.
this is your theory?

[opal mica]

yep created by scratch for almost a year rn

bruh i'm starting to think i might have blown u up

[light vault]

wait lol i just took flat frames, now im watching the video.
wth do they give yall in brazil, in america no kid thinks like you lol

you make me want to lock in even more, time to study

[opal mica]

lolll

i actually just kinda like it and i have some ephifanys and start thinking

most kids here are like in the us but some shine

ngl i'm kinda stupid in almost everything expect physics

for me this theory was kinda borring to create since its just so simple, it basically says the same thing as the uncertanty principle but mine explains why it does with certain logic, the principle just says "its like that becuz we can observe it and cant say why" generalizing obv its way more extensive

bruh my camera has been on the last beam of life for the last 30 mins whats thaat

think i'm gonna go sleep man, this was a good talk and a good imaging session

gn

its 2 am here so fr lol

[light vault]

alright
gn

[fading sleet]

You dont understand it, thats why you understand it

😂