Hey Helena! - Huge congratulations on 12k subscribers!! what a brilliant achievement! :-) Another video chock full of info, and by the way that first sub on screen looked like a stacked image! absolutely insane quality! :O I can't wait to see what you capture with a couple more filters :-) Keep up the great work!
Amazing shot. Came here from Nico Carver and your collab. Great video - I like it. I'm getting started with Astrophotography and bought a used Star Adventurer in order to tinker around with my camera and Telephoto lens. I think I need a telescope... Damn - a new hobby seems to start :D Keep up the great work!
Seeing your face pop up on RU-vid always brightens my day, H!! I didn't know about that app, will have to check it out - and I love that sub, seriously so jealous of your pin point stars!
Wow can you explain everything about telescope accessories? And what does polar alignment means some basics? Not in one video I mean like a course 😅. Thank you
Cheers Helena! That image is amazing. Perhaps give your neighbor a look through a visual scope to persuade them to pick a better time to mow the lawn? lol.
Awesome video, I too started with the star adventurer. Some that buy a large mount like our eq6r pro right out of the gates dont have that knowledge of where things are, because it finds the object for them. Glad to have started that way imo!! IC1318 is a great target! Clear skies!!
Love your channel, another fantastic video and beautiful image. Keep up the great work! I was just in Cygnus on Friday night doing a sketch of my visual observation of the Eastern and Western Veil Nebulae (video on my channel if interested). Clear skies!
Great video and very good photos. I bought a meade 114 reflector in the quarantine and am hoping to travel to my town to see the deep sky. I love astronomy and I am interested in starting in astrophotography. What do you recommend me? Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Glad to see you getting back out, and congrats on the 12k subscribers! 🥳 That Esprit 120 is becoming more and more appealing to me as my second scope, though not to my wallet 😂
Hi Adam. I have a 5" apo too, and I can say that it is fantastic for observing the moon & planets, so make sure to explain that to your wallet as well ! 😀
@@derekbaker3279 I currently use a Sky-Watcher 130PDS Newtonian, which is honestly a fantastic little scope and I’ll never get rid of it! But I just need something with a little bit more reach, while still being manageable on my AZ-EQ6-GT.
I've given up balancing Dec with my esprit 100/268M. my filter wheel is so heavy and it is on a slight offset it will never be perfectly balanced. That said, the EQ6R will be able to handle the minor balance offset.
Hi Helena, I've just got into Astronomy and I'm learning quite fast from your videos. I bought my first telescope, an 8" StellaLyra Dobsonian reflector last week. Its larger than I expected! Can't imagine trying to move the 10" you own. I managed to take some awesome photos of Saturn and Jupiter! Lastnight I tried finding the Andromeda Galaxy but failed miserably, I'll try again the next clear night. I've just downloaded the SkyView app after seeing you use it, this may help! I need to go out somewhere with less light pollution, I live in the city of Carlisle near Scotland. Clear skies 🌟 🔭
Great video, just a comment (to be picking on something..it wouldn't be the RU-vid-comments-section without some criticism ;)): We can't look at something 5000 lightyears in the past, as lightyears is a measurement of distance, not time :) With that out of the way, I fully understand your excitement when you downloaded the first frame. I am currently usually shooting in narrowband, and despite having been in the hobby for decades, I still am amazed each time the first image comes through. I currently do Ha exposure times between 10 and 20 minutes and this "gratification" feeling is just amazing. It's quite a bit different than in the past on film, when there was no stacking (so individual exposures of an hour were not uncommon), it took some time to get it developed (even when you could do that yourself.. I was lucky to have had access to a dark room in my former high school), and until then being worried on whether you were really in focus, and whether the manual guiding (yes, sitting with an eye on the guider with an illuminated reticle for minutes/hours at end was something that had to be done) was on point or not.. too many variables that made cold nights a pain - literally. I definitely prefer all the technical advances and possibilities that have happened over the past 20 years that have made this hobby so much easier and more accessible to more and more people. :)
I have the exact same rig with a Starizona .65x Apex FR and I really like how it Images. It's a great combo without spending Tak or Astrophysics coin! Seeing that first sub on a really nice neb or galaxy never gets old. Nice job :)
Seeing those first frames come in NEVER gets old. The feeling is usually repeated once you see the first stacked version of it as well. I can second your opinion about the SkyView App. Fun fact: That app is also partially what got me into astrophotography in the first place. I initially downloaded it to identify stars I was looking at, and as I was waving the phone around, it told me certain stars and objects would be in the direction I held it.
I have a 12 inch dobsonian reflector I take amazing pics of the Orion nebula, the planets and double stars! Also out of all astronomy softwares I've used nothing compares to stellarium. I have it both on my phone and laptop very useful in identifying small objects in the telescope. Haven't quite figured out dark cloud nebulae yet
Great picture you make. I am beginners, possibly in too weeks beginning with Astro ccd colours. From morning beginning your video to look, possibly finding good inputs for my beginning time. Goodbye from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Just discovered your channel. and since I've always been interested in the Universe and what is there...I enjoyed it Unfortunately I live on the mid east coast of the USA and in a populated area, awash with light at nite, Its difficult enough to locate polaris and the dippers, haven't managed to spot cassiopea as of yet...used to know a lot of those points, from years ago with the Boy Scouts and the merit badges. would LOVE to be in a relatively remote area without all of the lightwash...and with a proper "scope"...
Thank you for posting these. Id like to start doing astrophotography in the future, but the setup I want to get is going to cost me some cash I don't currently have, so, for now at least I can follow your journeys.
Where I live clear skies are rare Ohio is the 8th cloudiest state in the nation. I wish we had clear skies that explains why we don't have many astronomers here.
I've just time travelled, slightly, taking a picture of the crescent 🌙 Moon at,if memory serves me,a mere 2 light seconds away.... sounds small but you could still fit every planet in the solar system lined up in a row in the Earth Moon gap with space to spare.
Don't light-years measure distance rather than time? The difference being the expansion of the universe. That explains why the observable universe is 93 billion light-years across yet the universe is 13.4 billion years old. Good vid none the less!
We had neighbour that had to start moveing when we were about eat or drink outside - He was a pain and we noticed "his " actions -we (I ) knew the mover would come out soon -dinner ready and its summer and saturday -we eat outside today
Does that telephone line .. not a hinderance at times as it hampers view if it's in you're line of sight ?? . I see you mainly work from you're back garden from you're minature Observatory. The glow from the streetlights etc doesn't really interfere with what your capturing on Camera
Yet another enjoyable video! Congratulations on your continued success. I may need to take a shot at this target with my Redcat and 183mc pro. Keep the videos coming.
Great Ha image! I've just started playing around with mono, my buddie has let me use his 183mm. I think I'm gonna have to get a mono setup. Add me to your Sub count. thought I was already but I am now. clear skies.
Amazing shot! That Esprit 120 is a monster. I think my favorite is the Cygnus Loop with all those colors it has, but basically that entire constellation is a marvel. Clear skies from Ohio!
Neil degrasse Tyson once said " The Universe is a big time machine", looking through the universe is looking back in time. For example, if I were to teleport myself to one of the closest galaxy (m100) and I took a telescope with me, if I look through the telescope to observe Earth, I will be able to witness the extinction of the dinosaurs .
