Galactic Hunter you guys remind me of me and girlfriend your videos just give a warm feeling, i wish we can do awesome adventure like yours, best of wishes.
I have watched your channel for a couple of years now. I also purchased your book and peruse it often to help decide what targets to pursue on a given night. This episode was epic! Thanks for sharing and contributing so much to the hobby of astrophotography.
One of our fav.. One of the show's we're watching right now. Pam's voice is clear as day, clearly its the Michael Scott Paper Company's documentary.....
This is so amazing!!!!!! I know many others besides myself were waiting very patiently for this reveal! Your strive and dedication for a great quality image is something I look up to as a beginner in the hobby. Thank you for your hard work and documentation of the process, it is extremely helpful for many aspiring astrophotographers. The final image was gorgeous!
Thank you Malllory! We always hope that our final image will not be disappointing for each new episode, glad to see those nice and motivating comments :)
Great video! And wow you guys are so determined! I just got glued to your video :) I am a beginner in astrophotography and your videos are a great help!! Thanks so much Dalia and Antoine!
I'm late to the game on this one! I really enjoyed this.. failures which are OH SO common; fun; and a great overall lesson on combining data. Thank you!
Hi! I'm sooo impressed of your videos!!! You really are exceptional in editing and even more exceptional in astrophotography! You learn everything so fast, I'm following you since your first video and what a fast progress you made since then! Thanks a lot for showing us how good results you can get with an Ha filter even without to modify your camera. I'm also very impressed that you get no trails with a 6 min exposure without guiding. Many thanks for sharing with us your knowledge guys!!!! I vote for the Leo Triplet! :-)
Nice video - using your compass app on your iPhone is great to point your tripod due north when polar aligning im using within 1 degree using that best practice
Very interesting video, did'nt know that a Ha filter will work so well capturing an emission nebula with an unmodd DSLR camera. Thank you guys, keep it up. Clear Skies!!!
I love your final. Superimposing a highly detailed Great Orion Nebula into it isn’t cheating. It’s so dynamic it’s necessary. This video should be very popular because it’s unnecessary to mod a camera and you may be the first to demonstrate h-a data this way. Clarksvision is a great resource for that info. I’m truly happy to have watched this video and will share it with my pupils. I modify cameras for folks but truly feel it unnecessary unless they are limited in exposure time. It is the dynamic range of modern cameras that make them h-a sensitive despite the low pass filters. This video is excellent and you gave your wins plus your losses. You are a great contribution to the craft. From one astronomer to another.., thank you. Clear skies.
Thank you Garnett for your very kind and instructive comment! If we could, we would have made a comparison between a modified camera and an unmodified camera, but we are very happy with the final image which shows that an unmoded camera is perfectly fine for Ha :) The most important thing will always be the quality of the sky in our opinion. Keep up making your awesome informative videos, and clear skies to you as well!
Currently on a binge of all your episodes and learning so much while I wait for my new mount (on backorder) to arrive and camera modification service to complete
I have thinking about shooting the sun, so option 2 for me. Im hoping to get some tips and avoid some pitfalls! Clever use of ha filter, and smart superimposition of the galaxy on your final shot. Keep up the good work.
Love you galactic hunters !!!!!! Really an amazing video as each time !! The little drone shot that you took was also really nice, it brings another point of view, so more drone shots could be really nice :)))) Désolé si mon Anglais n'est pas vraiment au point mais je parle Français ;)
Ive found that stopping ANY lens (even my Zeiss Distagons) down 2 stops from fully open removes most of the coma if not chromatic aberration. There are tools to address digital noise but nothing can fix coma in post processing sadly. I love this channel by the way !
Thank you for sharing. The difficulties you are encountering are the same ones I am challenging. I unfortunately I am using an Az/Alt mount which I plan to change very soon to an equatorial mount be able to get those longer exposures. The addition of the HA filter is fantastic and that is also on my list of items to acquire. As for your next video, I vote #2, the sun! I would love to know what type of scope your friend is using. I have tried my celestron 130mm with an ND5 filter with relatively poor results. It is lacking the detail I see on so many other videos and photos. An HA filter would probably help here as well. I really like the detail of your final shot. Looking forward to your next video, cheers.
