Processing is my weak spot. Learned a lot from this. I like the fact that you clearly stated what buttons you were pressing. This is the sort of information that I need to understand and know how to use.You explain it very well to this newbie. Glad that I have found your site.
Just started astrophotography and learning the ins and outs of my star-tracker. I have been enjoying your videos, they are super helpful in post-processing. Thank you!
Very serene kind of tutoring here, thank you. I'm not new to astrophotography anymore, but, I didn't delve into processing that much yet. I'm switching between using my 190/1000 Mak-Newt on a CGEM mount and my Omegon MiniTrack LX Quattro with a DSLR, whenever I can. Unfortunately, my backyard is totally light-polluted, so that I feel inclined to use the MiniTrack in an area nearby, where the Bortle is more reasonable. Taking series of images is not an issue to me anymore, but processing them, is. So, thank you very much for these helpful lessons.
I'll agree with several of the other posts. This is probably the best and most useful video I've found on how to edit astro images. I've been frustrated for the past year or so, taking what I thought were decent images only to fall short in in post. This gave me some extremely useful tips on how to tease out some finer details in my images. I especially liked that it was assumed that we all have a fairly good level of understanding of our equipment and photoshop. There's nothing worse than finding a "photoshop basics" video when what I was looking for was this. Thanks!!!!!!!!
I've watched countless videos on photoshop processing and yours the hands the best. this is the first video i've seen of yours, you have a new subscriber. thanks man.
Thank you so much for this video. I was able to understand some basics of astrophotography (can dump the images I've made up to now and start over...) and that post-processing is important and what possibilities are there. I can't wait to watch your other videos.
génial cette chaine, enfin quelqu'un qui explique ce qu'il fait , étapes par étapes pendant le traitement d'image, bravo, continu comme ca, +1 abonnement
Awesome, dude! Can you share the settings you used for the light frame? My light frames are just too bad. I used 200mm f/5.6 (maximum aperture of my DSO lens). The exposure was in the limit, but still it wasn't good. Deep sky stacker wasn't able to use more than 1 light frame.
@@deltaastrophotography my kit is very small. A prime 50, 18-55, and the aforementioned telephoto. Some day I might get more, but I also wonder about getting a better camera, which might need its own collection of lenses.
I guess without cameras we would never guessed the spiral structure of it, because in the 8" telescope it looks like a fuzzy smudge with the star in the center - like your first picture.
Interesting coincidence. I was watching RUclips videos yesterday on Edwin Hubble. Apparently he could see the spiral arms of galaxies through his telescope even before people knew they were galaxies. He would try to draw what he saw. This helped lead him to the discovery of galaxies as they were just thought of as nebulae at the time.
@@deltaastrophotography Probably he had very trained eyes. Like my husband who is longtime amateur astronomer and sees much more details in the ocular of his new 8" telescope (always had only 90mm one) with 'Oh! Wow!', where I, as a beginner with unrealistic Hubble quality expectations, see just a blurry spot :).
Good video. Only thing i would suggest is when you use grad exterminator select the inverse of the galaxy. Russell told me it helps to prevent the faint neb signals and galaxy being taken into consideration when it is doing calculations to flatten the gradient. Great plugin!
Great video! Simple, quick and professional. You have a new subscriber! It would be highly appreciated if for future you put a link to download the raw data so we can practice and compare our results with yours.
without that gradient extermanator this is kinda hard to do. when I try to select color range spots in the galaxy it ends up picking tiny spots or alot of the corners. I'm trying to see if starnet will help. not discouraged at all, just a couple weeks in. I'm watching and following a lot of you RUclipsrs guides. just trying to find my flow I like.
Yes! Both of those cameras have crop sensors making your target a little more zoomed in than my full frame 6D. I actually started shooting a lot of my deep sky targets with a T5i!
@@deltaastrophotography Thats encouraging, Im watching all your series and trying to take everything in while I wait for a few things to arrive so that I can attempt to apply these techniques for myself. I think I need to shop for an intervalometer for my cannon/s. Do you have a recommendation? -Cheers
Which camera did you use with that lens and what shutter speed and ISO did you use? I have an old Canon 650d (t4i) with that 75-300mm kit lens. But I’m thinking of getting a cheap lens adapter to use this lens on my old Sony a7s. I do have a little MoveShootMove tracker as well.
