Pretty cool right? I just discovered it about a year ago when I was looking for a new easy solution after the Photoshop method wasn't working on M1 Macs.
Between you and Cuiv, all we need! Great work, Nico - particularly with your coverage of the simplest practical tutorials Ike this one, all the way to the most complex niches of PixInsight. Your contribution to our hobby/fixation is greatly appreciated. More, more please!
I love all your deep sky stuff Nico.... but as I'm brand new to astronomy and astrophotography the more basic stuff is also awesome. Excited to grow my skills with the help of this great community.
Wow! I am doing the constellation one for a star we have decided to give the name of my granddaughter. This will be great to do and give to the family members. Thank you for this!
Nice work, Nico. I'm starting out and watching your experience, knowledge and passion shows through. Cheers for sharing this, and I'm glad that I'm a patreon of yours and that you are doing what you enjoy. Cheers mate. Dann
And another one... all great videos! Nico, what you're doing for the astrophoto commumity is priceless. Valuable information.👍🏾 Just like you said, I will try and practice these steps even from my light polluted area. 😊 Thank you and keep up the good work.💪🏾 - Cesar, Montreal, Qc, Canada
Thank you for making AWESOME videos! I've always taken single-shot long exposures but now your videos helped me get better and more detailed shots using continuous shooting with merging. Keep up the great content!
What a great and unassuming teacher! Thanks, Nico, for keeping our interests alive - something for everyone even remotely interested in astronomy let alone astrophotography. Clear skies, indeed.
Great video Nico. Time lapses are really fun to make to show my rig moving and tracking. I've made them by dumping a folder of exported pngs into a free video editing software like Davinchi resolve and then you can use it directly for a yt video or something!
I kind of know the answer. Have the iconic Rokinon 14 mm, f 2.8 (and a Tamron 15-30 2.8, I love), or Sigma Art 20 mm , f 1.4. Which one? Try both, your going to say. But widers better. Probably fast F stop isn't all that important, right. I second other comments. Thanks for teaching simple, and still being a wizard.
Hey Nico! Hope all is well with you. Thank you for this video. I have finally had a few nights to get out with my 2i and take a few images. Of course my computer goes out, but I have to say that my biggest challenge is getting my polar alignment. I have done it about a dozen times, and it is still taking me 20-30 minutes to get it dialed in. I don't know if it's because I wear glasses, but I have a hard time seeing the star through the reticle. But it's still fun.
Hi Kevin, Great! So glad to hear that! I think polar alignment is always a pain, but it does get easier with enough practice. One tip: if you can, polar align right after dusk when Polaris is first visible with the red light off. It should be bright enough for about 20 minutes to see the reticule and polaris clearly without red light which I always find too bright.
@@NebulaPhotos LOL, yeah I lost the red light for about a week and then found it in my truck...it was an absolute nightmare trying to get someone else to hold a light at just the right angle so the reticle was illuminated but I wasn't blinded. So, I found a bortle 4 location, literally on Jordan Lake Dam, and I am looking over the lake to Polaris. It's a great location, already made friends with the guy that operates the dam, lol, and found out that the Raleigh Astronomy Club uses that location. For some reason, Polaris just doesn't seem as bright as I think it is. If the weather holds, Saturday night should be a good night to head out, so hopefully I'll have some very very amateur images to share.
hi... I always follow ur work process, & really really love it.... I hope there were teachers like you in India, There are new things to learn whenever You upload video related to stars ... also I have a doubt, that u have not mentioned how much interval time should take while processing particular for this timelapse session. I think maybe 10 sec, so your exif settings were like, shutter: 8sec, ISO: 6400, f:2.8. I may be wrong somewhere, but u can recorrect me. Thank you very much, as always 😌
Great video. I just finished a timelapse too, now I can go back to the data and do star trails and annotations. I wonder have you ever tried darktable it's also free and works with GIMP too?
Hey Niko Coming to so cal anytime soon? Just put together your basic 2k starter gear Can’t wait for some great weather Super weird for so cal to “wait” for weather but…
Yep, I have another question, lol. One day I'll not have any questions, but that day will probably come when I stop breathing. So, I notice you are focusing on Jupiter and adjusting till you see the moons. Is that a guaranteed way to know you are in focus? I only ask because that is the way I focus, and yet, I find it difficult to find stars or constellation. For example, when I was in CA for 9 months, I had no problem finding Andromeda Galaxy using the focus on Jupiter method, but here, I can't find Andromeda at all. I'm on the same bortle zone, same no moon nights, etc. I was also finding it hard to see Polaris through the reticle of my 2i. It seems that they don't take into account people that wear glasses. Would you have any tips on improving my view through the reticle? Like I said in a previous comment, I know people say you will get faster with experience, but in fact, I seem to be getting slower. The few times I have imaged, I was able to get pretty sharp stars with an exposure time of nearly a minute. I just need to figure out why I am suddenly struggling to see stars. As far as the quality of the sky, I am literally standing on the Jordan Lake Dam, and after talking with the guy that controls the Dam, that is actually the same location that the Raleigh Astronomy Club uses.
Supposedly some of the new Samsung phones have software that allows astrophotography...do you know anything about this...have you seen it in action? Maybe do a video on it??
hi, as i am starting astrophotography i would like to find a good telescope which will be mainly for observing planets, i would also like to buy a camera for good quality photos, a canon camera would be useful but i don't know what model, i would like a telsscope and the camera was not used and the telescope cost around $400 and the camera around $400 max, I would be very grateful for your help
The oldest (thus likely cheapest) Canon DSLR that has an articulated viewscreen is the T3i (also called EOS 600D). I bought one via eBay for $250 plus $80 for a 50mm f/1.8 lens -- it works. Watch the shutter count. The one I bought had 15,417 actuations.
This might be out of your wheelhouse, but do you have any tips for how you'd go about light painting a foreground for these star trail photos, and do these stacking softwares handle stuff like that?
Very easy! You can just flash (as quick as possible) some white light in the foreground in one shot, and it will make a nice impression in the final stack - StarStax uses a 'lighten' blend mode, so whatever pixels are brightest are the ones used. This is why the plane trail and my red headlamp showed up in the final stack. If you want more control over the light painting you can just do it at the end (not moving the tripod) and then composite the foreground in with a mask in GIMP or Photoshop.
Hii sir pls reply I don’t have intervalometer but I have intervalometer paid app in my android and it get connect with my canon camera app can I use this app instead of new intervalometer
