Nice photo. I understand that it's difficult to get the reflection nebula unless you have dark skies. I don't know what light pollution you're dealing with, but you had the moon. What's your secret? Looking forward to more.
@larrychristianson2244 - dark skies do make a difference. The Bortle 4-5 setting of my observatory is truly a blessing. Without this setting, I would likely need double the integration time, perhaps more. I will say the nice part about a reflection nebula is that it is captured in broadband. So it does show up on all of the LRGB channels. Thank you for your comments!
Hi David, Thanks for the video. I like this kind of content to as an astrophotographer. But you have to find the one that talks and explanes the way that wand to listen with attention. Guess its like in school, you have the teathers that read from the book and the teathears that make the time in class fly.... and school is for me at least 35 years in the past.
I just go by the three belt stars points more or less to the Pleiades. Merope is pronounced Me-ro-pee I believe, Voldemort's mother in Harry Potter. JK Rowling used a lot of stellar names in the Harry Potter books from Sirius, Bellatrix Andromeda and Draco are just a few. That's a nice photo of the Pleiades. I like to see it with a small amount of cloudiness too, but that's just me. Still you processed your picture very well. Some folks I think over process and it doesn't look real, more like painted on and you don't have any of that. It helps to take a look at some photos you admire to keep from being to close to the project. I'll do that and it never looks good. lol Try finding the magnitude 10 little planetary nebula NGC 7139 in Cepheus. I saw it on Stellarium and took out my refigured f/5 150mm 1/12th wave and .98 Strehl reflector & after checking wind I looked it up. Stars were not twinkling at my Bortle 4 spot and seeing was good. Have an iOptron AZ Pro with two saddles for two scopes, bought an aftermarket dual Losmandy/Vixen saddle as the little one they sell is too small. I know it's Alt-Az, but I'm more visual and into double stars and I can take short exposures if I want or video.
Thank you @MountainFisher - I appreciate the note on Merope! My entire family are huge Harry Potter fans - but for one reason or another I never read the books or watched the movies. I may just have to do that now! I definitely try to avoid over processing - mostly because my goal is generally to capture an image and tell a story. These CMOS cameras make it much easier to capture fine sketches of the night sky. Things have come a very long way since I started - I remember using a Minolta 7000i 35mm film camera to image - and funny enough, I was always happy with the results!
Great video, amazing content, so encompassing. Thank you
Thank you @Gumba213 - I appreciate your feedback. I have a couple of more like this coming. All the best!
Realy I like this video so so much like you can imagine
Nice photo. I understand that it's difficult to get the reflection nebula unless you have dark skies. I don't know what light pollution you're dealing with, but you had the moon. What's your secret? Looking forward to more.
@larrychristianson2244 - dark skies do make a difference. The Bortle 4-5 setting of my observatory is truly a blessing. Without this setting, I would likely need double the integration time, perhaps more. I will say the nice part about a reflection nebula is that it is captured in broadband. So it does show up on all of the LRGB channels. Thank you for your comments!
Hi David, Thanks for the video. I like this kind of content to as an astrophotographer. But you have to find the one that talks and explanes the way that wand to listen with attention. Guess its like in school, you have the teathers that read from the book and the teathears that make the time in class fly.... and school is for me at least 35 years in the past.
Thank you for your comment. I hope you enjoy the videos!
I just go by the three belt stars points more or less to the Pleiades. Merope is pronounced Me-ro-pee I believe, Voldemort's mother in Harry Potter. JK Rowling used a lot of stellar names in the Harry Potter books from Sirius, Bellatrix Andromeda and Draco are just a few. That's a nice photo of the Pleiades. I like to see it with a small amount of cloudiness too, but that's just me. Still you processed your picture very well. Some folks I think over process and it doesn't look real, more like painted on and you don't have any of that. It helps to take a look at some photos you admire to keep from being to close to the project. I'll do that and it never looks good. lol
Try finding the magnitude 10 little planetary nebula NGC 7139 in Cepheus. I saw it on Stellarium and took out my refigured f/5 150mm 1/12th wave and .98 Strehl reflector & after checking wind I looked it up. Stars were not twinkling at my Bortle 4 spot and seeing was good. Have an iOptron AZ Pro with two saddles for two scopes, bought an aftermarket dual Losmandy/Vixen saddle as the little one they sell is too small.
I know it's Alt-Az, but I'm more visual and into double stars and I can take short exposures if I want or video.
Thank you @MountainFisher - I appreciate the note on Merope! My entire family are huge Harry Potter fans - but for one reason or another I never read the books or watched the movies. I may just have to do that now! I definitely try to avoid over processing - mostly because my goal is generally to capture an image and tell a story. These CMOS cameras make it much easier to capture fine sketches of the night sky. Things have come a very long way since I started - I remember using a Minolta 7000i 35mm film camera to image - and funny enough, I was always happy with the results!