I vote for Sol, the sun. I would like to see what the different Orion solar filers will do. I've heard the solar film filer is better than the glass filter. Love the videos! Keep it up gang!
You wanted to know if I liked it? NO. I do not like it. I EEFFFINNNG LOVE IT! Seriously! Way better than anything I've done deep sky so far. Now I need to get my ass out there and one up you guys!
Very nice and detailed video. Can you please tell me what software/program did you use for stacking and post processing? I just use Deep Sky Stacker for stacking and Lightroom + Photoshop for final post processing but I'm wondering if there's something better out there. Please reply if you see this. Thanks again!
Thank you! The best is definitely PixInsight, which is the one we use. It has a crazy learning curve though. We have a few tutorial videos on our channel about it if you're interested.
@@GalacticHunter Awesome. Yes I definitely want to learn because I think I did try playing around with Pixinsight a few years ago when I was just getting into Astrophotography and it looked too complicated. I'm off to check out your videos now. Thanks a lot! :)
Thank you for your video Antoine & Dalia! It is indeed an interesting acessory this filter. I wonder if in the future doctors could figure it out new artificial eyes so we could live view all the nightsky through a camera perspective. Something like Unistellar. But at the same time I also enjoy a simple telescope setup, with no machinery or autotracking, me, a telescope + deepsky atlas, and the silence of night. Is like listening the enjoyable sound of a vinil disc, even if you might have theoreticaly the best remastered CD... Best regards to Nevada! I vote for the Leo Triplet. Ricardo
Thank you Ricardo! We also like a simple setup. It seems like the votes for the next target are very tight this time! It will be interesting to see who wins.
Very well made documentation of your experience, and wonderful capture! A few comments... (a) The filter's bandwidth is measured in nano-meters, not milli-meters, as mentioned in the video; (b) the narrower bandwidth filter (6nm) does NOT allow more Hydrogen-Alpha light... instead it filters out more extraneous light, allowing you to capture only the light from Hydrogen-Alpha emissions with more contrast. The amount of Hydrogen-Alpha light reaching the camera sensor is almost equal for 12nm vs. 6nm (assuming the transmission is the same).
Everything looks good, but one thing bothers me with the video is setting up equipment in the dark with the help of car's headlights. All setup should be done during the daytime. It not only helps setting up more smoothly, but it also will not disturb other wildlife with the annoying car's headlights. Good video overall. Thanks!
Hi Sky Hunter, T-Ring: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000XMUKK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=galactichun00-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0000XMUKK&linkId=99f80ce9ed7a051fb9ab89cb646a5229 Coma Corrector: amzn.to/2Sv1135 Filter: optcorp.com/products/astronomik-h-alpha-12nm-ccd-filter-canon-eos-aps-clip
Awesome video and final picture! I vote option #1 since we are coming up on galaxy season with Jupiter being a close second since it will be at opposition on May 9. I am currently working on my first planetary image of Jupiter right now. On another note, what are you using for your timelapse photos?
really really good stuff guys.. my question is when you picture the night sky at the loop.. are they really full of exotic colors if you were to go up in a space ship near them.. will i see all those bizarre colors?? or is it simply different lenses and filters which give it all those colours while in reality they are simply all white??? people tell me all thse images nasa shows are all cgi and treated in photoshop.. the real stuff is all simply either in invisible light or in white light. pls clear that confusion up .. thanks...
Thanks! The colors are real, but even if you were drifiting in space in the middle of all this gas (for example, Hydrogen Alpha is red in this image), you wouldn't see anything because our eyes cannot see these faint gases like a camera does.
@@GalacticHunter wll yeah, that should be true, besides we are looking at gasses from afar, and that gives us a perspective unlike anything being close into it. In reality they are scattered over a lot of astronomical units. Ok so that clears this bit. So when people say that these images we see of orion's nebula they are all CGI, these colours aren't there, that in fact is NOT true? If i look through a powerful telescope I Should be able to SEE these blue/red/green colours? Is that what you are saying? Heres a suggestion...You guys should make episodes with MORE visuals like images of the night sky and your equipment ... follow a plan for the episode step by step with a storyline; include bits that leave a lasting impact and exclude bits you weigh could do without. dont get me wrong, Its great already. However a little tweak & streamlining it to follow a script/story would make a whole lot of difference! I guess do a little brainstorming sessions on how your episodes should look after the final editing! Good luck yo!
