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Astrophotography in Exotic Nii Emission Line (ft. 3nm Nii filter from Chroma)
Hello? my name is Darwin, and I'm an amateur astronomer living in heavily light polluted city of Seoul.
In this video, I'll be explaining what the [NII] emission line is, the Nii narrowband filters, and what you can actually get by using one.
I will be showing you my latest works imaged with filters only in the red spectrum (Sii, Nii and Ha).
I've been using my Chroma's 3nm Nii filter for over 3 years now, so feel free to leave any comments or questions that you might have.
This is the link to Paulyman Astro's video about Foraxx Combination, so check it out if you want to know more about this technique!
ruclips.net/video/m2UgVQGkVC0/видео.htmlsi=_q3IHPwmECSBTMKR
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My advice for people who's looking to buy their first telescope
Просмотров 63610 месяцев назад
Hello, my name is Darwin, an amateur astronomer living in the heavily light polluted city of Seoul. In this video, I'll give some very simple advices for the beginners who are trying to buy their first telescopes. I hope they help you understand what you should consider before buying a telescope. Thank you for watching this video! Feel free to leave any comments. They will greatly help me impro...
Can you do Astronomy in a heavily light polluted city?
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Hi, my name is Darwin, and I live in a heavily light polluted, bortle 9 city of Seoul, South Korea. (My SQM readings show 16~17 mag/arcsec^2) I've been doing astronomy for 5 years exclusively in Seoul. Although my main focus is astrophotography, I still do some visual astronomy as well. In this video, I would like to share with you some of my experiences and results, and possibly give you some ...

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  • @tarangan.chinchwad
    @tarangan.chinchwad 2 месяца назад

    You are great

  • @yobb89
    @yobb89 3 месяца назад

    do you have a script for subtraction on the 10% and 30 % overlap on the ha-nii filters ? bummer about astrodon, i got my filters from chroma.chroma still do custom orders, thinking about getting a hii filter for pn

  • @gerardford1116
    @gerardford1116 4 месяца назад

    Great video Darwin! I live in Long Island New York, close to New York City, so I share your challenges. Nevertheless, your video is spot on. You can obtain good astrophotography pictures with the use of proper equipment and understanding the challenges your environment presents. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you.

  • @이도완-l5z
    @이도완-l5z 4 месяца назад

    화이팅 !! 이뻐요 😊

  • @astroabhi_09
    @astroabhi_09 4 месяца назад

    Cool bro...

  • @Aple1259
    @Aple1259 4 месяца назад

    Bortle 9 에서 저게 어떻게 나외요?? ㄷㄷ

  • @southbronxny5727
    @southbronxny5727 7 месяцев назад

    Interesting. So do all nebulas have nitrogen emissions? I barely get oxy3 here in bortel 9, should I use nitrogen instead?

  • @anata5127
    @anata5127 7 месяцев назад

    Besides size of object, brightness and nature of object is important. For example, it is almost impossible to get proper pictures of reflection-dust-dark nebulae from bortle 9.

  • @anata5127
    @anata5127 7 месяцев назад

    What do you think about H-beta?

  • @Fartmaster699
    @Fartmaster699 8 месяцев назад

    This is for me, I live in Dubai with a bortle scale of about 8 only Jupiter Saturn Sirius and barely Rigel and Betelgeuse are visible to the eye

  • @TheClassicWeebNo
    @TheClassicWeebNo 8 месяцев назад

    I am from a light polluted cities TT... But it gets better at night because my area falls asleep quick. The street lights are still there but its better. Thsnk you for the video! Its very informative!

  • @woody5109
    @woody5109 8 месяцев назад

    I appreciate your content, however, when Darkrangerinc talks, I listen.

  • @briandiaz3758
    @briandiaz3758 8 месяцев назад

    im in bortle 9 ( SQM 16.84) Real time in south florida ( miami city) using narrowband filters 3nm chroma (SHO)

  • @SmilingAstroStation-wj5lx
    @SmilingAstroStation-wj5lx 8 месяцев назад

    Your content is underrated bro Just sub

  • @abhijitjuvekar
    @abhijitjuvekar 8 месяцев назад

    Hi, which square shape tent you are using for shielding your imaging setup ? looks nice design please give it's product link.

  • @woody5109
    @woody5109 8 месяцев назад

    Good job, I’ve been at it for years now, your on the money. Don’t forget how important progressing is as well.

  • @ross1972
    @ross1972 8 месяцев назад

    Very inspiring video you uave achieved great things despite the light pollution. Wishing you clear skies from New Zealand.

