anyone into Astro Photography

[oldpink]

All my life I have been into Astronomy and even bought a few telescopes (not very good ones) over the years
well as my 50th Birthday is approaching I decided to get a bit more serious about this and bought myself a nice present

for now I'm using a video camera to do planetary work while I await the arrival of a new DSLR
that has been specially modified for Astro Photography to allow me to do DSO imaging (Deep Space Objects)

anyone else here into star gazing

my equipment

Scope :- Skywatcher explorer 200p

Mount :- EQ5 with GoTo Synscan

lens :- Skywatcher X25 Skywatcher X10 super Skywatcher X2 Barlow

Cameras :- ZWO ASI120MC, Canon 600D Baader modded and magic Lantern enabled (awaiting arrival)


some pic's

 

[Asche]

it seems you are equipped with a motor to compensate the earth rotation
was thinking about a model with a canon mount or a dsl possibilty..
but right now i live in a city and thats bad for skypeeping

wish you good luck and hope to see some lovely pictures coming soon!!!

 

[oldpink]

yes the mount is an EQ motorised mount to track objects
I've recently hooked it up to my laptop
that way I can work from indoors and control the telescope across my network
and view the camera on my PC rather than freezing my nuts off outside

 

[Asche]

sounds like you are getting comfortable to be searching for aliens.

 

[rasputin]

Sweet rig, oldpink. I'm a big fan as well. Had a variety of scopes so I know the feeling when you finally throw down on a nice one. Happy Birthday, btw.

 

[oldpink]

finally got a lot of things in place and correctly collimated my telescope to align the mirrors and what a difference
only had 20 mins of clear sky tonight but managed to get this

 

[Morcheeba*]

yes the mount is an EQ motorised mount to track objects
I've recently hooked it up to my laptop
that way I can work from indoors and control the telescope across my network
and view the camera on my PC rather than freezing my nuts off outside

could you also view it on a hd tv?


peace

 

[hush]

I'm just now getting into astrophotography! I don't own a camera yet but I have a wide field, fast focal ratio telescope with a motorized mount, and I'm about to buy one of those digital eyepiece cameras that hooks up straight to the computer.

Nice images of Jupiter! Is that a stacked image or a single exposure?

 

[Snype]

That's pretty amazing OP! Makes me want to get one.

 

[vintner]

Nice rig & pix oldpink I'm not into astrophotography, (don't have the $) but here's a link to my star gazing ventures.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=112214
Clear skys & happy veiwing

 

[oldpink]

Morcheeba* yes if you can hook your laptop up to your TV but you need the laptop to capture the video feed

Hush its a stacked image done using PIPP to centre and crop then Registax for stacking and wavelet processing
captured using Firecapture

today I got my DSLR thats been modified for Astro photography so now I can move onto DSO's as well as use it to do planets and moon mosaic's
as I can only get parts of it into the FOV at any one time

 

[Weird]

worked in a camera store and a golf pro / dead head used to come in with pictures from his observatory

nebulas and shit that absolutely blew my mine

 

[the gnome]

nice newtonian reflector OP... 8" ??
and nice pics.... it can be an addicting hobby for sure!
technology has made astro photography extremely easy to do and fairly inexpensive and the quality of scopes for the price is unbelievable compared to 40yrs ago

when i was 9 i got my 1st real telescope
a 2-1/4" refractor w/EQ mount.
in the 60s drives for the EQ mounts were pretty pricey
i was a lucky kid just to get what i got

 

[oldpink]

I'm just waiting on an adapter ring for my DSLR to allow me to connect it up to do nebula's & galaxy's
most of it is done via a laptop and software to allow very long exposures and I control the telescope from the laptop
that way I can set up remote access and do my astro photography fron the comfort of my main PC indoors
last part of the

if you have a Synscan controller look into EQMOD software I'm loving it esp the Alignmaster addon
makes alignment so much easier and I also use a plate alignment to refine my tracking for better accuracy

 

[oldpink]

http://www.astrobin.com/82243/

http://www.astrobin.com/82248/

http://www.astrobin.com/82249/

and you get this

http://www.astrobin.com/82242/

 

[Asche]

finally got a lot of things in place and correctly collimated my telescope to align the mirrors and what a difference
only had 20 mins of clear sky tonight but managed to get this

it seems you managed to capture one of Jupiter´s Moons on those pictures

 

[stoned-trout]

I haven't got my lense to work right yet...opteka 650-1300 mm f8 -16 Lr 1300hd with lense doubler for a whopping 2600mm...was hoping fpr some cool moon pics...hope to be ready for augusts moon..EDIT think I got it figured out...

 

[Laza Haze]

Hi Old Pink...I'm on astrophoto too

I have a vixen R150S F5,modyfied canon,vesta philips,william optics 66sd doublet,heq5 mount on berlebach..and etc etc...i'v take a lot of photos and i'm also registered in Astrobin.Love this hobby
hope you having good times bro'...Nice photos..

clear skies

laz