Wanting to improve my solar and get some experience on DSO photography

Which filter would you go for?

Hello everyone! So, this is my third photography, since I bought a telescope, and I love it! It feels amazing!

Just wanted to share it here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, haha. Little steps!

Details:

Telescope: Skywatcher Explorer 200/1000 (no PDS) Mount: Skywatcher EQ5 (manual) Camera: Nikon D3400 (unmodified) (1sec 400x flats)(50x darks)(25x flats)(20x bias)

Have a nice day!

Hey,

I'm considering getting a Sigma fp for astrophotography. One thing I can't find any info on is can clip-in filters (between sensor and lens) be used (ex Hydrogen alpha)?

I'm very new to this and am having problems. Gear- sony a6300 Sigma 70-200 SA GTI Intervelometer I'll provide a picture of my issue.

I'm getting slight trails though and idk what the cause is. I have found though, that if I polar align, let it do its thing, then come back and look at the alignment, it's completely off and usually outside of the circle. Why is this??

Do I need to change my orientation of my camera/lens to "portrait" mode? Would this help at all? I'm also seeing the stars moving in the frames, is this normal or should it be tracking better than that?

I'm going for 50sec at 200mm (reference picture for result). This should be doable right? Hopefully ive provided enough information in order for any guesses. TIA!

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When I first installed Siril it seemed to work fine but I didn’t use it yet until I had some data, now it won’t work for me The app opens with the windows hidden, when I click show windows this pops up and clicking on it just pops it back to hidden. I’m trying to search for a solution but not getting anywhere.

I already tried rebooting the computer and reinstalling Siril

I posted about this a month ago. The star is due to go nova between now and September.

SETI wants people to help observe the star system and monitor it for any changes that might indicate a nova. Here is a link :)

https://www.seti.org/be-first-see-once-lifetime-stellar-explosion

So I’m looking to pick up the Sigma 60-600mm for my FX30 for several different reasons, but also with the intention to point it at the night sky sometimes, seeing totality in effectively my backyard and getting some footage of that really has me hooked haha.

I’ve seen the sky watcher star adventurer for example get recommended a decent chunk as a gateway drug so to speak, and seems to work well with something like the Rokinon 135mm f2.0 for example, but is 600mm on an APS-C camera way beyond the scope of what the star adventurer can handle? Would I need something more like the EQM 35? And would the EQM 35 even handle a focal length like that if the adventurer can’t?

Tried to read some forum posts on my own looking for an answer but lots of people seem to just switch to some sort of telescope mod or a full blown dedicated astrophotography setup beyond ~200mm with a DSLR/Mirrorless camera.

RC 8 w/ 0.75x reducer, EQ6-Ri, 533MC Pro, 180' x 100 exposures, Processed in PI

A 6 or 7 image stitched Panorama- 03/2019 - Canon 6D - 35mm 1.4 - 10s - ISO 3200. Took this on a road trip through California+Nevada. One of my personal favorites. Love how you can see dark patches in the water/temporary lake where the water is started to be fully absorbed through the sand/salt.

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Made with an 12" dobson, 3x barlow lens, planetary camera veloc omegon. 700~ frames from many videos. Processed in pipp, autostakkert, registax and, lastly, gimp.

As the question says, I have the nexstar 4se and the two cameras. I'd love to use the minolta with it having some sentimentality but am new to this. I've done some photography and film development in the past but never used a camera and telescope together. Any advice for this configuration is welcome. Eventually we will getting a dslr it's just not in the cards in for the very near future.