Astrophoto thread (your own photos please)

[Kyle]

What type of telescope is it? With my 8", I looked at the full moon in a 25mm eyepiece and saw the image of it whenever I closed my eyes for a second for the entire night. Absolutely blinding.

 

[astrosammy]

A 150x1200mm (~6x50") reflector, with a 25 mm eyepiece. The moon is quite blinding through it as well.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I get an eyefull of lunar brilliance through my little 4" Celestron, makes me wonder how vampires can stand moonlight (isn't it reflected sunlight?).

I'm thinking about rigging a webcam to do some astrophotography, at least I'm doing some homework on it.

 

[Kyle]

FWIW, there's some really nice astrophotography webcams, but they can be quite expensive.

 

[Kyle]

The slender crescent moon hangs gently over the western evening sky.

 

[astrosammy]

Beautiful. I'm just back home from a local astronomy club meeting, but we forgot it after trying to find the M82 Supernova and viewing Orion and Jupiter.
We have a cold humid night here today, but images of the Orion Nebula were surprisingly good even with all the fog.

 

[astrosammy]

We had a beautiful day here, no clouds in the sky.

The moon was visible as well but the camera showed nothing,
so I removed the phone from the adapter to check it.

! It's molten!

Turns out I took the solar filter off my Telescope while it was still pointing at the sun...

The repair is easy and I already ordered replacement camera and cover for ~30 €.
No big thing, just a stupid error I'll certainly not do again.

 

[Matias Saibene]

MEADE ETX-80AT

Recall that recently published this post:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=33337

At the end I was able to buy the telescope MEADE ETX-80AT and as promised here are the photos. It is noteworthy that in the telescope look better than it looks in the photos, my camera is a small camera of 10.2mpx (though in the photos landscapes of the Earth looks wonderful).

Thanks to everyone who helped me to buy the telescope:tiphat:.

 

[Koloss]

Yesterday I had a perfect view out of my apartment in the middle of the city.
I took the photos with my iPhone 5S through the ocular. :blush: At the moment I have no other solution.

Here are the results:

 

[Unstung]

Recall that recently published this post:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=33337

At the end I was able to buy the telescope MEADE ETX-80AT and as promised here are the photos. It is noteworthy that in the telescope look better than it looks in the photos, my camera is a small camera of 10.2mpx (though in the photos landscapes of the Earth looks wonderful).

Thanks to everyone who helped me to buy the telescope:tiphat:.

If you center your subject more, the camera's metering (fancy camera intelligence thing) should be able to get the proper exposure, i.e. the photos will not be too bright.

 

[Kyle]

Some more recent images, I'm starting to learn quite a bit.

All stacked in Registax 5, video from a Nikon D5100.

 

[Messierhunter]

Tried out my "new" (used) SBIG ST-7 on the whirlpool galaxy this weekend.
4.3 hours of luminance with the ST-7 and 8" LX200.

Color came from an Atik Titan-C and Orion ST-80 riding piggyback, but due to a software glitch I lost most of the color data and had to settle for only 35 minutes worth.

 

[Matias Saibene]

MEADE ETX-80AT SP26mm lens

These photos were taken with the telescope MEADE ETX-80AT and a lens SP26mm MEADE. The original pictures weigh approximately 1MB but I think they MediaFire reduces weight.

 

[Kyle]

Tried out my "new" (used) SBIG ST-7 on the whirlpool galaxy this weekend.
4.3 hours of luminance with the ST-7 and 8" LX200.

Color came from an Atik Titan-C and Orion ST-80 riding piggyback, but due to a software glitch I lost most of the color data and had to settle for only 35 minutes worth.

Wow-- that's amazing!

 

[Kyle]

Another go at Messier 42 (M42).

400 images stacked, 20 dark frames, 20 bias frames, 2" exposure, ISO 6400, f/5.6 with a 300mm lens, all stacked in DeepSkyStacker and touched up in Photoshop Lightroom if anyone was wondering.

 

[NukeET]

Practice for the blood moon tetrad starting 4/15/2014

Both taken with a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, using 250 mm zoom:

3/21/2014: f6.3 1/400s ISO 250

3/15/2014: f5.6 1/30s ISO 250

 

[Kyle]

Reprocessed my earlier image, more natural color.

 

[Messierhunter]

Well the ST-7 died, so I've replaced it with an SBIG ST-2000XCM. Some quick and dirty shots from the first light test last night; due to some technical glitches I wasn't able to get appropriate calibration images (no flats or bias frames on these, just a single dark frame subtraction), and due to weather there's only about 20 minutes of light on the Horsehead and Rosette nebulae. Still, I'm quite happy with the camera's performance.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Well the ST-7 died, so I've replaced it with an SBIG ST-2000XCM. Some quick and dirty shots from the first light test last night; due to some technical glitches I wasn't able to get appropriate calibration images (no flats or bias frames on these, just a single dark frame subtraction), and due to weather there's only about 20 minutes of light on the Horsehead and Rosette nebulae. Still, I'm quite happy with the camera's performance.

Those are gorgeous, practically APOD quality.

Very impressive. :thumbup:

 

[Matias Saibene]

Well the ST-7 died, so I've replaced it with an SBIG ST-2000XCM. Some quick and dirty shots from the first light test last night; due to some technical glitches I wasn't able to get appropriate calibration images (no flats or bias frames on these, just a single dark frame subtraction), and due to weather there's only about 20 minutes of light on the Horsehead and Rosette nebulae. Still, I'm quite happy with the camera's performance.

These pictures are truly amazing. Having a telescope like yours is like having a mini-HST. Awesome, definitely deserves Carl Sagan Seal Of Approval X3.