A few bits of my astrophotography images from the past few months
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These are beautiful mate. I only started getting into AStrophotography recently. Still a total newbie and my camera doesn't have tec cooling so have not been taking darks and with UK weather often don't have the time to get darks after a session.
I used a eq6 pro, orion optics 10" f4.8 and a altair 183c non tec cooled version.
I think it was a about 5 x 60 sec exposures of M51. Not a great image at all but eager to learn more. Took one of Jupiter other day also but this cam isn't too good for planets.
My scope isn'ty great for photos as I'm more of a visual viewer but may buy a little apo refractor in the future.
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I used a eq6 pro, orion optics 10" f4.8 and a altair 183c non tec cooled version.
I think it was a about 5 x 60 sec exposures of M51. Not a great image at all but eager to learn more. Took one of Jupiter other day also but this cam isn't too good for planets.
My scope isn'ty great for photos as I'm more of a visual viewer but may buy a little apo refractor in the future.
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This is so fricking cool
Well, now you almost can do that except you don't need a telescope with an eyepiece etc. I also use a so-called "smart telescope" called a Seestar S50. where the actual image taking process is much more automated. I'm using it at theSubbed!
Yeah, great photos @footman. I have to admit I've always turned my nose up a bit at astrophotography because I'm not sure i'd get much enjoyment out of the post processing aspect of it... As in, I'm under the impression, you can't just whip out your telescope, look through the lens and go "oh, that's nice, I'll take a photo of that"
But yeah... these photos are great, and to be able to recreate them yourself would be quite an achievement. I can see this being another rabbit hole I go down...
moment to image other galaxies. It's very quick and easy to set up in the garden, literally 5 minutes of minor adjustment to positioning, you tell it where to go and that's all, it can even do the final processing for you but I prefer to do my own.
This is the Pinwheel galaxy which lies a staggering 25 million light years away. The blue dots are hot blue newborn stars.
