astrophotography

Hello everyone!! It's been a long time. I have continued to observe and image with my tremendously satisfying 12" Dob. I am still experimenting with Deep Sky astrophotography on a fun and casual basis. But with the Planets once again rising into view, it's time for me to get serious. What has...

A new one for me, the Orion Nebula! When I got my Dob last year, I knew this would be one that I would want to photograph. It is big, bright, and colorful. As a result it is an easier target for someone like me who is operating outside of what my focus normally is (planetary astrophotography...

I think I'm starting to understand how to get the Seestar to find the moon during daylight and how to adjust the exposure to avoid blowing out highlights. In the meantime, here's a shot from the other night, a one minute video that I put through Autostakkert4 and Astrosurface before sending into...

I am sure I'll pay for it later, but there has been a nice string of cloudless nights lately here in Oamaru, so I have made the most of it. Last night I had the 8" SCT going for a few targets, but for reasons I cannot discern I could not connect to it while the session was going so when I woke...

Sorry for my long silence--between a short trip around the South Island in late July, and guests at the lodge in August, I have been a bit distracted. But I have been keeping the telescope and cameras busy, including attempting my first multi-panel mosaic of this target, the darkest dust clouds...

You know how sometimes you're surprised by a clear night and find that you hadn't planned out what you might photograph if the conditions were to permit? Well, that happened to me the other night. It was a spectacularly clear day all day, and predictions were for cloud to roll in that evening...

During the lunar eclipse of November 2022, I was lucky enough to have no guests at the lodge we run in Oamaru, New Zealand, and to have a perfectly clear night ideal for a night of shooting. I even had the perfect spot from which to shoot the scene--a newly poured foundation for the house we're...

Back in June of 2022 we had a string of clear nights over Oamaru, New Zealand, and I was able to train my telescope on this southern target, which is relatively challenging to process. I'm quite new at this, so any tips would be welcome! Svbony 80mm refractor ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro Pixinsight and...

Hi all, I apologise for not being active for a while, I have been super busy with life duties! This is a composite containing my pics I shot of last week's Lunar Eclipse. I had to battle the clouds constantly and it took me all of yesterday to get it to where it is now; I am very proud with...

Messier 42 and IC 434: The Orion and Horsehead Nebulae Managed to snap these iconic duo on the night of the 25th of March. I'm glad I used my Canon 6Da to bring out the hidden Ha wavelengths in the Horsehead! Stars are trailing slightly because my polar alignment wasn't super accurate but it...

Hi guys! My name is Zak and I have autism and a mad passion for astrophotography. I shoot astrophotography with my second hand astro-modified 6D and my collection of lenses and sometimes my telescope (Celestron NexStar 6SE, used only for planets; I also have a Radian Raptor 61 but I have yet...

I went out a few weeks ago to capture some Deep Space photography. It was a night I have already mentioned that was very windy, and it was a bit hard at first to get shots without the wind blowing the tripod and camera around and turning every star into a squiggle. As I was checking my polar...

From 2 weeks ago in Joshua Tree National Park which has Bortle 3 skies where I was shooting from. This one is called Cat's Paw Nebula, and it does kind of represent a cat's paw, so I found it pretty cool. Now this is one that I had thought I wouldn't be able to capture do to it not being among...

This is a rework of an earlier shot, and one where I cropped in more to get closer to the Lagoon Nebula and not show so much of the area around it. I really need to be able to get out and shoot new images, but reworking some of them again has been fruitful. Nikon D850 Tamron 150-600mm @ 420mm...

Attempted this last year but the tide was high so was not able to get close to the rock; perfect conditions this time around The Dolphin and the Stars by Tony, on Flickr Quite happy with the amount of Milky Way detail I was able to extract from Bortle 4 light pollution

This is one from almost 4 weeks ago that I took out in Joshua Tree National Park, it's the Antares Region. I had shot it previously and liked what I got, but it's one I wanted to try again. There is a lot of trial and error still with the processing, but to an extent with the shooting too as I...

This is the California Nebula, if you rotate it in your mind, you can see how they came up with this name. I am including 2 more images for those who just might be a little curious. The first is the Stacked image coming out of the DeepSkyStacker program that is a Freeware program for Astro...

Hi everyone first post here, thanks to Sunny Sra for introducing me to this forum. This is my first deep sky imaging session in more than 4 months; with the bushfires and now rain/storm here in Australia clear skies are hard to come by. Did manage to get a bit last couple days though and was...

Here's one I took during the last new moon cycle in Joshua Tree. This is the first time I attempted to take two exposers and blend them. I used the built in astro tracer in my Pentax K1 to track the sky. The tracker allowed for a 90 second exposer at ISO 800. Then took a second image for the...