Let’s Photograph the Pinwheel Galaxy - DSLR Astrophotography
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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Thank you all so much for supporting me on my astrophotography throughout the last year. It has been a rollercoaster of a ride but I’m delighted to say that I’ve enjoyed every second. Let’s celebrate this ‘astroversary’ by getting out the shiny new gear and photographing M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy. Clear skies to you wherever you are - stay safe.
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Always a joy seeing one's excitement, great image with your skywatcher setup Helena!
Congratulations on the 1K. We need more women in this hobby!
Hi Helena. Nice video. But quick note to be careful, because your gmail was shown and it’s safer to not be visible for the watcher, to avoid hacks and problems. It’s at 6:21. Hope this helps :)
Just subscribed following Amy's recommendation. Even with lock down I do not know when I will have the time to watch all of your video's - keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your tips.
Hey I’m untrackedastropics ! that’s some great content I love it!
Hi Helena,
What happened to the Esprit 120? Would be great to hear your opinion on that scope.
Great videos...keep at it.
Hi Simon. Working up to it slowly but surely! It’s a beauty but I’ve only been in deep-sky for two months now. Big jump but I’m getting there. Clear skies!
Nice final result, worth it then hey. Amazing how fast the mask turned up also! Clear skies to you and stay safe
Great video Helena! Love the setup you have in your garden. Really good final image as well. Clear skies!
Very well made video, it is a joy to see. And also very interesting, since I also work with a 600mm telescope and a (modified-) DSLR. So thanks to you, I now know that the M101 should be within my reach. I will try to frame it😊
Superb image, it's a wonderful learning curve..good to see so many young people getting interested in Astronomy, things changed a lot acquiring images since I got interested in 1968...keep safe, keep learning
Your first galaxy is still better than my best galaxy.
I hate this hobby (ok, not really)...
Allen your shots are MILES ahead of mine. Keep up the great work 😁
Loved it... well done! So great to see younger people getting so passionate about the hobby. Will enjoy seeing you grow and the progression of images :)
Make sure you look for super nova’s in you images after you take them.
You need a good reference image for a base line.
Then check your images for super nova’s
Then always right down your date and time of image and your location
information.
I have enjoyed several of your YT’s so far.
I really like your laid back yet enthusiastic
approach.
I am 61 years old and have been doing visual astronomy since I was 8 years old
with a 60mm spotting scope.
Then moved on over the years to
several nice refractors.
150mm F/5 ach
150 mm F/15 old school long focus
204mm F/9 ach
16 inch F/4.5 which does not get used near enough.
Enjoy your hobby.
Well Done on all I have seen so far.
Congrats on the new hardware. One tip: when you are ready, ditch the hand controller and use the ASIair Pro. As others told me: you can skip the star alignments and do plate solving. It is VERY EASY relatively speaking. I also added a Tobson brand DC-DC converter to my battery box. It takes the battery voltage and converts it to 13.8V. I did this becuase I found the EQ6R Pro to be sensitive to low voltage. So, even if my battery goes down to 10V, the voltage to the mount and other electronics is 13.8V (until the battery drops below 8V).
Nicely done!! I noticed that you're using your finder scope as your guide scope. The scope should work alright but the finder scope mount may be your guiding problem. Too much flexure possible. This video is two years old so you may have already changed your guide scope mount. Anyway, your enthusiasm is terrific.
Everyone's got soo little light pollution to battle. Here I am just outside of Houston with a Nikon D3100, no telescope, no trackers. 🙃
Found this gemstone from AstroBiscuit. And honestly I really really wanna buy a telescope, but with the lockdown and my current budget, I'm really confused on what to get as I do wanna use my dslr to take some pictures as well. Hopefully I'd get some more insight from watching more stuff from your channel. Instant sub as well :)
When you load pictures to Facebook, have them reduced to 2048 at longest and less than 1 megabyte file size.
