Astrophotography

[PlasticSpanner]

Gear:
Meade 10" S/N
Meade equitorial mount
Sigma 500mm ED telephoto
10.5 mm fisheye
Nikon D70, D100
Losmandy GM-8 mount
Borg system for autoguiding
70mm piggyback guider
SAC 7b astronomical webcam guider
various laptops and other junk

And a pickup truck to move everything!

Nice photos and setup! :thumbup: (Makes my 6 inches look kinda small! )

 

[Oldfireguy]

Neat stuff!

 

[Kevin D Burns]

Minolta Z1 full digital zoom -2EV. After seeing the mead images I am now thinking about getting into that. Thanks.

 

[ruifo]

Via Lactea by ruimc77, on Flickr

 

[jonathaneme]

i have a hard time adjusting these to make the milkyway pop, without having so much noise. ive tried to remove all the grain i can.

hwy 120 milkyway by JonathanEme, on Flickr

 

[ruifo]

The Milky Way by ruimc77, on Flickr

 

[ruifo]

Haitian Sky by ruimc77, on Flickr

 

[ruifo]

Andromeda Galaxy Star Trek by ruimc77, on Flickr

 

[ruifo]

Lua by ruimc77, on Flickr

 

[Dikkie]

Nebula by Dirk Desmet, on Flickr

First attempt for the Milky Way.
Iso 1600; EV+3.
10mm on nikon d7000 crop camera (so 15mm normally)
f4, shutter 20 secs

Around 30 km from Brussels

 

[Lord Commander]

First attempt without a tripod. Fujifilm X-T2 with XF 16mm F1,4

 

[Lord Commander]

 

[dxqcanada]

Hmm, is that noise in the background ?



moon by Dennis, on Flickr

 

[Lord Commander]

 

[pez]

I set up Saturday night to try for some early Perseids, but didn't get much. However there may be one faint one towards the end here, and apparently several SATELLITES, including a stereo pair @ 2:05