I recently took some pictures of Andromeda with a SA-GTI and a lumix g85 with the lumix 100-300mm, but the noise of the final image is really bad. Here is the first picture taken with a total of 2.5 hours (315*30s):
I took 55 1min exposures at f/2.2 ISO640 with my 24mm lens.
Sadly a lot of contrast is missing as the moon was out, so I hope I have another chance in the next days.
This was my first attempt at astrophotography. I didn't think I could achieve anything with my 85mm lens on my Fuji, but after putting together this collage, I think it was worth the wait until it was over.
While we're at it, this was up near Spruce Knob Lake, at the campground there. I bought my R10 for birds, not stars, which explains why the shortest lens I had on me was my 35mm prime macro lens. Just for a jape I figured I'd point it at the sky anyway, stick a rock on the crossbar on my tripod, and let 'er rip. ƒ/1.8 which is as wide as it goes, ISO-1600 which may have been a bit much, and noise reduction on so the thing forced me to wait double every time before I could chimp at it.
Tried a different approach with the same data as before. Implemented better denoising and sharpening tools, stretched it less aggressively in some areas.
My second ever galaxy, other than the Andromeda. The conditions were not favorable for it and I had just over 1 hour to shoot it, so I had to stretch the data a bit too much to get a recognizable result.
Image showing the crescent nebula and fascinating surrounding objects, like WR134, the soap bubble nebula (very faint) and if you really know where to look there are even some pixels of Abell69 (only visible in full resolution)
Hey everyone, I've been a long time photographer on a hiatus. Ever since learning about the existence of EQ mounts I have been excited to get back into photography and try the astro side of it.
I realized half way through the shoot I should leap through a couple frames. This was my favorite. Nikon D810. wide angle. Most of my aurora shots are from the October 2024 storm. I spent most of it driving around looking for angles and trying to track the intense bursts and different colors.
Nikon D810 for all the aurora shots, different parts of the Schoodic National Park loop. ISO settings timer settings were adjusted on the fly due to the severity of the storm.
Got my pictures of the total lunar eclipse together, this was my first attempt at doing a final collage photo at each phase, which I kind of bunged up the timings a little bit but it still turned out good enough.
I took a few pictures of the most common objects and am using a Lumix G85 with a 100-300 (200-600mm eq.) lens. That is around 2.2lbs/1kg (Yes, that is a micro four thirds sensor) together with a Omegon Mount MiniTrack LX3 Essentials. It is a very cheap mount which you have to tention manually and it only runs for 1h at a time, polar alignment is hard due to the cheap "straw" you have to look through.
My first time trying to shoot the Horse Head nebula!
I have a stock Sony a6000, which cuts out most of the hydrogen red signal, but thankfully enough got through to at least make this a solid attempt.
I captured this image of NGC 281 with my S50 using 948 10s exposures. I stacked in Siril and processed in Siril, GraXpert, Cosmic Clarity, and GIMP. It's not perfect, but I'm still very much an amateur.
My 5th time trying to image a seemingly easy target with something being off... This time I must have nudged the lens out of focus slightly and there was some dew forming on the lens that I hadn't noticed.
This hobby sure has a steep learning curve!
On our journey to shot the best images we can with our non ideal setup we collected more data on the heart nebula. Main problem with our setup is the distance of the sensor which is not perfect and results in bad star shapes in the corners. Stepping down to 2.8 and using BXT helps a lot.
Combined with old data we gathered a total exposure time of 14 hours.
This is a first test to shoot NGC 7293 with a 135mm lens.
Sadly we could only gather 15 min exposure time as the time frame for shooting this nebula is super short and we had a lot of clouds.
Hopefully we have better conditions next year. But this test makes us hopeful to get a decent image with our equipment.
I recently discovered the Open Astro Tracker by OpenAstroTech. Does anyone have experience with it and can recommend it? I don't want to spend time and money for a product that maybe won't work, but I really like the idea of a self build tracker. I also like that it can be upgraded later by adding things like a autoguider
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