:O le gars a hâte d'avoir la version française ;p superbe vidéo !!!! Et sinon le prochain choix n'est pas facile !!! :O surtout que c'est temps si je surveille le soleil beaucoup ! et j'ai hâte de faire ma première Jupiter ! malheureusement ma première tentative de cette dernière ne ses pas très bien passer :/ alors je vote #3 en espérant que le mystère ce tour vers Jupiter :D
I see you used a Ha filter on your new Canon, was your camera modified with the IR filter removed? Also, what was the name of the company that made the filter.
Really great video and i like the image. Someone out there could help me. I just bought a Newtonian 130/650 f/5 telescope with a EQ-4 motorized RA tripod. Everything's fine until i'm trying to do a picture with my camera. I use EyePiece projection, cuz with prime i can't achieve focus and i didn't try barlow yet. However the problem is, whenever i'm trying to do pictures the stars or planets have blue hue around them and only in the centre i can achieve a '' okay '' focus. Oh and is it normal that i see the rim of the eyepiece in the picture? Not just a simple vigneting, like 25% of the fov is black circle. The problem could be the collimation for the hue? Will the barlow help me with this ? Thanks for all replys. PS: Here is a picture of the moon i took last night. You see what i'm talking about. imgur.com/a/HYcQYhH
I'm guilty of that (despite being 18). I was reminded of Barnard's Star when Chris performed his special move, and since Nemesis is based on the Nemesis Hypothesis, I wondered if there was a real Barnard's Loop and now here I am.
prefiero el triplete de leo ya que no lo conocia y me gustaria saber mas sobre ese grupo de galaxias espirales ya que es muy interesante.Espero que el proximo video sea sobre eso Greetings from Chile and very good job 😁👍
Just found your channel .. great work guys! Look forward to catching up with the back catalog.
Thank you Dylan!
What patience to go out multiple nights, really a powerful example for all of us.
you deserve more views like billions of views and subscribers, please don't ever stop you will get big one day.
Thanks, that is nice of you to say, we'll try!
Galactic Hunter you guys remind me of me and girlfriend your videos just give a warm feeling, i wish we can do awesome adventure like yours, best of wishes.
Man, the Galactic Hunter team is a treasure for astroimagers.
I have watched your channel for a couple of years now. I also purchased your book and peruse it often to help decide what targets to pursue on a given night. This episode was epic! Thanks for sharing and contributing so much to the hobby of astrophotography.
I love deep space objects thank you guys so much for taking your time to get this remarkable picture..I loved it thank you
That filter sure made a difference. The final image is quite beautiful. Patience is rewarded. Thanks and stay safe.
Leo Triplet, your channel is awesome. Keep up the good work and thank you both for sharing your time.
Thank you!
One of our fav.. One of the show's we're watching right now.
Pam's voice is clear as day, clearly its the Michael Scott Paper Company's documentary.....
Great video! Its nice that you showed the fails in the process that we all have. Awesome final image!
That is worthy to print. Beautiful...
This is so amazing!!!!!! I know many others besides myself were waiting very patiently for this reveal! Your strive and dedication for a great quality image is something I look up to as a beginner in the hobby. Thank you for your hard work and documentation of the process, it is extremely helpful for many aspiring astrophotographers. The final image was gorgeous!
Thank you Malllory! We always hope that our final image will not be disappointing for each new episode, glad to see those nice and motivating comments :)
Great video! And wow you guys are so determined! I just got glued to your video :) I am a beginner in astrophotography and your videos are a great help!! Thanks so much Dalia and Antoine!
Thanks to you for such an awesome comment! It is a very nice feeling knowing our videos are helpful to others :)
I'm late to the game on this one! I really enjoyed this.. failures which are OH SO common; fun; and a great overall lesson on combining data. Thank you!