I noticed that you are using a different telescope than your Dobsonian Skywatcher 10 inch for astrophotography. I have a Orion XT8 and was wondering whether I need a different telescope for astrophotography or I can use the same one for deep space objects
Awesome job, keep it up. Over time you will be amazed at how much better your images will get. If you're curious check out Astro Pixel Processor for stacking and post processing. They have a free demo version and it does wonders.
What size camera do you yours see I got a nexstar STL 130 and want know kind of camera
Nice work! What is the bottle scale where you live and how big is your scope? Thanks!
GREAT video! Wonderful image.
I would really like to know how you white balance to get your colors correct. First thing I think of when you say pink moon.
Brilliant photo! The pinwheel has some nice coloring to it. The more I study the photo, the more galaxies I see! I love the cyan-colored NGC 5471 right below, and the edge-on saucer of NGC5422 in the upper left. You got good resolution on NGC 5474 in the lower right corner. NGC 5473 looks a little fuzzy patch next to that neat little triangle of stars in the lower left region. Again, well done!
Thank you so much!! Yes, at the time of taking it I wasn’t aware of these but the more I studied it after, the more apparent they came. Proud of my 80mm doublet for pulling that off! Thanks for the kind words and clear skies :)
Oh, learn to clean the sensor. It is also so easy. Watch instruction videos on..RUclips.
This one is a really fun galaxy season target! Good work capturing the Vorontsov-Velyaminov row! That area can be tough to pull out in this galaxy!
Genial saludos cordiales desde Patagonia Chile.
Great video Helena! You're enthusiasm for the hobby is fun to watch. That counter weight magically went on with a snap of your fingers! I'll have to try that sometime. :) Cheers from Canada!
I wish I could get my wife interested!
Hi Helena, you said "my guiding is actually awful but my graphs looks decent".
Well, fine graphs doesn't mean good guide.
I saw that you use a 9x50 viewfinder to guide, which should have a focal length of 190 mm, and a Lodestar X2 as a guide camera.
This camera has 8.2x8.4 pixels which are too large for your viewfinder focal length. Lodestar is great for OAG on SCT scope that have a long focal length.
If you drive with PHD2, and use a Canon as the main camera (4.3 pixels), you would be forced to set up mi.mo. parameters to extremely low values.
Among other things, the mi.mo. values are also related to the seeing and the values that you should be set would be insufficient even in case of exceptional seeing.
Therefore, I recommend that you change your guide camera, taking one with a pixel of 3.75 or less.
Better if combined with a guide telescope with a longer focal length, 60/240 for example.
You will find many informations in internet on how to calculate it. It's a function of main and guiding scope focal lengths and of main camera and autoguider camera pixel size.
Try to stay between 0.15 and 0.20 values.
And sorry for my bad english ...
Thank you for the advice! I actually said my guiding wasn’t awful. It was pretty decent for that night of imaging. I’m not having any trouble with the 9x50 and lodestar....I have others who use the same! Thank you though and I’ll take your advice if it begins to play up 🙂
I found your channel just today and have been watching some of your videos, very inspiring stuff. I myself am making the leap from stationary wide-angle nightsky photography to a more dedicated setup much like yours. I have a practical question if that's alright. The finder scope attached to the Skywatcher-Evostar-80ED-DS-PRO-Apochromatic-Refractor, do you need anything extra in order to remove the eye-piece and stick a guide camera in there? Thanks and clear skies. :)
Hi! Yes, if you are using the same scope you will need this: www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/skywatcher-finderscope-to-c-adaptor.html
What guide camera do you have? There are different ones for different guiders.
I‘m quite impressed, nice shot!
Great video. How are you doing auto guiding?
Good work!
i just subbed^^
Hi, glad I stumbled upon your channel!
I do deep astrophotography too and I just love to see your enthusiasm and passion.
That's what I like in astronomy and astrophotography in particular - the never ending learning curve!
I suggest modding your canon camera by removing the inner IR filter so it can see the Ha line.
I did it several years ago, before I could afford a decent astro-dedicated camera.