Oh man! It's been a while so don't quite remember the exact camera settings. I used a Canon 6D so it was a full frame sensor. That t4i is going to get you more zoomed in and it's probably even better than my full frame camera! I'm not too familiar with the Sony cameras so I can't give you advice there. If you want you can hit me up on Instagram and we can talk and I can look up my exact camera settings from that night
@@deltaastrophotography … thanks. I think I found everything on another video of yours which I just watched. You taped up the lens at 200mm (that was funny - haha), then you used ISO 1600, aperture f/5, and a shutter speed of 60 seconds with your Star Tracker. I’ll give it a go over the weekend … and I’ll take the duct tape to keep that lens at 200mm! Duct Tape, turning “no, no, no,” into “mmm, mmm, mmm” since 1946 😁👍🏼
@@lancealbon46it might be better to use electrical tape because duct tape can kind of leave a little bit of adhesive on your lens! I found that out the hard way 😂
I shot Jupiter with a full frame camera at 600 mm. I was not successful in stacking in Sequator or even PS. Any suggestions? I did not use a tracking device. thanks in advance.
Shooting planets is an entirely different animal! What most people do is use a telescope with at least a thousand to 2,000mm and shoot a video. Then they load the video into a program called Autostakkert. It stacks each individual frame to get a high quality image!
Sequator is great for nightscapes. It can freeze the ground while stacking the stars. It's ok for basic deep sky stacking. DSS on the other hand is a full-featured deep sky stacking program. It really just depends on what style you're going for.
Very good video.. I am in the process of learning photoshop, as of now just using Lightroom on mobile to edit photos. Would be nice if you can make a good Photoshop tutorial for editing Astro photos, step by step.
But what if, you took 30 images in black and white, with a red filter, then another 30 in B&W with green filter, then finally a set of 30 images with blue filter, combine them all, into one hell of a RGB image, I know for still photography this actually works wonders for colour range.
Awesome video man I was just wondering if there is a way of geting adobe photoshop for free cuzz I know you need to pay for subscription 😂 I a begginer in astrophotography and this video is awesome 😀🙌🏼
Thanks! I'm not sure if there is a legal way to find it for free. ;) I'm sure there is some free software out there does similar things. I pay $10 a month for the Photoshop and Lightroom bundle. Not a bad deal considering you always get the latest version! I use both of them constantly!
Darktable is a free download that is a good place to explore. It has powerful features and is pretty intuitive to figure things out. I think it's meant to copy Lightroom's features for the most part. I found GIMP way to complicated when I started out but Darktable helped me a lot...
this was my first ever telephoto lens ever. as soon as i got it and took about 20 shots i sold it right away. (the poor sap that got it i am sure did the same) this is the worst lens i have ever seen.
JUST MY OPINION: As an astrophotographer myself (intermediate level), I feel qualified to mention this: There is "Astrophotography", and then there is "Computer Graphic Art Design" (CGAD).
In my opinion there's absolutely nothing dishonest about this process. A camera has very poor dynamic range compared to the human eye. In order to reveal the faint details of a galaxy or nebula, this is almost a necessary process. To see these faint details without processing you would have to blow out stars or cores of the Galaxy. It's like trying to photograph the surface details of the moon at night while also trying to get details of your foreground without the aid of any man-made lighting. It's something your eye can plainly see but a camera can't pick it up at all. Also certain cameras and lenses leave distortions and artifacts that need correcting in order to view something closer to reality. Processing is not only important for the casual viewer to see what's actually out there, but it's important for scientific research to study what's out there. Now when people go and start radically altering colors, I can see where that might be slightly dishonest, but at that point it's just a matter of taste.
Processing is my weak spot. Learned a lot from this. I like the fact that you clearly stated what buttons you were pressing. This is the sort of information that I need to understand and know how to use.You explain it very well to this newbie. Glad that I have found your site.
Thank you! Yeah it bothers me when people rush through a tutorial and don't explain what buttons they are pressing!
Processing is where i'm really good. Equipment management is where i'm absolute dogwater
Bro, I am literally stunned how you popped those details out. Outstanding bro
One of the best videos on RUclips on PS processing. Very easy to understand 👍👍. Amazing work bro. Keep coming
Just started astrophotography and learning the ins and outs of my star-tracker. I have been enjoying your videos, they are super helpful in post-processing. Thank you!
One of the best Photoshop tutorials that I have seen for astrophotography. I learned a lot. I am going to watch this video a few more times.