  • @freddyking8742
    @freddyking8742 8 месяцев назад

    Great video, I live in moderately light polluted skies. Summer astronomy, is poor, I avoid it because of mosquitoes. I have had good seeing in winter. Thanks I will check out your other videos.

  • @Law0086
    @Law0086 8 месяцев назад

    Lit

  • @reachforthestarchannel
    @reachforthestarchannel 9 месяцев назад

    Nice😊😊😊

  • @zbnmth
    @zbnmth 9 месяцев назад

    very nice results and thanks for taking the time to explain everything so thoroughly! I'm looking into NIR-emission lines as they suffer less from Rayleigh scattering (start imaging before complete dark! 😮) ànd atmospheric abberation (less need to be on a mountaintop).

  • @도마도-i8d
    @도마도-i8d 9 месяцев назад

    Dude, great video! I can see this channel will fly. I am rooting for you!

    • @도마도-i8d
      @도마도-i8d 9 месяцев назад

      and I subscribed♥️

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 9 месяцев назад

      Thanks for the nice comments! I'll do my best to put out videos that are both informative and inspiring.

  • @davidemancini7853
    @davidemancini7853 9 месяцев назад

    Are you on Astrobin?

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 9 месяцев назад

      Nope, unfortunately I have no astrobin account. I almost exclusively enjoyed and shared my astro work in a Korean astro community. Since, I now have a RUclips channel, I think I should seriously consider making one to share high resolution images...

  • @viewintospace
    @viewintospace 9 месяцев назад

    Really enjoyed your video - something fresh to learn - keep up the good work!!

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 9 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching and for the encouragement! It feels really nice to get a nice comment from a well known astro youtuber!

  • @jeffreymorris1752
    @jeffreymorris1752 9 месяцев назад

    The Nights of Nii!

  • @esanof
    @esanof 10 месяцев назад

    great videos Darwin, good content and nice quality. I just subscribed and hope you keep publishing from time to time. Cheers

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 9 месяцев назад

      Thank you for the comment and the sub! I'll try to keep up making good quality, and informative videos!

  • @user-sy6xh9ot7m
    @user-sy6xh9ot7m 10 месяцев назад

    영상 퀄리티 무엇,,👏👏

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      ^^ 열심히 한 번 만들어봤습니다. 좋게 봐주셔서 감사합니다!

  • @nicksmith2911
    @nicksmith2911 10 месяцев назад

    Great vid! thanks bud.👍

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching and for a heart warming comment!

  • @thedeathtical
    @thedeathtical 10 месяцев назад

    I'd like to know about the folding/portable observatory/tent you used toward the end of your video. Who makes it, where did you get, etc? Thanks

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching! It's not really a dedicated tent. It's called Ice Fishing Tent and you can find them easy on Amazon or Aliexpress, etc. Many Korean astromers use them for wind prevention. You can either cut off the top of the tent, leaving only the walls. Instead of doing that I'm one of the few who flip the tent upside down, leaving the open bottom face the sky. I'll be doing a review of sort about this tent, providing my experiences and guiding results, etc!

  • @앙뀨-b9b
    @앙뀨-b9b 10 месяцев назад

    멋져요!

  • @mikeharden7904
    @mikeharden7904 10 месяцев назад

    Video was very interesting and educational. Enjoyed it. Thanks

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching! I'm glad you found my video interesting and informative!

  • @sevenskiesastro
    @sevenskiesastro 10 месяцев назад

    Great video and interesting. Keep up the good work. Subscribed. Clear skies

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for the compliments and for the subscription! I'll try my best to make informative videos like this! Clear skies!

  • @ziggyfrnds
    @ziggyfrnds 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the great informative video! subscribed! BTW you don't really need english subtitles your english is perfectly understandable. But you do you my friend :)

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Glad you found it useful and thank you very much for all the good things you said! (And for the sub too!) It's really encouraging to hear that my English sounds okay to many people :) Expected more of a "what the hack is he saying" sort of situation. Still, I'll put english subtitles in case I mispronounce or say something in weird accents

  • @shaunozs1ra92
    @shaunozs1ra92 10 месяцев назад

    Interesting thanks. I deliberately purchased the Chroma 5nm Ha filter so I could capture the Nii on the edges.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      I believe it was a fine move! Unless you are really struggling to capture details in Ha (which I think isn't very difficult to do even under heavy light pollution), 5nm filter will give you the details in both Ha and Nii combined. Some people say that some of the details in 'Ha region' can be lost due to lack of Nii singals if the bandwidth is too narrow. I have no experience with 5nm Ha filter, so I cannot compare 3nm vs. 5nm, but I can assure you that the Nii images are somewhat different from the 3nm Ha images.

