This early video is still among my favorites of all time. There’s just something about it, so charming and compelling. A sense of immediacy, and you can feel the excitement. You’ve come a long way in your technique since then, but I still go back and watch these for old times sake. Totally awesome. This video was what got me back in the game.
I nearly fell off my chair when at the end you said it was your 'first' video! What? It was incredible! I particularly love the atmosphere you create with the narration and the music - somehow half science and half art! Amazing work - 'Do' give up your day job! 😀
I really like your video. I am an Astrophotographer also and enjoy the hobby very much. I am also a professional musician and own a recording studio. Your production is very good. If I may offer one suggestion to improve your audio mix ... When you are speaking, the music in the background should be softer. You never want to feel like the music is a distraction. You should "feel" the music rather than "hear" it. I think that you have a wonderful future making astro-videos. Keep up the great work!
I cannot thank you enough for sharing this with us. To people who have interest in the vast expanse of the universe but unfortunately do not have the resources to pursue their passion, this vicarious experience is priceless. THANK YOU so much for this. I extend my heartiest best wishes for you.
Wonderful presentation. I wish you would let us know more of the technical details like exposure times, subs, darks, flats, software employed, etc. Maybe do a video on that facet of astrophotography? Thank you both.
I lived in Germany for 5 years and we hardly ever saw stars as it's always cloudy! I'm back in USA in Idaho and the clear dark sky is amazing! Keep up the show, I enjoyed it and would like to see a video dedicated to showing pixinsight processing as that's the hardest part in my book.
I'm from the North of France, I feel you, the sky is always terrible there. I'll try to go more in depth about Pixinsight over time, or maybe I'll do a separate video focussing on it, thanks for the feedback.
Try and go north.There is an area about 2.5hrs north of Las Vegas that is the least light polluted area in the entire US, even better than Death Valley. Its the area along Hwy 266, AKA Lida Junction or Gold Point NV. It is in the middle of the darkest skies in the country. Its amazing even without optics. Unfortunately anywhere within 60+ miles of Vegas is severely light polluted. I'm planning on taking my 8"SCT with Hyperstar/Atik414EX CCD/Orion Atlas Pro Mount there this fall. Look at GPS coordinates around 37°26'20.07"N by 117°17'9.21"W.
We are actually going there next week! Not exactly to those GPS location, but we will be staying in Tonopah, and drive to the Bortle 1 zone around where you mentionned for 2 nights! We are super excited and plan to make a video of our first time in a Bortle 1 zone, we just hope there will be no clouds or winds...
Well done guys, thanks for sharing this passion with the rest of the world! Subscribed! How long were your shots? Are your shots guided? Vote for the Ring nebula.
Great video! I was excited to find this because this is almost the exact setup I am contemplating. My vote is for "mystery planet" to compare deep sky with planetary. More technical detail on the process would be great too. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Thank you! This setup is amazing, I love it, it is my first telescope and I don't regret buying it at all. You can see a gallery of more images on the website, all done with that exact same equipment.
Hello! I am also from Vegas and just recently purchased the Orion xt10 dob.... I found a place/spot/side of the road in Moapa Valley an hour north of the city and its a class 2 on dark sky scale. The city glow is barley visible over the southern horizon and its pitch black with no obstructions for miles. 36.77302, -114.79509 punch these in on the "lightpollutionmap.info" and change the overlay to VIIRS 2020 upper right corner, you'll see that it farther away from the cities lights than whats at nelsons landing. just sharing what I've found
The rotation of the earth is corrected by the mount they are using (tracking equitorial mount) and star trails are just an artifact of the earths rotation
@@rh5908 Yes.. I wouldn't recommend, your PC might not like that haha. A sky tracker would be your best option, bit.ly/3aRyDB2 this one is one of the best ones for the price.
Great Pictures from a 8 inch, i have a C8 and am still trying to get the optimum settings for Stars and M objects any tips....what SW are you using ?? Fire capture and stacking ?? I have to deal with icap 2.4
Thanks, I'm not sure what you mean. All I do is polar align, then do a 3 star alignment with a regular eyepiece and i'm good to go, if I did not answer your question properly, feel free to ask again. I don't know what icap is.