Very serene kind of tutoring here, thank you. I'm not new to astrophotography anymore, but, I didn't delve into processing that much yet. I'm switching between using my 190/1000 Mak-Newt on a CGEM mount and my Omegon MiniTrack LX Quattro with a DSLR, whenever I can. Unfortunately, my backyard is totally light-polluted, so that I feel inclined to use the MiniTrack in an area nearby, where the Bortle is more reasonable.
Taking series of images is not an issue to me anymore, but processing them, is. So, thank you very much for these helpful lessons.
This is money right here... WOW! Thank you for all of the great instruction.
Thank you so much!
One of the easiest to follow, down to earth PS tutorials! Great work!
I'll agree with several of the other posts. This is probably the best and most useful video I've found on how to edit astro images. I've been frustrated for the past year or so, taking what I thought were decent images only to fall short in in post. This gave me some extremely useful tips on how to tease out some finer details in my images. I especially liked that it was assumed that we all have a fairly good level of understanding of our equipment and photoshop. There's nothing worse than finding a "photoshop basics" video when what I was looking for was this. Thanks!!!!!!!!
I use painter's tape to tape the zoom lens in position (focus). It has a little adhesive and can be easily removed without leaving residue.
What a great video! Thank you for taking the time to make it 👍
I love tour videos. Always informative and you have a great sense of humor. Thanks for sharing.
My god! its impossible to come here and not subscribe or click on the like button! Really nice job!
Beautifully explained and really easy to follow. Thank you.
Great photo! That's my favorite nightime object!! Technics speakers 🤘
Im new to astrophotography, looks awesome.
Thanks for a great tutorial. I’ve struggled with processing and you gave some excellent tips.
I've watched countless videos on photoshop processing and yours the hands the best. this is the first video i've seen of yours, you have a new subscriber. thanks man.
Great tutorial. Followed your workflow start to end for Andromeda. Turned out very nice image . Many thanks
The best post pro i ever seen, like thiss
Thank you for this carefully made and beautiful tutorial. I hope you have a good day.
Thank you! You too!
Excellent excellent video mate ! I am planning to shoot Andromeda on new moon this month, will definitely refer to this for post processing !
What a top Video- Easy to follow, clear love the step by step nature. Cheers. Right wheres the camera.
This is very cool, great video.
Thank you so much for this video. I was able to understand some basics of astrophotography (can dump the images I've made up to now and start over...) and that post-processing is important and what possibilities are there. I can't wait to watch your other videos.
Beautiful work here, keep up the good contain !
génial cette chaine, enfin quelqu'un qui explique ce qu'il fait , étapes par étapes pendant le traitement d'image, bravo, continu comme ca, +1 abonnement
I keep coming back to this video. Happy New Year Walt
I know I'm a little behind, but Happy New Year!
Great video my friend thank you for your great contribution to the astrophotography community:)
Really good video with very clear explanations. Can't wait to try it!
Mater at work. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial.
A lot of content there. Nice job!
Dang... That was cool sir! I just finished this 2nd vid. Thank You Sir!!!!
May I ask what that galaxy behind Andromeda?
Man, it’s just crazy how much information is hidden in photos that we can uncover and accentuate with software.
Thanks a lot! Gonna try it out with the Pinwheel photos I took yesterday :)
Your tutorials are very good.. and I love the way you explain...
Huge respect you.
Can we get this andromeda tiff for practice ?
This is so damn good. Thank you for this!!
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it! Hoping to get another one out Monday!
@@deltaastrophotography looking forward to it! just subscribed and will put the bell/alert on for when you publish the video!
Great turoial in PS - Im going to follow your video here, when I have to proces my first take on Andromeda
Whats the song? Great tutorial!
Awesome, dude! Can you share the settings you used for the light frame? My light frames are just too bad. I used 200mm f/5.6 (maximum aperture of my DSO lens). The exposure was in the limit, but still it wasn't good. Deep sky stacker wasn't able to use more than 1 light frame.
Hi, just wondered if you can recommended any screen calibration methods? Tia
excellent work!!
marvelous
I have the same exact lens on my Rebel SL1, so I'm loving the tips. Need to get me an intervalometer.
For the longest time, that was the only zoom or telephoto lens I had. It's a great lens to practice with!
@@deltaastrophotography my kit is very small. A prime 50, 18-55, and the aforementioned telephoto. Some day I might get more, but I also wonder about getting a better camera, which might need its own collection of lenses.
I believe the software Sequator is pronounced " See qway tor" like equator with an S in front.
