Astrophotography: nebulas in space viewed from my front yard
My father visited last night with his astrophotography kit and we took some pics of the sky š«
He has a camera called a Seestar, it runs via an app and you set it up on a telescope, then choose which star/planet/nebula you want to look at and the camera locates it. Next it takes a series of long exposures and layers them on top of each other. The images captured were over a course of 13 and 43 minutes. I believe if you let it run much longer you can get more and more detail but it was pretty cold so we had to pack it in at some point!
Here is the full image from the thumbnail
M42 - Orion nebula
IC434 - Horsehead nebula
(if you look in the red band of space dust you can see an upside down tilted horse head)
We also had a regular telescope out and sadly the aliens and spaceships were on stealth mode so I didn't manage to catch any :(
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This is awesome! I was observing the Orion nebula last night through a telescope. I haven't tried to photograph it yet because I don't have the same sky tracking capability. But it's an amazing region of space to explore.
Just for fun, if the sun was the size of a chickpea, the Orion nebula would be about 1,500 km across.
Also were you able to see the moon? I'd be very curious to see how your dad's astrophotography gear renders it.
We were looking at the moon using the normal telescope, I guess it doesn't work with the astrophotography one because the moon is so bright that it just gets over exposed. It's much better at catching things we can't see well with the naked eye!
What can I say... absolutely beautiful and fascinating!!!š
TY it's so cool seeing what's out there :)
Demasiado bella esa nebulosa amigaextraterreste
It's a pity you couldn't catch any aliens...! But I love what you got to catch!
They're very sneaky!
WoW amazing!! But i think this kit takes away all the fun... It does everything
Anyway great photo, i've never be able to take a photo like this :)
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I see what you mean but there s no way you could track manually for so long to get the long exposure photos, for manual fun we used the telescope :)
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This is awesome! I am gonna get into this someday, and the third floor of this apartment unit we're renting is perfect for this kind of activity!