Beautiful shots SD!
just wow. What a difference
Somewhere in between the two is probably the best image. The last one is a little overdone and unnatural. But I liked it because of all the details it highlighted. It’s amazing that all that light is up there each night. We just need better eyes to see it. That’s just a single exposure too. Pros will take like 50 shots and stack them all together to get one image that removes the noise. There is always distortion shooting through the atmosphere. Stacking images can combine the best of all into one near perfect shot. But, it can take hours of shooting and a lot more processing work. I am still having a hard enough time getting one shot looking right…
I picked up this little guy to go with my camera:
It’s a small telescope designed for astrophotography. I went out this week and gave it an attempt on my first deep sky image. Here is what I got:
I learned a lot and the little scope can do much better than this image next time. But pretty exciting result even though I did a quite a few things wrong. Definitely hope to post an even improved image soon!
Here are some things I am working on to improve next time:
1) Andromeda was too low in the sky so distortion was high
2) I wasn’t aggressive enough on exposure and lost details
3) When I finally got the image lined up, I forget to double check alignment of my tracker and I must of knocked it off a bit.
4) I ran out of time. I noobed around so long I didn’t get to take enough images to get the best quality. Need to get out there before dark to fumble around more next time.
did you ever get the ASIAir? just curious if it worked or not. And yeah I wanted to get a redcat too but I don't think I have the time to stay out all night to try it, plus I don't have a tracker either. What tracker did you end up getting?
SD-[Inc said:;n11056833]Not sure if anyone is looking at these. But I am really proud of this one. Orion and Horsehead Nebula. (You may have to zoom in close to see the horsehead on the lower left). The colors came out really nice in this one:
A rare green comet, last seen in Earth’s skies 50,000 years ago, is revisiting our solar system and may become visible to the naked eye within the next few weeks.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/g...n-comet-what-it-is-how-to-see-it/11039033002/
A rare green comet, last seen in Earth’s skies 50,000 years ago, is revisiting our solar system and may become visible to the naked eye within the next few weeks.
So any of you astro dudes plan on getting pics of this in about 1/2 a month?