Anakin Skywalker

welcome to SGL!

Just now, Anakin Skywalker said:

man you literally have chunks of history on your hands. thats a BIG COLLECTION😃

guess the saying was true

"Ad Astra per Aspera..." - A rough road leads to the stars.

No truer words. Remembering the Apollo 1 astronauts. You are remembered as heroes for ever

man you literally have chunks of history on your hands. thats a BIG COLLECTION😃

Hi Dumbo!,

You remind me of myself a few years back. I started off with a Kson 80mm Newtonian Reflector and your images looked the same as my first shots. I tooke my first moon shots holding a galaxy s10 tablet with my shaking hands to the eyepiece of the telescope hoping that it would miss the glare of the moon and get a good pic of the surface. I now use a nikon d3500 dslr for astrophotography and a universal smartphone adaptor for casual imaging. You should consider getting one of these cuz they are easy to use and produce good results.

Here is one of my first moon shots that i took a few years back  with my Kson 80 mm Newtonian Reflector with a 25mm eyepiece attached

 at full moon, and i tweaked it a little to how more detail. Happy stargazing and May the Force be with you!

2 minutes ago, Anakin Skywalker said:

Your welcome! happy stargazing!🔭

And May The Force be With you!👊

On 12/02/2020 at 07:04, IamLost said:

Thanks for the info

Your welcome! happy stargazing!🔭

I had the same issues when i first bought my Nikon D3500 for astrophotography. I had no idea how to connect the DSLR to my Nexstar 6SE so i watched a few Youtube videos of how to do it and i found two ways to attach the camera. 

1. Attach the T-ring to the camera and attach the Barlow lens onto it by screwingit into the T-ring (using its built in ridges) and inserting it into the star diagonal on the  telescope like a normal lens.

2. Attach the DSLR and T-adaptor directly onto the back of the telescope body using the tube of the telescope as a giant lens for the camera

try watching this

Awesome start to astro imaging! my first ones were no near as cool as yours. Welcome to the hobby😃

Welcome Claire to SGL! Have fun😀

That looks really great and you've managed to capture great detail. I did a similar pic back in 2018. I took the image in polluted skies with extremely challenging tropical weather using my Celestron Nexstar 6SE and a Samung Galaxy J7 Max attached through smartphone adaptor to the 25mm lens.i think that white bit on the top might be polar ice caps? cant wait for this year's mars😀

Wish i could do that! awesome capture well done😁

2 hours ago, bottletopburly said:

Registax is for creating an image from a movie file , you need Deepskystacker or Siril and use the scripts to make it simple 

Ok thanks i'll try that!😀

Wow that pic looks great!😀 especially all the detail you've managed to capture. I still can't figure out how to stack images in Registax because i'm fairly new to it so any advice of how to process images would be great. This is one of my other attempts to capture M42 with highly polluted skies. It was a challenge to get detail but with some tweaking i managed to get some detail

May the force be with you.

Ya i noticed that!🤣. Will do thanks!

May the force be with you

8 hours ago, bottletopburly said:

For the Nikon D5300 the recommended iso is 200  for best dynamic range it is an iso invariant camera using a higher iso only introduces  noise , processing will uncover the hidden beauty of your image , I’m using D5300 👍 not sure on exposure as I’m guiding on an Equatorial others may give better advice if you say what mount your using and if your guiding or not I’m assuming you aren’t , also calibration frames will help too darks and flats .

Thanks. I've been trying to find a way to reduce noise without having to over expose the images. BTW i use the computerized Goto mount which came with the telescope. Sometimes it gets really hard to get it to accurately track an object but i manage okay i guess. That's why some stars are showing trails here and there😁. I took several images using different settings but  still dont know which ones are the best for my Nikon D3500. Anyway thanks 4 the advice!

May the force be with you!

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This pic was one of many i tried using different settings

10 hours ago, Anakin Skywalker said:

Hey guys!,

I'm pretty sure that anyone who has a decent telescope and a good camera will not be disappointed by M42(also BTW imma newbie and hey everybody!). I have a Celestron Nexstar 6SE Schmidt Cassegrain telescope and a a Nikon D3500 DSLR which i bought for astrophotography. I took some pics last nigjht of the orion nebula using an ISO setting of 12800 and an exposure of time of 1.6". I think it came out pretty great even tho its kinda pixellated.  i tweaked it a bit using Registax 6 but honestly im still tryin to figure it out! Any advice of what are the best setting for the camera for photographing M42 and how to process the images using Registax 6 would be really appreciated!Processed Orion nebula3.bmp

May the force be with you!😀Processed Orion nebula3.bmp

M42 GREAT ORION NEBULA

Telescope - Celestron Nexstar 6SE

Camera - Nikon D3500

ISO - 12800

Exposure time - 1.6"

Hey guys!,

I'm pretty sure that anyone who has a decent telescope and a good camera will not be disappointed by M42(also BTW imma newbie and hey everybody!). I have a Celestron Nexstar 6SE Schmidt Cassegrain telescope and a a Nikon D3500 DSLR which i bought for astrophotography. I took some pics last nigjht of the orion nebula using an ISO setting of 12800 and an exposure of time of 1.6". I think it came out pretty great even tho its kinda pixellated.  i tweaked it a bit using Registax 6 but honestly im still tryin to figure it out! Any advice of what are the best setting for the camera for photographing M42 and how to process the images using Registax 6 would be really appreciated!Processed Orion nebula3.bmp

May the force be with you!😀Processed Orion nebula3.bmp