Hi. I think you may underestimate just how enjoyable many people will find listening to you "ramble on" (when it isn't at all). You have what appears as a very nice, friendly, easy going nature and what a scot like me considers an american southern drawl (which isn't 'drawly') which is pleasant to listen to. So please don't apologise or think you have to change your presentation style. If you did, it wouldn't be you.
Just FYI, there is another freeware program that will run on Linux, Windows, and MacOS that will do all of that. It's called Raw Therapee, It's very powerful, which often means it looks like it's difficult to use. But there are plenty of tutorials on RU-vid that will take it from being overwhelmed by the interface and the huge number of things it can do to looking much simpler. There is a specific video tutorial that talks about using it to align and process stacked images. Basically, you do the adjustments on one RAW data file. Then you take the (spf, I think) file that it creates, and use that to batch process the rest and convert them all to images. Then you use it to align and process all of the images. From there, you can continue on with Raw Therapee or switch to GIMP, Photoshop, or whatever you use IF you still need to continue working on the image. I do it all on the RAW image, so once I convert it to a file (or in this case, after Raw Therapee finishes up the process of aligning and combining the images into a single image). I used to sell on Etsy, and used it to process RAW images for product photography. I'd tried the other big one, Darktable, but once I tried Raw Therapee, I never looked back. As you say in some of your tutorials, I don't get a penny out of this recommendation. I'm just suggesting it as an alternative (e.g., for people on Unix variants like Linux who can't get the apps you mentioned (or just prefer Raw Therapee from having used it a lot already). Hope this helps someone.
Very useful. I didn't know you have the DSLR attached to eyepiece. I have just been using smartphone camera so I guess I need to buy a used DSLR. Maybe Canon 1100d?
Great video from the position of a novice, thanks for taking the time old Gazer. You schooled me good, here in Merry England. The internet at its best. Cheers 🍻
I have the same telescope and a Nikon DSLR. The T-ring and adapter are from Celestron. My question. I did not put a lens inside the set up between the camera and the telescope. The image was very small. How do you put a lens in the adapter tube. I have seen other set up with screws the secure a lens. I love you videos.. old geezer gazer there too. Keep up the information !!
I think that you have done very well and the quality of your final image was very good. It could help if you used a remote control to control your camera in order to reduce camera shake and the beginning and end of the video. If people take videos for longer than about 1 to 2 minutes, the image quality could be worse because the effect of the rotation of Jupiter could be noticeable. Recent cameras have the ability to take 4K videos with some cameras, like mine, using smaller region of the camera sensor and this will give the effect of having a higher magnification as well as the bonus of more pixels. I was impressed with how Autostakkert kept the moons in the image. Last week I took a video of Jupiter using an APS-C sized astronomical camera and Jupiter looked a similar size to yours. When processing the video, rather than cropping it, I will look for the moons as well.
Thank you very much for the kind words and thanks especially for the insights. You make some excellent points. I can only imagine how much technology will progress and how quickly it will arrive.
@@oldgazer7200 Thank you for your kind words. I will let you know whether I get any moons in my image. When setting up the equipment, I never thought of photographing the moons as well. Thanks for reminding me. You make an excellent point and technology. When I was at school about 50 years ago, I used to look at science books and saw photographs of Jupiter taken with these enormous telescopes. They were in black and white and were decidedly fuzzy, yours looked a lot better.
You mention that you have a video that covers how you edited the autostakkert output into the final image bringing out the details of the orion nebula. From your video titles it's not obvious which one that is, can you post a link or the video name so I can check it out? Thanks!
Hey Old Gazer, I enjoyed your video. I just got a Celestron 8" telescope and I'm planning to do astrophotography. I also have a Nikon D810 DSLR with the t-ring adaptor for the telescope. You mentioned that you use eye pieces that are threaded at the top of the eye piece which then fits into the t-ring of the camera adaptor. I look at many eye piece lenses but could not find one. All my eye pieces are only threaded for filters at the bottom. Can you give me a recommendation of an eye piece brand and mm that I should start out with that would thread into the t-ring? Thanks
Hi. Thanks for the video. Really helpful. I read below a few people have asked about the adaptor from the t piece to eye piece to camera adaptor. Very hard to find ! Would you have any information on it ? Thanks again.
+ 1) What special adapter is used to connect eyepiece directly to the camera lens? 2) Instead of a still, can you process the movie with the same clarity cutting across the field of view? A moving Jupiter is more dramatic.
Hi, When i try to use eyepiece projection with my Canon T5i the image is always completely dark, EXCEPT for the moon. Everything else is complete darkness. Any idea on what is wrong? thank you
I really don't want to sound like a jerk but the raw video files that I've taken even the ones I did a couple years ago i knocked out of the ballpark when compared to the Video you showed here. Quite frankly if I had a file like that I'd probably pitch it rather than save it. But your processing is so far and beyond what I've been able to do it's embarrassing. I've tried several different programs my heart's not really in it to be honest with you what I really want to do is be out there collecting the images I love getting the data. Processing is no fun. I don't enjoy it it's like pulling teeth just to do it. But I do give it an honest attempt. It's a little more difficult to find people doing DSLR tutorials. I'm really interested in how you're doing your processing and wondering if you're going to do a video on how you did this image. Because quite frankly not only am I absolutely blown away by your results but I know for a fact that if you've got the data to do that I do too. And while i can recognize the fact that you had bad seeing that night im not trying to be critical about your video image that you produced in this segment. I get it there's good days and there's bad days. But I've had some pretty good days and I've collected some really really good data and then I've not been able to make it look much better when I process it and I'm frustrated. I don't want to put the money into pixel insight because I'm not going to enjoy it. I don't want to put the money into photoshop for the same reason. I would never use it for anything. I love the technical aspect and challenge of trying to collect the data. Thats what I enjoy. If I could find somebody else to process it for me I'd be ecstatic.....
