Starting Astrophotography - for Lazy People!! Episode 1 

Im liking the presenting style and the emphasis on maximising fun rather than saving money. Astro Photography isnt as cheap hobby.

I'm mostly a visual astronomer, amateur class of course. I bought that AZ Pro and run two scopes on it, a wide field scope and my 127 Maksutov. My 6" reflector has had the mirror refigured to 1/12th wave and .98 Strehl and what that means is extremely sharp views even better than my ED triplet. It can take in the whole of the Pleiades which is beautiful just to look at it. My astronomy club has a 16" 400mm Meade that is awesome to look at the Pleiades with the reducer on it, it collect so much light you can see some of the clouds around it. Cuive is right about using the H-Alpha Solar scopes for the Sun, looking at the Sun like that doesn't get boring like with white filters. You count up the sunspots and try to zoom in on the granulations, but you cannot see flares and Solar tornados. My friend uses my refigured reflector for photography and gets beautiful deep sky photos.

Haha, the money starts flying out. So true. You get hooked on astrophotography fast and do want more and more. Always something to buy in this hobby! Great video Cuiv! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Clear skies!

Great vid Cuiv. The comment at the beginning about taking your first photo and then the money starts flying out was hilarious, and unfortunately spot on. I took my first astro photo of Andromeda by attaching my DSLR with a 300mm lens onto a piggyback adapter on my Celestron 11" SCT, which I used to track Andromeda. That image surprisingly came out great and I was hooked. Like some kind of drug addiction, before I knew it I had spent >$12k on astrophotography gear within 2 months.

You never recover ….Absolutely Fantastic my friend lol 😂

All of your videos are awesome. I look foreword to your daily videos. Thank you so much for your efforts. Your videos are educational , informative, practical as well as occasionally humorous. I found your NINA tutorials particularly helpful. 👍

I've been watching lots of your videos but decided to go through this playlist. I also have a G5X with the CHDK firmware hack. I use it to take timelapses of my rig in motion. It also isn't bad for wide-angle milkyway photography with that firmware and f1.8 lens, but haven't tested it too much. I love that camera and bring it everywhere.

Nice one Cuiv, loved the video. You have a great presentation style: I had a different mental picture of you from the NINA Discord :) Looking forward to the rest of the series

Thank you Cuiv, good video. I wish you more subscribers. Believe it or not, I have never looked into oculus, but I will love it. I have a budget and now I browsing internet and RU-vid videos to choose what I need. I already learned quite a bit. My challenge is that I live in Saudi and it is not easy to get telescopes inside the country. However, I have great advantage- clear skies! I learned one thing so far, there is no one for all solution. If you get something little for all- it will be bad for everything. You need to go specialized approach for your goal. For example, I learn- no one telescope for visual planetary and deep sky. The same principle is for many other things. Thanks for the video.

Yannick san, 非常に参考になりました。ありがとうございます。

Good Introduction! I am waiting for the next episodes... Thanks...

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Loved Each and Every second of this video. I'm Specially waiting for the "How to choose an OTA?", dats been buggin me for some months now. Please Explain everything just as it was in this video. Subbed. :)

Great video. I'm glad I found these series. Just one question. Can you use the setup you have in the back also for planetary photography or is it specific for DSO and if I want to practice both planetary and DSO photography I should have two separate setups?

Just a quick note about planetary imaging with a manual dob and a DSLR - You don't have to hand-track the planet. What I do is let it drift in camera's view while I'm recording a video, then I use PiPP to automatically crop/align the planet (and later stack a % of frames). This is a stacked photo from a few videos of Saturn drifting in the camera's view (10" dob) - i.imgur.com/F7IqgBH.png Keep up the cool vids, I'm just about to get into deep-sky astrophotography with a HEQ5-Pro and a Evostar 80ED DS-Pro!

Thanks for a very informative channel, I am based in Hong Kong, so Its great to hear about someone imaging in similar conditions!

Lazy in my case is getting scope roller wheels so I won't risk a viscera-ripping hernia everytime I set up my HBM (honking big mount).

Cuiv, Thanks as ever. Money no problem. I have one growing in my backyard that my wife is always trying to uproot! There is always (in my case) a used gadget in my shed. How did it appear there? no idea. Can you please tell us if you have the ioptron mini tower pro or the later version? Also I found another geek explain nyquist theorem in fact two one for nyquist and the other explaining it applied for imaging! but I will wait for you to do it as well.

Cuiv, love your videos. What model vixen is your Newt? Love it.

Nani?! Another fellow Astrophotographer that is situated in Tokyo? Incredible! I, too, am a Astrophotographer that lives in Tokyo (Can't say I'm much of an Astrophotographer right now, though...) May I ask, if you don't mind, where you get your gear (Cameras, scopes, all that stuff)? Do you buy and ship from overseas like from First Light Optics, or do you buy your stuff in Tokyo? Anyway, great video!

Everyone upgrades everthing in a circle after 1 year none of the kit is orignal bit like triggers broom! We all think we are getting nearer to hubble quality and we are in small gradients.

Can I move ioptron manually by hand in the horizontal direction?

I really enjoy your videos and knowledge Cuiv....but the focus shifting on your camera is annoying to all hell lol....since you rarely move in your videos, I think you might want to just set focus manually and lock it there so we dont get the constant in/out of focus in your vids!

Ciao. Dici che si può usare per Astrofotografia? HI. You say it can be used for astrophotography?

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There it was... gone ... my kids inheritance

I love your videos but for heavens sake do something about that breathing focus on your camera :)