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Great video! When i shoot the iss,the solar panels on the side, they always are dimmer than the main part and when i expose the iss correctly the panels are barely visible
Subscribed! Cool video man! I'm just a beginner in astrophotography and I'm learning so much stuff. Unfortunately in my country it is cloudy last 3 weeks haha I just got my new telescope but I can not test it yet 😅 🙃
Good to see you back on here and glad you got to see it! That was my second one, and I may have to to take a trip to see one before the 2045 eclipse coming through this way. That’s a long ass wait!
Let's go Matt! The anticipation before these events and all the planning is what makes it such a great experience. Good vibes all around, I'm glad you managed a successful eclipse run my dude.
Congratulations Matt. I enjoyed your video immensely. We were going to drive to Hill Country but stayed in Colorado Springs because of the weather forecast. Now I wished we had gone. How did your Coronado solar scope do?
New to astrophotography............super video and very helpful............am I correct in assuming that to get images to edit for a "mineral moon" they have to be taken with a standard camera that shoots in RAW, and not a dedicated astro camera that saves the images as .fit files?
I don’t personally have experience with .FIT files, but if they are uncompressed and you can convert to TIFF, then you SHOULD be able to follow from there. But I’m just guessing.
This was helpfull. I'm a Newbe and wondering how insertion of the ADC affects the back-focus setup. On the C6" the back focus is 5" or 127mm beond the Visual Back. Doen't the ADC move the camera beyond that perfect focal point?
For planetary or Lunar imaging it shouldn’t matter. Assuming its a standard SCT and not the Edge HD version. Then I believe it matters due to the field flattener.
Seeing you sweating makes me glad I don't live in Alabama anymore. But then I remembered that time I bought a new camera and briefly got confused into thinking it was a cooled model because the sensor was reading -10C. Nope, just that cold out here! The camera loves it, the astronomer not so much.
Nice video bud, I've had my c11 out a few times up here in Ohio. I've never seen raw detail like that in my scope. I have the zwo 533 now and haven't had a chance to use. I'm hoping its my bortle 4-5 seeing.
Just came back to revisit this video. This is exactly what I needed to watch tonight! Absolutely love the dynamic between you and your dad! This video is such an important reminder of what truly is important in life!
Wow Matt that was an awesome tutorial! There is a lot of steps from the raw image to the final shot however it is worth the work that went into this amazing photo of the Moon!
Correctly collimated SCT stays this way for long time. Approach shown here is not optimal. If mirror flop so substantial that scope loose collimation, that can be detected by eye, then scope has to be fixed or rid of.
Thank you so much for this video! I have a quick question. My images with a 9.25" SCT don´t come out of Autostakkert looking as clear as yours and the details/edges needed for the alignment only become sharp enough as soon as I process the image in Registaxx. So can I just process them in Registaxx first and then import into WinJupos or am I doing something wrong at this point? haha.
