Stardust
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It's a start after the summer shut down. I'be been itching to try one of these lenses so bought I used to see how they are. This is the first test on an astrotrac mount. 10 x 120 second exposures on my regular Fuji Xt2 no calibration frames. Idas LP filter
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Astro Essentials Samyang Lens to M48 Adapter
Stardust replied to FLO's topic in Sponsor Announcements and Offers
this adaptor looks to solve a couple of problems, I don't have the lens but this makes it more versatile -
that should be very good indeed
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As an update on the 180 MAK I'm quite pleased with this 200 frame stack
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A 3 pane mosaic each or 65 frames Skymax 180 Fujifilm Xt2
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if dimmed the background and taken down the blue which i think looks better
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I agree that less stars would look better, i just grabbed the first one i had but i think i have more suitable ones. As a concept i think it adds a nice contextual background. The only time I have seen stars around the Moon was during an eclipse and we know they are there just cant see them. I will play a bit more with the technique, this was a first go.
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Full Moon from last night overlaid on a background star scape of mine. Not sure about this, first time i've tried it and I guess it's a marmite technique. Fuji Xt2 skymax 180, 6 pane mosaic
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thank you, might be a bit flat tonight
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thank you
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6 pane mosaic each of 250 frames with my fuji xt2 and skymax180
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Don't try this till you have a tracker, shorter focal lengths are more forgiving on tracking. A Pentax M135 f3.5 is pretty good and very cheap. you can then get a pentax to canon adaptor.
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Zoom lenses tend not to be that great for our purpose. You'd be better off with a prime lens. to give you an idea this shot was with an old M42 Zeiss 135mm f3.5 lens on a tracker mount and stacking frames. A Tamron 90mm macro f2.5 the older is a very flat field lens. You don't need autofocus and i'm sure there'll be a lot more lens recomendations..
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This is my best Hi res shot to date, taken with a skymax 180 zwo224 & 2.5x power mate 100 frames stacked
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A nice set of lunar high res images. Apr 4-5th 2020
Stardust replied to wouterdhoye's topic in Imaging - Lunar
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Come through nicely, I was on this last night just in HA
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superb hi res images
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cheers for that, looks like a hunt round at Astrofest could be in order
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thanks for all the feedback guys. I use the 2.5 & 5x powermates with my Lunar & planetary cams along the the Televue barlows at times. It's only going to be on the Moon with my Fujifilm XT2 so I'll look at prices but the ES might be enough for that set up. cheers David
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Wondering if anyone uses an explore scientific 2x 2" tele extender or powermate with a dslr? I have a cheap 2" 2x revelation barlow that works quite well. I thought I'd try a 2.5x powermate. Apart from the vignette I thought the lunar image was cleaner. This got me thinking that a 2" would be better. The explore one is more appealing on price.
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Sunday was clear so out with some scopes. This was with the omc140 and fuji xt2 camera. 2 panes each of 115 stacked video frames.
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Northern Lights Iceland
Stardust replied to Adam1234's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
We went 3 years ago and didn't see the lights. Very stormy weather. -
it was a couple of hour window in the clouds, normally its what you had.
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I did make a change to be clear for an event
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My shot of the eclispe with a Skymax 127 Fuji Xt2 2 panes each of 200 frames stacked
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