Starting off in Astrophotography...

Iancar29

Jupiter last night



ANd The IC 405 should be in there somewhere lol



GOd damn you light pollution!

DubOnHoliday

Working my way through the pdf in this link. Its very good...
http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/178483-astrophotography-kit-pdf-book/

Iancar29

Hey lads, is it possible to catch a decent view of saturn through an skywatcher ED 80 even from the dublin region? Might cut out some study time and setup later if its possible.

ZeRoY

Iancar29 wrote: »

Hey lads, is it possible to catch a decent view of saturn through an skywatcher ED 80 even from the dublin region? Might cut out some study time and setup later if its possible.

I would think yes, what imaging device will you use? Almost every single images of Saturn I see are taken using Webcam / Dedicated imaging cameras...

Tzetze

Iancar29 wrote: »

Hey lads, is it possible to catch a decent view of saturn through an skywatcher ED 80 even from the dublin region? Might cut out some study time and setup later if its possible.

What eyepieces do you have Ian? To get a decent view with the ED80 you'll need a high power eyepiece and a barlow will help. It'll be a very small view with the 28mm that comes with the ED80. Even still, it's definitely worth a look. Imaging will be less than satisfying.

ZeRoY

First try of small Skywatcher StarTravel 80 with Canon 1100D on a Hahnel Tripod (unguided)



Canon 1100D
Skywatcher ST80
Stack of 9 shots ISO100 @400mm 1/200sec (Registax v6)

spookwoman

No stacking just a bridge camera

ZeRoY

spookwoman wrote: »

No stacking just a bridge camera

Superb!

TPD

Had forgotten about this thread. Took this one handheld in broad daylight recently - converted to black and white and hammered the contrast up.

ZeRoY

Another moon, tonight a "supermoon" at perigee (not totally, best perigee is on the 28th)



Canon 1100D + SW ST80 (400mm), a stack of 12 pictures in Registax 6

spookwoman

1 day after full moon

spookwoman

ISS passing over ISO 80 15 second exposure

ZeRoY

Here's one from earlier, trying some coloring...



Canon 1100D
SW ST80
24X Stack in Registax v5

Iancar29

Sad times

http://www.adverts.ie/telescopes-binoculars/sky-watcher-pro-ed-80-as-new/3434554

ZeRoY

Iancar29 wrote: »

Sad times

http://www.adverts.ie/telescopes-binoculars/sky-watcher-pro-ed-80-as-new/3434554

Indeed, no dark skies is a huge problem... you should post it up in the buy/sell on the other forum

Edit: I see you have...

Iancar29

At least I'll still have our 500mm F4 for whenever i do get out and about .

Hopefully somebody can put it to good use.

dacogawa

Iancar29 wrote: »

Sad times

http://www.adverts.ie/telescopes-binoculars/sky-watcher-pro-ed-80-as-new/3434554

Dont do it! :eek:

Iancar29

dacogawa wrote: »

Dont do it! :eek:

I don't want it just sitting in my house not being used. ANd i can still used the 500 prime lens if when needed.

College funds needed too so yeah...

ZeRoY

Clear spell earlier so took out the Meade LXD75 Newtonian for some alignment and imaging practice, deepsky didnt work well with moon rising early and no so good alignment... took a few moon shots however just before the clouds rolled in.

Stack of 18 raw from Canon 1100D ISO 100 1/125 exposure, some post process to bring out some colors and sharpness (Registax Wavelets rocks!)

Iancar29

Finally got to image the milky way from a nice dark location !

Was up at the sugar loaf for most of the night there on Tuesday night .



3 image vertical panoramic
Nikon D7000
Sigma 10-20mm F4
ISO 3200 @ 30"

Flickr

ZeRoY

Its a great MilkyWay shot Ian! Was it taken at 10mm ?

Iancar29

Thanks Zeroy , yep at 10mm , wish i had my godfather's 2.8 Nikon 12-24 mm with me though but was too short of notice to get it off him . Next time though

ZeRoY

Iancar29 wrote: »

Thanks Zeroy , yep at 10mm , wish i had my godfather's 2.8 Nikon 12-24 mm with me though but was too short of notice to get it off him . Next time though

I suppose at 2.8 you could have exposed for less time but Im not sure results would be better as the horizon is showing a lot of light pollution; Wish I had one of these wide field lens myself!!

Kersh

Absolutely gobsmacking pic Ian.

New screensaver for me.

DubOnHoliday

Fantastic pic Ian, good to catch up earlier

spookwoman

Pleiades. Canon sx50 hs, ISO 80, 158mm focal, 4 sec exposure on tripod. No scope etc used.

Nerro

spookwoman wrote: »

Pleiades. Canon sx50 hs, ISO 80, 158mm focal, 4 sec exposure on tripod. No scope etc used.

Try to bump up ISO next time and you should get much more detail out of it...

spookwoman

Nerro wrote: »

Try to bump up ISO next time and you should get much more detail out of it...

Can't once over 1 second it wont allow you to change ISO. its a bridge camera. will try 1 sec and try doing the iso. want to get a shot of jupiter and its moons next.

ZeRoY

spookwoman wrote: »

Can't once over 1 second it wont allow you to change ISO. its a bridge camera. will try 1 sec and try doing the iso. want to get a shot of jupiter and its moons next.

Pretty show stopper that restricted ISO on Manual mode

There might be some hope however with CHDK Hack Firmware if you feel brave! I use such firmware on my 1100D (Magic Lantern) and since they load from SD Card its usually pretty safe but there are risks...

http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=9409.0

spookwoman

Very wary its still under warranty and I don't want to break it