Astrophotography
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Welcome to !astrophotography!
We are Lemmy's dedicated astrophotography community!
If you want to see or post pictures of space taken by amateurs using amateur level equipment, this is the place for you!
If you want to learn more about taking astro photos, check out our wiki or our discord!
Please read the rules before you post! It is your responsibility to be aware of current rules. Failure to be aware of current rules may result in your post being removed without warning at moderator discretion.
Rules
- I | Real space images only.
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Astrophotography refers to images of astronomical objects or phenomena exclusively.
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~~Images that show objects or people below the Kármán Line (100km) will be removed.~~ We won't be enforcing this rule for now, but as the community grows eventually we will split and have a separate space for just landscape astro.
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Images must be an accurate representation of a real astronomical object.
- II | Original and Amateur Content Only
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Image posts can only be images that you have captured and processed yourself, or discussion about capturing and/or processing your own images.
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Images acquired from public sources, professional observatories, or other professional services are not allowed.
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If you have done a drastic alteration or reprocessing of a prior submission, you may repost your edit - but only after a minimum of one week has passed.
- III | Post Types
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Image posts are to link directly to the image, not to landing pages, personal galleries, blogs, or professional sites. Link to these in the comments. (AstroBin and Imgur, are allowed)
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Questions are welcome here for the time being.
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Links to blogs, articles or external websites should be interesting and promote discussion about amateur astrophotography.
- IV | Titles
- All image posts should just include include the name of the object being photographed. Extra info such as equipment, it being your first image, or other information should go in a comment along with your acquisition info. Please see this page for more details.
If your post is removed, try reposting with a different title. Don't hesitate to message the mods if you still have questions!
- V | Acquisition and Processing Information
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All submitted images must include acquisition and processing details as a top-level comment. All posts without this information may be given a warning, and if not updated will be removed.
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This includes the telescope, mount, camera, accessories, and any other pieces of equipment you used to capture the image.
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You must also include processing details, i.e. the programs you used and a general rundown of the workflow/processes you used within those programs. “Processed in Photoshop” is not enough.
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My first time trying to shoot the Horse Head nebula! I have a stock Sony a6000, which cuts out most of the hydrogen red signal, but thankfully enough got through to at least make this a solid attempt.
The data is about 45 minutes worth of 30 second exposures out of my Sony and a Ttartisan 500mm f6.3 lens, on a star tracker.
Due to the very limited total integration time and the stock camera I had to stretch pretty far while fending off artifacts here and there.
Overall I'll take it, will revisit in the future.
Feedback appreciated!
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I captured this image of NGC 281 with my S50 using 948 10s exposures. I stacked in Siril and processed in Siril, GraXpert, Cosmic Clarity, and GIMP. It's not perfect, but I'm still very much an amateur.
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Stacked a 4 minute video last night, which came out very nice IMO
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My second (and first successful) try of the orion nebula. Any advice for editing out the noise and these stripes? What are these?
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G85 Lens: H-FSA100300 (100-300mm f4-5.6) Settings: f6.4, ISO 6400, 5"
1020 pics at 5s each + calibration frames
Total exposure: 85 minutes / 1.4 hours
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Captured using a Nikon D5300 and s 140mm lens
28x exposures ranging from 5-8 seconds
Stacked in astro pixel processor
Processed in Pixinsight
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My 5th time trying to image a seemingly easy target with something being off... This time I must have nudged the lens out of focus slightly and there was some dew forming on the lens that I hadn't noticed. This hobby sure has a steep learning curve!
Still, decided to not throw away the whole attempt and did a quick processing. It's about 45 minutes worth of 30 sec exposures at 500mm f6.3.
Feedback appreciated!
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Took a 8min exposure with my Nikon D800 and my 50mm f/1.4 by night.
I find it quite interesting how the image looks almost like it's daytime, just with startrails in the background.
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On our journey to shot the best images we can with our non ideal setup we collected more data on the heart nebula. Main problem with our setup is the distance of the sensor which is not perfect and results in bad star shapes in the corners. Stepping down to 2.8 and using BXT helps a lot. Combined with old data we gathered a total exposure time of 14 hours.
- Samyang 135mm @f2.8 and f2.0
- Fuji X-T5 (unmodified)
- STC dual narrowband filter
- Star Adventurer 2i
- 856 x 60s
- ISO 3200
Editing:
- stacked, remove green noise, BGE in Siril
- BXT, SXT in Pixinsight
- streched with GHS in Siril
- NXT, colouring, contrast, recombining stars in PS
Full resolution: https://telescopius.com/pictures/view/211833/deep_sky/ic-1824/heart-and-soul-nebula/by-maxi_franzi
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63 x30 sec tracked, 10 of each calibration frames. Stock Sony A6000, ISO 1600. 500mm f8 ish with a ttartisan lens.
Feedback appreciated!
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73x30 sec of the Orion nebula, with a stock Sony a6000 and a ttartisan 500mm f6.3 on a StarAdventurer.
Lens was wide open, which introduced lots of aberrations on the brightest stars. Will try stopping down next time. Also, focus wasn't perfect and I had some dew issues.
No calibration frames, either, I was just testing the lens for the first time.
Stacked in Siril, stretched in photoshop, final touches in Lightroom.
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25 minute exposure of NGC 2264 taken with a seestar s50. Testing the new denoise function added in the most resent seestar firmware update.
No further post processing so colors seem to be a bit off as a result of the denoise feature, but otherwise an amazing result as most images from the seestar s50 contain a lot of RGB noise!
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Shot with Vaonis Vespera II smart scope. 30 minutes of observation.
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This is a first test to shoot NGC 7293 with a 135mm lens. Sadly we could only gather 15 min exposure time as the time frame for shooting this nebula is super short and we had a lot of clouds. Hopefully we have better conditions next year. But this test makes us hopeful to get a decent image with our equipment.
- Samyang 135mm
- Fuji X-T5
- dual narrowband filter
- Star Adventurer 2i
- 29 * 30s
- stacked in Siril
- BXT, NXT, SXT
- final editing in PS
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