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.
Ended up buying the Seestar S50, pleased so far!Beautiful!
I've been dabbling with the idea of a smart telescope as it seems the 'cheap' and quick way to get similar images.
Time for an Ebay clearout to raise some funds I think.
Feel free to post more images
Now to start learning how to stack and process the individual frames on PC...
Try using Siril to stack and do the first steps in processing. I follow this guy on YT:
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For the price the Seestar S50 is extremely tempting. I'm a complete noviece mind you so it would seem to make sense to me, and some of the images produced (though I'm sure not up to a pro's standard) are amazing. Just always a bit wary of all in one solutions with no upgrade path.
There is actually an upgrade path in the sense that ZWO are constantly upgrading the firmware to enable greater functionality.
Originally the Seestar S50 had only one function called alt(itude) az(imuth) which was excellent for basic imaging particularly the moon and sun but also deep space objects.
The standard for deep space astrophotography is now EQ mode (equatorial) which compensates for the Earth's rotation in a smooth way while alt Az works in the way of incremental steps to allow for Earth rotation.
This allows for much longer imaging time which results in a better signal to noise ratio and much better images. That does come at the cost of buying something called an equatorial wedge which can be purchased for about £80.
Of course there is a limit to increased functionality and we're probably at that point now but you never know what these guys can come up with.
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The BBC weather app says it's going to be clear tonight from 22.00 but the app lies constantly so I'm not going to take a chance.
Sorry for the very late reply. You have some good gear there and your Jupiter image is excellent, red spot and all!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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