Bones' astrophotography endeavors (latest photos pg. 7 - 2015/01/31)

[Bones4]

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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[blockguy™]

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

[Georges]

wow nice

[Bones4]

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.

[Jubel]

It's almost scary to think that there could be other space people in Andromeda looking at our galaxy with their own space space telescopes and space cameras.

[Bones4]

I've thought about that so many times

[$trinick]

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.


IC410


M31/Andromeda


Western Veil Nebula

[Bones4]

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.

[HellHound]

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

[ßlöükfáce]

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

depends on where it is i think

[Bones4]

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

[Bones4]

I'm going out for a try at the Lovejoy comet tonight.

[Bones4]

I just ordered a kit to take apart and hypertune my equatorial tracking mount. I should be able to get better tracking, guiding, and balance now. Awwww yeah astrophotography.

Also, I forgot to post these. Still not stacked. I still haven't done a legitimate night of shooting yet.

[HellHound]

If your camera is good enough, is it possible for you to take a photo of proxima centauri?

[Greek2me]

Your photos are great so far.