Astrophotography Thread

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>>2894165
>whats a good time interval between shots?
There is some arithmetic involved in determining this. How long of a time do you have during which to shoot, how long of playback are you going for, and what is your playback fps? I usually lock the shutter on continuous shooting, and set the shutter speed at 30 seconds, so im basically getting an interval of 30 seconds (and some change because of between shots lag time).

Also, here's on of my ones from a few weeks ago. I posted these before, but they were really noisy. I feel that I have better managed the noise in this round of edits.

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>>2894275

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>>2894276
I like the composition in the other one better, here the cactus looks like it's just floating in space

>>2894281
alrighty, thanks.

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Delta Aquarids Meteorite Shower from last Thursday

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>>2894291
tight.

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Aurora Australis and the Milky Way from last night.

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Ruby Beach in Washington last Friday. Had a car drive through the parking lot mid exposure and it lit the fog up pretty nicely

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>>2895667
Epic view you have there

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>>2895672

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>>2896512
If you're going to edit someone else's photo, at least do a good job

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Does someone have a good guide for casual astrophotography ?

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Not really happy with this but ehh...

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Can I get some feedback, please?

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>>2896796
2/2

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>>2894291
This is great. How many shots did you stitch together for this?

>>2896512
Looks like shit, nice instant art saturation faggot

>>2895672
reminds me of ET

I would like to get into astrophotography, especially before the Perseid in Aug. I have a D750 with a 35mm 1.8 G prime and a 28-300mm 3.5-5.6 G. Are those lenses okay to start with? What else do I need?

>>2897089
a tripod, this http://www.stellarium.org/

and learning how to stack. You'll need a ton of memory for proper stacking/combining of shots

>>2897095

Do you stack manually or do you use software?

>>2894165
Is this the vagina nebula?

>>2897104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0JSTF8SGi4

watch this, kinda slow but the dude explains everything and what program to use to stack

>>2897122

Thank you. I appreciate it. :3

>>2897089
>before the Perseid in Aug
Thankyou for this, I totally forgot

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Op back, I appreciate all the tips and pics in this thread, just got back from Algonquin, ill post some more

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>>2896796
I'm just a layman who knows nothing about photography but enjoys these threads, but from my perspective, the power line is a distraction in an otherwise good scene.

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Had a big of a go at stacking.

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>>2898834
bit*

>>2898834
beautiful, how many photos did you have to stack and what lens?


unrelated, I'm fucking sick of store front captcha

>>2898840
>unrelated, I'm fucking sick of store front captcha
Better than the billboard ones. I haven't gotten a billboard one yet that has more than two billboards on it or even two things that I could figure out qualify even as captcha billboards.

>>2898857
At least it is better than Wix on Youtube
One thing they achieved is I'll never use their service.

>>2896796
Where'd you shoot this? Its a really nice location but compositionally speaking it would be more interesting if you moved closer to the trees or something to establish a foreground. Personally for night sky photography there's already a fantastic background, so what I tend to do is I put something in the front of the sky for contrast and depth.

>>2899026
I shot this right behind a gate, so I couldn't move any closer. You can sort of see the cows in the ground, which were what the gate was guarding. I do agree with you, but I don't like being close to cows.

>>2898840
8x shots, aligned and median stacked in PS 2015.5. Lens is a Samyang 14mm f/2.8, brilliant bit of kit.

>>2899166
nice. one of the best astro shots I've seen here

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Ring Nebula

>>2894166
I see what you're trying to achieve here, next time try stacking the foreground so you can get a nice short exposure and eliminate the blur + bring out some detail.

>>2896796
Nice, I agree with >>2898490 regarding the power line, also see >>2900110

>>2894291
The green ones are meteorites, the rest are satellites.

>>2900022
Looks like a spec of dust.

>>2900206
No anon, they are all meteorites.

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Hercules Cluster

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Andromeda Galaxy

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>>2900217
Ooh this reminds me I have a stack of Andromeda. I have to redo the stacking because I only managed to get an overcooked monochrome image.
I used DSS, if anyone have any ideas what went wrong or what settings I need to change, please don't hesitate to tell me.