Wow!! Your videos are worth waiting 👍. Keep you great work up. Vote#3
Hi! I'm sooo impressed of your videos!!! You really are exceptional in editing and even more exceptional in astrophotography! You learn everything so fast, I'm following you since your first video and what a fast progress you made since then! Thanks a lot for showing us how good results you can get with an Ha filter even without to modify your camera.
I'm also very impressed that you get no trails with a 6 min exposure without guiding. Many thanks for sharing with us your knowledge guys!!!! I vote for the Leo Triplet! :-)
Thank you very much Fransceco for those kind words!
Awesome video! & I vote for #1!
Great video! Great final image! Congratulations!
Nice video - using your compass app on your iPhone is great to point your tripod due north when polar aligning im using within 1 degree using that best practice
I have started to learn Astronomy. The universe is awesome. Cool channel!
Thanks Emmanuel, astronomy is amazing.
lovely couple :) great episode! thumbs up! at least I got some idea now :) can't wait for next episode .Cheers!!
Thank you!
Very interesting video, did'nt know that a Ha filter will work so well capturing an emission nebula with an unmodd DSLR camera. Thank you guys, keep it up. Clear Skies!!!
I love your final. Superimposing a highly detailed Great Orion Nebula into it isn’t cheating. It’s so dynamic it’s necessary. This video should be very popular because it’s unnecessary to mod a camera and you may be the first to demonstrate h-a data this way. Clarksvision is a great resource for that info. I’m truly happy to have watched this video and will share it with my pupils. I modify cameras for folks but truly feel it unnecessary unless they are limited in exposure time. It is the dynamic range of modern cameras that make them h-a sensitive despite the low pass filters. This video is excellent and you gave your wins plus your losses. You are a great contribution to the craft. From one astronomer to another.., thank you. Clear skies.
Thank you Garnett for your very kind and instructive comment! If we could, we would have made a comparison between a modified camera and an unmodified camera, but we are very happy with the final image which shows that an unmoded camera is perfectly fine for Ha :) The most important thing will always be the quality of the sky in our opinion. Keep up making your awesome informative videos, and clear skies to you as well!
Lovely job, guys. I recently did a very similar version, from light polluted skies. The 12nm ha filter is one of my best buys. 👌
You guys deserve way more views and subs! Great job!
Great final image! I vote for the trio in Leo
Currently on a binge of all your episodes and learning so much while I wait for my new mount (on backorder) to arrive and camera modification service to complete
So glad i stumbled apon your channel, great storytelling!!! Realy like it, greetings from germany...
The Marzia and Pewdiepie of astrophtography!
Great video. It's amazing the difference a filter can make. Wow! My vote is for the sun for next time.
We weren't expecting that much difference! Thanks for your vote :)
@13:10 the Ha filter will not allow more ha night to go through, but it will block the non-Ha wavelength light.
Correct. Thank you for rectifying this!
Nice vid, i think you should try choice #1
I have thinking about shooting the sun, so option 2 for me. Im hoping to get some tips and avoid some pitfalls! Clever use of ha filter, and smart superimposition of the galaxy on your final shot. Keep up the good work.
Love you galactic hunters !!!!!!
Really an amazing video as each time !! The little drone shot that you took was also really nice, it brings another point of view, so more drone shots could be really nice :))))
Désolé si mon Anglais n'est pas vraiment au point mais je parle Français ;)
Thanks ! We'll try to do some more drone shots in the future :)
The Galactic Hunters are back! Liked and shared...
How can we tag u on Twitter?
Thanks SPACETV! Our twitter is GalacticHunter_ also we do not use it much :)
"So much Coma!" Lol.
Good job!
Numéro 3 ! Planète mystère
Ive found that stopping ANY lens (even my Zeiss Distagons) down 2 stops from fully open removes most of the coma if not chromatic aberration. There are tools to address digital noise but nothing can fix coma in post processing sadly. I love this channel by the way !
Thank you for sharing. The difficulties you are encountering are the same ones I am challenging. I unfortunately I am using an Az/Alt mount which I plan to change very soon to an equatorial mount be able to get those longer exposures. The addition of the HA filter is fantastic and that is also on my list of items to acquire.
