Elbasso

Received the ridiculously expensive L-Ultimate today and matching filter drawer. I sincerely hope my nebula images will improve ridiculously much as well 🤣

There's a massive difference in quality when moving from a zoom kit lens to an actual scope. As already mentioned, go for something with ED glass and a good focuser. The 72ED might be a bit heavy for the mount as you'll also need a field flattener. A 60/65 doublet or triplet will work but will only give you a bit more focal length. That said, you'll be amazed how good things will look, even if you need to crop your pictures a lot. Dithering (during capturing) and drizzling (during preprocessing) will help a lot in this scenario.

Hi from København

My attempt at the rather small (in my FoV) M 101: TS-Optics 60ED (360mm), AZ-GTI with 120mm guide scope No filters, standard (unmodified) Canon EOS800D Two nights (May 12+13th), 112x 120s, ISO 800 Stacked, drizzled and processed with Siril, finalized with Photoshop

I was quite happy how M 51 turned out, given the modest specs of the gear and software used: TS-Optics 60ED (360mm), AZ-GTI with 120mm guide scope No filters, standard (unmodified) Canon EOS800D Single night (April 21st), 57x 150s, ISO 800 Stacked, cropped and processed with Siril, finalized with Photoshop

That's a very nice image Paul. Could you share a few details around the gear and settings used? Cheers! Bastiaan

Just received 2 packages within the same hour 🙂 Happy days.

That's a fairly dramatic improvement. Amazing photo! Also a fairly significant improvement in gear and software 🙂

My first ever Horsehead attempt. - AZ-GTI in EQ mode, TS-Optics PhotoLine 60 mm f/6 FPL53 Apo, no Flattener, Canon EOS 800D (unmodded) - 58 x 60s, including calibration frames - Pre-processed in Siril 1.2, finalized with Photoshop.

Dang it. That's not cool. I also have 5 cables hanging around and expect something to go wrong at some point.... If only myself tripping over the cables in the night when I re-position my mount if my house gets in the way of a new target. Think the Pegasus is a cool addition to any set-up though. They're just so friggin' expensive.

That is really nice 🙂 I'm jealous as I was up most of the (very clear) night from Sunday to Monday here in Denmark and saw no northern lights 😞 Ah well, all the more reason to book a trip to he far North!

Fear not. I think that everyone who has taken up this hobby was totally overwhelmed at first. YouTube and this site are your friend. I'm positive you'll master the basics before you know it. Welcome!

Very cool. I was literally just looking at my moon pictures from last year and thinking it's time to give it another go. Now I'm certainly going to do that to check if I can spot the impact.

That's one awesome image! And as others mentioned as well, haven't seen this target before. Not sure I'll ever be able to afford a RASA rig myself but one can dream (and in the mean time enjoy these incredible images).

I almost exclusively do deep space AP so GOTO is more or less mandatory.