It will open for you another level of beauty of the night sky.
I'm just amazed that I'm not alone as a 15 year old teenager into astrophotography! By the way, great video quality and final image! Just ordered an entire new setup including an EQ6R-Pro, a Meade 80mm Triplet and an ASI1600MM along with filters. I can barely hold my excitement! Wishing you clear skies from Brazil!
I noticed you had a flattener in the image train. With that you're actually imaging at 510mm and f 6.4. makes a difference when framing in software or plate solving. Apt needs the correct information to plate solve and to download the correct indexes.
No night of astrophotography is complete with disaster or malfunctions. Nice images of M101. I’m also pecking away at adding more time to that object, in between the cloudy weather here in Canada. Keep up the good work.
Helena I love your videos. Even though I'm 67 I find your enthusiasm and "can do attitude" inspiring. May I make a suggestion for your consideration. As you progress to heavier payloads like the Esprit 120 you may want to get in the habit of adding any necessary counterweights before the payload. This will prevent the tripod from ever falling over. The sequence I am referring to is defined on page 5 of the EQ6 Instruction Manual. Clear Skies!
Hi Helena: as always another informative video! Every time I hear your accent it reminds me of the movie “Local Hero”. It deals with two of my favourite subjects...Astronomy and Scotland! A great movie for all your subscribers to watch during quarantine. Cheers.
Great video and I love your enthusiasm for the hobby.
Just a word of advice when building your rig. You should always put your counter weights on first before mounting the scope. And keep the weights further out than necessary till you get to the balancing. That way if your R.A. axis accidentally becomes unlocked you will not have an expensive accident.
Wonderful Channel Helena!!! So wonderful seeing a young lady tackling outer space!
Nice Image Helena 👌👌👍👍😊😊.Nice equipment 🔥🔥🔥
Not sure why I haven’t found you before this??? Thank you for the video and the lovely picture! It’s so nice to see someone as excited as I am about the night sky. Cheers! (You have a new subscriber!)
Hey Helena, love your videos! Any chance you'll do a budget "starter" video with good telescope models on an affordable price range for newcomers to astronomy?
nice photos!!!!!!, shame you dont live here in Barbados, with the crystal clear skies we have, your photos will be even more amazing.
Loving your passion !!! We are in the same path my friend !!!...Keep up your great work and thanks again for your videos. Salute YOU !!!
Amazing Image huge improvement from your last session on M101 keep it up :D
Hi Helena , fabulous to see you loving it so much , I notice youve got the EQ6 witht the usb port underneath the hand controller input like mine . Personally I find it way easier to connect my laptop direct to that port and not use the hand controller at all . Fabulous images from you always well done ..
Great job. You inspired me to image m101 last night. I have an ED80 but not the flattner and using an AZ goto mount but it turned out ok
beautiful lady！
Merci Helena. I am always happy when I saw others women sharing the same passion for starry nights... Don't stop :)
Fabulous Image Helena!
What an awesome channel you have here! Thanks for sharing, Helena! Aloha from Las Vegas!!
Gee I really would love to afford a setup like this... T_T But regardless I still love seeing people in similar age as me in this hobby *-* Keep going Helena and stay safe 😉
It's really an intoxicating hobby. Welcome to the party! Great video.
Great job Helena! M101 can be a tough object and you knocked it out.
Love your channel ...... it is always such a joy to watch your videos!
Nice , Helena .
These images looks superb 21 million light years away that came through your telescope on DSLR! I bet you felt so good with these images! How good is telescope for deep sky photography? Can it photograph objects like the horse head nebula and M16? I'm looking for a telescope that I can photograph these object's and others too. Last few night apart from last night was clear and I did a great star trails with my Hauwei P20 smartphone turned out very good! Very enjoyable video and you did great!!! Stay safe!
Awesome stuff! I would recommend a telescope simulator online to calculate your field of view. I use Telescopius. There you can type in your camera setting and the specs of the telescope you are looking at, go to an object and you’ll be able to see if it’s in the frame or not! However the 80mm is awesome for the Horsehead and M16 so you are in luck!! Check my links in the description. Clear skies!