Lens was Tamron 70-200/2.8 at 200mm.

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>>2900221
*lense

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>>2900208

>>2900231
Just kidding, mate
What mount and scope?

>>2900235
Advanced VX mount and an 8" reflector. The thing is, I don't have a main imaging camera (yet) so I used my guide camera, hence why PHD is open. I wanted to see how light sensitive the guide camera was. It's cool that it could capture some objects.

I have everything I need for astrophotography except for a camera (and filters) which is pretty funny.

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>>2900239
The camera I'm gonna get is the Atik 314l CCD.

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>>2894165
Dumb beginner here... How did OP take this pic with a 25mm lens, on a cropped sensor, with a 30 sec exposure and didn't get any star trails? I've been trying on a kit lens at 18mm (27mm actually right) and I'm noticing trails starting at 15 secs. What am i doing wrong?

>>2900259
He did get star trails. See how the stars are starting to become elongated blobs? Star trails.

A general rule I once heard is that your exposure should be no longer than your focal length. So at 18mm it's fairly reasonable that you'd get star trails at 15 seconds

>>2900262
What you are looking for is the 500 rule
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/06/avoid-star-trails-following-500-rule/

You have to use the equivalent focal lengths on crop though.

>>2900259
>How did OP take this pic with a 25mm lens, on a cropped sensor, with a 30 sec exposure and didn't get any star trails?
25mm is the equivalent on a full frame sensor, meaning he's actually using a 17mm lens on a crop body. If you use the basic rule 500/(focal length) it will give you a pretty accurate calculation of how many seconds you can shoot for before you get trails (use 600/focal length if shooting full frame. So in his case its 500/17 = 29 secs, meaning he's only getting very slight trailing.

> I've been trying on a kit lens at 18mm (27mm actually right) and I'm noticing trails starting at 15 secs. What am i doing wrong?
That makes no sense, you should be able to shoot for 27 seconds before getting trails.

>>2900227
....no, lens is correct

>>2897167
It's tomorrow.

>>2898834
This is great but I guess the location is important here, where was this taken? Europe is the worst continent for light pollution...

>>2900799
The peak is around noon for where I am
JUST

>>2900239
How much are those? You should look at some of the Andor cameras.

>>2901028
I'm looking to get the SkyWatcher Star Adventurer mount soon. -ish. Maybe in a few months.
I figure it can take my camera right away and can be built into a full blown reflector mount with autoguiding later. It only needs is a sturdy tripod which I already have.

>>2900974
Don't worry about it the peak lasts a a long time.

>>2901038
I will still need 10-12 hours after the projected peak band to get properly dark for shooting.

>>2901039
The shower started on the 17th of July and ends on the 24th of August. The meteors don't dump out of the sky in a few hours. The zhr varies and you can get loads of meteors before and after the peak.

>>2901040
Okay, that is reassuring. Thanks mate, now if the clouds would be so kind and disappear, that would be lovely.

>>2901041
Also remember the best time to observe is after midnight due to the rotation of the Earth as it passes through the dust band.

>>2900965
try Polish "Bieszczady National Park"
it's pretty fucking dark there, plan to visit it this year http://poland.pl/tourism/nature/bieszczady-under-stars/

http://www.blue-marble.de/nightlights/2012

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I did timelapse in perseid shower, it's not as cool as i expected it to be. Still worth posting, i guess.

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>>2901419
misclick

>>2894165
As someone who is interested in both astronomy and photography but has done neither yet, can you see that much detail with the naked eye as all the photos in this thread show or does it only show on camera?

I'm talking about the sheer number of stars and the reddish-purple colored gas clouds. Like this pic >>2894291; would I be able to see exactly what is in the photograph if I was there?

>>2901420
Imo, it's too fast. If you can, drop the framerate a bit, other wise in future drop the exposure time as much as you can to around 10s. I had a 50D though, and image quality at that sort of exposure time will be shit without a much faster lens.

