Nice pic and video mate. When we can travel again you need to come to Australia. Antares goes right overhead here. I've just ordered an Askar, keen to see what else you do with the little scope 👍
This is my first ever deep sky target with a Nikon Z7 2 and a 200 mm F2.8. It was my first time using a sky guide pro so it took me a while to get set up so I only got 33 minutes of good data. But it was from a true Bortle 1 in New Mexico on the night of the new moon and ended up getting really good results because of the sky conditions. I agree with you photography Rho It’s all about dark skies great results for you congrats
That's a lovely image - I haven't imaged it yet but it's near the top of my bucket list (I'm in Bortle 8/9 so I have to wait until travelling is easier). I think you have done a great job with it. it's just beautiful - and it's such a good example of what most people just don't know about the night sky - it's so much more interesting than just a bunch of faint stars, there's so much to see. Anyway, listening to you talk about PS, I have just invested in PixInsight after trying it free on the trial for 1 month. I'm don't know much about PS so it was no disadvantage for me to change, but PI seems so much more logical for color balancing, denoising, and probably masking - and I have found Shawn Nielsen's tutorials (VisibleDark) absolutely brilliant. It has made my processing take a big leap forward (especially noise management with the DSLR). Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for your comment. Yes Pixinsight is definitely a much better program when it comes to astrophotography and Indefinitely plan to make the switch soon in the next few months. I've seen Shawn's videos and will definitely be using them to help 👍 Thanks again and I hope you're able to get out to a darker site soon!
This is the reason I’m currently putting together a travel kit. Personally, I’m looking at the FMA230 with a SkyGuider. Clear skies. (Btw, Im spending the summer in a Bortle 3 zone and having a ball.)
Thanks for your comment. So the Askar FMA180 I used to capture this is a refractor telescope. If you use something like a RedCat 51 and a full frame camera, you night be able to capture 80% or so of it.
this is a large target, you need a decent FOV. i use full frame camera and 85mm lens to get a decent widefield of this with the blue horsehead nebula. ofcourse you can make an amazing project to capture this with telescope and a nice astro camera, however be prepared to set your mosaics and put some good amount of time and effort in to it. in new zealand i live in bortle 5 area and rho is very nice location for us so i can get an amazing detail from dslr in only 30mins (refer my post on instagram @amrit.insta for example)
@@unluggylounge674 i know its a big target and many use lens. i understand why many do that, my porblem lens are not realy great like refractor with ed glass.most scope in less than f5 have false color or get bloted stars. sure makeing good scope at that focal lenght are hard, but i wished some have done the job anyway. mostly i only care about color part of RHO + sharp and good looking stars
@@grandmasteryoda9893 then the answer is simple really, make mosaic with your widest, quality refractor and largest sensor camera ;) for the DSLR lenses, both red cat and samyang 135mm f2 are actually very good and optically quite correct.. if by false colour you mean purple fringing, these examples do not have that nor do they suffer from bloated stars, but ofcourse the stars are not as fine and perfect as the top end refractors, as you know, top quality comes at a price.
You really need to soften that face light. You have a good background, that light is hurting your video quality. Amazing content otherwise, learnt a lot. I'm a filmmaker dabbling in astrophotography
