Beautifully captured. Although I must say: This time it was a clear advantage to be farther north (Switzerland is at about 47 degrees). The spectacle was clearly visible with your naked eyes. But on camera it was just breathtaking, lasting at least for an hour.
@@AZ4Runner Looking at the aurora map from services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/aurora-forecast-northern-hemisphere.jpg for tonight it looks like there is a possibility. North is good!
Hi Jason, Yep, big improvement over the 12 years, and that's with the 2012 capture being pretty good to begin with! I love your observatory and thought about getting one here, but I am afraid of my super high humidity that everything would be covered with mildew. Let's see, 2012 ... you were just graduating from high school, right? Ha. That 2012 CCD OSC looked like a beast!
Ha, I ain't that young Pat.. I'm thinking of getting out the CCD and running it now that I have a better understanding of calibration frames and more post processing know how.
Just stopped before you reveal the finished picture. THIRTY NINE HOURS!! Are you out of your mind 🤣🤩?!! Already the details of these fine nebula-tube-like-shapes on the NINA-screens are insane! I don't have the patience (and computer) to get more than an hour, and even if I had my dslr, my mount, my dewshield or my sd-card would fail 😫😆! Still very happy with what I can capture keeping it simple. If there won't be another comment on the final image, then be sure I liked it so much that I fainted, fell of the chair, hurt my head and had to go to the emergency 😱😊
@@AZ4Runner I did not fall off the chair 😉. But the image is stunning, stopped the video at 31.16 and just couldn't stop looking at it. Love the framing with all the nebulosity in the left upper corner. But all the details in the nebula itself are so clear to see, I get the urge to try and touch it! Great job.
BEAUTIFUL images and very well presented, great job! If I had to choose one, it would still be the first one, the Orion Nebula. Everyone says it's an easy target, but it isn't if you want to get it right! You found the right balance between the very bright center stars and all the beautiful nebulosity and the best part in my opinion is the running man on top of it. Second would be the last one RHO bla bla, with that dark nebulosity beautifully captured as well. Thx for sharing 🤩!
Ahhh, neowise! It was such a treat! I had just gotten into astrophotography and this was such a great target. Although I had even less of a clue then now I still go back to these images with great pleasure. One even made into the local newspaper ☺!
WHOW!! What a difference! I already liked your first picture, but the new one, oh boy 🤩! Great job! I love sombrero, already the name is so intriguing, and its unique shape makes it a beautiful target. The amount of detail of the rim in your new image is just astounding. I took pictures of it with my dslr behind the NexStar 6SE and it's alt-az-mount 3 years ago. No comparison of course, but still blew me away what is possible with that simple setup! Thx for sharing.
Thanks Stefan! I wish I knew how to process Galaxies a little better. I really struggle with them. It is amazing what we can capture with some glass and mirrors when we point them up at night!
I think if I tried 3 minutes I might get to much Light Pollution from my backyard now, I was able to do much longer exposures back in 2012 for sure. I think my backyard was B3/4. but alas that time has gone.
Nice work Jason at least you’ve had clear skies , uk 🇬🇧 skies have been terrible for months now with maybe the very odd clear night, I’ve managed 2 nights in 4 months
Thanks Boaty, I feel your pain for sure. it is going to start getting real hot here and I'm probably going to bring the equipment in soon. 115 F in the shade is torture on astrogear. CS
Great video Jason! Your 2012 version is pretty good mate, but your latest image is excellent! Nice to see the equipment you were using from 12 years ago, and comparing it to today’s equipment! The gear is getting better all the time! 😀 Clear skies Jason!
I had so much thermal noise in the 2012 image. the camera was cooled but not regulated, I think when I started the imaging session it was 101F at 9pm. Agree that the gear is getting better all the time. CS
Great job Jason. Well it may have been 12 years before you got back to image it again but that's faster than me...... I haven't imaged M104 at all! Better get my act together
Lovely image mate I remember shooting this in 2015 with my 10" newtonian & modified DSLR at a star party in 2015 but it were pretty low down so after 3 subs I moved on to the needle galaxy but I did process the image anyway. Maybe I'll get back to it someday, clear skies!!!
Hi Jason, Interesting night in the desert. Great landscape final images and polar animation video. That was an awesome Falcon 9 video. I guess that was the first stage coming back to land. I'd be too scared to try being out in "Nowhere" by myself. I suppose the Glock supplied some assurance. .
thanks Pat. I'd much rather be out with a second person at least. The Falcon 9 launch was cool to see and yes the Glock made me feel a little safer. CS
Nice Photos Jason, Landscape Astrophotography is Addicting....Im going thru a Phase right now with it....I've learned how to Focus Stack and Composite which makes for an awesome photo...It is nice to just get out and relax under the stars....Clear Skies my Fellow Scorpion Bro...
Great shots, man! I like to use Stellarium to see what time the Milky Way will be high enough to shoot (there's an app for both Apple and Android). BTW, it's not the spiders and scorpions I have issues with, it's always the damn ants!
Excellent photos, especially for a first time out doing landscape. Glad to see you survived the night. And an awesome capture of the Falcon Rocket launch...... ah I mean,,,, curse you Starlink for ruining our images!!🤣.
Great video, Jason! MW Landscape pix are something I've set my sights on this year after previously only shooting the usual suspects (Orion, Andromeda...etc). I guess I think they just tell a better overall story than a deep sky object shot (for me, anyway). Alpha Scorpii looks like a great site! I usually go to Alamo Lake, but even there a lot of artificial light surrounds you (street lamps, trailer lights, constant car movements). Can anyone use the site? Best wishes...David.
We all had to learn at some time. I did the landscape milkyway before I started taking Astro. Have you thought about using an app called PhotoPills, It's great for milkyway photography.
Nice going Jason. Images look good. Landscape astrophotography is really cool to see. It's not all that easy however I believe. The dark location make it possible. Cs
The inages turned out great man, dont beat yourself up dude! Love the freedom UA shirt along with the glock! Also, i dont think that was a camel spider man. That was a human eating Spider!!! 😮
Cracking shots there mate much better than what I've managed to take of the Milky way, very cool to see the launch to just a pity its more junk us astro-photographers have to deal with when stacking lol. Clear skies
I'm hoping to break into astrophotography with landscape/milkway stuff. My plan is to get a t6i with a rokinon 14mm to take night scapes while i go out observing. My thinking is from there ill upgrade to a star tracker and a 135mm lens to start taking shots of some DSOs.