>>2901465
no, good astro photos will always look better
your eyes can't see color in the dark, so most deep sky objects (galaxies, clusters, ...) will be just various shades of gray. Astro photos are also very long exposures and/or stacked from multiple photos, which allows a lot more signal to accumulate on the sensor than in your eye, so more stars and other faint objects will be visible.

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>>2901494
>your eyes can't see color in the dark

>>2901499
>being this blind

I wish i could see the various tones in the milkyway like you sepai

>>2901494
Fuck, this kills me inside. What if I spent a lot of time adjusting my eyes to the dark? It's still breathtaking for the first time, right?

Also, those reds and purples are real colors right, and not like false color pictures? I mean, if our eyes were strong enough, we'd see them as reds and purples, right?

>>2901526
even without colors, seeing nebula in telescope is amazing. About second question, i've seen post about some guy who used enormous telescope and was able to see orion nebula in red tint. But then again, orion is the brightest nebula you can get.

>>2901531
No, I meant with the naked eye. I don't want to see much detail, just a lot of stars and gas clouds.

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>>2901467
I tried developing photos with better software and i slowed it down a little, i also cut large chunk of it because of 3mb webm limit. Looks kinda better now.

>>2901597
pretty cool, though you need to do something about the noise and not have the out of focus tree in the foreground next time

>>2901797
It's either tree or stars. I can't really stop my lens in the middle of the night, my canon kit lens (18-55, f/3.5) is terrible. Guess I'll think about finding foreground that's farther away next time.

>>2901825
read a tip the best way is to focus on the moon earlier and tape down the lens so you won't accidentally it later. also obviously keep it in manual for the same reason

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I wanted to shoot the perseid meteor shower, but a fox just ran away with my gear. :(

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>>2901930
little fucker eating my cables

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>>2901931
"I can probably sell this shit to the fox black market"

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>>2901932
"now that I ruined your polar alignment, let me drink your beer"

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>>2901935
cute af

is it wild one or your pet? i've seen couple foxes in my life, but they were always running away

>>2901935
for more entertaining than the shower, thanks for the laughs

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>>2894165
I took this one last April. I'm pretty proud of it

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>>2901956
its a wild one, but he was not scared at all, just messing with my stuff and running away when I came too close. Anyways it made me happy (my all shooting session was ruined because humidity/dew, but this little guy made my night)

>an old M31 pic to not be too out of topic

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>>2901962

The sky looks great. Shame about that foreground you composited in.

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I tried to do second perseid timelapse just now, clouds got in the way. I'm overally satisfied though - i think i just learned a lot about timelapsing basics.

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>>2901980
really nice. good exposure, sharp stars and smooth video. you are doing it right!

posting old stuff -again- because I dont have anything new: IC434 horsehead nebula

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>>2901980
how'd you do this?

>>2902083
The basic process is take a bunch of photos then stick them together in something like Windows Movie Maker.

>>2902085
I get that, but whats the interval you used? And EXIF data?

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>>2902101
I didn't make that one. I'll look and see if I can find one that I did. Here's one of the stills I used in it. The exposure settings aren't really all that helpful though because that depends on ambient light.

As for interval, I want to say that I made a 30 second clip over 4 hours at 60fps. I'll have to dig up the timelapse though to verify that. Interval is also something that you just kinda have to play with. I'm not claiming to be an expert, but from everything I've read, seen, and done, there's not really any hard and fast rules.

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>>2902083
>>2902101
Here, example frame EXIF.

I'm fiddling around with timelapsing for a while now and i just sat down, thought a little and realized couple of things:

>photos actually look like shit when sky is perfectly dark (at least in my suburb area), it looks better when moon lights up sky a little. Without moon lighting at all it's all red and noisy
>i can crank up iso and until some point there will be less noise, not more
>it's better to have slow timelapse from small time interval than faster one from large time interval
>it all looks best when photos are taken one right after another, without any kind of "sleep time" when camera is idling - this thing makes it smooth

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>>2901981
What focal length on the reflector?

