That’s awesome! I had the same epiphany before I even bought a mount. Use a 50mm lens and 1-2s images and you can still stack!
I’m sure you’ve seen him before, but Nebula Photos is an amazing channel for no nonsense videos about “I have a camera, what do”
Thank you! I’ve really been enjoying my first year of astro
Hi thank you for the interest! I wrote up my equipment and process here:
Hi, thank you for the interest!
Equipment:
As many 20s exposures as I could get that night.
I use Siril for processing, been enjoying manual preprocessing recently actually. I stack and then follow a general processing pipeline I like: BG extraction, Photometric colour cal, then starnet++ star removal.
I denoise in graxpert and back to Siril for stretching the data using GHS
Perfect! Local astronomy clubs are definitely an amazing resource. I’m relatively new to the hobby so would definitely go by their experience.
Happy shooting and don’t forget to share!
300mm is good, though you may want to be careful what mount you pair it with.
I use 200mm and am using a star adventurer 2i. I’ve heard others say this is near the limit for that platform.
It is gender neutral after all
Hbomberguy is so based
I am sorry to say I can frequently be this friend…
Damn dude. Some people just like not being fired for having something pop up on their screen during a break. No need to get so offended that rules exist.
Damn dude. Some people just like not being fired for having something pop up on their screen during a break. No need to get so offended that rules exist.
Damn, you got me. Im sure its very important work your doing.
This was on a canon 90d on a star adventurer 2i, with a 50mm f1.8 lens stopped to around f5.6
30sec exposures at iso 800 stacked up using Siril
A bonus restretch and crop to just the galaxy. You can see the arms!
Hey thanks a lot! This was my 2nd attempt at all, but my first with an actual target, not Just snapping a picture of the sky
I wrote up my method here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12982996
Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas too, I’m here to learn :D
Thank you for your interest and compliments :) I was following advice from Nico Carvers channel for taking the frames: I am in a Bottle 4/5 sky so am decently lucky in that regard I took 400 light frames ( had to cull about half though) at 3sec exposure time to try and keep sharpess based on the NPF rule.
For processing I used Siril and a lot of tutorials. I stacked the frames (minus flats because it didn’t like the ones I took), then ran background extraction, plate solved colour calibration, and then I removed the stars with starnet.
I stretched the nebula using the generalised hyperbolic transform (I wanted to learn it, so far only used the others) and was happy with the results I got! My main trick was to do just enough stretching and reset the black point at each step, being careful about clipping. I then readded the stars at the level that I found aesthetic
I don’t know too much yet, this was my 2nd astro project at all, but I really loved it!
I just got a star adventurer 2i and the next clear night will have me doing Andromeda
Ahh that sucks
I feel incredibly lucky that I have a Bortle 5 in my garden, it would be so much harder if I needed to drive somewhere