Absolutely breathtaking shots. Truly the scope of the universe and magnitude of these events are incomprehensible. What a beauty. Would totally love to see more shots from you, good sir!
Astronomy / Space Beauty of the Galaxy
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Fantastic. I'm just starting to get into astrophotography, I fear I'm a long way from stuff like this however.
Hi Don,
just don't rush it, it took me 2 Years of try and error.
Whar are you doing? Deepsky or Planetary? CCD or DSLR?
just don't rush it, it took me 2 Years of try and error.
Whar are you doing? Deepsky or Planetary? CCD or DSLR?
Messier 27 - The Dumbell Nebula
right now I have a borrowed DSLR that may have alot of dead pixels in it. Set it up on a tripod the other night and just tried taking some exposures of the night sky to see how they came out. Thought I got some good pictures of some star fields, looked again, and the stars were the same in every picture, lol. But to answer your question, I'd like to get into both.
I really like the pictures. I have always been intereste in astrophotography but lack the funds to really get involved.
I know it can be done relatively cheaply these days. The light pollution where I reside obscures a lot of the sky.
Is there a lot of post shot processing in the images?
I know it can be done relatively cheaply these days. The light pollution where I reside obscures a lot of the sky.
Is there a lot of post shot processing in the images?
Yes it's a lot processing. Working out the colors without losing details can be tricky.
Post-processing can help a lot with light pollution, e.g. here, the insert is what fell out of my camera, and the main pic is what I finished with after working at a stack of a lot of similar images but there's a bit of a learning curve to doing that...
Problem at once you're doing that is the exposure time can be light pollution limited, and then you start building up noise in your image from doing lots of shots.
I'm quite a fan of astrophotography from inside cities, but I'm a masochist like that.
CMDR_Orlando
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Great pics! If only I could afford the hardware to do that [sad]
Minonian
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You boys forgot about the 2 best. 
Pillars of creation.
God's eye. / helix nebula.
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Whatever he means some photoshop skills come handy for noise reduction color /light balancing and such purposes.
Pillars of creation.
God's eye. / helix nebula.
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Whatever he means some photoshop skills come handy for noise reduction color /light balancing and such purposes.
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Magnificent
Thanks for the info. I was going to ask you after seeing such fantastic images. I really want to get in to this kind of thing again. I used to find it very theraputic and always made me feel like a kid again when seeing these things with my own eyes!
Could I use a canon 5d mk2 with an astro-mod ? (not that I even know what that would be in terms of adapters etc).
CMDR_Orlando
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You boys forgot about the 2 best.
Pillars of creation.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/heic1501a.jpg
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120117-coslog-pillars3-320p.photoblog900.jpg
God's eye. / helix nebula.
http://melkimag.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/helix_nebula_3d_space-wide.jpg
http://www.episcopalcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/eye-of-God-nebula.jpg
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