Hi, quite heavy processing Used Siril to stack 400 30s exposures, then some denoising and stretching / colour correction

Ahh that sucks

I feel incredibly lucky that I have a Bortle 5 in my garden, it would be so much harder if I needed to drive somewhere

That’s awesome! I had the same epiphany before I even bought a mount. Use a 50mm lens and 1-2s images and you can still stack!

I’m sure you’ve seen him before, but Nebula Photos is an amazing channel for no nonsense videos about “I have a camera, what do”

http://youtube.com/@nebulaphotos

Hi thank you for the interest! I wrote up my equipment and process here:

http://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/13980404

Hi, thank you for the interest!

Equipment:

• Canon 90d (no astro mod) ISO800
• Canon 200mm f2.8L lens stopped down to f4.0
• Star adventurer 2i mount

As many 20s exposures as I could get that night.

I use Siril for processing, been enjoying manual preprocessing recently actually. I stack and then follow a general processing pipeline I like: BG extraction, Photometric colour cal, then starnet++ star removal.

I denoise in graxpert and back to Siril for stretching the data using GHS

Perfect! Local astronomy clubs are definitely an amazing resource. I’m relatively new to the hobby so would definitely go by their experience.

Happy shooting and don’t forget to share!

300mm is good, though you may want to be careful what mount you pair it with.

I use 200mm and am using a star adventurer 2i. I’ve heard others say this is near the limit for that platform.

Hbomberguy is so based

I am sorry to say I can frequently be this friend…

Damn, you got me. Im sure its very important work your doing.

This was on a canon 90d on a star adventurer 2i, with a 50mm f1.8 lens stopped to around f5.6

30sec exposures at iso 800 stacked up using Siril

A bonus restretch and crop to just the galaxy. You can see the arms!

Tru tru

Hey thanks a lot! This was my 2nd attempt at all, but my first with an actual target, not Just snapping a picture of the sky

I wrote up my method here http://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12982996

Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas too, I’m here to learn :D

Thank you for your interest and compliments :) I was following advice from Nico Carvers channel for taking the frames: I am in a Bottle 4/5 sky so am decently lucky in that regard I took 400 light frames ( had to cull about half though) at 3sec exposure time to try and keep sharpess based on the NPF rule.

For processing I used Siril and a lot of tutorials. I stacked the frames (minus flats because it didn’t like the ones I took), then ran background extraction, plate solved colour calibration, and then I removed the stars with starnet.

I stretched the nebula using the generalised hyperbolic transform (I wanted to learn it, so far only used the others) and was happy with the results I got! My main trick was to do just enough stretching and reset the black point at each step, being careful about clipping. I then readded the stars at the level that I found aesthetic

I don’t know too much yet, this was my 2nd astro project at all, but I really loved it!

I just got a star adventurer 2i and the next clear night will have me doing Andromeda

LEDs kinda ruin the simplicity. Current runs into a chunk of Gallium Nitride and mumble mumble quantum mumble mumble bandgap and light comes out!

No answer to your question is relevant, as there is no line where vandalising someone’s shit becomes acceptable. Let alone based on someone’s gut reaction that owning a particular car makes someone scum

Even if they were “almost 100%” right wing tech bros, it doesn’t excuse messing with a private person’s shit.

People need to target the problem, rather than infighting.

You may want to quote some more of that bit, bud. It was a FOILED BOMBING PLOT targeting Jewish Australians.

How is Israel relevant?

But yes, native people always seem to get the shaft, no matter where you are. Again though, not relevant in this thread surely.

All Nazis are assholes Not all assholes are Nazis