Nice session. A note: another way to do it is to keep whole process (slew, plate solve, focusing and acquisition) in NINA and do live-stack using Virtual Camera Folder in SharpCap, just point it to folder where NINA saved subs for given target.
You're not wrong Luke, these really do look like finished images from not long back! Can you imaging showing this video to an astrophotographer just ten years ago, they wouldn't believe it! Great combo with the RASA and Sony 585 sensor, and lots of interesting info given whilst the images were building up. Thanks for sharing the session and have a great weekend matey! :)
Thank you Chris mate!! - It really is baffling how far things have came along in the past 5 years or so haha, who knows what the next 5 are going to look like! :-D Hoping you have a cracking weekend too bud, all the best to you and your family!
Little tip for you... You can download the HIPS to FITS catalog to your harddrive and then use the offline catalog in NINA which is much faster. You can find the files on the NINA Download page at the bottom. Love the vid...
Thank you so much for the tip Jeff! - I'll have a look at that one of these days for sure, I tend to be wary of meddling too much as the old saying goes - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" but definitely I'm always up for making things quicker and more streamlined! :-) Cheers mate! Clear skies!
Thanks so much Barry!! - I couldn't agree more mate, it's the perfect companion! :-) Thank you for watching and giving your support my friend! 👍👍 Clear skies!
Another great video. When all my equipment chooses to work, :-) I do much the same thing. I'll use Sharp Cap for Live Stacking and NINA for target centering. I do one other thing that makes my evenings out more spontaneous. NINA allows you to sync the scope ("slew and center") to a target using Stellarium. So, I select a target from Stellarium and tell NINA to slew and center on that target using NINA. After that, I use SCap the same way you show. Thanks again for the new video. Nice observatory!!!
Hey there Tom!! - Awesome to hear that mate, i'm glad it's all working out for you much the same it seems! - Looks like NINA and SharpCap are a really powerful combo for sure :-) I'd love to see some form of live-stacking added to NINA in the future as a few other people mentioned in the comments, that would be awesome as an all-in-one approach to the most commonly performed tasks in astronomy I reckon. RE: stellarium scope - I've had some success with it in the past, but occasionally find it just randomly closes down on me which can be mildly irritating haha - will have to try again sometime Thanks for watching!
Another excellent video Luke. I started AP doing EAA four years ago and was hooked into this hobby ever since. I am currently working on imaging IC342 and hope to have 25+ hours of data. I’m still using my PlayerOne Neptune C and am still amazed at how what these OSC cameras can do.
Awesome to hear that Robert!! - The Hidden Galaxy, that's one heck of a target selection my friend, a good challenge I expect? I too am always impressed by modern OSC, they are delightfully straight-forwards to use and get along with, I'm a huge fan! Clear skies mate :-)
Hi Luke received my Uranus c. The other day and had first light last night. Bought it after your review I just want to say I absolutely love it. Finding and framing targets is a breeze. So thanks again buddy 😊
Fantastic session Luke, thanks! I have been saying for a while that it would be great if NINA gets an integrated live-stacking feature and a mobile/tablet interface.
Thank you mate!! - I agree totally, it would be wonderful to see something like that added in the future as the more I use N.I.N.A, the more I grow to like it! :-)
Super video as usual Luke, and great to see something a bit different, you are right about how far the kit has moved on, they really looked like finished images, and were better than I was getting with a couple of hours of exposures, with my old CCD camera….👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it mate, thank you so much! - It's crazy how much equipment has moved on for sure, who knows what the next 5 years will look like!! :-D Can't wait to find out!
Thanks, Luke. I thoroughly enjoyed sitting through the entire EAA session. Your editing and commentary are great. Considering how much time you have to put into this I really appreciate it!
SO glad you enjoyed it Peter! Thank you very much indeed my friend, - It's a lot of fun to do something a bit different every now and then :-) Clear skies mate!
Hi Luke,loved this type of video.Great choice of Summer sky targets for EAA and with the setup you got all were beautiful results in such a short space of time. Especially liked what you captured from the Veil nebulae targets, definitely worthy of 6+ hours on them with your setup in the future. You got Sharpcap and NINA working well together on this, great to know what’s possible. Clear skies.
Thanks so much Jon! - I'm glad to hear you liked this type of vid, it was really quite fun to make! :-) I hope to do more in the future with a different set of targets no doubt! Thank you for watching and giving your support, and clear skies my friend!
Thank you mate!! :-D It's been a lot of fun sharing all this content, glad people are enjoying it! I always appreciate you stopping by mate, clear skies :-)
Great video again, very interesting to see the effects of accumulating time on objects with the time-lapse parts of the video. That little Uranus-C camera is great, I got one a couple of weeks ago (surprise vacation gift from my husband) and I love it. I'm using it with a Newton 200/800, barely starting EAA and astrophoto 🤩
So glad you enjoyed it Serra! :-D Huge congratulations on your new camera by the way, that's wonderful to hear! I'm sure you'll have some very enjoyable nights with it as you dive deeper into EAA and Astrophotography! :-) Good luck and clear skies!!
Wow Luke! what a fantastic video showing what can be achieved in a night. Since starting out this year I have only been doing visual work. You have now given me that extra motivation to get my astrophotography going now. My backyard is in Barton upon Humber, near the Humber Bridge, the light pollution is better than what I expected around here. I can only look forward to some clear sky. Lovely presentation Luke, thanks for sharing. I look forward to your next video.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts Stephen my friend! :-) I'm so happy to hear you feel like giving astrophotography a go now, that's superb - I think you've got many fun nights ahead for sure! Thanks for watching and clear skies mate!
Luke, this is amazing. The Dumbbell Nebula (M27)..after 45seconds..man! WOW! I did some test shots last year on this target using my (very slow) Maksutov (127) over about 1 hours.. and I didn't even get close to this level of detail you've got after 45sec. This scope is a beast! ..and using this uncooled camera it's REALLY impressive. Also your other images during your EAA session are fantastic. Thanks for sharing this and clear skies mate. :)
Hey there Tully! - I'm really glad you liked the video my friend and thank you for sharing your own experience too! - It's incredible how fast the RASA is, it would be hard to change scopes right now I think as I've honestly been a bit spoiled by the speed as it makes everything that bit easier! :-) Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment as always, it's very much appreciated!
