/r/astrophotography
/r/astrophotography celebrates amateur astrophotography and will primarily focus on sharing and discussing the work of our members. We encourage sharing original content of real astronomical objects as a means of showcasing that work with those who enjoy astrophotography, inspiring those who are new to astrophotography, and requesting and providing constructive feedback on the work.
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Captured the Northern lights and an Orionid or Taurid meteor using my phone. Moose Jaw, SK, 11/09/2024 iPhone 15 Pro Max, Raw image, 30 seconds, processed in Lightroom.
Almost 12 min of total exposure. Let me know what you think
I captured the moon tonight with my iPhone 14 held up to a 17mm eyepiece on my 10” Dobsonian telescope. Taken in the middle of Albuquerque New Mexico
Hi this is my first time viewing and seeing the moon, I recently got a 50mm refractor telescope and have been experimenting, this is the first successful attempt at capturing the moon. Please suggest on how can I improve Took this photo from Samsung A55 keeping it close to the eye piece, I have ordered a phone mount for the telescope as I don't have a dslr.
Also i really tried to use astrophotography software like Pipp and auto stakkert but the processed images are worse. My guess is that the raw images were very un focused and off center so compiling the images didn't do any good. With a camera mount, i hope it will be better...
Equipment: 50 mm refractor telescope Focal length: 360 mm Eye piece: 12.5 mm F ratio: f/7.2 Aperture: 50 mm
Thru celestron 8” dobs, 25 celestron omni eyepiece. And iPhone 15.
Gear
Mount- AM3 Scope- radian 61 Camera- ZWO 533mm ASIAir with EFW Astrodon filters
100 frames at 60 seconds each of S,H,O
Processing in pixinsight and some photoshop
The sun in Ha today. Taken with a Player One Mars-M, and Lunt LS50THa. Two panel mosaic captured in Sharpcap. Best 10% of 1000 frames stacked in AutoStakkert. Deconvolution in imPPG. Used photomerge in Photoshop to stich the the panels together. Unsharp mask, Smart sharpen, and camera raw filters were used for final sharpening along with various curves and levels adjustments.
Seeing was average. Notable features were the prom that appeared completely disconnected from the surface on the left. The surface has a good amount of smaller sunspot groups, some of them quite complex. There's also a good distribution of large filaments across the surface. I've noticed the higher dynamic range of the IMX290 sensor really helps make these filaments pop compared to my ASI120mm-s.
This is the version of the Pillars of Creation in zoomed out - not sure which pic I like better? The 1:2 zoom where you basically only see the pillars or this one (I think 1:8? Or 1:16?) C14 on modified CGX-L 23 hours narrowband with Ha, O and S filters Pixinsight with BlurX noiseX and curves.
This is still a 1:2 zoom of my picture of the pillars. 23 hours in 3nm narrowband filters by Chroma (Ha, Sii, Oiii) Celestron 14” on modified CGX-L Pixinsight post processing with blurX, noiseX, curves. What you guys think? Better close up or zoomed out?
NGC7000 on 11-06-2024 Location: Deaver, WY Orion EON115 with Orion 0.8 Reducer fl 644mm F5.6 RisingCam IMX571 Optolon L-Enhance filter Skywatcher Eq6r Pro mount 50 lights, 30 flatch and bias frames NINA aqusition software PHD2 guiding software
Processed in PixInsight: DynCrop ImageSolver PhotometricColorCalibration BackgroundNeut BlurXterminator NoiseXterminator EZ Softstretch StarXterminator SCNR LocalHistEqualization ColorChannelExtraction CurvesTrans LRGBCombination RescreenStars WriteJPG
Camera: Canon PowerShot SX120 IS
ISO: 1600
Aperture: +2
Sub exposure times: 6 seconds
Frames Stacked: 70
Total integration time: 420 seconds (7 minutes)
Processing: Stacked in Sequator and further processed in Photoshop
Setup: Sony Alpha 6400 (unmodified) Samyang 135mm F2 Staradventurer 2i Borte 4 without filter Around 5hrs of Data with 15sec iso800 exposures Edited with siril, graxpert, starnet++ and photoshop
Taken December 5, 2020. Sony a7 iii, 12mm lens, 3.5 hours of 30s exposures, composited in StarStaX
Yesterday I photographed Saturn at around 10:20pm (AEST) with an 8” Dobsonian Telescope & a 6mm and 25mm eyepiece.
I did some pre-processing with Saturn and stacked 660 frames with Autostakkert and sharpened in Registax. Then I did major composites in mobile photoshop & lightroom and done!
Extra info: I didn’t use a sensor, instead I used a regular iPhone
I used an iPhone 12 with a 10 second exposure. I edited the some of the brightness and tint related settings with the default photos app. Taken in July in flagstaff, Arizona.
I’m really pleased with how this turned out!
Nikon p900 Stacked in AS! Edited using PS
Hey guys I took this picture last night with my samsung phone with 10s exposure This is my first astrophotography and I captured pleaidis, Jupiter and hyades which is beside the red star. You can see a few stars of the hyades Give me tips on how I can improve ^^ Also let me know if you all can make out some constellations