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Not sure, but it could be light pollution. I am doing my data aquisition in a bortle 3 sky

The Redcat 51 is an amazing scope. To check if the Canon EOS 80D is a good pair I would suggest go to astrobin.com and find images of people using this combo. Unfortunately I believe the search by equipment is only available to paid membership. Most important thing is to do your sessions in a very dark skies.

Thanks! Your channel has very cool shorts! Subscribed :)

Thanks for the feedback!

Hi there! 40 x 3min giving a total integration of just 2h. I want to capture more data later this year, including HA.

@@lookspacethings amazing looking, chasing the carina nebula but maybe after il go with andromeda 😄

I wish I would be able to photograph the Carina nebula. From where I live it is not possible. Lucky you :)

@@lookspacethings hahaha I’m trying but keep failing hard tho… still beginner lmao.. feel like I just can’t do it 😂

@@Yanivdahan22 Are you trying the Carina nebula or Andromeda? Which equipment do you have?

Hi! You are right that the human eye can't see the colors of a nebula even with poweful telescopes. What happens is that the human eyes has a shutter speed of 1/50 of a second. With my camera and mount I can take a long exposure of 300s, following precisely the object to avoid blur. The colors are there in every single exposure. Then, during several nights I capture hundreds of photos and use a technique called stacking to improve the signal to noise ratio. It is true however that during post processing we can enhance the colors via software. In my case I used a specific astrophography software called Pixinsight where one of the features is to make sure that the colors are scientific correct.

​@@lookspacethings thanks for the explanation! I was long time curious if those colors in cosmic pictures are real somehow. Subscribed.

Thanks you so much!

I use a dedicated astronomy camera, the ZWO ASI 294MC Pro

It’s not a nasa picture

What can I say, thanks for the compliment. NASA space telescopes, like the Hubble telescope can do a much better picture than mine

Thanks! Well, I am not sure you why you got frustrated, problems with the mount? AM5 is on my buying list but I think the AM3 is sufficient for the Redcat 51 and less expensive. Regarding the undersampling, I guess you are using the astronomy tool CCD suitability. It seems that any ZWO camera will give undersample result. To be honest, I think the quality of the sky is much more important. I travel 1h30 every session for a bortle 3. If you use Pixinsight to post-process, you can use drizzle in the WBPP to improve the detail results of a undersample image. Just make sure you are dithering during aquisition. For me 1x drizzle better than 2x. Clear skies!

Thanks for the reply, I am future proofing just in case I get a bigger scope , with the mount it is not a goto mount, my fault for jumping in I suppose , anyway it takes a bit of practice to get to your object, I retire next year so I will have more time on my hands and be able to concentrate more. At the moment it is cloudy and raining here. I live in a country city, so they keep adding more sub divisions, I am about a 2hr drive from the Parkes radio telescope in Australia and plenty of dark spitd. Clear skies.

That's true. This mount is in fact too much for this telescope. There are cheaper options like the skywatcher star adventure GTI that would cost much less

I normally do not do any crop in my pictures, only in the very edge and it is done automatically by the WBPP in pixinsight. That said, in the videos I zoom-in quite a lot sometimes. You can check my page on Astrobin to see the full resolution images www.astrobin.com/users/LookSpaceThings/

Thank you for the nice feedback! I have many plans to do more videos like this but the weather did not collaborate this winter. But stay tuned! More will come up in this channel. :)

Hi there! Thanks! The camera I used is the ZWO ASI 294MC. It is a color camera. The Redcat 51 is for me the best wide view scope one can have. But to take those pictures, you need to be away from light pollution of the city. Otherwise you will need a light pollution filter. Let me know if you have any other question. I will be happy to answer!

Thanks a lot for the useful infos...as a matter of fact I live in a Bortle 6 area and a neighborhood largely illuminated..that's sucks. 😢 Can't wait to see my own redcat 51 taking such beautiful pictures. Along with the redcat I'm evaluating of buying a player One - Uranus C camera that has the new Sony 585 sensor. Heard good things about it. Once in a while I drive about 3hrs in order to have a Bortle 3 area which is a blessing for me. As for the moment I'm using a Fuji XE3 with a Samyang 135mm f/2. Thanks again for the Infos. Wish you cear skies my friend.

Thank you so much! Appreaciate it :)

Thank you so much for the nice feedback! I am working really hard this winter on some new videos, so stay tuned!

Thank you very much Tully! CS

Hi, I used a Sony A7IV with a 14mm Sony lens, a Syrp magic carpet slider and the Syrp Genie II Pan Tilt

Thanks! I have to say that I am not really happy with the core, there are some artifacts there, but in general I am indeed very happy with the results. Cheers!

I am using a ZWO ASI 294MC Pro. I want to buy a new telescope with focal lenght around 900mm. But I need to wait to have the money. It is very expensive!

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Thanks a lot!

I am really happy to hear that you like my images. My rig consist of a Skywatcher EQ6-r pro mount (however I think this mount is too much for the redcat, unless you are planning to have a bigger scope in the future I would recommend the Skywatcher GTI, much cheaper and light), ZWO ASI 294MC color camera, Optlong UR/IV filter (you might want to consider a narrowband filter, specially in case you are in a light pollution area), ZWO Auto focuser, ZWO guide scope, ZWO ASI 120mm guide camera. I hope this could help. Let me know if you have any further questions

Thanks you so much! Really happy that you liked!

I would love to have a bortle 1 sky 2h away from home! My first telescope was a small Cassegrain which was cool to see the Moon and the planets but was terrible for astrophotography. Right now I am very happy with a small refractor. Redcat 51 is perfect for beginners like me. I do have big plans for the future, and yes, my wallet is very scared of it hehehe

Thanks! When I was there in May it was quite cold in high altitude where I did the time lapses. Be ready for low temperatures there. I guess near the coast will be quite nice tho. Hope you enjoy!

@@lookspacethings yes..IAM doing a lot of research..where to stay there.. where to take night shoots.. and what the weather conditions and the clouds gonna be there in December.. do you think there will be no clouds on the mountain?

@@przemyslaws1346 well, during my stay it was completely cloud every day in the low altitudes. But as soon as I go higher, near the observatories, I was above them; with the exception of one night where the clouds came in the middle of where the observatories are. There is a website with live cameras showing the current conditions: www.meteoblue.com/es/tiempo/webcams/roque-de-los-muchachos_espa%C3%B1a_2513466 But what was really helpful was to use the forecast in the next link where I could see the cloud coverage by altitude (low/medium/high) clearoutside.com/forecast/28.76/-17.89

Thank you so much Cuiv! I am a big fan of your TH-cam channel and I am really happy to receive such a nice feedback from you!

I also have a few locations and decide the one to go based on forecast. They are all bortle 2 to 3. This is a really good advantage when travelling for astrophotography. I did some improvement to my rig. I bought a Skywatcher adventure GTI, guide scope and guide camera. I changed the cage to a rotating collar. Now I can do auto guiding, dithering and adjust the frame very precisely using NINA. Clear skies!

Thank you so much 😀

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