@@lukomatico I can just imagine that I would feel the same...once you used such a great scope it's hard to change again because of the great and fast results you get. :) Have a great time Luke and clear skies.
Hi Luke another great video. I really enjoyed the EAA from your set up. I have started to try it myself. I like using my Rasa as well because it's so fast and I can see several targets in one night. You seem to have the settings right on. When I do EAA I save as seen and also the individual subs to process later. All in all great job. You seem to be enjoying the Rasa. I"m so happy for you. Cs
Thank you so much Ray my friend! The RASA has been a major boon for me, I really do love using it and for work like this it's just unbelievable how good it is! :-) I always appreciate you stopping by and sharing your thoughts mate, thank you again! Hope the skies in AZ are treating you well!
Hi Luke. Now you have had a night with EAA and SharpCap you should try a variation and see the difference in result. You already have all you need. In Pixinsight you can use the EZ live stacking to get similar results. Here you just automate stretching ect. For capture you use NINA. You just have to tell EZ live stacking where you save the photos. As far as I know I have never seen a video where anyone compared the result from SharpCap and EZ live stacking. As you can setup SharpCap to monitor a folder in the same way as you do in EZ live stacking you can easily compare it on the fly. Maybe an idea for a new video?
An interesting idea Kim, thank you!! - I really ought to do more EAA content overall as it seems like people enjoy watching it, I'm just a little worried about running out of things to shoot haha! :-D Thank you for watching!
@@lukomatico a mix of Caldwell and Messier object bring you far. If you then variate by sometimes using filter, even mixing mixing non-filter+filter is not forbidden. Then then you don't run out for long time. Now you have the RASA then also try to make really short exposure but extend the total time with some minutes for clusters where you would easily burn out stars in the core. And see the difference to longer exposures. Don't forget to save the stack if you use SharpCap and the continue with some post processing to archive the pretty picture. The old rules about max 5 minutes total exposure time for EAA is out dated, except in some conservative competitions. The same with post processing which for EAA is forbidden. EAA is just on the fly stretching while doing the recording. But Even EZ live stacking is today accepted and it can do a bit more than you can in SharpCap. It's really up to you to experiment. The more you do the cooler results you get. Sometimes you do not even have to change object. You can simply variate it. Opposite AP then EAA give you fast results and as it progress within minutes then there it is actually something people can follow while there is a bit of time to talk about what happens technically but also the object itself. EAA is a really audience friendly way to observe so you should have enough for hundreds of videos if you just prepare and variate. And don't forget the opportunity to make live show during winter before people go to bed.
Great collection of images there Luke it's a pity there isn't a live stack option in NINA so everything can be kept in one place maybe one day someone will develop a plugin for it. As for the speed of the RASA yeah I hear ya I'm lucky to own one & I've found every time I go back to using a different scope I'm a little underwhelmed as you can pull in so much more data at F2. Since getting my mojo back after watching your videos I've really been enjoying the hobby again, after getting over a couple of hiccups with NINA everything has run pretty smoothly since & by just getting 4 hours here & there on targets if that in some cases I'm still blown away. Keep up the great work mate clear skies...
Thank you Tich!! - Ah mate, the live-stack in NINA thing would be incredible, I do hope someone figures that out someday!! RE: mojo, - totally hear you mate, it's normal I think to have ebbs in your enthusiasm for something that's likely a lifelong pursuit - it'd be unhealthy otherwise I'd say! :-D I'm ever so glad to hear you've got your mojo going though, that's brilliant! Clear skies to ya buddy!!
Hi Luke. Wonderful images with simple methods. I just hope that NINA soon has a live image stacker. We need to talk to NINA master Stefan Berg about developing a new plugin for live stacking. It's one of NINA's drawbacks, but I'm sure Stefan must be working on it. Stefan Berg has done a wonderful job and he really must spend a lot of time developing and refining NINA.😁
Hey Jesus!! :-) I 100% agree, adding live-stacking to NINA would be a tremendous thing! the NINA team are a supremely talented bunch of folks so I absolutely think they could figure it out! :-D - Something to look forwards to in the future I hope? Wishing you and your family a lovely weekend my friend, All the best, Luke
Hey Andrew! - Aw mate I'd love to, it's one of my all-time favourite targets, but I reckon my chance at the Eagle this year is just about over, it's setting into neighboring roofs after about 30 mins of visibility unfortunately! Thanks for watching mate!
Would love more of this almost like a series as since rewatching your rasa vs refractor series sold my WO flt91 and some other set up for a rasa 11 which will be here shortly and I’m buzzing as I wanna do this with a OSC and along with narrowband
That's awesome J!!! I'm really glad you liked this enough to suggest a series buddy! - I'm so hyped for you with the RASA11 you've got incoming, what a phenomenal scope that's going to be! :-) I'm actually hoping to save up over time and get myself one of those someday! Thanks for watching and good luck mate!!
@@lukomatico oh i do hope you get one to. I mean I looked at the 8 and thought that’s great but looked and the 11 and thought heck yh. Thank you Luke and all the best as usual
Nice video Luke! You just need to spend a little more time on your AF routine as ideally the highest HFR score on either side of the ‘U’ curve needs to be around 3 or 4 times that of the lowest HFR value i.e. your lowest HFR is just shy of 2.1 which means that ideally your highest HFR should be in the region of 6.5 to 8 HFR whereas your graph shows the highest HFR score of around 4. Increasing your step size, will result in an increase of the highest HFR on either side of the ‘U’ curve to where you need to be. By doing this it will also reduce the size of the red vertical bars on each of your focus points (the red bars are indications of possible error, the smaller the red bars the less chance of error). Once you have dialed in your AF routine as above then reduce your AF Offset Step Size as your AF routines are taking on average 2:25 minutes which is a long time. You can shave off at least a minute from your AF routine by lowering the Offset Step Size to 3. Look up Patriot Astro as he has some great videos on getting the perfect AF routine.