I hope you now have or plan to get a power inverter to run your equipment on in the future. You hook it up to your car's cig Lighter or the car's 12VDC plug and it will provide multiple (2-3 or more) 120 V AC outputs to plug your equipment into. If you do that for a long time though, I suggest Idling the car once in a while for 10 mins or so so the alternator can keep the car's battery charge up so you are not stuck out in the desert. Forget using batteries (if you can) too much cost and trouble. The trip home will Probably fully charge your car's battery up again.
Hi George, you can the list of our equipment, including a screenshot of our cart with all the prices here: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/our-full-astrophotography-equipment
Well, I just watched episode 1, very educational indeed. Although I live in a light polluted city, I am able to see the eastern dark sky. I can see Saturn and Jupiter with little effort, and now I set my sights on Neptune. Great video and Awesome shots of the Pinwheel Galaxy. It was even better when you showed the steps in which you achieved the final image. I have my own very first ever shots of the Milkyway. They were dismal at best, yet I was thrilled to have them. Great job once again, for the two of you. On to your 2nd video.
Thank you! Remember you can also photograph some galaxies/nebulae by just pointing your DSLR to the right part of the sky :) Good luck and clear skies!
This channel is just inspiring! Nothing like astronomy but even better, getting to share it. Keep up the good work! I'm definitely subscribing and will be following you guys. Greetings from Mexico! :)
I love the video and the project guys. I have always been into astronomy and finally had the funds to buy a nice setup and have gotten into a bit of astrophotography. I wish my wife was as interested in my hobby as much as you two are into the hobby together. If you guys have been reading any astronomy magazines in the past couple months you know that Mars is extremely large in the southern sky due to it being the closest it has been to Earth in a decade. My vote is #3 but instead of mystery planet I vote for Mars! You can do the moon or the ring nebula any old time. This is a chance in a lifetime!
Thanks! haha it took me a very long time to get my wife involved into actually taking pictures of the sky. Mars is indeed at its closest approach, I will definitely take pictures of it very soon and if it doesn't earn the most votes then I'll compare the two whenever Mars comes up again!
I have a question: If you look at the video one see from 9:56 up to 10:24 a kind of reflection of the car lights. The colors green, lilac and magenta. Have you seen that too?
I loved your video. i'm new into all of this and have bought a 2nd gear like yours (except the coma corrector which I'll order in a few minutes). I called my wife in after the video and we watched it again together. Can't wait to re do your work, luckily I do neither need to drive away nor care for rattlesnakes when observing the stars..it's dark enough in our part of Switzerland. Thanks again for sharing this with the world.
Awesome!! I wish you the best of luck, getting to know a bunch of new gear isn't easy and you will make a few mistakes along the way, but the fact that you can image from your home will have a huge impact on how fast you will improve.
I’ve watched you guys since you first opened the newt and atlas. I’m terrible at processing and I would like to ask and see what you can do with my data of m101 and m81. I’m bortle 4 here and you have any rights to use it in anyway you want. If you are willing to do this favor I’ll send you my drive link to the fits. And of course M81 will include M82
Hey Guys. Just wanted to say I enjoy your videos. I have the same mount, and both a 6" newtonian astrograph and an 8" newtonian that isn't an astrograph... requires a barlow for the focal point to reach the camera sensor. I just got my atlas mount though and only used it a couple nights for visual, haven't had the chance to image on it yet. Keep up the good work... and happy hunting.
:-) Probably. Unfortunately, I didn't have the 6" until around April. M45 and M31 were very close to the horizon at nightfall, and unfortunately, so I have to wait for them to come back up high enough for me to image starting in around December. I'm a single father of a 6 year old and can't travel out to good flat dark skies, so I'm stuck with my backyard in the red zone of city light pollution and surrounded by tall tree line... so... I'm limited to fairly high in the sky imaging (above 40 degrees). Of course that's the start of the best seeing typically, but it greatly limits the times of the year I can image. And school nights for my son limit my times of the week I can image lol.... I"m just doomed lol But I'll finally get the chance to image some large DSO's this winter with it.
