The 30 Minute Challenge

[Helen]

Great idea. I decided that I enjoyed taking images of great objects more than taking a great image of a single object so have done quite a lot of 1 hour max shots. I'll post some when I'm back at my pc :-)

Helen

[RikM]

Here are two from a couple of years ago with a Canon 1000D on Explorer 150P.

3x 5min

[Stevie P]

Great idea. I decided that I enjoyed taking images of great objects more than taking a great image of a single object so have done quite a lot of 1 hour max shots. I'll post some when I'm back at my pc :-)

Helen

Well done Helen, thanks for getting involved..

[Stevie P]

Well done rick all within the "time limit"..

[Stevie P]

Another offering:-

M13

30 x 60s Lights

15 Darks

No Flats

No Bias

Amp Glow top LH corner....

[Velvet]

sorry i cannot set up in 30 mins never mind get an image

[hobsey]

Looking forward to having a go at this with the new mount.

Never done astrophotography before so this seems like a reasonable length of time to start with before going into hours.

[Stevie P]

sorry i cannot set up in 30 mins never mind get an image

Get in there and have a go only limitation is no more than 30 mins total lights...

[Hawkeye]

So can we just confirm the 'rules' ....

Is it a maximum of 30 minutes of lights, or is it 30 minutes total time including setting up, taking lights, darks, flats etc?

Cheers

Paul

[PhotoGav]

It's 30 minutes of exposure time, ie total lights.

30 minutes total time would have me almost polar aligned....!

[davew]

What a great idea for a cloudy night. Again !

This is one 30 minute sub frame. I hope you can recognise it ?

As a further laugh I decided on less than 30 minutes processing with no darks, flats or bias. I hope that's in the spirit of the game

Moravian G2 8300 and 250mm camera lens with 5nm Ha filter.

Dave.

[wxsatuser]

Nice NGC 1499 Dave.

[Stevie P]

So can we just confirm the 'rules' ....

Is it a maximum of 30 minutes of lights, or is it 30 minutes total time including setting up, taking lights, darks, flats etc?

Cheers

Paul

The " rules" are 30 mins of lights... Everything else can take as long as needed .. I wouldn't even get my gear outside in 30 mins... Lol

[Hawkeye]

That's great because as many others have said I wouldn't have got anywhere near set up within the 30 minutes.

Now all I need is to find a gap in the clouds that long :-)

[Stevie P]

That's great because as many others have said I wouldn't have got anywhere near set up within the 30 minutes.

Now all I need is to find a gap in the clouds that long :-)

Good luck with that... Misty as you like here tonight..

[frugal]

The only time I have seen the stars at all in the last week was yesterday morning at 6am as I got in the car to go to work. Grrrrr...

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[Hawkeye]

Good luck with that... Misty as you like here tonight..

Chances are that when it is clear for you it will be clear for me too..

So that will be when we are not at home or busy doing other things!

[jambouk]

Well, I said I wouldn't do this, but I thought what the heck. I'm not a DSO imager, I've got a long focal length scope, I'm not guided (limited to 120 second subs at the most), I didn't use flats, or darks, I don't understand Photoshop, and I'm ginger, so go easy on me.... But here is my 30 minutes worth of data from last night of M76;

Canon 6D, 120 second subs, ISO 6400 (yes I whacked it up), on a 180 Mak.

James

[davew]

Well, I said I wouldn't do this, but I thought what the heck. I'm not a DSO imager, I've got a long focal length scope, I'm not guided (limited to 120 second subs at the most), I didn't use flats, or darks, I don't understand Photoshop, and I'm ginger, so go easy on me.... But here is my 30 minutes worth of data from last night of M76;

I'm always impressed with what others can manage with hardly any exposure time.

The way I look at it is this..... You could do what I do easily enough, but I can't do what you do,

Dave.

[jambouk]

I need to declare that it seems I cheated. I didn't include set up time! Sorry.

[Dave_D]

Dumbell Nebula

8 x 30second lights

[Stevie P]

I need to declare that it seems I cheated. I didn't include set up time! Sorry.

take as long as needed to set up......

[PorkyB]

Go on then, most of mine are 30 minutes or less.  What about the Running Man

NGC1977 Running Man by porkyb, on Flickr

Canon 1100D, Skywatcher 130PDS f/5 reflector, Skywatcher Coma Corrector, EQ5 RA-driven mount, 25x60 seconds + darks, ISO 800, processed with Deep Sky Stacker and GIMP

[Scott]

I need to declare that it seems I cheated. I didn't include set up time! Sorry.

you haven't cheated...set-up time is free...only the lights are restricted.  nice effort

[jambouk]

Some lovely images here. I suspect there are lots of people who do a bit of imaging but never want to reveal their efforts as they feel they are too "amateurish" compared with some of the great work on here; i like the fact this thread give those people an opportunity [excuse] to show what wonderful stuff is being doing.

James