Thanks for the feedback and tips Simon, that's a lot of superb info!! - I'll have to try and optimize it all a bit further I guess, it's just I often find myself in the position of "if it ain't broke don't fix it!" you know? :-D Thank you for taking the time to share and educate! Clear skies man!
Great video Luke! Man, that camera and scope are crazy! I couldn't believe how much could be see just from the 5 second plate solving/focusing shots. I recently ordered a Skywatcher 130p-ds and I think after watching this I am going to purchase a focal reducer from svbony to use with my sv305 camera and do some EAA! (that'll put me at f/2.5 if it works properly). If I were you I would be proud to show these images even on some of the astrophotography forums and social media pages. Would you ever consider doing an EAA live stream? I don't know about others, but I would love to watch and chat a little bit while we all just watch the universe unfold in front of us!
Thank you Jessie!! - It's pretty crazy for sure how fast the combination is! :-D I think you'd have a lot of fun with EAA and that rig as long as you can get enough inward focus travel to get it working properly - reducers can be challenging like that sometimes depending on design! I'll have a good think about the livestream idea, it seems to be something a good few people are interested in seeing! Thank you again!
@@lukomatico No problem! I think I should be able to get the focus travel if I use my Sv305 camera rather than my DSLR since the PDS is designed to reach focus with a DSLR so the focus point is further outside the tube than normal anyway. Thanks for giving me something to consider though! P.S. It's really nice to see gentleman running a RUclips channel who interacts with his followers and takes things into consideration. Clear Skies!
Question: The RASA (@f2!) is very fast. It is a bit expensive, though. I'd be interested to see how well and how quickly EAA captures could be done with an 80mm (f5-f7?) refractor ( a "shoot-out, so to speak :-) ). In particular, a low cost rig like an alt/az and an achro quality scope (st80?, @ f5?). All many beginner astrophotography folks have is beginner rigs.
Hey Tom! I really appreciate the considered feedback my friend :-) I'd like to do that kind of comparison someday as you are 100% right, some of the equipment I tend to lean towards using has a pretty hefty pricetag! I just don't really have the spare cash to make something like that happen for the sake of a video just yet though, maybe one day that'll be feasible though! Thank you again for watching, I appreciate the support!
Hey nice relaxing session. I almost don't feel the need to image tonight now 😀 BUT I have a new camera! An ASI2600MC Pro! Tonight is first light, eventually. Again my friend was like I was sitting next to you while doing this EAA so I hope others enjoyed this as well. Clear Skies!
Hey Dave! It's good to hear from you mate :-D So glad you liked the video, that's always fantastic to hear man! HUGE congratulations on the new camera, the 2600 is one of my all time favourites for sure - really chuffed for you, I hope that you get that first light session going smooth my friend - Good luck and of course clear skies!! :-D
I have a standard C14 SCT and would like to put a hyperstar on it which would produce 715mm focal length. Would this produce images like you show here or would I be better off buying a telescope like yours? Awesome video, thanks This is just what I needed to see!
I think the c14 & hyperstar would be incredible Larry, it should produce images every bit as pleasing as the ones in the video, quite potentially better! I'd go for that if you feel like doing EAA and some super-fast imaging! Good luck my friend :-)
Thank you mate! - The background is nice and dark thanks to the filter I'm using, a duo-narrowband filter by IDAS in this case, the NBZ UHS :-) I hope that is helpful!
I love doing imaging sessions like this myself. I think what you have done in this video would make an excellent live stream. Maybe have fun chatting with your followers live and enjoy the night sky together some time?
Thanks mate! - I think you are right yeah, a few other folk have suggested the same thing so maybe I need to look into it haha! :-) Thank you for watching!
epic work there, quick question when i use my dslr or svbony305pro images are green, do i need to manually decrease the green levels to colour balance properly?
Thanks Rob!! It's a common issue mate, nothing to worry about - Sharpcap's 'auto colour balance' will straighten things out for you when live-stacking! Good luck 👍
This was awesome! Were you using a camera rotator? Any reason why I shouldn’t get a Oxygen and Hydrogen filter instead of just a Hydrogen filter for my first filter? What kind of processing were you doing on these?
Thank you mate! No rotator was used, and processing was kept very minimal to remain in the spirit of EAA rather than normal astrophotography :-) RE: filter, absolutely a dual band HA+OIII filter is a great choice, that's what I was using for this video! Hope that helps
Hi Luke, another great and well informative video, thanks mate. Quick question, I'm about to get a new camera, currently using ZWO 1600MM but feel it's getting a bit dated now and would like to upgrade. So, ZWO 2600MC ( AUS$3200) or Player One Uranus ( around $680 with cooler) using an Esprit 120. Is the player one comparable with the 2600mc? Anyway thanks again, keep up the great work, and well done on your channel. Ozzie
Hey there mate!! - Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed! :-) RE: your question, that's a tough one! - I think the 2600 is overall a better camera due to the massive sensor size by comparison to the Uranus-C, but that said the price difference is also massive! The Uranus-C is a superb camera at it's price point for sure though, and soon Player One will be releasing their own version of the 2600 which looks really fantastically designed! :-) Lots to think about! All the best mate
Thank you bro!! That could be a great idea for sure, I'll have to look into how to do it haha :-D yet another new thing I need to learn lol!! Hope the skies in Norway are treating you good dude :-)
Hey Paul! - As the very kind folks here have already said really, if you've got a colour camera but your sharpcap view is greyscale then you need to enable the "debayer preview" tickbox, and select 8/16/24 (your choice) of RGB colour space! :-) Hope that helps!
Thank you Luke, great session! I love EAA (I only practice EAA, in France... Perhaps I will fall into astrophotography when I will be better with software like Pix or Photoshop 😁). A little question: your 585 is not cooled... and I saw you don't use darks (in EAA)... but you don't have bad pixels?? It's a miracle??? It seems too amazing to be real...
