How To Do Astrophotography: Imaging Rho Ophiuchi
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- In this video I'll show the equipment and settings used to capture this incredible deep sky target known as the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex.
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That is definitely an awesome shot Aaron!
Gee thank you Ray! Had a lot of fun with this one. Maybe next year I can add some more data to it.
What a great capture, Aaron!
Thank you Enrique! It was a fun target.
Beautiful shot.
Thank you!
Excellent capture 👌🔭
Thanks a lot 😊
Amazing brother! God bless.
Thank you. God bless you!
Hi!! Do you have a processing video for Rho Ophiuchi? Great image by the way. Thanks.
All of this was very familiar looking to me! I'm in Tallahassee and I go to the coast all the time to shoot. If you're ever in the area again and want to link up, let me know
Is this where the recent super Nova occured ? and can you get a closeup ? i am hoping there would be a supernova somewhere close to solar system so we can see the beautiful site. hopefully about 10 light years away soon
Not sure really
@@AVAstronomy Hoping alpha centuri would go super nova soon. that would be a site
You definitely would not want to have a supenova only 10 light years from Earth lol. A supernova within about 30 light-years would lead to potential mass extinction. X-rays and more energetic gamma rays from the supernova could destroy the ozone layer that protects us from solar ultraviolet rays. So, 10 light years away would be instant death. Fortunately there are no stars within 50 light years poised to go supernova.
Really wish I lived at a lower latitude so I could shoot this gorgeous target.. Top is peaking around 15 degrees altitude, lower parts around 7 or 8, so I probably need to travel a bit south sometime to get it a little higher above the horizon.
Anyways, you got some great results man, well done!
Thank you Colin! Yeah, it’s one of those targets that would be worth the trip. Thanks for watching!
London too far north too....LOL
I can't believe you got the MW shot on the little G7X, nice work. The Rho Ophiuchi came out great, the star bursts look really good on that lens. Anyway my question is what did you use to polar align on the star tracker? I have an Ioptron and I use the visual scope and an app to eyeball it, but its proving very hard. Have you ever auto guided with the sky watcher tracker?
Hi, yeah I was surprised to see the results fromt he G7X as well. but really it's more of a testament to the dark sky location. I polar aligned simply using the Ipolar app to find polaris current location in reference to the diagram on the Ipolar app and then used the illuminated polar scope on the mount to make the adjustment. I plan on doing a video on this mount as there a a few things I did that helped keep me decently polar aligned. I also, plan on autoguiding with it eventually. waiting until I get an ASI AIR pro and a minin guidescope. then ill be good to go for longer exposures. clear skies!
@@AVAstronomy Thanks for reply, I will keep trying with the polar scope and app. Look forward to a video on star tracker polar alignment.
If you have Sharpcap you can get by without a guide cam, check out “folder monitoring” :) basically you can capture jpegs onsite from your main camera to your laptop and get sharpcap to polar align from those photos instead of a guide cam.
Donovan Muller that is pretty cool! I’m gonna have to look into that feature.
How do you get such sharp focus
bhatinov mask when you can use one and if not then use the digital zoom feature on your DSLR to get stars as in focus as possible. Clear skies!
@@AVAstronomy thanks a lot
Nice shot. Is your camera modified for Full Spectrum? Finally got some decent weather here in Vegas and am going out tonight to shoot the Milky Way and this shot as well. I will probably use my Sony equipment vs the Nikon D810. The Nikon has been modified Full Spectrum. I do gather more light with the Nikon as well.
Thank you! It’s Ha modded by life pixel
@@AVAstronomy Thanks for the info.
Great images. Hope to be able to capture Rho Ophiuchi one day. I have just started out on the hobby and am having a few issues. Could you put together some tips on aligning the polar scope. I think mine may be out of the 2nd hand mount that I purchased. I have the clock polar scope on my Skywatcher mount and have polar aligned with the help of Polar Pro and have both 2 and 3 star aligned but targets are always in bottom left corner of the frame or out of it completely when I slew to them. Would this be caused by a misaligned polar scope or just poor polar alignment?
Hi and thank you! This is likely not due to polar alignment. To this day after I polar align my mount. The first target I slew to is way off. Plate solving is really the way to go. After you have polar aligned your mount simply load APT, take a picture of the sky, and then use POINTCRAFT to platesolve the image. Sync the results in your planetarium software and your good to go. I have videos on POINTCRAFT, and using stellarium.
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How have you found the SVBony ED. I’m looking at their smaller scope. Can you do a review on their scope please. I have just brought their UHC filter. Keen to use it, just no clear skies.....
I haven’t used that scope yet but I can tell you that the uhc is better for visual use. You’ll be much better of with a CLS filter or an L-enhance by optolong although it’s a bit higher in price.
what kind of diffraction spikes are those on the Rho image?
Those are actually naturally occurring diffraction spikes from the canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens. I shot it at F4.
There is a program you should check out called StarSpikes. You can add that effect to your taste via this app. It's about $35.00.