Let's Photograph the Elephant-Trunk Nebula - Mosaic imaging in Astrophotography

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Комментарии : 32

@robertcalise8634 4 года назад

Elephant Trunk WOW !!! Very Nice

@birreboi 4 года назад

Not quite (!) ready to do mosaics as yet, but I wouldn't call it boring. More like challenging and I like challenges! Oh, great image by the way.

@Jaber_Al_Bolushi 4 года назад

I like your video’s thanks a lot

@Lasidar 4 года назад

Fantastic image!

@MrRodeelh 4 года назад

Impressive!

@mathiasboehme 4 года назад

Wow!!!

@ColinDane 4 года назад

Thanks Tim, didn't know it was that easy with APP, looks a lot simpler compared to PI...

@M31glow 4 года назад

great tips!

@AstroFarsography 4 года назад

Nice video Tim. Really informative. I think I'll be trying a mosaic sometime with the information from this video :)

@DumitruIrizan 4 года назад

Geil Man und ein tolles Bild!!!

@VittorioSergi 4 года назад

just to add to the discussion, telescopius(dot)com has a dedicated mosaic viewer, you can even copy/paste the coordinates for each panel, of course you can input your focal lenght/sensor size and create presets if you have multiple cameras or telescopes. Not sponsor btw, it's just that I found it much easier than stellarium for mosaics, and I consider stelarium quite easy

@AstroFarsography 4 года назад

I thought about using that mosaic coordinate generator as well. But I heard that it didn't account for rotation or... something. RA drifts slightly or something that didn't make much sense to me.

@grandes_eventos_radiomanchego 4 года назад

Hi. You make wonderful astrophotographs. The videos are very well made and explained. I subscribe to your channel. You have a new follower. You do a wonderful job. I have a Nikon D90 camera and an 8"Celestron SC CGEM 800 telescope. I still lack knowledge and can take better photos with my equipment. The equipment is not good for astrophotography and the skies in Seville (southern Spain) are not dark. I hope that with your videos I can improve my work. Thanks for everything.

@jamie1341 4 года назад

Love your videos, really helpful for those of us starting out in Astrophotography, please keep posting!

@dr.med.schlomov.aschkenasy842 4 года назад

Just found your channel and I love it. Thanks!

@bengterlandsson7921 4 года назад

Amazing image with lots of detail. Well done 👍

@CrazedConceptions 4 года назад

Great editing Tim! And of course an epic image hehe

@rtpman1953 4 года назад

Thanks, Tim. I hadn't thought of setting it up via Stellarium. I have SGP and NINA and they can compose the panel layout. I'm an APP user so I was glad to see your process and it was a sanity check in that It matched how I understood the process to work. A wonderful final image. I'll be going to a dark site in September. Doing a mosaic is on my list.

@LogansChristmasLights 4 года назад

Great video Tim. Wished I had seen this before I did my first 6 panel mosaic of the LMC in PI a few months ago as the process certainly looks a lot more straight forward with APP. Certainly APP will be my software of choice for the next mosaic.

@Bigwhite200 4 года назад

Awesome video Tim. I’m just starting out, so a mosaic not on the horizon yet but love the image

@Astrobloke 4 года назад

Fantastic image Tim. I was working with stellarium working out a mosaic myself. I tried NINA as it has a mosaic tool but just couldn’t get it to work properly. So back to APT. I have 4 panels planned and I have just also tried the panel tool in Cates du Ciel. From that plan you can import straight into APT. So I have 2 mosaic projects to test out, just need some clear skies.

@fireislandmavic5939 4 года назад

nice

@catchingphotons 4 года назад

Hey Tim! Thank you for this in depth walk through. I like the idea of this easy and free approach using Stellarium! good for beginners. Did you ever use "Microsoft image composite editor" for stitching? Does it work with wide-field-astro-images? I never did a project of this but ICE is very useful for stitching my moon-images. Greetings! Chris

@rutgervanderbreggen884 4 года назад

I had the same question. Found a video from Chuck's Astrophotography about mosaic imaging where he uses microsoft ice and it is working fine for him

@garyrear 4 года назад

Hi Tim, I am trying my first mosaic on the Veil Nebula using N.I.N.A, it is easy to setup and it is free.

@samsresearchbench4160 2 года назад

Hi Tim. Very much enjoying your videos, particularly as I learn APP. I did my first mosaic of the heart and soul (probably used the method you avoided, i let it bring in all the images at once, the calculations were hours even on a powerful workstation). But I was happy with my intermediate results, hooked me to take more images to really get a nice final. My question however, I want to shoot the Elephant Trunk and the Garnet star is there. So how did you change your imaging to account for it? For the heart and soul i am using the RedCat 51 with and L-Extreme filter on a ASI294MC Pro camera, 180 seconds has been pretty good with a gain of 120 with a guide scope and dithering (so using the drizzle function in APP). Just wondered if moving to 120 second exposures still with the 120 gain would be best. I could go with a 2x2 binning to increase the full well depth, but at the cost of resolution. The number of images will of course be a cost with only 120 seconds for the same integration time. As I plan for the change just wondered how you adapted to bright objects located in some emission nebula.

@AstroAddict 2 года назад

I do rarely adapt my exposures to bright stars. The garnet star might not be as bright as you might think, APP can handle that pretty well. Your scope and filter combination will do great, I bet you can go for 180s 120 gain. I do not recommend 2x2 binning, the 294 has a pretty small sensor after all, I'd not want to lose that resolution.

@UruPTer 4 года назад

Hoi Tim, Very nice example. I got the same telescope as you do and my collimation seem to be even worse, seems to be a fault in these scopes. If you ever find a solution for this please let me know! Clear skies!

@gnashermedia 4 года назад

24 CPUs Threads?! Ok, da wäre mein APP auch schneller. Super video! Danke. Vor allem für mich als APP Noob sehr hilfreich.

@cliveroberts415 4 года назад

Fantastic image. I am curious, you mentioned a problem with collimation on your refractor. I have an issue with off centre halos around bright stars with my 72ED but I have no idea how to cure it.

@AstroAddict 4 года назад

Same problem. The lenses are off