Hey there my friend! :-D I'm glad to hear you liked the session, thank you!! Regarding your question about darks/bad pixels - I make sure to regularly dither my exposures during capture to ensure the bad pixels average themselves out in the stack so since I stack with sigma clipping enabled it works really well! :-D I hope that explains it! Clear skies to you in France mate!! :-)
I would just use 50-100 offset for nearly everything 👍 don't worry about it too much, as long as things aren't clipping to black it'll make practically zero difference!
@@lukomatico I do have another question, I bought uranus C pro from your video, my question is that I do have astromaster 114eq telescope with 1.25” focuser knob, and I want to use focal reducer svbony 0.5x can you explain the train that i have to use, by the way 1.25” nose has 25mm length, and I guess the back focus of this camera is 55mm, so using 17.5mm built in and 25mm from this nose I will need 12.5mm more to get the 55mm back focus, am I saying it right? or I missed something? and one more thing to mention is that using this nose, it will let part of it 22mm maybe enter in the focuser tube, with the focal reducer attached to it of course, and sorry for long comment 😂
@@hishamistwani9687 Hi mate! - I think for the 0.5 focal reducer you will likely work fine at a shorter back focal distance than 55mm - this is just a guess though! I'd give it a go with the camera & nosepiece attached directly to the reducer and see how it works :-) you'll probably not get the full 0.5x reduction factor but that's not necessarily a bad thing as it'll probably have quite a few aberrations at the full 0.5x. Hope that helps! it sounds like you already have it pretty well figured out my friend so good work, and good luck! 😀 Clear skies!
Yeah, very fast and you are right about quality issues. The scope that Luke has was perfect optically when I sold it to him, but after I sold it to him I purchased a RASA11 and it had dirty optics right out of the box, and the stars had aberrations and we're not pinpoint. Plus, they say the rasa11 is good for full frame but even with crop sensor like the 2600 there was 50% drop off at the corners, so i returned it and going a different route. Celestron quality sucks right now. Even my edge 11 and C8 came out of collimation out of the box. I will say, the RASA 8 is probably the best telescope Celestron has ever made. I highly suggest that scope
Hey mate!! - Agree totally with what Bill has said above, - I had the exact same concerns as you, 100%! No doubt there are people out there who've had an awful time with their RASA's, on the other hand, the same can be said of any scope from any brand really, there will always be bad units that slip through the cracks during QC :-) (just a generalization of course) I'd say if you wanted one, then buy brand new from a trusted supplier - you'll then have some assurance that if anything is wrong you can get it corrected/replaced, - I was in the very lucky situation to be buying mine from a great friend so I had no worries, but I know not everyone gets so lucky! Clear skies mate!
Very nice video again mate I think EAA has come a long way in a short time, love the fact that you can watch the images building up over a short time, maybe worth thinking about a live streaming of an EAA night soon , clear skies Luke
Thanks Anthony!! - I really agree mate, I too love the fact you can see these things building up in real-time, really satisfying to watch! RE: live-stream, I'll have to give it a go someday mate yeah, no doubt a new skill I need to learn haha! :-) Clear skies buddy!
Nice session.
A note: another way to do it is to keep whole process (slew, plate solve, focusing and acquisition) in NINA and do live-stack using Virtual Camera Folder in SharpCap, just point it to folder where NINA saved subs for given target.
Good point mate!! - That's something I could maybe try on another session :-) Thank you so much for watching!
It sounds pretty easy, but I'd love to see a tutorial on this method!
You're not wrong Luke, these really do look like finished images from not long back! Can you imaging showing this video to an astrophotographer just ten years ago, they wouldn't believe it! Great combo with the RASA and Sony 585 sensor, and lots of interesting info given whilst the images were building up. Thanks for sharing the session and have a great weekend matey! :)
Thank you Chris mate!! - It really is baffling how far things have came along in the past 5 years or so haha, who knows what the next 5 are going to look like! :-D
Hoping you have a cracking weekend too bud, all the best to you and your family!
Thanks for a fascinating video. This defintely shows the reals benefits & rewards of EAA, & a great example of how it should be experienced.
Thank you so much Gary! - EAA is a ton of fun for sure, glad to hear you liked the video my friend! :-)
Clear skies!
The technology has really come a long way to be able to build an image so quickly. Simply amazing. Thanks once again Luke.
It really is amazing mate! - Thank you very much for watching and commenting! :-) clear skies!
Little tip for you... You can download the HIPS to FITS catalog to your harddrive and then use the offline catalog in NINA which is much faster. You can find the files on the NINA Download page at the bottom. Love the vid...
Ops, you then need to point to the file loaction for NINA to use them in the Options, General, and the General section... Sorry about that... ;-)
Thank you so much for the tip Jeff! - I'll have a look at that one of these days for sure, I tend to be wary of meddling too much as the old saying goes - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" but definitely I'm always up for making things quicker and more streamlined! :-)
Cheers mate!
Clear skies!
Great video Luke. That RASA is perfect for making the most of the gaps between the clouds in our British skies 🙂👍👍👍
Thanks so much Barry!! - I couldn't agree more mate, it's the perfect companion! :-)
Thank you for watching and giving your support my friend! 👍👍
Clear skies!
Great video and final images! I love doing EAA so seeing what others are doing helps me along. Keep up the great work.
Awesome to hear, thank you so much my friend!! :-) Clear skies!
Another great video. When all my equipment chooses to work, :-) I do much the same thing. I'll use Sharp Cap for Live Stacking and NINA for target centering.
I do one other thing that makes my evenings out more spontaneous. NINA allows you to sync the scope ("slew and center") to a target using Stellarium. So, I select a target from Stellarium and tell NINA to slew and center on that target using NINA. After that, I use SCap the same way you show.
Thanks again for the new video. Nice observatory!!!
Hey there Tom!! - Awesome to hear that mate, i'm glad it's all working out for you much the same it seems! - Looks like NINA and SharpCap are a really powerful combo for sure :-) I'd love to see some form of live-stacking added to NINA in the future as a few other people mentioned in the comments, that would be awesome as an all-in-one approach to the most commonly performed tasks in astronomy I reckon.
RE: stellarium scope - I've had some success with it in the past, but occasionally find it just randomly closes down on me which can be mildly irritating haha - will have to try again sometime
Thanks for watching!