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>>2902357
thats a 1000mm f/5 from skywatcher

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>>2902360
How precise do you have to be with stand and alignment? I have cheap skywatcher newtonian telescope with 130mm mirror on EQ2 mount, sometimes i'm thinking about buying cheap engine to power it on single axis. Do you think it will be enough to start taking photos of certain objects in the sky with 30-60 sec exposures?

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>>2902364
I dont have an autoguider and I struggle to go over 120 seconds (I have an EQ5). I often have to do the polar alignment several times to be precise enough. Autoguiding is definitely the next thing I'll buy. (but it makes everything more complicated: guide scope, laptop etc)

Your 130mm with a single-axis motor should give you access to some of the brighter deep sky objects (M42 and stuff like this), but after trying this you will probably want to buy a better mount. If you have some spare money just buy an EQ5 with GoTo, it will give you access to a lot of new objects to shoot.

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Only started doing photography this year. Having a decent camera really makes you strive to go to places that you would otherwise not go.

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>>2902388
Also, looks like not many people are using lightroom, any reason for that? (new to this board so please forgive) Sometimes I will change things in photoshop first and then import the photoshop file into lightroom since the noise reduction in lightroom is great.

>>2902389
I always do my main editing in Lightroom, then import to Photoshop for finishing touches and editing shots that require layer masks, stacking etc.

>>2902389
Umm...your workflow is kinda backwards.

Also if you think Lr's noise handling is good, download the Nik Collection.

And learn how to use the file management aspects of Lr.

>>2902371
You should consider to buy the polemaster camera from QHYCCD. It makes polar alignment so fucking easy. Can't live without it now. It's very precise polar alignment too.

>>2902399
Thanks for the tips. Downloading the Nik Collection now.

>>2902360
What camera did you use?

Does anyone have a good reference for stitching together a panorama? I find that I always have to use the warp tool in photoshop because it curves the horizon. I'm a massive photoshop noob btw

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>>2902404
Canon 6D.
I also use the astronomik CLS filter to reduce light pollution on most of my shots.

>this one I made with the Canon 400mm f5.6 lens on my scope mount

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>>2902406
check out PTGui

>>2902403
To expand on why your workflow is kinda backwards, most people who use both Lr and Ps to post their photos do something along these lines:
>import to computer using Lr applying presets automatically (generally smaller changes that you'd do to every image anyway
>do global edits like play with contrast/colors (which if you're doing for a single shoot that you want a uniform style for, you can apply to all of the pictures in that shoot after doing once)
>some small spot fixes

Then if more intensive work is needed, open in Ps and do whatever couldn't be done (or done easily/as well) in Lr, then back to Lr for your export.

If you're doing all of your images in Ps and just using Lr for like noise removal, you might as well just forget about Lr altogether and use ACR (ACR and the editing side of Lr are basically the exact same thing).

>>2902388
why are there red and green dots on the line (meteor tail?) ?

>>2902441
Because it's a plane, not a meteor lmao

>>2902443
ahh, makes sense. I just ass umed since it was meteor week

>>2902388
Looks great, shame you've got this plane in your way. It's a little detail that steals entire viewer attention, i bet it would look way better without it.

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>>2902568
I love the reflection and want more of the reflection if you can find an angle to accomplish that.

Where are you getting these?

>>2902581
Thank you!
I took them on La Palma (canarian Islands),last year in May, but I'm going to spend another 4 weeks there starting from next week.

>>2901962
dam son and thats a good photo, if you only could make ground colors bit more realistic it would be 11/10

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>>2902568
thats a sexy scope and very nice picture

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same object, different scopes and techniques.
M42 great orion nebula

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>>2902452
I actually do have shots from that angle that don't have the plane going through it, but i figured the plane added a nice touch.

>>2902836
>but i figured the plane added a nice touch
if you were going for catching santa in the sky you got it perfect

>>2901962

This is good. How you do dis? What gear?

