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

[Jubel]

It's just the magical round number that people found from trial and error. It's always worked fine for me. 1.6 looks fine at 300mm. 2 seconds and it starts to trail a little.

It'd be pretty neat to be able to take a super long exposure shot (or at least, a lot of them) on the earth's axis of rotation and have them loop around and stuff.
Would make a neat hyperlapse.

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[Bones4]

It'd be pretty neat to be able to take a super long exposure shot (or at least, a lot of them) on the earth's axis of rotation and have them loop around and stuff.
Would make a neat hyperlapse.

That would be. I'm just excited to be getting a mount that'll counteract that rotation. I can't wait to expose for minutes/hours.

[Trifax]

ayyyy lmao

Space, and stuff. Do it big, broski.

[Kimon²]

find a nebula that looks like a richard

[Trifax]

find a nebula that looks like a richard

[QuadStorm]

Pretty neat photos. I wish I had the equipment to do this. Anyways, did you try to photograph M31? It's also pretty bright, so it shouldn't be that much of a challenge.

Stellarium should help you locate where it should be, which is what I used to find out where it was in my light polluted skies.

[Bones4]

I've tried, but it's still too dim to be properly photographed with my exposure limit. I'm going to wait until I can track before I give a serious effort.

[Jubel]

Even if you had the little sky tracking machine, would stars near the edges of the photograph streak or blur at all?

Or are those things just too dang far away that it wouldn't really matter?

[Bones4]

They would only appear to steak or blur due to problems with the lens or telescope

[Blockaium]

if you can catch a meteor/fireball/etc i will be so proud

[Bones4]

I ordered a car jumpstarter as a power tank. It's rated for 19 amp hours. I also ordered a polar alignment scope for my tracking mount to make aligning a little faster, a dovetail and mounting ring set to use with the old Orion ST80 my dad is giving me, and a T ring with T adapter for mounting my D600 to the scope.

[Bones4]

My Celestron CGEM came in today. Jesus christ it's big. And heavy. It's all metal. Weighs around 75+ pounds with the weight on.



Looks beefier in person.

[Jubel]

oh my

How much did that set you back?

[Bones4]

$1,500

[Jubel]

$1,500

Couch change!