The Astronomy hobby thread

[Eric Hahl]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Finally made the jump to being a Vendor there.

Right on!

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Finally made the jump to being a Vendor there.

see you there!

[Eric Hahl]

Well, we finally had a few decent nights around here and I managed to get the big Meade 14" scope working. Shot M27 last night. 1.4 hours of Ha, 1.4 hours of O3 and 1.35 hours of S2 combined.


And from the weekend. Closeup of the Pelican. Don't mind the donut reflection on the left...had some light reflect on the corrector plate and secondary...my mistake.

[tcar]

Just spectacular.... thanks...

[Eric Hahl]

Reprocessed the M27 image. So many nuances in the processing software its crazy. Anyway, there was a lot more detail to be extracted.

[masraum]

Spectacular! Thanks for posting.

[bugstrider]

Wow! Just wow!!!


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[Eric Hahl]

Thanks guys.

[Rusty Heap]

once again. my work sucks

[flatbutt]

if you enjoy it....

[Eric Hahl]

I got some more data the other night on IC1396. This is 6 hours worth of exposures now. Looks like I over cooked the stars, they are kinda bloaty. Oh well, will do better next time.

[tevake]

Wow Eric, what amazing images you are coming up with.
I thought you had to be shooting from Hubble to get shots like those, thanks for sharing them.

Cheers Richard

[Eric Hahl]

Thanks Richard. It’s amazing what today’s technology allows us to do.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

Thanks Richard. It’s amazing what today’s technology allows us to do.

A huge step is being able to add together images across several nights, even from several different telescopes and cameras. Before, you pretty much were limited to what you could put together in one night, or *maybe* 2 or 3 if you had a completely permanent setup, but now with plate solving, you can slowly build up 5, 6, 10 hour color bands over many nights, and use different resolution setups to bring different parts of the image together.

Adding the Luminance channel was the quantum step when I was doing imaging, while plate solving is the newest quantum step.

[masraum]

I remember when this guy just had a bunch of pictures on his website along with information about the total exposure time, etc.... Unfortunately, due to his success, he's gone more commercial and I can't find that info any more. One of my favorites is his huge photo of Orion.

It's amazing that some of his images are collages from sessions over months and many, many hours worth of exposure.

Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Premium Astrophotography - DeepSkyColors.com

This isn't my favorite, but it's one that's very similar. I think the one that I prefer is called "Orion Head to Toe" or something like that.

[Eric Hahl]

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Stunning!

[bugstrider]

Just a thought, has anyone offered their images up for sale or on a web site that if somebody purchase an image, it goes back to an account to help support/fund their hobby? These things would look fantastic on metal.

[Eric Hahl]

I'll be offering that in the future. I'm being picky about my stuff. Waiting until I think they are good enough to sell.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by bugstrider

Just a thought, has anyone offered their images up for sale or on a web site that if somebody purchase an image, it goes back to an account to help support/fund their hobby? These things would look fantastic on metal.

The link that I posted to DeepSkyColors is selling his photos. They used to just be up for online but the for sale thing is newish.

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by masraum

The link that I posted to DeepSkyColors is selling his photos. They used to just be up for online but the for sale thing is newish.

Thanks!!!!! I’ll take a look


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