>>2902568

I don't completely understand how these are done with a foreground. If you use a scope the camera moved and if you don't, the sky "moves"; either way, shouldn't the foreground move? Also, what happens if you use stacking?

>>2903184
I'm pretty sure that's not a tracked image and not stacked either.

Look at his exif: 15s, f/2.8, @ISO12,800...and usually that kind of antenna is pretty high and pretty remote, so that should be sufficient with post processing to pull out the Milky Way.

>>2903197
>Antenna

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>>2903290
Eh, I thought it was a radio telescope antenna. Those things come in a lot of weird shapes. What is it?

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>>2903296
That is a big refractor with the mirror made out of several smaller mirrors in honeycomb formation, something like the new huge telescopes at ESA and NASA.
It's a clever design that saves a lot of money but collimating the mirrors can be a bitch.

>>2903313
Cool.

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>>2903296
>>2903313
>>2903323
>>2903296
>What is it?
This apparantly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEGRA

>>2903313
*reflector
damn I am really tired

>>2903353
kek, I once wrote diffract instead of refract somewhere "important" (not on the internet, in print). I don't think anyone noticed but it haunts me to this day.

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I took a camping trip to Cherry Springs State Park. Feedback requested. 1/3

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This excursion was during a new moon in mid July. The clouds never completely disappeared. 2/3

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White light is banned in this park at night. Only red light is permitted. I also took some timelapses that didn't turn out as I had hoped. Didin't bother me, because I had a telescope to play with. Photo 3/3 from a 10/10 night.

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>>2903290
>>2903296
>>2903313
>>2903323
>>2903326

You're close, but it's this telescope:
http://fact-project.org/

The Hegra-Array sadly burned down, only two reflectors survived (I think), the one on la Palma, and the other one is somewhere in Mexico.

In >>2902522 the big telescope is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGIC_(telescope)
Using the same principle as FACT/HEGRA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IACT

The mirrors are not usable for astronomy in the visible light range, since their quality is not good enough regarding mirror quality and alignment.
GTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Telescopio_Canarias , at the same observatory) mirrors have to be align in the nanometer scale, you can find images taken at GTC here: http://www.gtc.iac.es/multimedia/imageGallery.php

But from IACTs you sadly can't get pretty pictures, the data directly results in light curves, for example here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/344485/contributions/1744138/attachments/1138642/1630294/mrk501_2012_ghughes_806_v4ws.pdf

>>2903517
>But from IACTs you sadly can't get pretty pictures, the data directly results in light curves, for example here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/344485/contributions/1744138/attachments/1138642/1630294/mrk501_2012_ghughes_806_v4ws.pdf
Welp, I now feel stupid.

>>2901931
Wait, what? Were you just standing there watching a fox eat your cables? Do you know this fox?

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So, i went out a little bit farther away this time. In the middle of the night, on bike, i also managed to screw up every little thing i tried to do. I moved camera in this timelapse...

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>>2903572
...and somehow i set up way too long exposure time in this potentially cool photo. But in the end, i'm kinda satisfied. It was awesome to just sit in the middle of the night and watch pretty clean sky (well, four kilometers from large city, but still) with clearly visible milky way disc.

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took this with my phone through a telescope while observing with my astronomy class. sorry for shit quality on every aspect

>>2903791
>astronomy class
>pube on the lens
no surprise there

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>>2903572
I tried to process it a little and remove buggy frames, but frame jumping is just as painful as having frames flying around.

I also lost my tripod yesterday in the dark and couldn't find it, i guess now it's the time to go there again and look for it.

>>2903833
you don't have a flashlight in your bag?

>>2903890
>flashlight
>not using your in camera flash to take a picture every 5 seconds to light your way

>>2903890
I guess i can get one, but why should I?

>>2903908
Ah, for tripod search. I had my bike lights, but i couldn't find it with such narrow light. Grass was high, it was difficult to find it even in the middle of the day.

