StarDuke82

I spent the better part of June not using my rig because of clouds and rain, maybe got 3 nights out of the whole month and July wasn’t much better. Luckily it’s August now and now it’s nearly August and the forecast for the next week is clear skies and it usually stays that way until October here 🤞🏻

I’ve never been much of a sleeper ever since I was a child, I would be up till 3-4 am in the morning sleep maybe 2-3 hours and be awake all day. It continues to this very day I am lucky if I get 4 hours of sleep a night. But I usually go out observing from sunset until about 11pm go inside take a nap for 2 hours then wake up again and view my early morning targets and go back inside at sunrise and take another nap for 2 or 3 hours or sometimes go straight into editing images and don’t take a nap until lunch. Sometimes when I do this I get so exhausted and have such eye strain that I can’t go out observing the following night and have to a night of rest. When I am that tired floaters and blurry vision makes it difficult if not impossible to see through a eyepiece.

Did some more editing in LightRoom for this one

@paulastro just my thoughts on it and a guess but I would think like everything else Celestron makes app or tech wise there would be a firmware update to either obtain a new code or transfer the old code onto a new device after the limit if there is one.

Was out imaging Jupiter and Saturn early this morning when I noticed M31 Andromeda was pretty close to Zenith so I had to make an attempt. M31 4:42am from my Bortle 6/7 skies, 24 mm Baader Hyperion EP shot with iPhone 13 Pro shot with Astroshader app: 11 exposures, Exposure time 1 sec, Exposure gain 70, Iso 4400, White Balance 4000. I think the raw Astroshader images (top two) look a bit better than what I did in LightRoom but that may just be me.

Lovely view of the ever narrowing crescent Venus early Saturday evening around 7:42 pm no filter on this early shot as can be seen from the reflecting glare from the setting sun, 9.25 Celestron Nexstar Evo, Badder Hyperion Mark IV zoom set on 8mm.

I’m at a Bortle 6-7 Zone I can just barely see Polaris and a few hundred of the brightest stars from my backyard on a typical night.

@Richard I really just got into Astrophotography myself but most apps on Iphone do stack automatically, however the easiest way on an iPhone is to use Live Camera Mode, you can then edit the photos and go through the individual images that were stacked together to make the best image for what you’re imaging, this works in video as well and you can go through the individual frames and separate out the best and then stack those with other Apps available in the App Store, Video Stack for instance lets you take 5 second videos or frames of video no longer than 5 seconds edited together and stack them to make a single image. of course there’s apps that do this for you, the photos I took are actually not stacked but just the best images I got from several different shots I probably could have stacked them and cleaned up the images of M13 and M12 a lot better at the moment I am just happy with having images that are recognizable for what they are after trying for quite some time.

@PeterStudz I here’s my latest attempts M57, M13, and M12 used Lightroom after taking the photos with Astroshader got much better results with the post processing.

The two are interrelated and a lot of new scopes are controlled via devices. Besides that I go to an Optometrist every year and other than being near sighted with an astigmatism and having 42 years on my odometer my vision is fine. As for Speculation, I don’t think it’s Speculation when I post links to research and recent articles about the subject, even Harvard changed some of their ideas on Blue light and its well known the effects of devices and LED and Fluorescent lighting causing eye strain, blurred vision, headaches and sleep deprivation supported by several studies from over the last few years from several reputable researchers. I was just trying to start a conversation about the subject. Even my more extreme claims in my opening statement haven’t been disproven because the data is contradictory, diseases like heart disease, diabetes and obesity may be more of a concern but I for one consider my vision very important and would like to know if there is a risk even if it’s just minimal.

What eyepiece are you using? I it’s like a stock eyepiece (one that came with the telescope when you bought it) depending on what type it is sometimes they can provide a good visual but be impossible to take a photo through. If it’s not that try adjusting the distance of the camera from the eyepiece and also adjusting the exposure it looks like both of those are possibly off, though I would adjust your exposure settings first and then adjust the backfocus

True but it’s kind of hard when you’re using a Device to control your telescope and setup, and then process images if you do photography. I keep mine on low brightness most of the time and set all my indoor lights on timers to go red at night it’s one of the safest and least harsh colors on your eyes and preserve your night adapted eyesight if you have to go inside for anything.

I guess you’ve never read up on Flash Blindness it’s rare but it can happen and be caused by photography, nuclear explosions, landing lights, lasers, UV lights ect… I’m not trying to argue with you but I also know that is an actual issue, if I didn’t have concerns or have problems with my own eyesight occasionally I wouldn’t have even thought about bringing it up. I hate it when I have nights that I have to step away from my scope because I just can’t see anything because the view through my scope looks pixelated. Then there’s nights when either my pupils are so strained they constrict to where I can’t see or it’s hitting a blind spot on my retina I can’t figure out which; but if anyone else has experienced something like this I would think there’s some kind of connection and the only thing I can think of is I have LED’s everywhere and I constantly use a Device. Going on that I did some research and decided to make a post to start a discussion. I didn’t think I was going to have to give a dissertation and cite sources just a friendly discussion but you made it interesting.

It is Sad and interesting she did survive, and she’s the only person according to the Smithsonian Archives to be hit by a Meteorite other people have been indirectly hit by space debris after impacts but noone has ever been directly hit by one again by scientific standards. Also contrary to online sources mostly based on old historical accounts that may have been exaggerated or misinterpreted no one has ever been killed by a meteorite in our recent history.

Yes that happened in Peekskill Colorado to a Chevy Malibu