Great presentation Luke, you make it look so easy. It is such a wonderful demonstration of what can be achieved in a single session!
Glad you enjoyed it Paul! Thanks so much for watching and commenting my friend! :-) Clear skies!
Another excellent video Luke. I started AP doing EAA four years ago and was hooked into this hobby ever since.
I am currently working on imaging IC342 and hope to have 25+ hours of data. I’m still using my PlayerOne Neptune C and am still amazed at how what these OSC cameras can do.
Awesome to hear that Robert!! - The Hidden Galaxy, that's one heck of a target selection my friend, a good challenge I expect? I too am always impressed by modern OSC, they are delightfully straight-forwards to use and get along with, I'm a huge fan!
Clear skies mate :-)
Love this. I’ll have to do this when my family come round to show them the night sky. Thx Luke.
Awesome Jim! - It's a whole bunch of fun and would be perfect for sharing with family as you say - great idea!
These images are insane for ~20 minutes of exposures. A different kind of video for sure, but I found it to be strangely relaxing to watch.
Great to hear that buddy!! - Thank you so much for the feedback :-) Clear skies!
Hi Luke received my Uranus c. The other day and had first light last night. Bought it after your review I just want to say I absolutely love it. Finding and framing targets is a breeze. So thanks again buddy 😊
Aw mate that's fantastic!! I'm really glad to hear you're enjoying it :-D wishing you clear skies!!
WOW REALLY ENJOYED THE SESSION AND LEARNT SO MANY THINGS THANKS LUKE😃
That's superb Sean! So pleased to hear it my friend, thank you for watching and giving your support! :-)
Fantastic session Luke, thanks!
I have been saying for a while that it would be great if NINA gets an integrated live-stacking feature and a mobile/tablet interface.
I was thinking the same thing mate.
Thank you mate!! - I agree totally, it would be wonderful to see something like that added in the future as the more I use N.I.N.A, the more I grow to like it! :-)
Super video as usual Luke, and great to see something a bit different, you are right about how far the kit has moved on, they really looked like finished images, and were better than I was getting with a couple of hours of exposures, with my old CCD camera….👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it mate, thank you so much! - It's crazy how much equipment has moved on for sure, who knows what the next 5 years will look like!! :-D Can't wait to find out!
Thanks, Luke. I thoroughly enjoyed sitting through the entire EAA session. Your editing and commentary are great. Considering how much time you have to put into this I really appreciate it!
SO glad you enjoyed it Peter! Thank you very much indeed my friend, - It's a lot of fun to do something a bit different every now and then :-) Clear skies mate!
Hi Luke,loved this type of video.Great choice of Summer sky targets for EAA and with the setup you got all were beautiful results in such a short space of time. Especially liked what you captured from the Veil nebulae targets, definitely worthy of 6+ hours on them with your setup in the future. You got Sharpcap and NINA working well together on this, great to know what’s possible. Clear skies.
Thanks so much Jon! - I'm glad to hear you liked this type of vid, it was really quite fun to make! :-) I hope to do more in the future with a different set of targets no doubt!
Thank you for watching and giving your support, and clear skies my friend!
Mate you’re channel is on fire with you firing away video’s by the dozens! Muchos respectos! 😉
Thank you mate!! :-D It's been a lot of fun sharing all this content, glad people are enjoying it!
I always appreciate you stopping by mate, clear skies :-)
Awesome collection of images in such a short period. Well done!
Appreciate it Dave!! It's a lot of fun to take a quick look at these objects every now and then for sure! 👍👍
Fantastic session Luke very informative and a real eye-opener on the capabilities of ESA. Keep up the good work cheers Paul
Glad you enjoyed it my friend, thank you so much!! :-)
Great video again, very interesting to see the effects of accumulating time on objects with the time-lapse parts of the video. That little Uranus-C camera is great, I got one a couple of weeks ago (surprise vacation gift from my husband) and I love it. I'm using it with a Newton 200/800, barely starting EAA and astrophoto 🤩
So glad you enjoyed it Serra! :-D Huge congratulations on your new camera by the way, that's wonderful to hear! I'm sure you'll have some very enjoyable nights with it as you dive deeper into EAA and Astrophotography! :-)
Good luck and clear skies!!
Wow Luke! what a fantastic video showing what can be achieved in a night. Since starting out this year I have only been doing visual work. You have now given me that extra motivation to get my astrophotography going now. My backyard is in Barton upon Humber, near the Humber Bridge, the light pollution is better than what I expected around here. I can only look forward to some clear sky.
Lovely presentation Luke, thanks for sharing. I look forward to your next video.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts Stephen my friend! :-) I'm so happy to hear you feel like giving astrophotography a go now, that's superb - I think you've got many fun nights ahead for sure!
Thanks for watching and clear skies mate!
Luke, this is amazing. The Dumbbell Nebula (M27)..after 45seconds..man! WOW! I did some test shots last year on this target using my (very slow) Maksutov (127) over about 1 hours.. and I didn't even get close to this level of detail you've got after 45sec. This scope is a beast! ..and using this uncooled camera it's REALLY impressive. Also your other images during your EAA session are fantastic. Thanks for sharing this and clear skies mate. :)
Hey there Tully! - I'm really glad you liked the video my friend and thank you for sharing your own experience too! - It's incredible how fast the RASA is, it would be hard to change scopes right now I think as I've honestly been a bit spoiled by the speed as it makes everything that bit easier! :-)
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment as always, it's very much appreciated!
@@lukomatico I can just imagine that I would feel the same...once you used such a great scope it's hard to change again because of the great and fast results you get. :) Have a great time Luke and clear skies.
Another great session, Luke! The RASA with the IDAS UHS - it‘s magic 😉 I also have so much fun with this combination.
Have a nice weekend,
Stephen
Thanks Stephen, it's a wonderful combo for sure! Hope you have a superb weekend too my friend, clear skies! :-)
Exceptional work, you’ve inspired me, clear skies
That's awesome to hear!! - thank you for watching and clear skies! :-)
Hi Luke another great video. I really enjoyed the EAA from your set up. I have started to try it myself. I like using my Rasa as well because it's so fast and I can see several targets
in one night. You seem to have the settings right on. When I do EAA I save as seen and also the individual subs to process later. All in all great job. You seem to be enjoying the Rasa.
