Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) Southern Indiana October 10th/11th, 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- The Northern Lights appeared off and on from my location. I captured this with my GoPro Hero 10 Nightlapse mode. Enjoy!
Here's some equipment I'm using for my setup:
Sky-Watcher EvoStar 100 APO Doublet Refractor Telescope
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ZWO ASI183MC 20 Megapixel USB3.0 Color Astronomy Camera for Astrophotography
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iOptron GEM28 Mount - Head with iPolar in Hard Case
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ZWO M48 to M48 Extender / Spacer Ring with 16.5mm Extension # ZWO-M48-EXT16.5 (used to obtain precise back focus with field flattener)
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ZWO Filter Drawer with M42 & M48 Threads - For 2" Mounted Filters # FD-M42
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2" Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow Filter with IR Cut
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Optolong 2" L-Enhance Dual Narrowband Light Pollution Filter (H-Alpha and H-Beta/O-III)
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This eyepiece is awesome for visual astronomy with its wide field of view.
Alpine Astronomical Baader 76° Morpheus 17.5mm Eyepiece (1.25"/2")
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This is a very well made barlow lens I've been using for visual astronomy. I found thought that this doesn't seem very compatible for astrophotography for my setup unless using the diagonal (only way to get camera focus).
Celestron 93436 Luminous 2-Inch 2.5x Barlow Lens (Silver)
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This is a must have for astrophotography purposes.
Sky-Watcher S20201 Reducer / Corrector
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Astromania M48X0.75 (2" Filter) Female to M42X0.75 T / T2 Male Thread Telescope Adapter (to achieve back focus with reducer/corrector)
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Alstar Astronomical 2"/M48-extension Tube Kit for Cameras and eyepieces - Length 5mm 8mm 10mm 20mm 30mm - M48x0.75 on Both Sides (adapter to use with tubes for achieving back focus with reducer/corrector)
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SVBONY Bahtinov Mask, Aluminum Alloy Bahtinov Focusing Mask, 85-120mm Caliber Fixed Diameter 80-135mm
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I find this lightweight cart handy for hauling in/out a stack of organizer boxes and the mount case.
Leeyoung Folding Hand Truck and Dolly,309 lb Capacity Aluminum Portable Cart with Telescoping Handle and PP+EVA Wheels
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Some gear for cleaning purposes:
UES Air Blower Dust Blaster for Digital, DSLR, SLR Cameras Sensor Lens Cleaning, Rubber Bulb Air Pump Dust Blower Cleaner - Black
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UES APSC-16 DSLR and Mirrorless Digital Camera Sensor Cleaning Kits for APS-C Type CMOS and CCD Sensors (14pcs APS C Sensor Cleaning Swabs and 15ml Sensor Cleaner)
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UES Lint Free Microfiber Cleaning Cloth for Lens, Eye Glasses, LED (8 Packs - 15cm x 15cm)
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These are great for making sure you don't have any dust or dirty spots on your CMOS of your camera.
Beileshi Watch Repair Magnifier Loupe Jeweler Magnifying Glasses Tool Set with LED Light with 8 Interchangeable Lens-2.5X 4X 6X 8X 10x 15x 20x 25x
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If you have to transfer images/files from your laptop to another computer for further processing, this external drive is very fast compared to something like a thumb drive.
SAMSUNG T7 1TB, Portable SSD, up to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen2, External Solid State Drive (MU-PC1T0H/AM), Blue
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To avoid unrolling and rolling up power cables for each imaging session or setup where there's no outlet to connect to,, this is very convenient.
Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 300, 293Wh Backup Lithium Battery, 110V/300W Pure Sine Wave AC Outlet
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If you want to share your astro images so I can feature them in a future video, send them to my email:
marksastrojourney@gmail.com - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Great video compilation, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it Albert!
That's awesome! Tha is for sharing!
Glad you liked it!
Beautiful. I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada, and we can sometimes see these here, but I'm sick, so I am not able to get outside yet. Thank you for this .😊
I hope you get to feeling better Karen! Here in Southern Indiana, this is the first time I ever paid attention to the rare opportunity to see the Northern Lights. I'm not sure if they've been visible during peak solar cycles previously here or not. If so, I was focused on something else and didn't realize it.
Mark, thank you so much for sharing your experience. I live close to the Canadian border in Michigan and did not get to see any of it. Thanks to you I feel like I was there!😊❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it Sharon!
Awesome. We saw it from Maryland.
you probably had a better view from there Robin!
Somehow I've managed to watch about 2 dozen of your videos over the last two-ish years, and never noticed you're just over the river in Jeff! Friend of the family is an old bar-fly at Harry's, formerly at Buckheads; he lives over on Mechanic near Chestnut St. I'm just across the river, off Dixie Ave, south of the Watterson just outside of Shively. Got yourself a new subscriber! Catching up on your observatory build videos now, as I'm soon to be doing something similar (albeit on a smaller, more confined, scale due to space constraints).
Very nice aurora timelapse. I had too much of the downtown city lights to my north and didn't get anything with my cell camera, and was shooting with my Hyperstar C9.25 to the south on the 10th so didn't see anything there, either.
It's good to hear from someone local! I'm glad you enjoyed the Aurora Borealis video too!
Regarding the observatory: it's been a game changer for me thus far. There's no comparison between having a permanent pier setup and what I used to have to do: haul all my equipment in and out for each imaging session.
Some people expressed doubts/concerns that a concrete pier like I had built for mounting the metal pier could be a stable setup that wouldn't have lots of vibration. However, using the PHD2 Guiding Log Viewer, I'm not seeing such issues. Of course, there are occasional guiding issues related to seeing/transparency/weather. But overall I'm very happy with the performance of the setup.
My only regret is that I didn't include a warm room to isolate the computer from the elements. However, the cost of everything now is so high. I don't think I could have paid for anything else. So I took some plastic storage containers and created a table top computer cabinet. At least I don't have to worry about my laptop being out in the elements now.
Another dramatic improvement I made to the observatory is that I added a motorized gate opener to open/close the roll off roof. I'll probably do a video on that once I get time.
@@marksastrojourney I've been a member of LAS for months, and although they're quite active, work keeps getting in the way so I still haven't met any local AP folks.
I'm having a similar debate regarding a pier as you surely did. My "ideal" spot behind the garage would need to be elevated about 6 ft above ground level for the garage roofline not to be a problem. That'd be a whole lot of concrete in a tall tube to pour, but a steel pier on a concrete footer might have vibration issues. Glad to see your set up with the Sky Shed pier is working well! Gives me some food for thought....
Unfortunately, my observatory will be limited to quite small... think roll-away outhouse size. I won't have working room inside it, so will be running CAT cable to the house instead.
But 1000% agree, lugging a full tripod rig in and out every night is for the birds! Can't wait to get something permanent set up.
If you can control it from within your house, that's even better! I hope you can get your project underway soon to make the hobby easier.
Nice captures. How's your observatory working out?
the observatory is doing great! I have data captured and some processed, but struggling to put together related videos. Life got very busy and hasn’t let up for a couple months now. I’m hoping things settle down in a week or two so i can get back to producing some regular astro videos. Thanks for asking Larry!