    • @shaunozs1ra92
      @shaunozs1ra92 10 месяцев назад

      @@StarsAboveRooftop I am now researching the purchase of an IR Pass filter to try and improve the capturing of reflection nebula.

  • @nadirteymurov1
    @nadirteymurov1 10 месяцев назад

    What about Helium, Neon and other exotic bands ?

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching! I do have two other exotic narrowband filters that encompass He ii and Ne iii emission lines, which I bought from Edmund Optics. I did some tests with bright nebulas but haven't used them enough to draw any conclusions or suggestions. All I can say is the images produced by these filters are somewhat different, but their signals are really weak.

  • @marklewis9265
    @marklewis9265 10 месяцев назад

    I was thinking having watched your vid, whether using a 7nm Ha filter - 3nm Ha filter (and calling the difference as a synthetic N2) may yield a similar result? - call it the poor man's N2, as I don't have the $$ for an N2 filter.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching! I think your method would work on planetary nebulas and supernova remants, where Nii and Ha signals differ quite a bit. On other emission nebulas, the differences are very subtle. 3nm filter will also captures Nii, so you might have difficult time extracting enough Nii out of your data. I haven't done it, so I'm not 100% sure.

  • @jesuschrist2284
    @jesuschrist2284 10 месяцев назад

    Great video. No need for the subtitles your english is fantastic

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Many thanks for your kind comment! I had to go through many hours revising the script and recording due to my bad English :)

    • @jesuschrist2284
      @jesuschrist2284 10 месяцев назад

      @@StarsAboveRooftop ty for the effort :)

  • @JoseLausuch
    @JoseLausuch 10 месяцев назад

    Hi! I am in a similar situation and I always try to shoot only narrowband on the city and broadband on the field, but I'd like to try something RGB from the city too. What kind of broadband filters are you using in the city?

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching! I too mostly image in narrowband. For broadband imaging, I usually do mono LRGB imaging with very long total integration time or do monochrome IR imaging. The M31 image in the video is 32 hours of LRGB data, and still the blue color doesn't really show very well due to light pollution. All the OSC light pollution filters that I tried didn't really work very well (Optolong L-Pro, UHC, IDAS LPS-D2, etc).

  • @darkrangersinc
    @darkrangersinc 10 месяцев назад

    I was quite interested until you mentioned it’s only 3 nm away from HA. I think Long before I would spend over $1000 on an Nii filter I would swap a 3nm HA for a 5nm which is actually cheaper. Either way good information it’s always cool to learn something completely new. Appreciate your content. Thank you 🙏🏼

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Due to Nii filters being so expensive, I guess you've got a fair point. Many people I know (here in Korea) use 5nm Ha filters intentionally to capture both Ha and Nii eventhough they use 3nm Oiii and Sii filters. But it's always fun to play around with other emisison results and create your own unique pictures! Thank you for watching!

    • @derekderek2570
      @derekderek2570 10 месяцев назад

      If you’re using narrowband filters and one of them is 5nm wouldn’t that bottleneck the image to have it light polluted to the widest narrowband filter? Making the 3nm worthless… even more than worthless… you’d be doing yourself a disfavor by reducing the signal you get in the 3nm filters (and paying more) Just curious

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      @@derekderek2570 Well, in terms of light pollution, yes, 5nm will let in more light pollution, reducing the potential for cleaner Ha signals. However, when you are imaging objects with strong Nii signals like the planetary nebula, the 3nm Ha filters will cut off some of the details that you might have captured from a combined Nii + Ha signals of the 5nm Ha filter. Or at least that is what the makers of Nii filters say in their advertisements. Get separate signals with 3nm Nii and Ha filter, or get 5 nm Ha filter and get both Nii and Ha. If you want that extra little detail in your images at the cost of light pollution, I think it's worth a try.

    • @darkrangersinc
      @darkrangersinc 10 месяцев назад

      @@derekderek2570 baader and other companies literally sell SHO sets that are different size band passes depending on the gas. I think one set has 2 that 3nm and a 4.5 or 5nm. They aren’t the only company that does that so seeing as some manufacturers already designed their filter set that way, I don’t think it would make a big deal

  • @johntdavies
    @johntdavies 10 месяцев назад

    Hi, greetings from Bortle 8.5 London, I really enjoyed your video, a great mixture of tech and examples, well presented and not too long. I've subscribed and look forward to more. Like others I'm also keep to pick up a 48mm 3nm Nii filter to go with my SHO set. Now I'm just wondering which of the LRGB will have to go. Perhaps if they make them for F2 then I can buy one for my HyperStar.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you John for watching the video and for the sub! I mostly image emission nebulas, so replacing L with Nii seems to be most sensible to me. (RGB for stars only) In my case, I use two carousels, one with only the broadband (LRGB IR UV) and the other with narrowband filters + L. Platesolving with narrowband filters under heavy light pollution fails very often :(, so I always keep L filter in the narrowband filter carousel.

