Astronomy/Astrophotography

[4KidsOneCamera]

Photo dump time! Here’s everything I’ve shot over the past couple weeks. Not a whole lot as I’ve been busy with school, but a half decent amount.

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

Pretty cool

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Your photos are awesome like always.
:thumbsup:

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Thanks! I should get a chance to image tomorrow night, so expect more from that!

 

[Octacorpus]

Amazing photos, i Will use them as background

 

[James Brown]

Amazing photos, i Will use them as background

Yes I STRONGLY suggest you to use it as background

 

[The epic chicken]

I took photos of the moon

I took them from my phone so the quality isn't that great

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Just like I said, it’s new image time! Captured my second deep sky mosaic, this time of the North America and Pelican Nebulae. For it being almost a full moon out, I’m pretty happy with the detail I could capture.

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Ohhhhh yeah! I’ve waited so long to capture the Orion Nebula again. This is also my first ever image where I’ve managed to capture some of the dark dust surrounding it.

Given that it was a 75% illuminated moon last night, I’m pretty amazed I got what I did. Can’t wait to do it again come new moon!

 

[Astatium_209]

Ohhhhh yeah! I’ve waited so long to capture the Orion Nebula again. This is also my first ever image where I’ve managed to capture some of the dark dust surrounding it.

Given that it was a 75% illuminated moon last night, I’m pretty amazed I got what I did. Can’t wait to do it again come new moon! View attachment 73367

whoa!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

whoa!

Yeah, I wasn’t expecting to capture all that I did given the conditions. So my reaction was about the same!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Safe to say, I’ve managed to break my brain while taking a timelapse of geostationary satellites.

So let me start with the first way this has broken my brain. First off, you don’t need any tracking to capture these, since they are stationary relative to us. This means though, that you see the stars flying past relative to the sats themselves.

The second way this broke my brain is that there is actually a cluster of four satellites flying in perfect formation with one another (I was only expecting to see one, so to have four pop up is insane).

The third way involves the fact that geostationary satellites, when within a two week period of the equinox, will briefly pass into earths shadow and disappear from view. We are currently within that two week period, so I got to watch them disappear right on time, just as expected. Something about that managed to break me as well. I expect to see them reappear in half an hour, which will again break my brain.

The fourth way that I am expecting to break my brain is that early tomorrow morning at 4:30 am, these satellites are going to transit right past the Orion Nebula. Close enough that you should be able to see it pass in the final timelapse. If I am able to catch this, I’m going to lose it.

As you may or may not be able to tell from the overly long explanation I’ve just written, I am extremely excited and kinda blown away by this. I genuinely think it is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in astrophotography.

Snek preview:

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Finally finished processing the data from last week. Had to learn a new editing software which added some time onto it.

Here is my first image of the Helix Nebula! Very pleased with how this one came out, only having 90 minutes of images.

Secondly is a Timelapse of a small cluster of four geostationary satellites over the course of a night. You get to see them be eclipsed by the earth (something that only happens for two weeks on either side of the equinox), their motion relative to each other, as well as a visit from the Orion Nebula! Definitely a different concept that what I usually do, but one that I found super exciting!

 

[Astatium_209]

Finally finished processing the data from last week. Had to learn a new editing software which added some time onto it.

Here is my first image of the Helix Nebula! Very pleased with how this one came out, only having 90 minutes of images.
View attachment 73669

Secondly is a Timelapse of a small cluster of four geostationary satellites over the course of a night. You get to see them be eclipsed by the earth (something that only happens for two weeks on either side of the equinox), their motion relative to each other, as well as a visit from the Orion Nebula! Definitely a different concept that what I usually do, but one that I found super exciting!

I love how the nebula whizzes by, gorgeous!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

I love how the nebula whizzes by, gorgeous!

One of my favorite parts! Was super glad I managed to get it in the shot.

 

[Hawk]

I have to say that I just absolutely LOVE the pictures you post here 4kids. It’s just really nice to see things like this. I’ve done some photography myself but have had barely any time whatsoever to do it (and I haven’t even tried astrophotography) so I tend to see what other people do and this is just absolutely magnificent!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

I have to say that I just absolutely LOVE the pictures you post here 4kids. It’s just really nice to see things like this. I’ve done some photography myself but have had barely any time whatsoever to do it (and I haven’t even tried astrophotography) so I tend to see what other people do and this is just absolutely magnificent!

Glad to know you appreciate it!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Here’s the Triangulum Galaxy from this past weekend! First time shooting this target in almost exactly a year, so pretty cool to see how far I’ve gotten in such a short time.

On a side note, I’ve been researching new cameras (yes, I know I just got my current one a few months ago). Had a sudden realization the other day that I will actually be in a position where I can get a dedicated cooled astronomy camera within the next couple months. I’m particularly looking at the ZWO ASI533MC Pro, which I know would be a massive jump in the quality of my images. So, hopefully I’ll be able to make that happen soon!

 

[Pink]

You put the before/after the wrong way around.

The quality jump between pictures is just amazing!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Been a while since I’ve posted, so here’s everything (well, most things) that have happened since!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Captured a few from more!

 

[RockerBrawler]

Nice

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Nice

Thanks!

 

[4KidsOneCamera]

Here’s what I’ve been up to since the last post:

 

[RockerBrawler]

Here’s what I’ve been up to since the last post:
View attachment 74676

Looks like someone splattered blood in space.