Right?? I haven't had the chance to use night vision yet, but from what I've seen those still don't produce colors like EAA does. While we were up there some auroras were going off and those too had very little color. A smidgen of green. Then, when I pointed my Canon SL2 at it, BOOM! Pinks, reds and purples filled the image. Our eyes suck at seeing feint colors, or at least mine do lol
Our B2 dark site is about a 2 hour drive from where we live and is located at 4,300 ft above sea level! We’re SO lucky!!! However, the city we live in (Bellingham) has a B6/7, which isn’t too bad! We’re very fortunate to have this wilderness location to appreciate the universe so close to home. I hope you have a dark site near you as well!! Clear skies ❤️
Yep! I used a Celestron UHC Light Pollution Filter and a ZWO IR Cut Filter. The IR Filter helps calm down the halos and give me more pin-point stars with my ASI 294, I think lol. Still testing that one. Meanwhile the UHC LP Filter is for calming down the OTHER halos caused by the Doublet Achromatic Lens. Chromatic aberrations can be pretty nasty on our ETX80. If we had an 80mm APO, I likely wouldn't have used the UHC filter and gathered even more light per frame! A possible upgrade for future shows! But for now, our ETX 80 Backpack Refractor is killing it! And thank you!!! Clear skies, Paul. ❤
Andromeda looks amazing! Hard to believe it is so big, but light pollution makes it hard to see! And what we are seeing is Andromeda from 2.5 million years ago!! Totally mind blowing!!
Heck yeah, Paul! It’s wild seeing up at the mountains with the naked eyes. No averted vision is necessary and it’s double the width of the full moon!! Just stretches out like a beast above the Andromeda constellation. So cool to look at through even a small telescope! I got a pretty sweet shot of the core through Isaac that I will post on IG soon! Thanks for tuning in and clear skies!! ❤️❤️
I kept getting the Crab Nebula and the Orion Nebula mixed up a few years ago haha. Don't ask how, I still don't know! I would tell visitors the story of the Crab, while aiming at Orion lol. Finally Cheyanne looked it up and that was a fun moment indeed hah!
Yep! That's Cheyanne and yeah Saturn was a real treat to end on. Usually when we go up to the mountains there are so many things to look at, we often save the planets for very last since we can see them so clearly from home. But Saturn calls... always!!! I was so caught up I forgot to glance at it sooner, hah! Thanks for watching!
@@spacetimewithrobert4438You are blessed to have someone to share astronomy with! Connie and I share many things, but star gazing isn't one of them. At least, not yet.
The difference in colors brought out doing EAA compared to just visual is amazing!!
Right?? I haven't had the chance to use night vision yet, but from what I've seen those still don't produce colors like EAA does. While we were up there some auroras were going off and those too had very little color. A smidgen of green. Then, when I pointed my Canon SL2 at it, BOOM! Pinks, reds and purples filled the image. Our eyes suck at seeing feint colors, or at least mine do lol
Wow your skies must be so dark for just low exposure and its that visible
Our B2 dark site is about a 2 hour drive from where we live and is located at 4,300 ft above sea level! We’re SO lucky!!! However, the city we live in (Bellingham) has a B6/7, which isn’t too bad! We’re very fortunate to have this wilderness location to appreciate the universe so close to home. I hope you have a dark site near you as well!! Clear skies ❤️
Are you using a UHC filter for those nebula? They look gr8!!
Yep! I used a Celestron UHC Light Pollution Filter and a ZWO IR Cut Filter. The IR Filter helps calm down the halos and give me more pin-point stars with my ASI 294, I think lol. Still testing that one.
Meanwhile the UHC LP Filter is for calming down the OTHER halos caused by the Doublet Achromatic Lens. Chromatic aberrations can be pretty nasty on our ETX80. If we had an 80mm APO, I likely wouldn't have used the UHC filter and gathered even more light per frame! A possible upgrade for future shows! But for now, our ETX 80 Backpack Refractor is killing it! And thank you!!! Clear skies, Paul.
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Andromeda looks amazing! Hard to believe it is so big, but light pollution makes it hard to see! And what we are seeing is Andromeda from 2.5 million years ago!! Totally mind blowing!!
Heck yeah, Paul! It’s wild seeing up at the mountains with the naked eyes. No averted vision is necessary and it’s double the width of the full moon!! Just stretches out like a beast above the Andromeda constellation. So cool to look at through even a small telescope! I got a pretty sweet shot of the core through Isaac that I will post on IG soon! Thanks for tuning in and clear skies!! ❤️❤️
@@spacetimewithrobert4438 Now I have a bad case of Dark Sky envy!!
I also thought the Whirlpool galaxy was M101, Pinwheel
I kept getting the Crab Nebula and the Orion Nebula mixed up a few years ago haha. Don't ask how, I still don't know! I would tell visitors the story of the Crab, while aiming at Orion lol. Finally Cheyanne looked it up and that was a fun moment indeed hah!
Saturn is so bright! No need for long exposures. That was a gr8 night of observing! Is your assistant your GF?
Yep! That's Cheyanne and yeah Saturn was a real treat to end on. Usually when we go up to the mountains there are so many things to look at, we often save the planets for very last since we can see them so clearly from home. But Saturn calls... always!!! I was so caught up I forgot to glance at it sooner, hah! Thanks for watching!
@@spacetimewithrobert4438You are blessed to have someone to share astronomy with! Connie and I share many things, but star gazing isn't one of them. At least, not yet.