Photographing ANDROMEDA GALAXY with a Smart Telescope for 7 Hours
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024
- I Pointed my Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope at the Andromeda Galaxy and You WON'T BELIEVE the Andromeda Galaxy Picture I was able to take using a $499 affordable smart telescope. In this tutorial I show you from start to finish how to get also similar results.
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Ordered mine a couple of months ago, anxiously waiting for it! 😥
Hope you will recive it soon and wish you clear sky and happy hollidays!
I ordered in May, and now got DHL mail about delivery on Friday
Excellent Video! I use EM1 mkiii with astro focusing feature, Siril, Affinity Photo 2, Graxpert, and Topaz Photo Ai to taste. Thank you so much for the tips! Cheers from Alpine, California
Thank you so much for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed the video! If you want to help more people to see it, you could also share the video. Wish you clear sky and Merry Christmas!
Another brilliant video.
Could you just inform me in your opinion which internal filter within the Dwarf3 is best on certain targets !
Thank you, for emission nebulas you use the duo band and rest the astro filter that is the default one, some excepțions exists like the orion and running man nebula where you might get better results with Astro filter even if orion is emission, usualy on Galaxies star clusters dark.nebula.and reflection with Astro filter
Fantastic,thank you for your reply.
Keep the videos coming,I look forward to them,merry Christmas 👍
Is this drizzle real drizzle? V1.2 for example does just upsampling. Did you use (true) drizzling of Siril v1.3.x beta or PixInsight? I think with this amount 2x or perhaps even 4x is possible?
My Siril verion is 1.2.4 and did not see anything to point that Drizle did not work fine, checking the pixel size in the photometric calibration window showed me a pixel size of 1 instead of 2 and the final image resolution in pixels was 7712x4360.
Maybe a nice video for your followers: How to install daily builds from Siril. =;-) I have not tried yet if real drizzling is already part of v1.3.x. Drizzling with OSC can I think really improve the details - especially with so many lights. Probably you could get 50% more resolution?
@@GalaxyArtMedia I just tested Siril v1.3.6 with a set of 200 SeeStar fit files (still waiting for my Dwarf3). The result with a drizzle scale of 2 and a pixel fraction of 0.5 is that the SNR is much better. Basically the noise was halved in size. Additionally, the stars where smaller and close stars were better separated. If you try this, make sure in settings you set "Bayer information from files's header if available" to ON and "Debayer FITS files in top-down if no explicit keywords found" to ON - unless you have color issues in the result after stacking. I used this script:
requires 1.2.0
cd lights
link light -out=../process
cd ../process
calibrate light
register pp_light -2pass
seqapplyreg pp_light -filter-round=2.5k -drizzle -pixfrac=0.5 -scale=2
stack r_pp_light rej 3 3 -norm=addscale -output_norm -rgb_equal -out=result
mirrorx_single result
load result
save ../$OBJECT:%s$_$STACKCNT:%d$x$EXPTIME:%d$sec_T$CCD-TEMP:%d$degC_$DATE-OBS:dm12$
close
Just tested the new drizzling of Siril v1.3. Works like a charm. Result is a better SNR and slightly more details (comparable with deconvolution) but together with deconvolution the result is very noticeable. I had good results with 200 images, drizzle scaling factor 2 and pixel fraction 0.2. Check your TOP/DOWN BOTTOM/UP settings if you get color issues.
@@ahiemstra Thanks for the feedback! from where you can download Siril 1.3?
WAIT! did you say (via text in your video @3:17 mark) that DwarfLabs increased the longest exposure time from 60s to 3min?!?!?! ::hope-hope-hope:: 🤞
Also, I was confused if the Dwarf3 actually "tracks" stars (like an autoguider) or if it just rotates at the sidereal rate?
If the answer to both of these is "yes", then I'm even MORE excited to get my Dwarf 3! :)
Hello Jasmel! Answer is Yes and Yes. Curently they just increased the longest exposure from 1 min to 3 min but curently available only on beta testing and will be released in a future public update after tracking and guiding will be adjusted for those longer exposures. Dwarf 3 also corrects the sidereal tracking by guiding,
@@GalaxyArtMedia This is fantastic news! Thank you for the info and great content!
@@jasmel90 Your welcome Jasmel, I have also a discount code in the description in case you decide to order
I got the seestar s50 and if I take the same amount of pictures and did the same steps you did can I make my pictures on the seestar just as good?
Hello. Unfortunatly no. Seestar S50 needs to use the mosaic mode to capture all Andromeda, that means you must gather much more data to get the same results and also will be harder to stack the single frames. You could get similar results for the same integration time on the core of Andromeda but not if you make a mosaic
Do the motors move during long exposures, or does it wait to move between images?
They move all the time the telescope is tracking and doing astrophotography, also dwarf 3 dithers curently between 4 exposures that will move slightly the telescope between this exposures but the tracking foes on, aditionaly it is also corecting the exposures by guiding making tracking more accurate
@GalaxyArtMedia Thanks!
@@madcow3417 Your welcome!
Wish there was a pay monthly option
For?
Very nice
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed watching!