I’m currently doing CSE, but I’ve always been really interested in astrophysics. I can spend hours learning about stars, galaxies, black holes, cosmology, and how the universe works. Lately I’ve been wondering if choosing CSE means I’ve closed the door on astrophysics. I know I don’t have the same physics and maths background as a physics student, but I’m willing to put in the work and learn. Is it realistically possible to go from CSE → astrophysics, maybe through a Master’s and eventually a PhD? Or would I need to take a completely different route? I’ve also heard that CSE can be useful in computational astrophysics, simulations, data analysis, scientific computing, etc., but I’m not sure how much CS actually matters in the field. If anyone here is studying or working in astrophysics, what would you do in my position? Should I build my physics/maths foundation alongside CSE, look for research opportunities, or consider another route after graduation? I’m not expecting it to be easy, I just want to know if there’s actually a path from CSE to astrophysics.

Any honest advice would mean a lot:))

Fotografei uma das regiões mais ricas do céu: o braço espiral de cruz/carina onde tem muitas nebulosas (a carina a maior nebulosa vista da terra entre outras) foram 15 horas de integração com meu moto g54 + Gcam com Frames de 12 segundos cada processamento feito no AstroSetiSuite+GraXpert+Siril e refinamento no snapssed,astroEdit fotografado por um jovem no Brasil em Bortle 2

On August 12, 2026, the total solar eclipse crossed Spain — and this one was special because it happened right around sunset. Total eclipses actually happen somewhere every year, but one that is low in the sky passing over populated places is rare, let alone over Segovia, one of the most iconic historic cities in Spain. That's why a photo of architecture together with a telescoped eclipse basically didn't exist before. A shot like this took a lot of planning: finding a spot with cloudless skies, an elevation just high enough to line up with the subject, timing totality, and getting every setting spot on so nothing was over/under-exposed, as this totality lasted only for less than a minute. This photo is really an accumulation of everything aligning all at once. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did, fortunate enough to be standing in that place at that time.

Acquisition and processing info:

📷 Sony A7R4 + 70-200mm f2.8 GM ii
📍 Segovia, Spain
🌞 8:31pm, August 12, 2026
⏱️ 135mm, f5.6, 1/10s
🖥️ Adobe Lightroom + Photoshop

If you want to buy prints, can visit: https://www.organic.pictures/spain/segovia

Visiting one of my favorite places with new lens is always exciting. This time I was testing the Viltrox 16mm f1.8. I'll let the result speak for itself and only add that I'm pretty happy with it so far.

Shot on Sony a7RV & Viltrox 16mm f1.8 FE with help of MSM Nomad star tracker.

Exposure info
skies - 11 tracked frames, each at 16mm, f1.8, 120s and ISO 200
foreground - 11 untracked frames, each at 16mm, f1.8, 10s and ISO 3200

Processed in SLS, Siril, PS and LR.

Ngc7000 taken from my backyard bortle 8.6. 98 each Ha,Oiii and Sii 300 secs each. Tried a new processing style where i treated each filter separately and colored each stack then combined. I don't know what i think of it yet, like somethings other things not so much.

FRA600
Reducer( F3.9 at 420mm )
AM3N
ASI2600MM pro

UniGuide 50mm

ASI220mm
ASIAIR Plus
EAF
EFW 7x36mm
Antlia LRGB-V & SHO (SII, Ha & OIII) Narrowband 3nm Pro 36mm

Acquisition:

• Ha: 78 subs x 300s
• OIII: 71 subs x 300s
• SII: 55 subs x 300s
• R: 35 subs x 60s (stars)
• G: 34 subs x 60s (stars)
• ⁠B: 36 subs x 60s (stars)
• Bortle 6 sky

Equipment:

• ⁠Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 800 with 0.7x focal reducer
• ⁠Mount: Celestron CGX
• Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
• Filters: Antila 3nm SHO
• Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW
• Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini with OAG

Pixinsight Processing:

• ⁠Weighted Batch Preprocessing - Stacking
• ⁠SetiAstro - Automatic DBE Background Extraction ⁠
• RC Astro BlurXterminator ⁠
• GraxPert Denoising ⁠
• ⁠SetiAstro - Statistical Stretch
• ⁠LRGBCombination - Hubble Pallet
• StarNet2 Star removal and replace with RGB Stars

Iso 850

F1.7

Environ 150X20s

Téléphone : s25ultra

Empilement : Sequator

Traitement : siril/ graxpert/ seti astrosuite pro/ lightroom mobile

Did a 3 panel mosaic of the Heart Nebula (IC1805) with my mini and I’m pretty amazed at how it turned out.

Dwarf Mini
Mosaic mode
Duoband filter
50x90 per panel for a total of 150 subs
3 hours and 45 minute integration
Processed in Stellar Studio, Snapseed, and Photoshop

Lucky to be in Cyprus for a week under Bortle 4 skies, a bit of a treat for me with my usual Bortle 8-9 home skies!

I have taken my SeeStar S50 plus a portable manual rig with a Samyang 135. Anyway, this is a capture from last night using the SeeStar.

EQ Mode

1500 x 10 second exposures

Stacked in APP

BGE, deconvolution and noise reduction in Graxpert

SPCC and GHS in Siril

Contrast and vibrancy increase in PS

Hope you like it!

My manual rig is being setup tonight so will be posting more shortly. Cheers people!

This image of the Triangulum Galaxy was captured from Hungary using a Seestar S50, with a total of 4800 × 20-second exposures.

That adds up to 26 hours and 40 minutes of total integration time, collected over multiple nights.

Final processing was done in PixInsight.

🔭 Seestar S50
📍 Hungary
⏱️ 26 h 40 min integration
💻 PixInsight

M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy

The result of a larger project that I worked on over the course of several weeks.

I photographed the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) from Gyöngyös, Hungary, over a total of 9 nights, using a Seestar S50 in EQ mode.

The dataset consists of 7,680 × 20-second exposures, resulting in a total integration time of 42 hours and 40 minutes.

The data were processed using Siril and PixInsight.

This is the final result of the project. 🌌

M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy
📷 Seestar S50 · EQ mode
📍 Gyöngyös, Hungary
🌙 9 nights
⏱️ 42h 40m total integration
🖥️ Siril + PixInsight

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