As for your next video, I vote #2, the sun! I would love to know what type of scope your friend is using. I have tried my celestron 130mm with an ND5 filter with relatively poor results. It is lacking the detail I see on so many other videos and photos. An HA filter would probably help here as well.
I really like the detail of your final shot. Looking forward to your next video, cheers.
I vote for Sol, the sun. I would like to see what the different Orion solar filers will do. I've heard the solar film filer is better than the glass filter. Love the videos! Keep it up gang!
Bernard’s Loop was strong enough to Defeat Masamune’s Stryker
You wanted to know if I liked it?
NO. I do not like it.
I EEFFFINNNG LOVE IT! Seriously! Way better than anything I've done deep sky so far. Now I need to get my ass out there and one up you guys!
haha Thanks Mitchell, get out there, you can do it!
Great video! I'd like to see the sun next time. Daytime astrronomy!
Very nice and detailed video. Can you please tell me what software/program did you use for stacking and post processing?
I just use Deep Sky Stacker for stacking and Lightroom + Photoshop for final post processing but I'm wondering if there's something better out there.
Please reply if you see this. Thanks again!
Thank you! The best is definitely PixInsight, which is the one we use. It has a crazy learning curve though. We have a few tutorial videos on our channel about it if you're interested.
@@GalacticHunter Awesome. Yes I definitely want to learn because I think I did try playing around with Pixinsight a few years ago when I was just getting into Astrophotography and it looked too complicated. I'm off to check out your videos now. Thanks a lot! :)
I vote for #1
Thank you for your video Antoine & Dalia! It is indeed an interesting acessory this filter. I wonder if in the future doctors could figure it out new artificial eyes so we could live view all the nightsky through a camera perspective. Something like Unistellar. But at the same time I also enjoy a simple telescope setup, with no machinery or autotracking, me, a telescope + deepsky atlas, and the silence of night. Is like listening the enjoyable sound of a vinil disc, even if you might have theoreticaly the best remastered CD... Best regards to Nevada! I vote for the Leo Triplet.
Ricardo
Thank you Ricardo! We also like a simple setup. It seems like the votes for the next target are very tight this time! It will be interesting to see who wins.
Nice video.. i Will vote for a planet.
Very well made documentation of your experience, and wonderful capture! A few comments... (a) The filter's bandwidth is measured in nano-meters, not milli-meters, as mentioned in the video; (b) the narrower bandwidth filter (6nm) does NOT allow more Hydrogen-Alpha light... instead it filters out more extraneous light, allowing you to capture only the light from Hydrogen-Alpha emissions with more contrast. The amount of Hydrogen-Alpha light reaching the camera sensor is almost equal for 12nm vs. 6nm (assuming the transmission is the same).
Thank you Rathijit for clarifying, we pretty much knew nothing about filters before purchasing that one, so this is good information :)
Everything looks good, but one thing bothers me with the video is setting up equipment in the dark with the help of car's headlights. All setup should be done during the daytime. It not only helps setting up more smoothly, but it also will not disturb other wildlife with the annoying car's headlights. Good video overall. Thanks!
Where did you find the dovetail for the DSLR. I am looking for one to mount my 50mm lens too.
Hi! The dovetail came with the telescope, but we had to use a drill to make some holes to then be able to attach the camera
Ah hah, I knew I recognized an Elite: Dangerous star
Probably more than one :D
Galactic Hunter A few more than I was expecting! Keep up the hard work. Oh, and never trust those Thargoid xeno scum
I vote for a planet!
You’ll need a long FL, video camera, small pixels, etc.
Nice! How did you align the telescope image of the core with the dslr image?
I think #2 sun would be nice to learn how to do but I also want to see the #1 triplet
Mystery Planet!
Hey 👋🏻 I liked your channel , can you give the link for the black head that you attached the camera into. Thanks
And also for the astronomik 12nm please!,thanks
Hi Sky Hunter, T-Ring: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000XMUKK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=galactichun00-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0000XMUKK&linkId=99f80ce9ed7a051fb9ab89cb646a5229
Coma Corrector: amzn.to/2Sv1135
Filter: optcorp.com/products/astronomik-h-alpha-12nm-ccd-filter-canon-eos-aps-clip
Awesome video and final picture! I vote option #1 since we are coming up on galaxy season with Jupiter being a close second since it will be at opposition on May 9. I am currently working on my first planetary image of Jupiter right now. On another note, what are you using for your timelapse photos?