Thanks! We do... when we are not filming an episode. But when we are making a video for this channel, we often have to "ruin" our night vision with our flash, or car lights, etc...
Wow, I'm so glad I found you guys and this channel! This is awesome, an amazing idea and beyond words of how great of a job you guys did putting it all together. I love the interaction with the voting aspect, the explaining how it's done and the cool facts. It's everything I never knew I wanted in an astronomy video/show. Thank you for making this! :)
4:00 look at all the bird#$%*! Lmao!! -Seriously though,nice videos... they are very different in atmosphere to all the other astronomy channels ive watched.
I almost had heart attack when I saw that weight sliding down...
This early video is still among my favorites of all time. There’s just something about it, so charming and compelling. A sense of immediacy, and you can feel the excitement. You’ve come a long way in your technique since then, but I still go back and watch these for old times sake. Totally awesome. This video was what got me back in the game.
I nearly fell off my chair when at the end you said it was your 'first' video! What? It was incredible! I particularly love the atmosphere you create with the narration and the music - somehow half science and half art! Amazing work - 'Do' give up your day job! 😀
Agreed
I really like your video. I am an Astrophotographer also and enjoy the hobby very much. I am also a professional musician and own a recording studio. Your production is very good. If I may offer one suggestion to improve your audio mix ... When you are speaking, the music in the background should be softer. You never want to feel like the music is a distraction. You should "feel" the music rather than "hear" it. I think that you have a wonderful future making astro-videos. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much Tim, that is such a motivating comment. I'll keep your suggestion in mind when editing Episode 2, which I am starting this week :)
P.S. Your lovely assistant had a wonderful speaking voice also for your projects. Keep her around!
I was thinking more along the lines , get that wind fixed , year late but what the hell
I cannot thank you enough for sharing this with us. To people who have interest in the vast expanse of the universe but unfortunately do not have the resources to pursue their passion, this vicarious experience is priceless. THANK YOU so much for this. I extend my heartiest best wishes for you.
That is very nice of you!! Thank you very much :)
Wonderful presentation. I wish you would let us know more of the technical details like exposure times, subs, darks, flats, software employed, etc. Maybe do a video on that facet of astrophotography? Thank you both.
I lived in Germany for 5 years and we hardly ever saw stars as it's always cloudy! I'm back in USA in Idaho and the clear dark sky is amazing! Keep up the show, I enjoyed it and would like to see a video dedicated to showing pixinsight processing as that's the hardest part in my book.
I'm from the North of France, I feel you, the sky is always terrible there. I'll try to go more in depth about Pixinsight over time, or maybe I'll do a separate video focussing on it, thanks for the feedback.
+Galactic Hunter I lived close to northern France, Alsace is truly a great region of Europe. Cheers
Gonna binge watch these
I like the intro, artistic! Was nice to see the first video of the channel.
I love M101. Totally by chance I took picture only 8 days before the Supernova in May 2023.
I really love the alternating commentary. Not many couples can pull it off so smoothly, really love your guys style too! Subbed!
Thank you very much from the both of us!! :)
Try and go north.There is an area about 2.5hrs north of Las Vegas that is the least light polluted area in the entire US, even better than Death Valley. Its the area along Hwy 266, AKA Lida Junction or Gold Point NV. It is in the middle of the darkest skies in the country. Its amazing even without optics. Unfortunately anywhere within 60+ miles of Vegas is severely light polluted. I'm planning on taking my 8"SCT with Hyperstar/Atik414EX CCD/Orion Atlas Pro Mount there this fall. Look at GPS coordinates around 37°26'20.07"N by 117°17'9.21"W.
We are actually going there next week! Not exactly to those GPS location, but we will be staying in Tonopah, and drive to the Bortle 1 zone around where you mentionned for 2 nights! We are super excited and plan to make a video of our first time in a Bortle 1 zone, we just hope there will be no clouds or winds...
