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Bc0428

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  1. hello, i live in bortle 8 skies and i tried to photograph the milky way last night with an astronomik cls filter. this is what happened: this is one of the subs, 20 secs, iso 1600, f/4.0 i tried to stack 66 of them in sequator and this is what i got : although the milky way could be seen faintly, im not satisfied with the color balance at all. i tried to adjust the levels from photoshop(its still bluish, but im not familiar with it), re-stack in DSS(it didnt work at all, maybe due to the foreground?), lightroom(but the milky way didnt appear at all.). so the one above is the best i got. should i adjust the colour balance of each subs before stacking? any ways to batch-process all the subs? besides, it seems i couldnt further highlight the milky way, what am i missing? im very new to this, so please tell me any basics im missing, or any tutorials for milky way under heavy light pollution? also, any method to eliminate the blue cast? i followed a few tutorials and i still couldnt master it.
  2. Alright! One last thing, hope this isn’t a dumb question. Since I’m not sure how this guiding thing works, I don’t know how significant it is. Comparing a fair mount(star adventurer) with guiding and better mount(Cem25p) without guiding, which works better? it seems guiding is essential but is it a real game changer that even compensates for the inaccuracy of mount? Thanks!
  3. What if I replace the whole finder scope then? Any decent model will do?
  4. Any recommended guiding camera that is small and cheap which could be used on the c5 stock finder scope? I’m low on budget after buying a bunch of equipments at the same time...
  5. Emm... from what I know c5 should be only 6 pounds(~3kg), adding a DSLR and accessories should weigh less than 5 kg I guess.
  6. I’m not sure if it could handle my c5 even with a focal reducer, so I didn’t consider it it seems cem25p is capable of it, just like to know roughly how much time I got in each sub for a c5 with 0.63x reducer on cem25p?
  7. Absolutely gorgeous!!!😍 the eq3 doesn’t seem that poor after all I got very negative feedback about it from other forums... how short was these subs? Say 30 secs? I envy your bortle 5 skies... it should be challenging for my bortle 8 skies...
  8. I guess most awesome work is done by the experienced, so if the eq3 is not that newbie friendly(especially me and my c5), I might not achieve those quality very soon... so im looking for something more accurate. How about the cem25p? Is it good enough?
  9. Hello guys, I am new to this hobby and now considering to get a serious eq mount for some DSo photography. i ordered a c5 and its on its way, I also own a canon 70-300mm. I’m aware that c5 isn’t a good scope for DSo, but it should be able to get some decent results, I would be mostly using the 300mm lens and sometimes the c5. since I don’t have a car, I’m looking for a mount which is portable but accurate enough to track. I am considering the eq3 pro and cem25p, but some said it could only give acceptable results up to 600mm, so not suitable for c5? Is it also not that good? thanks in advance!
  10. I’m using eos r full frame just curious, I read other threads saying that multi band is less flexible, so why it’s still recommended instead of individual line filter on colour camera ?
  11. Thank you so much! do separate filters perform better than those allow multiple wavelength? I am struggling which to buy...
  12. Hello there, I’m new to this hobby. since I’m living under bortle 8 skies, and I would love to do some DSo photography, can it be done with a narrow band filter regardless the severe light pollution? It would be perfect if I could see the comparison that shows how effective the filter is. I saw some filter from STC is duo narrowband or multi spectra, is it better to buy them instead of filters with one wavelength only if I’m on low budget? Do they perform in the same way of single wavelength filter? Besides, I bought an astronomik cls filter recently, it allows me to take longer shots but the colour becomes bluish, what should be done in photoshop to correct the colour tone? I searched online but seems quite confusing. thanks a lot!
  13. Wow that saves a lot of money! But most low cost mount is not rigid and will be shaky for DSo photography, is this the case for Az gti? Is it a good mount in general? Thanks!
  14. I considered the c5 se package before. However as my ultimate target is to photograph Dso, isn’t better to have an eq Mount and telescope separately? I just don’t like to buy the mount together which might not be satisfying after I get familiar with
  15. Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it. i hope I’m not being foolish, as I think the exact opposite way.... I am thinking to buy the mount afterwards instead, I’m living in Hong Kong, notorious for its light pollution. It’s virtually impossible to capture a Milky Way, not to even mention DSo... so the most accessible objects should be planets, which I suppose it does not require a good mount to photograph? secondly is the budget. I understand the importance of a mount, which is even superior than a telescope. But with my budget, i could only buy some entry level which I was told that it takes you more time to set it up than shooting... so I was planning to buy a good mount when I’m sure I’m serious with this hobby, if not, I could still use the scope for other spotting does this make sense or am I being foolish?
  16. Thanks man... I think I got my answer perhaps upgrade all those equipments when I tried the c5 for planetary, there are much to invest for DSo...
  17. Thanks a lot!! i ordered an astronomik cls filter, do you think it works fine with a c5? Perhaps I could still photograph some of the bright DSo?
  18. Thanks a lot @Carbon Brush and @scitmon I’ve spent the past few years on landscape photography and I do enjoy every process of it, so I think i would enjoy AP as well after some practices. The thing that makes me struggle between the 2 scopes is that I find it controversial for c5’s aperture over many forums. Some said it’s perfect for planets and capable of some popular DSo while some said you could barely see DSo with it. the thing that z61 attracts me is it’s light gathering power, I could do some observation or photography even though it might be to wide for details.
  19. Thanks a lot! In your opinion, is planetary photography easier to get familiar with? Since I live in a severely light polluted city, Dso might be impossible to capture even with large aperture. Besides, I was planning to get a mount when I am much more familiar with this hobby (financial considerations), so it should not be a good idea to start with Dso... Since I couldn’t keep tracking Dso, can c5 do some decent Dso observing other than shooting planets?
  20. Hello guys! I’m new to astrophotography and I was wondering what to buy as my first telescope. I’d like to take photographs of planets mainly, and some DSo sometimes i initially thought of the Celestron c5, as it has a great focal length and not so bad aperture which could allow me to observe and photograph quite a number of objects. But then I read some forums saying that the aperture is much more important, and as I’m not planning to buy a guider at the moment, it seems that it could be difficult to track objects with the c5 manually due to its focal length. after a second thought, the William optics z61 came to my mind, it has great focal ratio and wide fov which might be easier to spot objects for newbie like me however, I guess it’s not suitable for planetary photography? And how superior than c5 it is in terms of Dso photography ? thanks a lot!
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