Hello!
Yet another Andromeda shot taken with a 500mm lens and the old faithful Sony A6000.
It's about an hour's worth of 45 sec frames, tracked with a Star Adventurer GTI.
Stacked in Siril, then Starnet++, then photoshop for stretching and final touches on Lightroom Mobile.
I'm planing another shot of it next month with much more time, leaving this here to compare.
Feedback appreciated!
Hello!
I tried my luck with the Star Queen, M16.
The total integation time was about 50 minutes from a Bortle 4 spot, with a 500mm f8 telephoto lens and a stock Sony A6000.
Considering the limitations in time and gear, I'm pretty happy with the result.
Slightly out of focus,too! Room to grow I guess... Feedback appreciated!
Hi everyone!
Tried my luck with the Rosette nebula with my stock Sony A6000. It's about 1,5 hours of data. The hydrogen red signal gets slashed by 75% by the sensor unfortunately, but I still wanted to give it a shot.
Stacked in Siril, then graxpert, then photoshop.
I'll be revisiting this one for sure. Feedback appreciated!
Hello!
I had a very brief weather window to attempt the Pleiades with my new GTI, everything else is the same as last time except some new editing steps in Siril and Affinity Photo.
It's about 2 hours worth of data in 25 sec shots, unguided, with a 500mm photo lens stopped down to f8 (hence the spiky stars) and a stock Sony A6000.
Lost about an hour of data because the powerbank that powered the dew heater died, putting that on my checklist for sure!
Feedback appreciated, old post in the comments for reference.
Here's another one I snapped with my phone at a very dark sky spot!
A flower got in front of the lense there that I didn't notice.
I'll post the unedited one in the comments.
I started doing astrophotography using a Samsung Galaxy S3 back in the day and I still love a quick little Milky Way shot with any phone and the right settings!
This is a 30 second exposure with an iPhone 13 Pro in Crete, Greece.
Took my lightweight setup with me camping. The spot is on the south shore of Crete, Greece.
It's a Bortle 2 beach that's very hard to beat! I shot the Blue Horse Head nebula and the Andromeda Galaxy with a vintage Jupiter 135mm f3.5 lens, results here soon.
My tent is on the right, my gear on the left and a little flower got in the way that I hadn't noticed.
Single 30sec shot with an iPhone 13 Pro. Adjusted colors in iOS Lightroom.
Tried a different approach with the same data as before. Implemented better denoising and sharpening tools, stretched it less aggressively in some areas.
Feedback appreciated!
My second ever galaxy, other than the Andromeda. The conditions were not favorable for it and I had just over 1 hour to shoot it, so I had to stretch the data a bit too much to get a recognizable result.
Still, for a first attempt it's not bad. Will revisit for sure.
Feedback appreciated!
100x45 sec lights, 15 of each calibration frames. Shot on a stock Sony A6000 with a TTArtisan 500mm lens on a star adventurer star tracker.
Processing: Siril, GraXpert, StarNet, Photoshop.
There's about 30 x 22 sec lights for the sky, pasted over a 2,5 min single shot of the foreground.
Shot with a stock Sony a6000 and a Samyang 12mm f2.0, untracked, under Bortle 3 skies.
Stacking was done in Siril and the rest in Photoshop.
Feedback appreciated!
My first attempt at the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae!
A few minutes worth of 30sec exposures, 10 darks (had to leave in a hurry) and 20 flats/bias.
Edit: Shot with a 500mm f6.3 camera lens and a stock Sony A6000 on a Star Adventurer.
Edited with Siril, then Starnet++, then Photoshop and some minor adjustments in Lightroom.
Feedback appreciated!
My first time trying to shoot the Horse Head nebula! I have a stock Sony a6000, which cuts out most of the hydrogen red signal, but thankfully enough got through to at least make this a solid attempt.
The data is about 45 minutes worth of 30 second exposures out of my Sony and a Ttartisan 500mm f6.3 lens, on a star tracker.
Due to the very limited total integration time and the stock camera I had to stretch pretty far while fending off artifacts here and there.
Overall I'll take it, will revisit in the future.
Feedback appreciated!
My 5th time trying to image a seemingly easy target with something being off... This time I must have nudged the lens out of focus slightly and there was some dew forming on the lens that I hadn't noticed. This hobby sure has a steep learning curve!
Still, decided to not throw away the whole attempt and did a quick processing. It's about 45 minutes worth of 30 sec exposures at 500mm f6.3.
Feedback appreciated!
63 x30 sec tracked, 10 of each calibration frames. Stock Sony A6000, ISO 1600. 500mm f8 ish with a ttartisan lens.
Feedback appreciated!
73x30 sec of the Orion nebula, with a stock Sony a6000 and a ttartisan 500mm f6.3 on a StarAdventurer.
Lens was wide open, which introduced lots of aberrations on the brightest stars. Will try stopping down next time. Also, focus wasn't perfect and I had some dew issues.
No calibration frames, either, I was just testing the lens for the first time.
Stacked in Siril, stretched in photoshop, final touches in Lightroom.
