Hello everyone my name is Sam Skirchak im a Astrophotographer from Pittsburgh Pennslyvania. Sharing my passion for the night sky ill will be showing you the equipment i use and doing some processing videos in Pixinsight. Also some unboxing videos and going live while im doing a night of imaging .
Great review... the L-Quad is now on my shopping list. Like your dry humor... like at 02:55 "this star kinda sucks." This is the real language of astrophotographers... almost like triathletes talking about challenging hills!
Yes you do you telescopes use multiple curved opticle elements such as mirrors or lenses to gather light or other electro magnetic radiation to bring that light or radiation to a focus where is can be veiwed and studied. (I think) the more lenses there are the closer and more focused it is far away and i think the light he was carrying around the telescope was drowning out the other light sources this (you) is another example of people on the internet not knowing what theyre talking about
You have the same taste as I as far as looking object natural stars blue and red See i don’t like when some people turning object only on HA because the filter
I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of the Seahorse nebula with a UV/IR cut filter, I didn't expect dark dust to be any different with a filter but it looks great!
I actually have just UV/IR data also on this target pretty similar results except the UVIR was shot at a Bortle 2. The L Quad data was Bortle 6. Thank you
I ordered the filter! Been a few weeks now - no clear nights yet.. looks like it's performing well of you getting some natural colours in the image and stars very nice.
Great video. You sold me on it with the seahorse nebula, a target I've been thinking of for a while. I tried without filters with my mono but the gradients left a result I wasn't entirely please with. Would you recommend this from bortle 3 skies on a dark nebula? I've just switched to OSC as I will be traveling to dark skies more and doing less narrowband from my light polluted skies.
Yeah i would definitely use it at a Bortle 3 I can't wait to travel to a Bortle 2 to also try it. When the sky's are nice and dark this filter does great at picking up details in the Nebulas and Galaxies or whatever target really good all around filter. I do have a Optolong L Ultimate filter but haven't touched it since using the L-Quad. Thank you clear skies
Great video Sam. Definitely makes a difference using this filter. One day I'll be able to do so too. Once I get myself a dedicated astro camera. We've got one (my son) the Player one Uranus C pro IMX 585. I used it on the Cone. But I forgot to put in the UV/IR cut filter he has. I've only have a CLS filter for my scope. Since my DSLR is astro modded. It's all I can use. Hopefully, it will clear up soon so you can get back out again. Clear Skies my friend!!!!!
My goodness, I'd love to be as good a post processer as yourself my friend! Your images are incredible! I too much much prefer the more natural look. I don't much like the Hubble Palette type images, and also those images where the colours are off the scale intense and very un-natural looking. That being said, I respect highly the skill and imagination of the creators of said types of images! I'm roughly 14 months into imaging, after many years visual Astro. I live in England, so in those 14 months, I'd say I've only averaged around 2 cloudless nights per month! In fact, during the last 7 months, because of the worst weather I've known since I ever started using telescopes for visual then imaging, in those 7 long months I've only had 4 cloudless night skies! Painful! lol. So my progress is really slow due to the aforementioned circumstances, unfortunately. Thanks for the great vid my friend! you have my subscription! Wes, Liverpool, England ( Bortle 7/8 )
Thank you I really appreciate that info have other videos showing my processing in Pixinsight. I will be having another video this week on processing form beginning to end
@@intergalacticastro Oh cool! I currently only have a Photoshop subscription, is Pixinsight also needed on top of PS? If yes, is it expensive? Thanks so much!
@@intergalacticastro ok so that'd probably be around £250 GBP. A lot of money, but I guess it will be worth the investment long term! I meant to also say, the reason I asked you the price rather than just googling and finding out for myself, was because I was doing that but getting confused about lots of different prices? So i figured it best to ask you instead seeing as you already own and use the software! Thanks so much for all your advice and help! Really sorry for such long winded questions and comments! Clear Skies, Wes.
@@wesleydonnelly2141 yes it is expensive but that was one of the reasons I bought this over Photoshop I didn't want to pay monthly I think overall Pixinsight was a better fit for me plus it is a very powerful software in my opinion it's better than Photoshop but I'm sure some people will disagree. Maybe if I used Photoshop i might think different. I plan on doing another processing video this weekend for beginners in Pixinsight clear skies my friend
I have a few videos on my RU-vid channel I'm in the process of making more also. Work flows in Pixinsight will be coming out but there's a few up know you can check out
My understanding is when you rotate (or crop) the image the message prompt indicates it would lose the astrometric data (therefore you will need to run the ImageSolve to get it back). I rotate/crop my image after running SPCC.
This is probably the third review I've seen about this filter, all praising it. I am currently shooting OSC from a suburban bortle 5/6 with either L-Pro or L-Extreme (depending on the moon phase). The Quad-band looks really interesting.
@@refetastro I don't use a filter. I have a UV IR cut filter built-in to the 2600 MC pro so that's the only thing I was using. Unless I was trying to pull HA and oxygen from a Galaxy or nebula I would use the L altimate and then extract the HA and add it to the image with no filter
@@intergalacticastro I don’t understand how IR cut filter is build in asi2600mc pro ( meaning we can’t remove it ) when we use to remove IR filters in dslr in order to get more Ha on nebulas On my asi585mc I add IR cut filter for planets When should I use IR cut filter on on deep sky objects
Excellent video and images I called night point telescope and they told me I don’t have to buy any filter because I’m at bortle 4-5 Would that be right ? The camera I’m going to use is asi2600mc pro . Thanks .
I only use a UV IR filter most of the time but after using the L-Quad I find it pulling a lot more fine details in the Nebulas and Galaxy's but every one has there owe methods some say these filters are pointless and others can't live without them. But I'm really liking it does a good job on natural star colors
@@intergalacticastro That was may main reason to avoid filter’s just because i didn’t want to loose any Star nature look As you explained this filter must be perfect for me.
@@refetastro I actually shot the Orion Nebula last night with the L-Quad so after I get home tonight I'll process it. But I also have 4 hours of Orion with just the UV IR so I'm going to compare them. But this filter seems to be the best filter so far for actually having a more natural star color look
I think you did a really good video, just needs a bit of tweaking to get the same polished look as Luko, Cuiv (read copy them) and alike, really enjoyed it as it was informative, well done!
Was it doing a fantastic job? lol! Great video. Really nice images. What scope were you using? I have a RASA 8 along with a C8 Edge and a C 9.25 with 6.3 reducer. I use a 533MM pro and a 183MC pro. I don’t have any of the optolong filters but was considering the new L Extreme F2 for my RASA. Just subscribed. Enjoyed the video.
Thank you I appreciate it. I use the Astro-Tech 115EDT refractor with asi2600mc pro. Yeah the L Extreme F2 is a good filter. I owed the regular L Extreme before getting the Optolong L Ultimate filter
Would love to see a compare to the Antlia Quadband Anti-Light Pollution Filter. Most tell me not use filters but in my testing as you also have shown it makes a big difference in a low Bortle site as well a high Bortle site using a Color Camera.
Yeah me too I used to rely just on integration time and dark skies and let Pixinsight be my light pollution filter with DBE but I'm really impressed with this Quad band filter it's not to aggressive it still preserves the natural star colors and does great on the fine details in objects
