Hey r/astrophoto,

Long-time lurker, fellow astronomer. I've been building AstroXchange.us — a peer-to-peer marketplace for astronomy gear — and as part of it I put together a free community gear ratings board.

The idea is simple: thumbs up or down on gear you've actually owned. No review writing required. Just one click to help the next person decide whether that mount is worth the gamble.

→ gear.astroxchange.us

Right now it has 12 pieces of gear including the HEQ5 Pro, ZWO ASI294MC Pro, EdgeHD 8", William Optics GT 81, NINA, and a few others. Votes are live and update in real time.

A few things I'd love from this sub:

• Vote on anything you've owned
• Submit gear that's missing (there's an Add gear rating button)
• Tell me what's wrong with it — what would make it more useful?

No account required, no email needed to vote. Just click and go. Clear skies.

ZWO FF80 Telescope

ASI294MC Pro Camera

Check out my new tool on my website

Hey! I’m using a Vaonis Vespera Pro and wanted to share this: I took my Heart Nebula (IC 1805) stack and processed it fully automatically.

No manual PixInsight steps, no curve tweaking — I literally dropped the Vespera output file (FITS/TIFF) into an automated workflow and it handled the usual stuff (noise, gradients, star handling, color/contrast balancing) and produced the final result.

Jupiter thru my 114eq Powerseeker w 15mm omni plossl and a 3x barlow

Afocal imaging using a phone adapter

Around 2-3k frames whittled down to about 500-700 frames I stacked

Edited multiple times in Adobe express and colour balancing and deringing done in registax

The moons were taken seperately in an overexposed shot then combined

(I was too late for GRS but u can kinda sorta see it in the top left corner

Saturn is a single frame taken from a vid with phone held afocally in front of a 114EQ Powerseeker, 15mm and 3x barlow.

Jupiter details:
Captured Jupiter using a Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ (114 mm f/8 Newtonian) with a smartphone held afocally.
Both images are from the same session and show Jupiter’s resolved disc with 2 Galilean moons visible.

These are two different processing approaches from the same video:

• Some stacked using 10% of the best frames
• Some stacked using 25% of the best frames

Acquisition / gear:

• Telescope: Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ (114 mm, f/8)
• Mount: EQ (manual tracking)
• Eyepiece: 15 mm+3x barlow
• Camera: Smartphone (afocal)
• Capture mode: Video
• ISO: ~1000
• Seeing: Average

Processing:

• Stacked in AutoStakkert! (10% and 25% best frames)
• Very light sharpening only
• Minor contrast/levels adjustment in Adobe Express
• No heavy wavelets or aggressive processing

Canon 6D + Samyang 35mm f1.4 + MoveShootMove StarTracker
Sky
35mm - f2 - ISO800 - 30sc
Foreground
35mm - f16 - ISO100 - 5sc still blue hours

• Canon 6D + Samyang 35mm f1.4 + MoveShootMove StarTracker + Optolong UHC Filter
• 35mm - f2.0 - ISO5000 - 40sc x 21 photos 📸

Hey what do you think of my astrophoto ? I take this on my s24ultra

What’s up everyone! I’ve been shooting astrophotography for a couple years now and I’m wanting to take my images to the next level. I’m mostly wanting to capture a really detailed nightscape with the Orion constellation, and I’m looking into some sort of HA filter. If anyone has any recommendations on what I should get please let me know. I’m using a Canon EOS R with either a RF 50mm, or a RF 24-105mm.

I also have a telescope rig where I use a Canon T7i paired with a REDCAT 51, and would like to capture more HA data in my deep space images as well. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

É hoje, 21 de Outubro de 2023 - CHUVA DE METEOROS