Thanks for letting me know about your galactic hunter series I have subscribed and can't wait to see all the great shots you guys take.
Thanks! Episode 5 will be out next week !
I am looking forward to seeing your next video.
Great result you two... love these videos of yours,, keep them coming.
Well done guys, thanks for sharing this passion with the rest of the world!
Subscribed!
How long were your shots? Are your shots guided?
Vote for the Ring nebula.
Hi, thanks! My shots were 6 minutes long. I used the Orion SSAG for guiding. I'll probably go more in depth about the gear over time :)
Very interesting video, what a great job you guys did. I also vote for ring nebula.
+Vulpes10 Thanks! Seems like the Ring Nebula is on top right now.
that is one of the nicest pictures i have ever seen
The deserts of Nevada back in the 1950s is ware i started my adventure in Astronomy, I can still see in my mind the night sky of the Nevada desert !!!
Guys all the best for your next night sky gazing session.
Great job guys! Congrats, very nice project!
Its 2020 now, been following since 2016. I can not show my gratitude for your efforts.
Thank you so much!
I was thinking about filming from south cove on lake Meade and you can see the glow of Vegas from there
Thank you for all the information, you did not only covered the AP but very informative information about the objects in the heavens, keep it up.
Great video! I was excited to find this because this is almost the exact setup I am contemplating. My vote is for "mystery planet" to compare deep sky with planetary. More technical detail on the process would be great too. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Thank you! This setup is amazing, I love it, it is my first telescope and I don't regret buying it at all. You can see a gallery of more images on the website, all done with that exact same equipment.
Hello! I am also from Vegas and just recently purchased the Orion xt10 dob.... I found a place/spot/side of the road in Moapa Valley an hour north of the city and its a class 2 on dark sky scale. The city glow is barley visible over the southern horizon and its pitch black with no obstructions for miles. 36.77302, -114.79509 punch these in on the "lightpollutionmap.info" and change the overlay to VIIRS 2020 upper right corner, you'll see that it farther away from the cities lights than whats at nelsons landing. just sharing what I've found
This was my dream series to make i am speechless. Great job with both technical and the video plot & presentation. really loved it.
Thank you
Awesome video.. hey how you correct earths rotation and star trails.. i will be grateful
The rotation of the earth is corrected by the mount they are using (tracking equitorial mount) and star trails are just an artifact of the earths rotation
I have a 70-300mm Tele lens.
-1s one picture - Are 350 shots enough?
Nice video 👍
Thanks, I don't believe 350 seconds are enough. You might see the galaxy, yes, but it won't look great. Aim for a couple of hours at least.
Oh ok
You mean I have to do 3600 shots that the pictures looks great
@@rh5908 Yes.. I wouldn't recommend, your PC might not like that haha. A sky tracker would be your best option, bit.ly/3aRyDB2 this one is one of the best ones for the price.
Great Pictures from a 8 inch, i have a C8 and am still trying to get the optimum settings for Stars and M objects any tips....what SW are you using ?? Fire capture and stacking ?? I have to deal with icap 2.4
Thanks, I'm not sure what you mean. All I do is polar align, then do a 3 star alignment with a regular eyepiece and i'm good to go, if I did not answer your question properly, feel free to ask again. I don't know what icap is.
@Brian Coley haha yes, two years later we know what this is :) We still don't use it though.
I hope you now have or plan to get a power inverter to run your equipment on in the future. You hook it up to your car's cig Lighter or the car's 12VDC plug and it will provide multiple (2-3 or more) 120 V AC outputs to plug your equipment into. If you do that for a long time though, I suggest Idling the car once in a while for 10 mins or so so the alternator can keep the car's battery charge up so you are not stuck out in the desert. Forget using batteries (if you can) too much cost and trouble. The trip home will Probably fully charge your car's battery up again.
so gladI found you guys, Im a little curios, how much you spent on your equipment? as Im new to this hobby!!
