Adam1234

Looking good! Helluva lot of stars!

Lovely image!

Thanks!

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing yours!

My rendition of the Western Veil Nebula in bicolour HOO imaged over 4 nights between 10 - 18th August. This is my first deep sky target since April, owing to the lack of darkness during the summer, and the general lack of clear skies. 5 hours each of Ha and Oiii (300s subs) at gain 200. Equipment as per my signature. I'm hoping at some point to image the rest of the Veil and make a mosaic, but that may be some way off yet. Western Veil Nebula2_Tiff.tif Adam

Sure. I used ISO 1600 and 30s exposure.

Thanks! For the foreground I used one of the single images from the run, added it as a new layer in Photoshop, and then (very carefully) masked out the sky. I didn't need to take a longer exposure for the foreground as I had sufficient light from the fishing trawler and cars coming in and out of the carpark! ISO probably depends alot on other factors such as light pollution, your exposure time, whether you're tracking etc. If you're tracking for example you can do longer exposure so may not need a high ISO so 800 or 1600 would probably be ok. If you're on a static tripod you would be limited to shorter exposure so you would need to up ISO. I usually do some test images of different ISO and exposure to see what works best for that night. ISO 1600 and 30s exposure is probably a good starting point.

The Samyang is a good choice. Here's some images of the Milky Way I recently took with mine https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/383631-milky-way-in-cornwall/?tab=comments#comment-4148109 I would definitely recommend the ball head. @900SLI would also be interested in how to check if the Samyang is de-centered or has optical issues

First one looks lovely. Shame about the helicopters though! A lot of mine were ruined by the trawler boat moving closer and closer towards the Milkyway and cars that kept coming past.

Nice job

Thanks! Have you posted your images? I couldn't find them. Me too, I was surprised, it was the only clear night we had while there!

Some Milky Way images from Pendennis Point in Falmouth. Probably not the best location, it was a little dodgy...seems like the local meet up point... Taken with Canon 2000d, Samyang 14mm f2.8 and Star Adventurer 2i The first and second images are a stack of 5 images (stacked in sequator) and I think the 3rd was a single image. The foreground was not very easy to add back into the stacked images, especially with the fishing trawler with that kept moving around, but I think (hope) I've done a fair job. Adam

Well done Zummerzet_leveller and DaveW, superb images, well deserved

Very nice

Thanks!

Saturn and Jupiter imaged from my back garden using SkyWatcher 250px dob, 2x barlow and asi120mc. 3 videos each of 3min (Saturn) and 1min (Jupiter), stacked in AutoStakkert, sharpened in Registax 6, winjupos, final processing in photoshop

Incredible

Thank you Simon, I will check that one out!

Loving the images taken with this lens and the mounting solutions. I don't have the 135mm lens but I have the Samyang 14mm that I'm hoping to use with the ASI120MC - does anyone know of any ring mountings that would fit the 14mm?

Thank you Pete

Thanks!

Thanks mate! Yeah it's the EOS EF fit so that looks perfect. I'll check out that thread to see what other people have done for mounting. Out of interest do you know the physical size difference between the 135mm and 14mm? Cheers

I'm thinking of using my ASI120mc camera with my Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens - what adapter would I need to use? Also, how would I attach to the mount?

Thanks Paul, I was over the moon with it! Especially as I wasn't actually expecting much that night, seeing as when we set off there was a giant wall of cloud over the New Forest and I was expecting to just sit and drink hot chocolate while looking at the clouds, but it fortunately started to clear up about 11ish. It was also the first image with the Samyang too. Some of the stars aren't so great when you pixel peep, but it's probably because I only did a very rough polar alignment as I couldn't see Polaris due to clouds at the time, and also I didn't fine tune the focus, I just set it straight at infinity. Considering all that, I am very happy with the image. We're going to Cornwall week after next for mini-moon so hopefully we get a clear sky and a chance for some for Milky Way images 😀

My first entry to an SGL challenge: Milky Way and a Perseid. Captured 13th Aug 2021 from the New Forest, using Canon 2000d, Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens, at ISO1600. Stack of 84 x 30s tracked exposures. In the space of an hour we saw about 15 - 20 meteors, about 5 of which passed through the FOV, with this one being the brightest and distinguishable from all the satellites. Adam