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Brightest star (Sirius A)

 

One of my attempts at Orion Nebula

 

Venus shines brightest of them all, shot sometime September 2015 early morning.

 

Here's just a photograph I took of the night sky when I was on vacation in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, Canada. It was so dark out there, you can faintly see the milky way in the photo. (even a shooting star or something in the top right too).

It's a long exposure shot that I really liked, it came out nice. Taken with a Nikon D3200 DSLR camera, can't remember exact setting.

 

And thanks for the nice words everyone :) It's a fun little hobby to take up.



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Wow this is so pretty. How much did this cost you?

Space and the stars is something that's always been close to my heart ever since I was a child. Something so beautiful and influential. Something so touching :)




It's been a while haha, months!

I'll update this again

Jupiter

 

Detailed moon!

 

Very poor attempt at Orion Nebula

 

Mars



Nice, does the telescope take those pics?



Can you take a picture of Uranus?

How far down the street can you see with this thing? Can you see through curtains? 🤔







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Turkish said:
Nice, does the telescope take those pics?

I put my camera up to the eyepiece of the telescope and take pictures :)

Planets - I use a USB webcam for recording the planets as snapping one individual picture is WAY too hard due to them moving at an incredibly fast speed.

I dont have automatic tracking with my telescope so it's all done with manual tracking, making my life a lot, lot harder. :(



Think you can get one of my favorite planet Neptune?



lionpetercarmoo said:
Think you can get one of my favorite planet Neptune?

I'll try to. Neptune is a tough one to get! I believe i tried finding it a few times had no luck. Certainly will try again.



You should buy a motorized tracking mount that can look onto objects if you are really into astrophotography. Tracking them by hand is hard as fuck (as I'm sure you know by now), and if you want to really have the long exposure times you need to get the best pictures, the telescope needs to be following the object to a T.

Other than that, if you do get a motorized tracking mount, you could try taking several long exposure time pictures of the same item, and use photoshop to superimpose the images on top of each other. It will greatly improve the quality (and you could also do some colour correction and increase saturation and stuff if you want. I really don't know stuff photoshop.)

Of course, your pictures are really great, but I'm just trying to give some constructive feedback for you to improve on haha. I used to stargaze quite a bit before, but atm I'm so friggin busy with school haha. Never got into astrophotography though (the things I wrote above is just what I've heard from a person I know who is pretty good at it). Just finding objects yourself and seeing them through the telescope yourself is in and of itself and amazing enough experience for me.



Did you stack the Saturn images to get that amazing picture?