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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 10, 2015, 08:29:50 PM »

Can you take an image of Jupiter for me? That should be fairly easy.

With this level of equipment and setup, I'll have to get paid to take requests. lol

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 10, 2015, 03:44:34 PM »

My dad's pretty good at astrophotography so I know a little bit about it. I saw you saying that you were taking short exposures because of star streaking? Why don't you use a tracking mount to avoid that, otherwise your noise to signal ratio is gonna be pretty stuff. Also, how many exposures are you stacking? At 1.5 sec each you'd need a lot of images to get a decent signal because the signal increases by the square root of the amount of images stacked.

Anyway, here's some of my dad's stuff.

Those look nice, but it's irritating when you don't read the thread and then make assumptions.

These last four pictures were my first time using a tracking mount...  or a telescope. Read the top post on this page please.

Also, I can tell that your dad is imaging in narrowband. I don't have that ability yet. It's expensive.

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 10, 2015, 02:28:31 PM »

I've thought about that so many times

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 09, 2015, 10:54:46 PM »

could you see andromeda moving when you point your camera at it for a long period of time?

My mount tracks the sky. It stays with it. That's the only reason I could expose long enough to see these things.

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 09, 2015, 10:46:14 PM »

This was my first shoot. Despite having issues learning to use the equipment, not using all available equipment, -20 wind chill, wind messing with the scope stability, not having the mirror's cooling fan turned on, and forgetting to align the mirrors, I feel like tonight was a success. Keep in mind that I usually take lots of images of each individual object and stack them together (along with a lot of processing and editing). These are just snapshots. One photo per object as I went through the sky.

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 08, 2015, 10:47:14 PM »

he sure is kevin spacey

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« on: January 08, 2015, 03:03:15 PM »

huehueuheuheuheuheuhe. I can't wait until tomorrowowoooww

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 07, 2015, 11:23:41 PM »

I should be able to try this out Friday or Saturday. Friday night the sun sets at 4:55pm and the moon doesn't rise until 9:45pm. The weather should be clear. Saturday night is also supposed to be clear and the moon won't rise until almost 11pm. If Friday night works, I'll try imaging the Andromeda galaxy. It's straight up and will have the least atmospheric interference. If Saturday works, I'll try the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae. They'll be higher in the sky since I'll have longer before the moonrise.

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 07, 2015, 09:07:12 PM »

Betelgeuse is easy. It's already been in many of my pics. Actually, it's the brighter orange star in the bottom left here:

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 07, 2015, 07:38:49 PM »

My setup in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXgvhLkUvXc

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 05, 2015, 11:09:52 PM »

Can you take a picture of maybe the Andromeda galaxy or maybe the Large Magellanic cloud?

I'll have a 4 hour window to catch Andromeda Friday night if it's clear. If it isn't, I'll have a 5+ hour window Saturday night and will probably shoot for the Horsehead, Flame, or Orion/Running Man Nebula because they'll get a chance to get higher in the sky before the moonrise.

Also, you can't see the large or small Magellanic cloud from the northern hemisphere...  and I'm pretty far north in the northern hemisphere.

Mighty fine telescopic unit you got there, looks like the kind you can reason and raisin with. The trials of worechiester sauce are real young bonesfourlegs.

if there were 5 richards for every richard you don't have there would be like 1,000

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 05, 2015, 05:24:27 PM »

oh

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 04, 2015, 11:27:33 PM »

Would be too big

what if the Banana was the same distance as the ISS

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 04, 2015, 06:04:52 PM »

I bought it all over a long period of time. And I have a decent job. Oh...  and deployment money.

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Off Topic / Re: Bones' astrophotography endeavors

« on: January 04, 2015, 01:03:38 AM »

Including the laptop and camera I use, around $5,200.