Hi! We use our t3i for timelapses, then import all the photos on Lightroom followed by Final Cut Pro
Super super super episode love from kerala..
really really good stuff guys.. my question is when you picture the night sky at the loop.. are they really full of exotic colors if you were to go up in a space ship near them.. will i see all those bizarre colors?? or is it simply different lenses and filters which give it all those colours while in reality they are simply all white??? people tell me all thse images nasa shows are all cgi and treated in photoshop.. the real stuff is all simply either in invisible light or in white light. pls clear that confusion up .. thanks...
Thanks! The colors are real, but even if you were drifiting in space in the middle of all this gas (for example, Hydrogen Alpha is red in this image), you wouldn't see anything because our eyes cannot see these faint gases like a camera does.
@@GalacticHunter wll yeah, that should be true, besides we are looking at gasses from afar, and that gives us a perspective unlike anything being close into it. In reality they are scattered over a lot of astronomical units. Ok so that clears this bit. So when people say that these images we see of orion's nebula they are all CGI, these colours aren't there, that in fact is NOT true? If i look through a powerful telescope I Should be able to SEE these blue/red/green colours? Is that what you are saying?
Heres a suggestion...You guys should make episodes with MORE visuals like images of the night sky and your equipment ... follow a plan for the episode step by step with a storyline; include bits that leave a lasting impact and exclude bits you weigh could do without. dont get me wrong, Its great already. However a little tweak & streamlining it to follow a script/story would make a whole lot of difference! I guess do a little brainstorming sessions on how your episodes should look after the final editing! Good luck yo!
Hey I love your videos and I want to meet you soon I have a telescope but I live downtown in the same city as to fairly close
I vote mystery planet!
:O le gars a hâte d'avoir la version française ;p superbe vidéo !!!! Et sinon le prochain choix n'est pas facile !!! :O surtout que c'est temps si je surveille le soleil beaucoup ! et j'ai hâte de faire ma première Jupiter ! malheureusement ma première tentative de cette dernière ne ses pas très bien passer :/ alors je vote #3 en espérant que le mystère ce tour vers Jupiter :D
La version Française est maintenant disponible :)
Galactic Hunter merci :)
I see you used a Ha filter on your new Canon, was your camera modified with the IR filter removed? Also, what was the name of the company that made the filter.
Our camera is unmodified and we do not plan to remove the IR filter. The company is Astronomik
The sun would be cool!
Really great video and i like the image.
Someone out there could help me. I just bought a Newtonian 130/650 f/5 telescope with a EQ-4 motorized RA tripod. Everything's fine until i'm trying to do a picture with my camera. I use EyePiece projection, cuz with prime i can't achieve focus and i didn't try barlow yet. However the problem is, whenever i'm trying to do pictures the stars or planets have blue hue around them and only in the centre i can achieve a '' okay '' focus. Oh and is it normal that i see the rim of the eyepiece in the picture? Not just a simple vigneting, like 25% of the fov is black circle. The problem could be the collimation for the hue? Will the barlow help me with this ?
Thanks for all replys.
PS: Here is a picture of the moon i took last night. You see what i'm talking about.
imgur.com/a/HYcQYhH
Which dslr do you guys use modified or unmodified DSLR.?
Hello, we used a Canon t3i from Ep #1 to #4, and we now use a Canon 7D Mark II. We did not modify any
Some kids probably watched this because of the beyblade reference
Lolol
I'm guilty of that (despite being 18). I was reminded of Barnard's Star when Chris performed his special move, and since Nemesis is based on the Nemesis Hypothesis, I wondered if there was a real Barnard's Loop and now here I am.
i vote #2 the sun
Just get an app for the clouds ;) livetracking
Leo triplet next time please.
mystery planet
prefiero el triplete de leo ya que no lo conocia y me gustaria saber mas sobre ese grupo de galaxias espirales ya que es muy interesante.Espero que el proximo video sea sobre eso
Greetings from Chile and very good job 😁👍
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