Thanks yet again Walt. You are my favourite astro teacher. You make it fun and easy to understand. I owe much of my own astro progress to you and your channel. Thank you once again!!!
Love my Nifty Fifty! It was the only lense my wife allowed me to take with me on a vacation in Egypt - not true of course 😉, but there's always some negotiating around how much astrophoto-stuff fits in our luggage 🤣! I used it on the exact same target with a light pollution filter and it came out great! Just tripod, intervalometer and many many lights, my poor MacBook Air was struggling the next day ... Of course, after flying south for four hours this target was beautifully high in the sky 🤩! Thx for the video!
Thanks for that. Stumbled across you as I am planning a hit and run on this target in the UK. It will get to the dizzying height of 12' from our south coast and as I am down that way on the next new moon I thought I would give it a shot. I have worked out some dark skies locations (not been to them so heres hoping). I am normally a big guns astrophotographer but that doesnt work for quick hits. I am going to go with back up, a Samy/Rokinon 135mm on an AZGTi, with an ASi533MC colour astro cam, all controlled by laptop on one rig, and a nifty 50 and an astro modded DSLR on a tracker on the other rig. All with work the next day! Fingers crossed I get something (clear skies would be a good start).
I just found your channel, your explanations are very detailed, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Great final image as well, wow, us northern Canadians are jealous.
Love the shirt, but if you're gonna wear it, you gotta play Blue Train as your background track. Great image, as always. That's one I've been meaning to capture. Thanks for the awesome content.
Open your tiff in photoshop or whatever and play with levels/histogram. Look up some videos on astrophotography post processing. Its not hard to do, but it does seem hard to do exceptionally well :)
Question. Saw in another vid you have a C11. Would an *"Celestron CGX"* be acceptable or is the *"Celestron CGX-L"* an absolute must for mounts? In the market right now for one ((in the process of selling my motorcycle to get into this hobby. I've some experience, have a 10" Orion Dob and can work it. Interested in the long burn of AP)) Also, getting a good photo of the M64 Galaxy is one of my end-game goals.
Congrats on another captivating video without too much fancy equipment and with badass results. One of my fav pictures ive done last year exactly the same way. Next step will be doing mosaic with the samy 135 mm of this region. Keep it up Walt!
Was just wondering when you were going to post a video again. Think I might drag my nifty 50 out and give it a go myself... When and if the darn clouds clear out. And I can keep myself awake until 1-2 a.m. May also try to get it with my 135mm rokinon as well.
Hii Walt iam really confuse on taking calibration frames from long time the thought pop in my mind that for example we take dark frames after light frames and same exposure lenght as lights does the star tracker need be on while taking dark frames or turn off while taking dark frames I know it’s bit silly question 😅 but what should we do
Great video Walt!!!! Have you thought about using a 85 mm on RHO? I bet it would bring it in even more. Especially capturing all those fantastic colors. I've shot it at 200 mm. Where it rises for me. A building close to me made it difficult to process. But I managed. Green colored light pollution. Clear Skies and thank you for sharing this AWESOME video!!!!
Odd you should mention the 85mm. What I thought I had was a 50mm Canon lens but it turns out to be a f1.8 / 85mm. Certainly want to try it with my Canon t4i on this target and see if it makes a similar type of photo.
Great Image. Subtle and smoky in all colours. Mine on Rho with mostly the same gear have a distinct Jackson Pollock look to them. You spend a bit more time on aquisition and processing though I think and not as many street lights as urban Auckland NZ.
Awesome video! I picked up a Nifty Fifty a few months back and I have not tried it on super mega ultra wide deepsky yet :) I still need to get a proper tracker I am currently using a Celestron NexStar tracker for a 4se with a ball head and a red dot for a firearm mounted on my camera and its a Super Mega Ultra Kame Ha Me Ha Pain in the AZZ to polar align but IT CAN BE DONE ;) I really like this channel it motivates me to get back out in God's great universe.
Hi Walt, geart video as always. Should the camera built in Imange stabilizer and the lens stabilizer be switched switched off or not,when using the tracker/ guider?
Like the "open reel recorder" I have a Revox A77, I completely rebuilt with fresh caps etc. Anyway, I like your style, get real, no pun ... This is a difficult target to find in atlesuses, like Stelarium. No M, or ng designation. Name is not there either. Nice image. I'm at 43 degrees. I'll be in bortle 3 late June. It'll be over the lake with an unobstructed horizon. Trouble is the full moon near-by. I do have a Rokinon 135 paired with moded Rebel T7i. So wish me luck. Thanks!
Walt, what a timely video!! I literally ordered my nifty-50 yesterday and it will be here on Friday. I'm heading to a Bortle 1 class sky in the boot-heel of New Mexico near Rodeo/Animas in a couple of weeks for new moon. In addition to shooting lots of galaxies with my ASI585MC and 8" LX200 I intend to image the Rho region on my Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount with my Canon T5i. This is an image I've been meaning to get for some time. Any insight on ISO and exposure for my Canon T5I from a dark sky location? You indicated you used 2 min subs, but I may want to go longer. If the weather holds, out I can get 5-7 days on this from 31.83 degrees north, so would appreciate whatever you might recommend. Love your channel and always look forward to your new posts. Spent several years in Gulfport and Meridian MS back in my Navy days!! Thanks, Steve Barkes Las Cruces, NM
I was worried that the star Antares would blow out or have a halo at three minutes, but it didn't. I would definitely suggest trying longer until you see any problems with your stars.
@@deltaastrophotography Thanks for that Walt! I'll let you know how it goes. I'm going to start at 3mins and see how Antares and M4 look, then make adjustments from there if needed. Steve
looks great. In terms of processing, do you need the added value in picinsight in such an image? do you think it can be done without it? it's a rather expensive piece of software for the occasional astrophotographer. Also, 3 minutes at F4? so comparatively we'd be looking at less than 1 minute at F2?
After reading this comment I re-processed the image in Siril and Photoshop and got a very similar result. So Pixinsight is not needed. To be honest though, I did use StarXTerminator instead of Starnet, NoiseXTerminator for noise reduction, and GradientXTerminator at the end for some final gradient removal that Siril missed. This image is quite complex and benefits from f/4 and Pixinsight because of the thick star field. There are places in the image where the stars are so thick they could all blur together. f/2 could work just fine, but f/4 keeps the stars from being a little messy. Combine that with BlurXTerminator and Pixinsight's ability to stretch the nebulosity and the stars separately, you get some very tight stars. If I end up doing a processing tutorial on this image, it will be in Siril and Photoshop. Sorry for the long response, but that was actually a great question!
@@deltaastrophotography I'd really appreciate a processing tutorial/recodring of the pix-free version. Once upon a time I did capture this constallation with a 135mm lens but I feel that my processing was lacking, especially compared to the result you show here. Also, this is probably the most photographed target of the milkey way season, so there must be quite a fwe intersted viewers out there.
I just re-discovered my 18mm lense that was taking on dust on a shelf, so much fun! And I took a picture of south! Yes, south 🤣! Only problem: It was almost IMPOSSIBLE to get a picture without A DARN PLANE IN SOME CORNER 😡! If this is my biggest problem then I am a happy man ... 🤩
You can but it just takes a lot more effort. Instead of around 60 photos you'll have to take thousands. You'll also have to reposition your camera every few minutes for about three hours.
I liked your video (my first time watching) and was funny, but could've done without the CRAZY BAT SHIT 50MM WIDE!!! was unnecessary. I don't like videos that have instructions at regular audio levels and then blare out, especially late when people are sleeping. If you had kept it up I couldn't have finished the video.