Hi George, you can the list of our equipment, including a screenshot of our cart with all the prices here: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/our-full-astrophotography-equipment
You lucky bastard. You found a girl who is also interested in astrophotography! Nice video btw
Very interesting concept. I'm fascinated to see where this goes. Some stuff of the moon or sun would be interesting.
very cool video! I vote #3 mystery planet 😄
+Michaela Elsie Thank you :))
Well, I just watched episode 1, very educational indeed. Although I live in a light polluted city, I am able to see the eastern dark sky. I can see Saturn and Jupiter with little effort, and now I set my sights on Neptune. Great video and Awesome shots of the Pinwheel Galaxy. It was even better when you showed the steps in which you achieved the final image. I have my own very first ever shots of the Milkyway. They were dismal at best, yet I was thrilled to have them. Great job once again, for the two of you. On to your 2nd video.
Thank you! Remember you can also photograph some galaxies/nebulae by just pointing your DSLR to the right part of the sky :) Good luck and clear skies!
yo that was so good.
ur website is sweet as well
well done homie and homette
You guys did an amazing job! I think you should do the ring nebula for your next video
+Ella Dumo Thankkkss! We'll take note of your vote, you are the very first :)
This channel is just inspiring! Nothing like astronomy but even better, getting to share it. Keep up the good work! I'm definitely subscribing and will be following you guys. Greetings from Mexico! :)
Thank you Rafael! That is very nice of you :) Wishing you clear skies!
Your bottom part of the mount looks just like my celestron AVX
Really liked your video! I love astrophotography too, I would like to know which software do you use for photo edition? Thanks!
Hi, thanks, I use Pixinsight for all my editing, and sometimes I do a few tweaks on Lightroom.
I'm speechless amazing job.
Thank you!
I love the video and the project guys. I have always been into astronomy and finally had the funds to buy a nice setup and have gotten into a bit of astrophotography. I wish my wife was as interested in my hobby as much as you two are into the hobby together.
If you guys have been reading any astronomy magazines in the past couple months you know that Mars is extremely large in the southern sky due to it being the closest it has been to Earth in a decade. My vote is #3 but instead of mystery planet I vote for Mars! You can do the moon or the ring nebula any old time. This is a chance in a lifetime!
Thanks! haha it took me a very long time to get my wife involved into actually taking pictures of the sky. Mars is indeed at its closest approach, I will definitely take pictures of it very soon and if it doesn't earn the most votes then I'll compare the two whenever Mars comes up again!
i really rather enjoyed that. All the way from Liverpool in the UK
I have a question: If you look at the video one see from 9:56 up to 10:24 a kind of reflection of the car lights. The colors green, lilac and magenta. Have you seen that too?
Oh nice catch! It is very likely to be a flare caused by the light against the camera lens :)
Amazing video ! You've surely done a huge work to produce a video of this quality. I can't wait to see your next video ! I'm voting for Nebula :)
+Darius1st Thank you!
I'm a new fan. Great work! And it's clear you both have a passion for this!
Fantastic video and informative details!
Very happy to hear! Thanks Mike.
Francais ?.. Great video, thank you ...
I loved your video. i'm new into all of this and have bought a 2nd gear like yours (except the coma corrector which I'll order in a few minutes). I called my wife in after the video and we watched it again together. Can't wait to re do your work, luckily I do neither need to drive away nor care for rattlesnakes when observing the stars..it's dark enough in our part of Switzerland. Thanks again for sharing this with the world.
Awesome!! I wish you the best of luck, getting to know a bunch of new gear isn't easy and you will make a few mistakes along the way, but the fact that you can image from your home will have a huge impact on how fast you will improve.
Merci beaucoup . Nice job will fallow you next.
I am Jealous in buckets.. lol great educational and inspirational video.
Don't know if this has already been said, but the Big Dipper is an asterism that's part of the Ursa Major constellation.
We should have mentioned that to be more clear, will do in the future, thanks :)
No problem, I didn't mean any offence by my comment, I can be just as wrong and worse sometimes!! :P
Haha none taken, we're glad you mentioned it!
