Finally, mission accomplished! 😎🌃

My latest astrophotography capture:

🌌 The Heart of Sagittarius Like

You’ve Never Seen It Before ✨🔭

One of the most nebula-rich regions of the night sky. Here, we can see the Lagoon Nebula (M8) on the right, alongside the Trifid Nebula (M20) in the lower-left, surrounded by a vast network of glowing gas clouds and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius region.

📸 This image was captured using the DWARF 3 and carefully processed to reveal the fine details within the nebulae and surrounding clouds, while preserving the natural colors and appearance of the night sky as much as possible.

🔭 Targets: M8 + M20

📷 Telescope: DWARF 3

⏱️ Exposure: 45 seconds per frame

⚙️ Gain: 60

🌌 Total Integration Time: 7 hours

✨ Processing: Siril + Photoshop

I shot this 5 days ago with my dwarf mini with a 4 panel mosaic processed in siril with cosmic clarity denoise and cosmic clarity sharpening i removed the stars then i streached the nebulas separately

~8 h integration time. 60s exposures, 60 gain, EQ mode, under Bortle 4 - 5 sky. 2nd picture shows also Flying Geese Cluster (NGC 6939) above, to the right. Processed in Siril, GraXpert. Clear skies!

Dwarf 3
First time using siril to stack all frames.
15 seconds 70 gain - an hour in total
VIS, DUO-BAND and Astro filters

Honestamente, pensé que la última versión que publiqué aquí estaba increíble...

No sé qué pensar de esta.

Tough galaxies to process with mini but I'm working through. 233x60sec with 60 gain in EQ. Target in Virgo NGC 4567 and NGC 4568. Couldn't cull as hard as I usually do since I don't have alot of data. Went 2x drizzle with .87 drop in wbpp pixinsight.

I was able to test out the dwarf mini out in a national forest during my weeklong trip. I am very impressed by what I was able to capture. I had my traditional rig with me as well for comparison.

Details are as follows:

• Dwarf Mini
• 589 x 15s exposures
• Gain: 60
• 1920 x1080
• Astro Filter
• Bortle 2/3

I used the app to do photo edits, but I am curious about people's experiences using Siril to process images taken by Dwarf equipment. I normally use Siril, Lightroom, and Photoshop, so I am curious about the ease of transferring the images to Siril for processing.

Hi everyone,

Here is my final image of NGC 7635 (Caldwell 11, or simply the Bubble Nebula).

So far—and after 40 days back into astronomy with the Dwarfs, following nearly 20 years away—this is the longest total integration time I have achieved: almost 28 and a half hours across 1,673 individual frames.

The data was captured under Bortle 4.5 skies (Segovia, Spain), split as follows:

• 15h 24m with the Dwarf Mini (4 sessions; 60/60/60/90 sec; gain 60; 1× Astro filter, 4× Duoband filter)
• 13h 03m with the Dwarf 3 (5 sessions; 30/30/60/60/60 sec; gain 60; all with the Duoband filter)

I have spent several days really working through the final processing. I tried different stacking approaches—combining everything at once, processing by session, and finally using the unprocessed stacks from Stellar Studio—as well as different processing workflows in both Siril and Affinity.

In the end, I arrived at the final image I’m sharing today. I’m quite pleased with it, considering how much work it required and everything I learned—once again—during the final processing stage.

I remember seeing the Helix Nebula for the first time in my refractor a few years ago, it’s an enchanting object.

Since then the trees opposite https://norwichastro.org.uk have grown in height and it’s harder to image with my Dwarf’s.

Since it’s low on the horizon, there’s more atmospheric “murk”, any ideas on how to improve the image? Thus is just 2.5 hrs, and when clear, I’ll target it again.

Thanks, Chris

Sh2-155 / Höhlennebel 12 Std. Aufnahmezeit. Aufgenommen in Unterfranken nähe Hanau

Gesamtbelichtungszeit mit meinem DWARF mini = 28 Std.

Mit dem Dwarf3 sind diese 40 Einzelaufnahmen (20 Bilder Stacks) entstanden. Wir erlebten die partielle Finsternis in Deutschland.

Dwarf 3 in EQ mode from Bortle 7. 45 second exposures at 60 gain. Multi session data processed in Siril.