I"m so happy for you. Cs
Thank you so much Ray my friend! The RASA has been a major boon for me, I really do love using it and for work like this it's just unbelievable how good it is! :-)
I always appreciate you stopping by and sharing your thoughts mate, thank you again! Hope the skies in AZ are treating you well!
Fantastic session Luke as always, love the live stacking will have to try that out, keep up the fantastic work mate
Thank you mate, glad you enjoyed it!! :-) Clear skies!
Hi Luke.
Now you have had a night with EAA and SharpCap you should try a variation and see the difference in result. You already have all you need. In Pixinsight you can use the EZ live stacking to get similar results. Here you just automate stretching ect. For capture you use NINA. You just have to tell EZ live stacking where you save the photos.
As far as I know I have never seen a video where anyone compared the result from SharpCap and EZ live stacking. As you can setup SharpCap to monitor a folder in the same way as you do in EZ live stacking you can easily compare it on the fly. Maybe an idea for a new video?
An interesting idea Kim, thank you!! - I really ought to do more EAA content overall as it seems like people enjoy watching it, I'm just a little worried about running out of things to shoot haha! :-D
Thank you for watching!
@@lukomatico a mix of Caldwell and Messier object bring you far. If you then variate by sometimes using filter, even mixing mixing non-filter+filter is not forbidden. Then then you don't run out for long time. Now you have the RASA then also try to make really short exposure but extend the total time with some minutes for clusters where you would easily burn out stars in the core. And see the difference to longer exposures. Don't forget to save the stack if you use SharpCap and the continue with some post processing to archive the pretty picture. The old rules about max 5 minutes total exposure time for EAA is out dated, except in some conservative competitions. The same with post processing which for EAA is forbidden. EAA is just on the fly stretching while doing the recording. But Even EZ live stacking is today accepted and it can do a bit more than you can in SharpCap. It's really up to you to experiment. The more you do the cooler results you get. Sometimes you do not even have to change object. You can simply variate it. Opposite AP then EAA give you fast results and as it progress within minutes then there it is actually something people can follow while there is a bit of time to talk about what happens technically but also the object itself. EAA is a really audience friendly way to observe so you should have enough for hundreds of videos if you just prepare and variate. And don't forget the opportunity to make live show during winter before people go to bed.
Rasa 8 FTW! Great job Luke!
Agree 100% bro, haha!! - Such a fantastic scope, thanks again!!
Great collection of images there Luke it's a pity there isn't a live stack option in NINA so everything can be kept in one place maybe one day someone will develop a plugin for it. As for the speed of the RASA yeah I hear ya I'm lucky to own one & I've found every time I go back to using a different scope I'm a little underwhelmed as you can pull in so much more data at F2. Since getting my mojo back after watching your videos I've really been enjoying the hobby again, after getting over a couple of hiccups with NINA everything has run pretty smoothly since & by just getting 4 hours here & there on targets if that in some cases I'm still blown away.
Keep up the great work mate clear skies...
Thank you Tich!! - Ah mate, the live-stack in NINA thing would be incredible, I do hope someone figures that out someday!!
RE: mojo, - totally hear you mate, it's normal I think to have ebbs in your enthusiasm for something that's likely a lifelong pursuit - it'd be unhealthy otherwise I'd say! :-D I'm ever so glad to hear you've got your mojo going though, that's brilliant!
Clear skies to ya buddy!!
Great video, again. I am having trouble using sharpcap with nina. Maybe a short tutorial.
Thanks mate! I'll have a good think about something like that, I can't promise anything though just yet!
Hi Luke. Wonderful images with simple methods. I just hope that NINA soon has a live image stacker. We need to talk to NINA master Stefan Berg about developing a new plugin for live stacking. It's one of NINA's drawbacks, but I'm sure Stefan must be working on it. Stefan Berg has done a wonderful job and he really must spend a lot of time developing and refining NINA.😁
Hey Jesus!! :-) I 100% agree, adding live-stacking to NINA would be a tremendous thing! the NINA team are a supremely talented bunch of folks so I absolutely think they could figure it out! :-D - Something to look forwards to in the future I hope?
Wishing you and your family a lovely weekend my friend,
All the best,
Luke
That Rasa is paying dividends Luke, so much more light in so little time. Love to you do a close up of The Eagle Nebula if possible.
Hey Andrew! - Aw mate I'd love to, it's one of my all-time favourite targets, but I reckon my chance at the Eagle this year is just about over, it's setting into neighboring roofs after about 30 mins of visibility unfortunately!
Thanks for watching mate!
Would love more of this almost like a series as since rewatching your rasa vs refractor series sold my WO flt91 and some other set up for a rasa 11 which will be here shortly and I’m buzzing as I wanna do this with a OSC and along with narrowband
That's awesome J!!! I'm really glad you liked this enough to suggest a series buddy! - I'm so hyped for you with the RASA11 you've got incoming, what a phenomenal scope that's going to be! :-) I'm actually hoping to save up over time and get myself one of those someday!
Thanks for watching and good luck mate!!
@@lukomatico oh i do hope you get one to. I mean I looked at the 8 and thought that’s great but looked and the 11 and thought heck yh.
Thank you Luke and all the best as usual
Awesome captures Luke. Great name by the way.😁
Bahaha! :-D thank you for watching buddy!! Clear skies!
EAA is so much fun 👊👍
Totally agree mate!!! Really underrated form of astronomy I think! :-)
Great video, impressive results for such short exposures 👌👌
Thank you so much Adri!! :-D Clear skies!
Nice video Luke! You just need to spend a little more time on your AF routine as ideally the highest HFR score on either side of the ‘U’ curve needs to be around 3 or 4 times that of the lowest HFR value i.e. your lowest HFR is just shy of 2.1 which means that ideally your highest HFR should be in the region of 6.5 to 8 HFR whereas your graph shows the highest HFR score of around 4. Increasing your step size, will result in an increase of the highest HFR on either side of the ‘U’ curve to where you need to be. By doing this it will also reduce the size of the red vertical bars on each of your focus points (the red bars are indications of possible error, the smaller the red bars the less chance of error).