Hey Walt, can you use the same process on the Andromeda Galaxy that you use on Orion Nebula to keep the core from being blown out?
I guess without cameras we would never guessed the spiral structure of it, because in the 8" telescope it looks like a fuzzy smudge with the star in the center - like your first picture.
Interesting coincidence. I was watching RUclips videos yesterday on Edwin Hubble. Apparently he could see the spiral arms of galaxies through his telescope even before people knew they were galaxies. He would try to draw what he saw. This helped lead him to the discovery of galaxies as they were just thought of as nebulae at the time.
@@deltaastrophotography Probably he had very trained eyes. Like my husband who is longtime amateur astronomer and sees much more details in the ocular of his new 8" telescope (always had only 90mm one) with 'Oh! Wow!', where I, as a beginner with unrealistic Hubble quality expectations, see just a blurry spot :).
Very good tutorial, thanks a lot!
Thanks! Can't wait to make more!
Many thanks for your tutorial!
Great help! Thank you so much!
Good video. Only thing i would suggest is when you use grad exterminator select the inverse of the galaxy. Russell told me it helps to prevent the faint neb signals and galaxy being taken into consideration when it is doing calculations to flatten the gradient. Great plugin!
Yeah this is kind of an old video. I've been selecting the inverse since I made this. I need to make an updated tutorial!
@@deltaastrophotography I'd be glad to see an update see what you are doing mate. Enjoyed watching
@@deltaastrophotography also would like to see more edits and deep sky targets
@@stevenrobinsonpictures Yeah I'm really looking forward the the return of the winter targets!
What shoot parameters di you use for the light frames? :)
Great Video! Thank you! Is your camera modified?
It wasn't when I made this video. It is now!
Great video! Simple, quick and professional. You have a new subscriber! It would be highly appreciated if for future you put a link to download the raw data so we can practice and compare our results with yours.
Will you be filming Jupiter and Saturn in the coming weeks? They will be so close together!
without that gradient extermanator this is kinda hard to do. when I try to select color range spots in the galaxy it ends up picking tiny spots or alot of the corners. I'm trying to see if starnet will help. not discouraged at all, just a couple weeks in. I'm watching and following a lot of you RUclipsrs guides. just trying to find my flow I like.
I use a 55 to 300 Nikon lense it’s amazing
Excellent thanks!
I have a Cannon 1000D and T7 with a 55-250mm. Could these be used similarly and return something that resembled andromeda? Very informative series!
Yes! Both of those cameras have crop sensors making your target a little more zoomed in than my full frame 6D. I actually started shooting a lot of my deep sky targets with a T5i!
@@deltaastrophotography Thats encouraging, Im watching all your series and trying to take everything in while I wait for a few things to arrive so that I can attempt to apply these techniques for myself. I think I need to shop for an intervalometer for my cannon/s. Do you have a recommendation? -Cheers
Liked and subscribed 🎉👍
wow best tutorial ever
Thanks man! I'm putting out a new one in the morning!
Absolutely brilliant… Have you detailed your capture method anywhere?
Yes! It was my very first video actually! ruclips.net/video/dHbOXghW7IE/видео.html
@@deltaastrophotography Yeah, I probably should have looked before asking 🤣
Whats the background music?
I'm sitting at the same style desk as you are at the beginning 😂
Sir did you use a star tracker or just camera on tripod?
Hey Walt. Would it have made it easier to process if you had removed the stars?
Oh yeah! But I think at the time I made this video, Starnet and StarX weren't around yet.
@@deltaastrophotography oh ok.
Awesome.
Very helpful
It's allways freaking cloudyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Which camera did you use with that lens and what shutter speed and ISO did you use? I have an old Canon 650d (t4i) with that 75-300mm kit lens. But I’m thinking of getting a cheap lens adapter to use this lens on my old Sony a7s. I do have a little MoveShootMove tracker as well.
Oh man! It's been a while so don't quite remember the exact camera settings. I used a Canon 6D so it was a full frame sensor. That t4i is going to get you more zoomed in and it's probably even better than my full frame camera! I'm not too familiar with the Sony cameras so I can't give you advice there. If you want you can hit me up on Instagram and we can talk and I can look up my exact camera settings from that night
@@deltaastrophotography … thanks. I think I found everything on another video of yours which I just watched. You taped up the lens at 200mm (that was funny - haha), then you used ISO 1600, aperture f/5, and a shutter speed of 60 seconds with your Star Tracker. I’ll give it a go over the weekend … and I’ll take the duct tape to keep that lens at 200mm! Duct Tape, turning “no, no, no,” into “mmm, mmm, mmm” since 1946 😁👍🏼
@@lancealbon46it might be better to use electrical tape because duct tape can kind of leave a little bit of adhesive on your lens! I found that out the hard way 😂
@@deltaastrophotography thanks for the advice 🤣👍🏼
I shot Jupiter with a full frame camera at 600 mm. I was not successful in stacking in Sequator or even PS. Any suggestions? I did not use a tracking device. thanks in advance.