Awesome show .....lookin forward to seeing more videos ;)
Awesome video, can't wait to see the next one! I vote for the moon for the next video
+Ryan North Thank you Ryan!
Wow! Great stuff. I'll be a regular follower. Did you find Armstrong's footprints?
Haha thank you! We'll see about that when we get to a Lunar episode ;)
I’ve watched you guys since you first opened the newt and atlas. I’m terrible at processing and I would like to ask and see what you can do with my data of m101 and m81. I’m bortle 4 here and you have any rights to use it in anyway you want. If you are willing to do this favor I’ll send you my drive link to the fits. And of course M81 will include M82
What is the total integrated exposure time? And how many subs?
Are all the pictures taken with this setup ?
Yes! But note that we have upgraded our Canon T3i to a 7D Mii after episode 4. Everything else stays the same :)
Great job. Nice work.
great job for quality of video
Thanks!
Hey Guys. Just wanted to say I enjoy your videos. I have the same mount, and both a 6" newtonian astrograph and an 8" newtonian that isn't an astrograph... requires a barlow for the focal point to reach the camera sensor. I just got my atlas mount though and only used it a couple nights for visual, haven't had the chance to image on it yet. Keep up the good work... and happy hunting.
Thank you very much! 6" must be perfect for imaging M45 and M31 :)
:-) Probably. Unfortunately, I didn't have the 6" until around April. M45 and M31 were very close to the horizon at nightfall, and unfortunately, so I have to wait for them to come back up high enough for me to image starting in around December. I'm a single father of a 6 year old and can't travel out to good flat dark skies, so I'm stuck with my backyard in the red zone of city light pollution and surrounded by tall tree line... so... I'm limited to fairly high in the sky imaging (above 40 degrees). Of course that's the start of the best seeing typically, but it greatly limits the times of the year I can image. And school nights for my son limit my times of the week I can image lol.... I"m just doomed lol But I'll finally get the chance to image some large DSO's this winter with it.
Hv u guys ever thought to come n shoot Astrophotography in Gujarat, India
If we had the money... we'd go shoot from all over the world :)
if u hv any chance to come by then just come n see the real struggle even capturing the milky way in a Grey area ...hahahhaahhaa
what is a grey area?
its a pollution level of light...u can find it on Darksitefinder.com
Richard J Christian damnnn
Awesome videos.
@Galactic Hunters great video. I've just been wondering why don't you use a red light? You are "wasting" nice darkness in your eyes :)
Thanks! We do... when we are not filming an episode. But when we are making a video for this channel, we often have to "ruin" our night vision with our flash, or car lights, etc...
Brilliant! Subscribed!
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME
do all Reflector telescopes need to be collimated?
Yes, but some high end reflectors don't have to be collimated every single time.
@@GalacticHunter ok TYVM for replying much appreciated!!!
what are the names of the equipment you are using
Hi, you can see a full list here: www.galactic-hunter.com/about
We will also make a short video about the whole gear after Episode 4.
thanks great photos
great edit great video!!!! 👍
I love you guys.
waiting for your next video
I just discovered you, great video
Nice.
Wow, I'm so glad I found you guys and this channel! This is awesome, an amazing idea and beyond words of how great of a job you guys did putting it all together. I love the interaction with the voting aspect, the explaining how it's done and the cool facts. It's everything I never knew I wanted in an astronomy video/show. Thank you for making this! :)
Thank you so much!!! These kinds of comments always give us a boost of motivation :)
4:00 look at all the bird#$%*! Lmao!! -Seriously though,nice videos... they are very different in atmosphere to all the other astronomy channels ive watched.
Wow we just realized all that bird poop when checking your comment! Good catch, haha, and thank you for the kind words.
beautiful hair and jacket
Meu sonho é ter um telescorpio 114mm mais infelizmente não tenho condições mais um dia eu sei que Deus vai me dá um em nome de Jesus
Love your work. I'm thinking of doing a similar video with the GF! :) keep it up!
Thank you!!
look at counterweights 4:40
DSLR- deep sky.........?
Moon
wheres saturn
Episode #3 !