Once you have dialed in your AF routine as above then reduce your AF Offset Step Size as your AF routines are taking on average 2:25 minutes which is a long time. You can shave off at least a minute from your AF routine by lowering the Offset Step Size to 3.
Look up Patriot Astro as he has some great videos on getting the perfect AF routine.
Thanks for the feedback and tips Simon, that's a lot of superb info!! - I'll have to try and optimize it all a bit further I guess, it's just I often find myself in the position of "if it ain't broke don't fix it!" you know? :-D
Thank you for taking the time to share and educate!
Clear skies man!
@@lukomatico Optimise is the key, if you can reduce your AF by a minute then that’s possibly an extra sub if not two a session
Great video Luke! Man, that camera and scope are crazy! I couldn't believe how much could be see just from the 5 second plate solving/focusing shots. I recently ordered a Skywatcher 130p-ds and I think after watching this I am going to purchase a focal reducer from svbony to use with my sv305 camera and do some EAA! (that'll put me at f/2.5 if it works properly). If I were you I would be proud to show these images even on some of the astrophotography forums and social media pages. Would you ever consider doing an EAA live stream? I don't know about others, but I would love to watch and chat a little bit while we all just watch the universe unfold in front of us!
Thank you Jessie!! - It's pretty crazy for sure how fast the combination is! :-D I think you'd have a lot of fun with EAA and that rig as long as you can get enough inward focus travel to get it working properly - reducers can be challenging like that sometimes depending on design!
I'll have a good think about the livestream idea, it seems to be something a good few people are interested in seeing! Thank you again!
@@lukomatico No problem! I think I should be able to get the focus travel if I use my Sv305 camera rather than my DSLR since the PDS is designed to reach focus with a DSLR so the focus point is further outside the tube than normal anyway. Thanks for giving me something to consider though!
P.S. It's really nice to see gentleman running a RUclips channel who interacts with his followers and takes things into consideration. Clear Skies!
Question: The RASA (@f2!) is very fast. It is a bit expensive, though.
I'd be interested to see how well and how quickly EAA captures could be done with an 80mm (f5-f7?) refractor ( a "shoot-out, so to speak :-) ). In particular, a low cost rig like an alt/az and an achro quality scope (st80?, @ f5?). All many beginner astrophotography folks have is beginner rigs.
Hey Tom! I really appreciate the considered feedback my friend :-)
I'd like to do that kind of comparison someday as you are 100% right, some of the equipment I tend to lean towards using has a pretty hefty pricetag! I just don't really have the spare cash to make something like that happen for the sake of a video just yet though, maybe one day that'll be feasible though!
Thank you again for watching, I appreciate the support!
Hey nice relaxing session. I almost don't feel the need to image tonight now 😀 BUT I have a new camera! An ASI2600MC Pro! Tonight is first light, eventually. Again my friend was like I was sitting next to you while doing this EAA so I hope others enjoyed this as well. Clear Skies!
Hey Dave! It's good to hear from you mate :-D So glad you liked the video, that's always fantastic to hear man!
HUGE congratulations on the new camera, the 2600 is one of my all time favourites for sure - really chuffed for you, I hope that you get that first light session going smooth my friend - Good luck and of course clear skies!! :-D
Great work as always bud👌
I really appreciate that mate!! - So glad you liked it :-) Clear skies!
I have a standard C14 SCT and would like to put a hyperstar on it which would produce 715mm focal length. Would this produce images like you show here or would I be better off buying a telescope like yours?
Awesome video, thanks
This is just what I needed to see!
I think the c14 & hyperstar would be incredible Larry, it should produce images every bit as pleasing as the ones in the video, quite potentially better! I'd go for that if you feel like doing EAA and some super-fast imaging! Good luck my friend :-)
Wow. The contrast i amazing on this setup. How come you got this low noise black background?
Thank you mate! - The background is nice and dark thanks to the filter I'm using, a duo-narrowband filter by IDAS in this case, the NBZ UHS :-) I hope that is helpful!
Hey, mate! What about doing a live stream? It would be awesome!
Thanks Enrique!! - I'll have to look into doing that, it seems a few other people may be interested too! :-) Thanks for watching!
I love doing imaging sessions like this myself. I think what you have done in this video would make an excellent live stream. Maybe have fun chatting with your followers live and enjoy the night sky together some time?
Thanks mate! - I think you are right yeah, a few other folk have suggested the same thing so maybe I need to look into it haha! :-) Thank you for watching!
I love this project… 👍🏻
Thanks Olly!! Really appreciate that buddy, - Clear skies!!
@@lukomatico Clear Skies‼️
epic work there, quick question when i use my dslr or svbony305pro images are green,
do i need to manually decrease the green levels to colour balance properly?
Thanks Rob!! It's a common issue mate, nothing to worry about - Sharpcap's 'auto colour balance' will straighten things out for you when live-stacking! Good luck 👍
This was awesome!
Were you using a camera rotator?
Any reason why I shouldn’t get a Oxygen and Hydrogen filter instead of just a Hydrogen filter for my first filter?
What kind of processing were you doing on these?
Thank you mate!
No rotator was used, and processing was kept very minimal to remain in the spirit of EAA rather than normal astrophotography :-)
RE: filter, absolutely a dual band HA+OIII filter is a great choice, that's what I was using for this video!
Hope that helps
@@lukomatico thank you! Clear skies!
Hi Luke, another great and well informative video, thanks mate.
Quick question, I'm about to get a new camera, currently using ZWO 1600MM but feel it's getting a bit dated now and would like to upgrade. So, ZWO 2600MC ( AUS$3200) or Player One Uranus ( around $680 with cooler) using an Esprit 120. Is the player one comparable with the 2600mc?
Anyway thanks again, keep up the great work, and well done on your channel. Ozzie
Hey there mate!! - Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed! :-)
RE: your question, that's a tough one! - I think the 2600 is overall a better camera due to the massive sensor size by comparison to the Uranus-C, but that said the price difference is also massive!