Shooting planets is an entirely different animal! What most people do is use a telescope with at least a thousand to 2,000mm and shoot a video. Then they load the video into a program called Autostakkert. It stacks each individual frame to get a high quality image!
How long was each exposure?
Which is better for stacking, Sequator or DSS?
Sequator is great for nightscapes. It can freeze the ground while stacking the stars. It's ok for basic deep sky stacking. DSS on the other hand is a full-featured deep sky stacking program. It really just depends on what style you're going for.
Very good video.. I am in the process of learning photoshop, as of now just using Lightroom on mobile to edit photos. Would be nice if you can make a good Photoshop tutorial for editing Astro photos, step by step.
I will be make some videos like very soon for sure!
Does having an apo scope vs. a kit lens save work in post- processing?
Absolutely! Everything is much cleaner and sharper with an Apo.
Tracked pictures?
i shot this galaxy about a week ago and cuz the most my camera can go is 70mm i also got Triangulum
But what if, you took 30 images in black and white, with a red filter, then another 30 in B&W with green filter, then finally a set of 30 images with blue filter, combine them all, into one hell of a RGB image, I know for still photography this actually works wonders for colour range.
Amazing!!!!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🙌🏻🔥☄️
Thanks!
what aperture is this lens??
What exposure time did you use to take these pictures?
Hi did you use tracker for that ?
I did! I used the iOptron Skyguider Pro
What lens did you use a 2.8 or 4.
the 75-300 lens is so pathetic one. But he did 60 shots stacked.
What is zoom value?
200mm!
Nooo. Dont smash the lens. I just bought a used cam and enjoying the photography world. Now planning to buy used lens with no fungus
What's the purpose of the distracting sound (you might call it "music"). I can't follow your explanations
I learned so much from this👍.
You just got a new subscriber
Thanks! I'm about to put out another processing video in the next few days!
@@deltaastrophotography 👍. Would be nice if it was one with Orion Nebula. The perfect beginner object.
Awesome video man I was just wondering if there is a way of geting adobe photoshop for free cuzz I know you need to pay for subscription 😂 I a begginer in astrophotography and this video is awesome 😀🙌🏼
Thanks! I'm not sure if there is a legal way to find it for free. ;) I'm sure there is some free software out there does similar things. I pay $10 a month for the Photoshop and Lightroom bundle. Not a bad deal considering you always get the latest version! I use both of them constantly!
Try GIMP, Its similar
Darktable is a free download that is a good place to explore. It has powerful features and is pretty intuitive to figure things out. I think it's meant to copy Lightroom's features for the most part. I found GIMP way to complicated when I started out but Darktable helped me a lot...
Try affinity photo only $25 and as good as photoshop
Also try SIRIL... its free
Amazing man! Whats your Instagram?
Thanks! I believe it's Masterelfnogg!
this was my first ever telephoto lens ever. as soon as i got it and took about 20 shots i sold it right away. (the poor sap that got it i am sure did the same)
this is the worst lens i have ever seen.
JUST MY OPINION: As an astrophotographer myself (intermediate level), I feel qualified to mention this: There is "Astrophotography", and then there is "Computer Graphic Art Design" (CGAD).
In my opinion there's absolutely nothing dishonest about this process. A camera has very poor dynamic range compared to the human eye. In order to reveal the faint details of a galaxy or nebula, this is almost a necessary process. To see these faint details without processing you would have to blow out stars or cores of the Galaxy. It's like trying to photograph the surface details of the moon at night while also trying to get details of your foreground without the aid of any man-made lighting. It's something your eye can plainly see but a camera can't pick it up at all. Also certain cameras and lenses leave distortions and artifacts that need correcting in order to view something closer to reality. Processing is not only important for the casual viewer to see what's actually out there, but it's important for scientific research to study what's out there. Now when people go and start radically altering colors, I can see where that might be slightly dishonest, but at that point it's just a matter of taste.