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oh my goodness, Love a good galaxy shot and this is most certainly that. 

6 hours ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Not Mylar film which is obtainable in various forms. Baader AstroSolar film is designed for solar observing. Baader AstroSolar Safety Film ND 5.0 | First Light Optics . For solar imaging only use AstroSolar Photo Film OD 3.8 | First Light Optics . 

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My bad, totally missed the Solar threads. 

Thanks for the help. 

I feel like this is something that you never really see many threads on but is something I would love to have a go at at some point. Does anyone have any good advice for doing this? What kinda filters might I be looking at?

I don't know I'd still say that's pretty cool!

I would be more than reasonably happy with it, its great!

That first image is captivating. What time of day did you take them? 

I would be super happy with these images!

well that's lovely. kinda makes me want to have a go at sketching a planet

That is a good first image! 

Everyone has added some really good things to think about so I'll add something a bit different. I think before you start AP you kinda think "ah, I can take images with my camera so I can do space right?" but there are so many factors to take into account that will only come with just practice and a hell of a lot of patience. Try not to compare images too much with other peoples are every one has a different idea on what and why they like to capture images/how long they have been taking astro images and what their equipment is. 

Get used to checking the weather all the time, haha.

That image looks amazing! I would 100% like to see the finished result on that.

Starnet++ is so good, when I first tried it did find that I had some issues but that was mainly down to not having the files named all the same things when trying to use the software but once you get the hang of it its super easy and also super fun to see nebula images without stars as it just creates a whole different image.

On 02/03/2024 at 18:26, ollypenrice said:

If they work, they're good. If they don't, they're bad. When you take an astrophoto and apply them, do you see the defects seen in the first two flats. (ie slight vignetting, severe dark dust bunnies on the left, smaller ones near the centre and dark spots most notably near the centre?)  The small dark spots may not disappear because the source must be close to the sensor and little signal may be getting past them.

What are we looking at in the third image? I don't know this software.

Olly

I very much used to do this in thinking if the flats were "right or not" but definitely went on the thing if they work then they must be doing alright. 

Sadly I don't quite have anything to add in terms of what it might be but it does looks pretty cool.

The chance to do astrophotography. I recently moved from nice bortle 4 skies and into a flat close to the centre of Bristol. Its sad, the amount of light pollution does not fill me with joy.