The Uranus-C is a superb camera at it's price point for sure though, and soon Player One will be releasing their own version of the 2600 which looks really fantastically designed! :-)
Lots to think about!
All the best mate
Ah right, I might wait until they're released then. Thanks Luke
Would love to see a EAA session with just galaxies.
Thank you for the feedback Michael! - I'll bear that in mind :-)
You should try doing this as an pre-advertised live stream some time!
Thank you bro!! That could be a great idea for sure, I'll have to look into how to do it haha :-D yet another new thing I need to learn lol!!
Hope the skies in Norway are treating you good dude :-)
@@lukomatico not that good atm lol
Luke, noob question, how is your sharpcap stacking preview in colour? Mine is always in mono.
debayer preview in sharpcap
Select the RGB24 Color Space to debayerize the image in Capture Format and AREA box😉
Hey Paul! - As the very kind folks here have already said really, if you've got a colour camera but your sharpcap view is greyscale then you need to enable the "debayer preview" tickbox, and select 8/16/24 (your choice) of RGB colour space! :-) Hope that helps!
Thank you Luke, great session! I love EAA (I only practice EAA, in France... Perhaps I will fall into astrophotography when I will be better with software like Pix or Photoshop 😁).
A little question: your 585 is not cooled... and I saw you don't use darks (in EAA)... but you don't have bad pixels?? It's a miracle??? It seems too amazing to be real...
Hey there my friend! :-D I'm glad to hear you liked the session, thank you!!
Regarding your question about darks/bad pixels - I make sure to regularly dither my exposures during capture to ensure the bad pixels average themselves out in the stack so since I stack with sigma clipping enabled it works really well! :-D I hope that explains it!
Clear skies to you in France mate!! :-)
@@lukomatico Thanks a lot!!! It's great. No darks! Easy!! I would like to try this with my C9+hyperstar!!! Clear skies to you too! :-)
Thanks!
Thank you so much Andy!! That's really kind of you mate :-) Clear skies!
You do a nice job on your project nice
Thank you!! :-D
I love Ed all of your pictures good job
Wow!
Thanks mate!! :-D
Wow 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
Thank you!! :-D
have you gt a tutorial on nina/sharpcap?
I'm afraid not Martin, it's something I may have to look into! Clear skies mate 👍
how do i know what offset should i use, on same camera but different telescope
I would just use 50-100 offset for nearly everything 👍 don't worry about it too much, as long as things aren't clipping to black it'll make practically zero difference!
@@lukomatico I do have another question, I bought uranus C pro from your video, my question is that I do have astromaster 114eq telescope with 1.25” focuser knob, and I want to use focal reducer svbony 0.5x can you explain the train that i have to use, by the way 1.25” nose has 25mm length, and I guess the back focus of this camera is 55mm, so using 17.5mm built in and 25mm from this nose I will need 12.5mm more to get the 55mm back focus, am I saying it right? or I missed something? and one more thing to mention is that using this nose, it will let part of it 22mm maybe enter in the focuser tube, with the focal reducer attached to it of course, and sorry for long comment 😂
@@hishamistwani9687 Hi mate! - I think for the 0.5 focal reducer you will likely work fine at a shorter back focal distance than 55mm - this is just a guess though!
I'd give it a go with the camera & nosepiece attached directly to the reducer and see how it works :-) you'll probably not get the full 0.5x reduction factor but that's not necessarily a bad thing as it'll probably have quite a few aberrations at the full 0.5x.
Hope that helps! it sounds like you already have it pretty well figured out my friend so good work, and good luck! 😀
Clear skies!
Thanks :)@@lukomatico
what camera is used?
Player One Uranus-C :-) cheers!
Rasa is sooo fast. However I’m concern with reports of quality issues.
Yeah, very fast and you are right about quality issues. The scope that Luke has was perfect optically when I sold it to him, but after I sold it to him I purchased a RASA11 and it had dirty optics right out of the box, and the stars had aberrations and we're not pinpoint. Plus, they say the rasa11 is good for full frame but even with crop sensor like the 2600 there was 50% drop off at the corners, so i returned it and going a different route. Celestron quality sucks right now. Even my edge 11 and C8 came out of collimation out of the box. I will say, the RASA 8 is probably the best telescope Celestron has ever made. I highly suggest that scope
Hey mate!! - Agree totally with what Bill has said above, - I had the exact same concerns as you, 100%!
No doubt there are people out there who've had an awful time with their RASA's, on the other hand, the same can be said of any scope from any brand really, there will always be bad units that slip through the cracks during QC :-) (just a generalization of course)
I'd say if you wanted one, then buy brand new from a trusted supplier - you'll then have some assurance that if anything is wrong you can get it corrected/replaced, - I was in the very lucky situation to be buying mine from a great friend so I had no worries, but I know not everyone gets so lucky!
Clear skies mate!
👏top!
Thank you Stephane my friend!! :-D I hope you are well!
Very nice video again mate I think EAA has come a long way in a short time, love the fact that you can watch the images building up over a short time, maybe worth thinking about a live streaming of an EAA night soon , clear skies Luke
Thanks Anthony!! - I really agree mate, I too love the fact you can see these things building up in real-time, really satisfying to watch! RE: live-stream, I'll have to give it a go someday mate yeah, no doubt a new skill I need to learn haha! :-)
Clear skies buddy!
What filler wear you youesing at kind
It was an IDAS NBZ UHS filter :-) Hope that helps!
What's the soundtrack?
Hey there mate! - the first track is "Meditation Aquatic" - by 369 and the second one is "Drifting at 432hz" - by Unicorn Heads - hope that helps!
@@lukomatico Awesome been looking for some soundtracks to listen to during EAA sessions.
@@area51xi Fantastic mate! That'll be really chilled out I bet :-)
@@lukomatico For sure.
Sensor IMX585 is definitively the best combo for everything!
It's superb mate, 100%! :-)
Equipment working against you? Surely you jest? :)
Bahaha :-D You know it Peter! Thank you for watching mate!