  • @komr323
    @komr323 10 месяцев назад

    hello from hk. Excellent video ❤

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Welcome to the channel! Thank you for watching and for your encouraging words!

  • @travis8586
    @travis8586 10 месяцев назад

    Great work!

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you Travis! Feels great to get such encouragements!

  • @sabyasachibanerjee124
    @sabyasachibanerjee124 10 месяцев назад

    Good and useful advice.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Glad you found it useful. Thank you for watching!

  • @rehon101
    @rehon101 10 месяцев назад

    I can't find this filter in chroma website can you give me a link? thanks and clear skies.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for watching! There's no link to it. You have to contact Chroma and ask for it in person via email. That's one of the reasons why I emailed both Astrodon and Chroma in the first place.

    • @rehon101
      @rehon101 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@StarsAboveRooftop thanks, and what filter wheel do you use an 8 position one (LRGB,Ha,Hii,Sii,Oii)? also do you use other "exotic" filters.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      @@rehon101 Oh, I use 7 position filter wheel. I have other exotic emission line filters (He and Ne; they are meant for planetary nebulas, but I rarely use them though..), ultraviolet and infrared filter, so I have two carousels, one with narrowband (L, Ne, He, N, S, H, O) and the other with broad band filters (L, R, G, B, IR, UV). I switch the carousel out if I were to change from boradband target to narrowband target or vice versa.

    • @rehon101
      @rehon101 10 месяцев назад

      @@StarsAboveRooftop thanks

    • @rehon101
      @rehon101 9 месяцев назад

      @@StarsAboveRooftop He is He(II) but what is Ne and Id watch videos about them

  • @DSOImager
    @DSOImager 10 месяцев назад

    Interesting. I never considered a Nii filter but it would be helpful on those targets that lack Oiii. Subbed :)

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching! Yes, it really helps on targets with low Oiii signals. It's unfortunate that nobody really cares about Nii in reality, though.

    • @derekderek2570
      @derekderek2570 10 месяцев назад

      I don’t think it’s no one cares the cost to value ratio might be the worst of any product in the history of man. It would be like having a sports car and spending $1000 on a carbon fiber steering wheel to save weight. That money could buy a turbo or all new tires. Something that has actual value. Nonetheless, I enjoyed your video!

  • @janomacko5764
    @janomacko5764 10 месяцев назад

    best video on this topic I have ever seen

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Wow, thank you for such high praise! Nobody really uses Nii filters, so I think I'm quite unique in this respect. Hope my video gave you a good idea on what this mysterious Nii line is!

    • @janomacko5764
      @janomacko5764 10 месяцев назад

      @@StarsAboveRooftop I ment astrophotography in general, you provided very detailed information and showed us spectacular images

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      @@janomacko5764 Thanks Jano with your kind words! Glad I could be of any help with my pictures and infos!

  • @davegski
    @davegski 10 месяцев назад

    Great video. Mind sharing a link or description for the tent you are using at the end of the video? I need one for my windy rooftop.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching all the way till the end! Ah, about the tent... I'll make a video about it someday soon. I bought it in an online shop in Korea, which I don't think non-Korean speakers can buy from that easily... It literally translates into ice fishing tent, that I just flipped upside-down, so I have open ceiling and covered ground. I think there are similar tents on places like Aliexpress, so you may have to look around a bit.

    • @davegski
      @davegski 10 месяцев назад

      @@StarsAboveRooftop thank you! Plenty of ice fishing tents available on Amazon here in the states. Id been looking up stuff like “roofless tent” but didn’t think to just flip it upside down. Appreciate the tip!

  • @christopherbareja996
    @christopherbareja996 10 месяцев назад

    Absolutely incredible images! Very in-depth and technical video, thanks for posting.

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for watching the video! There's not a lot of Nii filter users out there, so I wanted to share with fellow astronomers what you can do with this filter

  • @christopherbareja996
    @christopherbareja996 10 месяцев назад

    Studies have shown that the sun is actually only 1/3 as hot as this channel.

  • @MauriceHaddad
    @MauriceHaddad 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you it was interesting to me

    • @StarsAboveRooftop
      @StarsAboveRooftop 10 месяцев назад

      I'm glad you found the video interesting. Thank you for watching!