>>2896634
Find a dark spot (google darksite finder)
Get a fast lens
Keep it wide open
Keep a forground object in the shot if you want to get the feeling of openness
If you dont have a wide angle lens shoot a certain object in the sky (Andromeda is pretty easy)
Follow the 500 rule so the stars dont streak (500÷focal length=shutter speed) if youre on a crop sensor dont forget to multiply by your crop factor
Use focus peaking/zoom to get the stars in focus, dont set to infinity
If you dont have peaking or zoom use a bright flashlight to illuminate something far away and get it in focus

>>2903908
my buddy used to go out in the middle of nowhere at night to shoot and he strapped a cheap bike reflector on his pod and the fleshlight would pick it up easily if he wondered too far away

>>2901962
Forget about the clowns talking about foreground.

That right there is a picture to be proud of.

>>2903573
If you have multiple exposures turning that into a startrail would look amazing

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>>2894165
Any DSLR camera in the ~$510 range better than a Nikon D 5300 for night pictures of the moon and milky way but good for daytime to? I'm thinking about getting this camera because I can't find it under $400 with the lens http://m.ebay.com/itm/171890002119 I know the stuff in the bundle is junk but meh if I can find the camera and lens for under $400 then I could have enough to get some extras I wanna try and take pictures of the night sky and in low light
I like the Nikon D 5300 because it has wifi so my phone can connect to the camera and snap pictures and because of the screen rotates

>>2905942
re-posting

I have bad news for you. Both of those scopes are no good for astrophotography. The dobson is visual only, the refractor is small and the mount is not motorized. You might be able to put the tube from the dobson on a good motorized EQ3-EQ5 mount but the problem with the mirror is still there. The cheap visual only reflectors use spherical mirrors that gives massive distortions on a camera. For photography you need a parabolic mirror. You have to make sure of these.
That refractor can be used for planetary photography, Saturn, Jupiter, da moon etc...

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>>2905942
Generally any DSLR with cmos sensor is okay for beginning - I shot this one with $40 canon 350d and kit lens. Sure, it's not some kind of glorious sharp professional astro shot, but keep in mind that it was my first week with DSLR in my life.

So, D5300 will be absolutely fucking amazing. I doubt you can do any better, modern Nikons are probably best crop sensors in terms of low-light performance.

>screen rotates
you won't use your live view in the middle of the night for anything other than focusing (and even that is sometimes easier to be done in viewfinder), so don't get so attatched to all of those modern gimmicks. Of course it's good to have those, just don't consider it as absolute requirement.

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question: is photostacking needed for decent low noise, not fucked up WB pictures?

Ive only been out to shoot once didn't plan to stack and now I am seeing way too much noise or weird colors as I try to PP my images thinking now I should have done multiple exposures

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Been a while since I did any serious astrophotography - this is a 1-hour total integration time (12x5min stacked) narrowband hydrogen-alpha picture of the Eagle Nebula. Was wanting to grab some oxygen-III and sulphur-II frames for a proper Hubble narrowband palette colour image but the weather has been fucking atrocious.

Taken with a QSI 683 monochrome CCD with hydrogen-alpha filter, on a 254mm f/4.7 (1200mm fl) Newtonian telescope.

>>2907889
I would ease off the sharpening and noise reduction, it looks a bit watercolored at some parts.

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>>2902568 here,
made a new Timelapse, this time I used a Sony A7s with a Samyang 14mm f2.8.

>>2903833
try looking into warp stabilizer in After Effects, might fix the slight camera wobble

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Pretty simple but I like this a lot. It's a picture of a meteor flying right next to the milky way in BC, canada.
Thoughts?

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>>2909758
bump

>>2907889
>QSI 683 monochrome CCD
>$4,000
Goddamn.
Great pic. Would love to see it colored.

>>2906223
How long were your exposures?

How do I into astrophotography?

>>2910107

you dont.

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>>2903513
Hey I just rented a cottage like 10 min away from there. The sky is so clear its beautiful

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