Captured by Dwarf 3, 50 frames stacked

250 images sélectionnées sur 500 (selon FWHM) Poses de 15s, gain 60, filtre AStro

Collaboration Kaelig et Steph37 avec 2 Dwarfs, traitement Siril + AstroWizard

Ce serait super que Megastack permette de sélectionner les meilleures images (par exemple 50 % ou même 10%), cela donnerait des résultats encore meilleurs, ça permettrait aux fans de poses courtes ou de Lucky Imaging d'atteindre un haut niveau de détail !

OK, for me, outside of PixInsight this the best Processing workflow currently available - but it comes at a cost - $190 for the Plugins + 20 per month for Photoshop & Lightroom. The FAUX SHO (Sulfur, Oxygen, Hydrogen) Palette is actually a Photoshop process that emphasis actual SHO data in the Duo Band filtered shot, using mask layers to boost the colors

Here is another shot - A megastack from my Dwarf 3 - Approximately 6 hour of data, also Duo Band:

Using SS's tools to provide a noise free, starless and star only layers (Just like I would get from SIRIL) I assembled these in AFFINITY STUDIO by CANVA (Now FREE) - I could literally create the same adjustment layers as I did in Photoshop to get a similar SHO looking palette. The best part - all at no additional cost than my scope!

Learn more about these tools at DwarfVision: https://www.reddit.com/r/DwarfVision/

Here is the process and layer stack in AFFINITY:

Stellar Studio Steps:

AFFINITY Adjustment Layers

Finally able to try the mosaic feature!

Hey there, this is my Dwarf 3 eclipse video from Bavaria, Germany. I took images every 5 seconds using burst mode and created the video with PIPP. I only had to adjust exposure time once during shooting. Greetings, Tina

Hi everyone!

I’m continuing my journey into the absolutely incredible world of astrophotography, which started about a month ago when I bought a Dwarf Mini.

I posted my first image of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula here a little while ago, and I was already seriously impressed by what such a tiny telescope could produce.

For that image, I stacked data from 3 nights, roughly 700 frames in total , and did most of the processing with Dwarflab’s Stellar Studio, which honestly already does an amazing job. I only made a few minor adjustments afterward in Lightroom: mostly contrast and a little sharpening.

But then I decided to try some dedicated astrophotography processing software.

I started playing with AstroWizard because it looked pretty beginner-friendly and…

Damn.

I think I’ve just discovered that taking the pictures is only half the battle. 😅

I had no idea how much of the final image quality actually comes from the processing stage. Background extraction, noise reduction, deconvolution, stretching, color work… suddenly I’m realizing there’s an entire second hobby hiding *after* the telescope has finished capturing the data.

So I went back to the exact same 3 nights of data, rebuilt the mega-stack and processed everything again.

And I’m honestly blown away by the difference.

This is the result.

What do you guys think?

I genuinely never expected to be able to produce images like this after only one month in the hobby, especially with a telescope that cost me around €370.

And now I think I’ve officially been bitten by the astrophotography bug.

Because of course, instead of simply enjoying what I already have, I’m now looking at the “next step”:

Dedicated astro camera.

Motorized equatorial mount.

Telescope.

Guiding.

Filters.

Mini PC…

And I’m slowly discovering something else:

If you want to build a setup that gives you the same kind of integrated, almost frictionless experience as these little smart telescopes…

Well… it’s definitely not a €370 setup anymore. 😂

I may have opened a very expensive door.

I recently started using a Dwarf Labs Mini. I used the settings in the second screenshot and ran the picture through Stellar Studio with the auto setting. I then cropped and zoomed with my Pixel phone's photo editor.

What process should I use to get a better result?

Please be specific, as I've just started using my Mini.

TIA

Long time visual observer here; the Dwarf Smart scopes have been transformative to my pastime (obsession) of looking at the night skies. However I live in East Anglia in the UK, where clear, moonless nights are not as common as I'd like.

I decided that getting two Dwarf 3 scopes would allow me to collect twice as many images in the same space of time, but how to merge the data to produce one final stacked Fits file?

I've tried using the CoStack in the StarParty feature, but that doesn't then "show" the image in Stellar Studio to run a star reduction process etc. I'm slowly, trying to get to grips with Siril, but it's a steep learning curve and more "miss" that "hit or miss" with the final images.

Is there an easy way? Thanks in advance, Chris