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Well I tried.
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Totally different exposure to get the moons:
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Nice try!
What lenses did you use?
What lenses did you use?
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Celestron NexStar 8SE
I also tried 400/2.8 with 1.4x extender but it didn't have enough reach.
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I guess astrophotography can be pretty underwhelming unless you're ready to spend tens of thousands and up
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Yea. That was my friend's telescope and it's "only" ~$2k. If you get serious on astrophotography, we're talking $10k-$20k.
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yep... and at that point you're just trying to compete with Hubble and JWST.
I'd say it's cool to try and take nice pictures of the Moon or the Milky Way, but anything beyond that is better left to NASA!
I'd say it's cool to try and take nice pictures of the Moon or the Milky Way, but anything beyond that is better left to NASA!
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I mean, I still love to try how far I can push my gear, even if Nasa can do it better.
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Certainly. Didn't mean to detract from your enjoyment of it...
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Have you heard of Deep Sky Stacker? Might improve things and make them a lot more interesting!
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Well I got this, camera only, R7 . See what I did below
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I am an astro photography kind of beginner but have had some success with the basic deep sky nebula, galaxies and nebula with my camera on a tracker.
So I tried this technique as I had read that the video on the R7 is good for this. SO, my R7 with 600mm RF, F11 +1.4x TC. (F16 not a problem as Jupiter so bright at the moment). R7 1/50th sec cropped 4k video mode, giving a further increase in magnification and also this mode isn't compressed I believe. So after focusing (tricky) I took about a minutes worth of video across the frame and stacked and processed the result using various free software designed for this purpose. Easy to just Google that bit. I was quite pleased as you can make out the moons Europa above, Gannymede below and Io is just a dot touching the edge of the planet in the bottom left hand corner. Callisto is cropped out of the frame.
So I tried this technique as I had read that the video on the R7 is good for this. SO, my R7 with 600mm RF, F11 +1.4x TC. (F16 not a problem as Jupiter so bright at the moment). R7 1/50th sec cropped 4k video mode, giving a further increase in magnification and also this mode isn't compressed I believe. So after focusing (tricky) I took about a minutes worth of video across the frame and stacked and processed the result using various free software designed for this purpose. Easy to just Google that bit. I was quite pleased as you can make out the moons Europa above, Gannymede below and Io is just a dot touching the edge of the planet in the bottom left hand corner. Callisto is cropped out of the frame.
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