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My word look at them!
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That's some comeback! Congrats!
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On 05/04/2017 at 23:22, ChargeNut said:
if anyone wants to try them out, please let me know!
That's so generous of you! I'm new to SGL so I don't know if there's a special place to discuss 3D printed astro gubbins but there should be. At the moment buying a 3d printer is off the cards for me...maybe someone would want to set up a service for 3d printing things for astronomers! Sure they could make a good few pennies...
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If I were to say I wasn't just posting this to get away from being called a vacuum, what would that make me?
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North America Nebula. First stab with Star Adventurer.
in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
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Hi all, (whoa it's been ages since i've been here. 👋)
This is my first stab a tracking and stacking using a Star Adventurer, or anything in fact. I've never tracked and stacked before. I'm using a Fuji X-T2 mirrorless camera with an adapted vintage Pentax Super Takumar 200mm/f4 at f5.6. ISO 2500. Happy enough with star shape (apart from the aperture blade spikes) so I think my polar alignment is ok. Used a 5litre bottle of water to weigh down the tripod.
Bortle 4/5 back garden, Moon not yet risen. 15 lights at 165s, 10 darks and 10 flats. (Flats shot by holding the camera to a white screen on my phone). Stacked with DSS and processed in PS using Astronomy Tools Action set using AstroBackyard's methods here. Transparency wasn't the best, i think I was shooting through think cloud most of the time.
To be honest I'm not delighted with it:
What I think I need to do to improve it:
Does this make sense? Any further advice on improvements i could make would be hugely appreciated. (I'm a budget astrophotographer if you hadn't guessed)
Thanks all!