A new astro channel. Awesome. Good job. Look forward to more.
I am looking forward to a clear night to image this wonderful galaxy. Nice work on your end!
Congrat's with +1000 subscribers
Hi Helena Great Job !! I also bought an EQ6-R Pro mount and a William Optics Apo 81mm 6.9 . I still have to learn to adjust my mount. What eyepiece did you use to get Pinwheel in such a clear sight. Astrophotography is far away from me, Have no DSLR just a ZWO ASTI 178 CMOS, not used yet. I still have so much to learn, connecting all the stuff, using the right SW on my laptop and so on.
I enjoy your videos. So, your unboxing video of the EQ6 inspired me to buy one, I finally did.
Here next to Munich, we have just sun, no rain since 5 weeks !! Looking forward to your next video.
Regards from Germany Werner
Thanks for getting in touch!! You are too kind. I didn’t use an eyepiece, I attached a Canon 7D mark i, to my telescope and shot it from there. Think of the optical assembly as your camera lens! It would be extremely faint in an eyepiece. Good luck with your astro adventures - I look forward to hearing how you get on!! Clear skies.
Wow, Helena, this is your best work to date! I'm jealous! You are really learning how to use that equipment!
Hi! Very nice image! That gear is really good! Greetings from Hungary!
Hi Helena, so really nice to see young ladies getting into AP. Take care Marc
Nice final Image well done.
Thank you!
I just found your channel Helena... love your enthusiasm for astronomy. I will share your channel with my local astronomy buddies, cheers from Brisbane, Australia.
Thank you so much! That would be awesome.
Hi Helena. Thanks for the video's. I just wanted to know what happened with you 120ED that you unboxed about 7 months ago. Have you used it yet?
Thanks for asking! I’m working up to it. Going from a completely manual dob to a fully computerised setup has a lot of challenges and they are much easier to overcome with an 80mm refractor rather than a 120 apo. It will be out soon but when it’s out I want to be able to use it to it’s full potential rather than messing about with mistakes I could’ve resolved with a simpler setup. Hope this clear that up!
Hello ! Your photo is successful, well done ! 👏
Moreover the 80ED refractor is a very good compromise 😁
But then, you no longer have your Esprit 120ED?
I still have the Esprit! Going to work up to that as I’m not ready for the software and CCD technology just yet. Sometime soon though!
@@HelenasAstrophotography It works 😁👍, I'm more Team Newton (I have a 200x1000 🙂) but I plan to switch soon to 72ED for wide field photography, it will be much better for large nebulae.
Greetings from France 👋😀
Love your enthusiasm 👍 how manageable is the EQ6R head ? 17 KG but you make it look easy 😄
Thank you! Ah that was a lot of practising the right way to hold it for the shot 😃. Not very portable but incredible for the backyard astro I do, considering I don’t move it around much.
gj with that galaxy , the arms are not easy to imaging
Beautiful image, congratulations!
Excellent work!
Really nice! What happened to the Esprit? Would be good if you put the sub length and number of in the video for people learning. Lovely picture.
Thanks for asking! I’m working up to it. Going from a completely manual dob to a fully computerised setup has a lot of challenges and they are much easier to overcome with an 80mm refractor rather than a 120 apo. It will be out soon but when it’s out I want to be able to use it to it’s full potential rather than messing about with mistakes I could’ve resolved with a simpler setup. Hope this clear that up!
@@HelenasAstrophotography Understandable! Also, backyard EOS is great, if you have your laptop out for guiding already. It means you basically don't have to touch your camera and can control it all by the laptop, in case you didn't know. i have found it amazing! :0)
Yes I use it alongside PHD2! It’s awesome - thank you.
Nice video
Super merci 👍👍👍🔭❤️
Awesome work Helena!
wonderful video :)
Thank you! :)
Helena's Astrophotography keep going on :)
Very well done!