Imaging M97 Planetary Nebula! (Backyard Astrophotography)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2024
- Join me as I collect 2000 year old photons from the planetary nebula M97 (Owl Nebula). I used an 8" Vixen VC200L Telescope, QHY168C cooled cmos camera and Optolong L-eNhance dual narrowband astrophotography filter.
Optolong L-eNhance filter: bit.ly/32a9Gfu
QHY 168C cooled cmos camera: bit.ly/2NkkKTb
Vixen VC200L modified cassegrain telescope: bit.ly/34qonhf
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Some of my gear...
Skywatcher Esprit 100 F5.5 Triplet refractor telescope bit.ly/36w1F7Y
Moravian G3 16200EC CCD w/ 5 position FW bit.ly/2PL0qvK
William Optics Zenithstar APO refractor telescope bit.ly/2JRM1tR
QHY168C 16mp cooled cmos camera bit.ly/2NkkKTb
Optolong L-R-G-B 2" filters bit.ly/32a9Gfu
Optolong L-eNhance filter bit.ly/32a9Gfu
Optolong L-pro filter bit.ly/32a9Gfu
Triad Quadband Ultra Filter bit.ly/2CbQXWh
Skywatcher EQ mount bit.ly/2C9lap1
Skywatcher Star Adventurer bit.ly/2C9Fwyi
Pegasus Astro Focus Cube bit.ly/2qonGow
Orion Starshoot Autoguider bit.ly/34z6pbh
My website: VisibleDark.ca
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Great video as always. Very informative. Nice guiding!!
I like the gear setup
Nice one Shawn!
Thanks!
Fantastic video!! I enjoyed watching how you set up your equipment. Great results.
Thanks for watching Bill. Clear skies!
Nice Owl Shawn!
Hey Elmiko! Thanks for watching. Hope you're getting some clear skies where you are! Cheers.
@@VisibledarkAstro finally got clear skies! Last night I imaged the Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies. I posted on AB!
@@elmikol2443 awesome! I will check it out.
Nice upload and capture 👌🔭
Thanks! Clear skies to you!
Very nice Shawn! I got worried when you set the imaging session to stop at 5PM! Always enjoy your videos.
I was wondering if someone would catch that! I did when I was imaging and changed it to AM! lol.
Great video, and nice to see round stars from a VC200L...! I had one once, and I could get nothing other than triangular lobed stars from it. M97 is a great target at the moment - nice and high. I captured it with my Pentax 75SDHF so it's a bit small, but still perfectly formed ;-)
Thanks for watching and the comment! The diamond shaped stars are inherent due to the design of the VC200L. I don't get round stars with it either. The stars in the M97 field are just small enough that they conceal the diamond shape more. Larger/brighter stars reveal it. Some people don't like the shape of the stars, some don't mind. For me I don't mind really. I'm more interested in the details of the deepsky object. The VC200L does a nice job for imaging and isn't very expensive considering the quality of it. IMO of course. Hope you're getting some clear skies! Cheers.
Great video and awesome result! That guiding accuracy made me so envious haha
Thanks for watching! Well if you think my guiding accuracy is good then you're going to really be blown away by that Paramount you got there! I'm envious! lol. Hope you guys are getting some clear skies and staying safe!
@@VisibledarkAstro Fingers crossed! The skies have been terrible lately but it has to clear up soon! Will reply to your email asap!
Excellent video and great image! I'm curious about the L-Enhance filter. Do you process it as a standard OSC image or as separate narrow band channels in Pixinsight?
Great owl nebula! Curious about the guiding you were using. 😊
Hi - I was using PHD2 for guiding. I also use EQMOD polar align routine. The two work well for me!
Visibledark Astro sorry! I shoulda asked my question better. 😂 Guidescope? OAG?
@@JeffHorne its a guide scope. A celestron 50mm with the Orion starshoot autoguider attached. Nothing fancy. But it works well!
Visibledark Astro very similar to what I use. Surprised you could get subs that long, at that focal length, with that guidescope. I have the SSAG pro and a 60mm guidescope, and I couldn’t go any longer than 5 mins at 1280mm. Tried an oag last night, and got 20min subs! 🤯
Shawn....how are you liking that vixen?
I'm actually liking it. It is more demanding imaging being a much longer focal length. The scope holds collimation really good. The image details are very good. The diamond shape stars (inherent in this design) is not everyone's liking. I don't mind them to much. Brighter larger stars look ok to me even if a bit diamond shaped. They have the diffraction spikes as well which helps. The smaller stars I think suffer though. Since they aren't round. But overall so far I'm happy with it and actually seeing about doing some summer nebula imaging with it now, beyond galaxy season. Close up shots of some prominent nebula features.
What are you guiding that beast with?
Nothing fancy, an old Orion Starshoot Autoguider and 50mm guidescope along with PHD2. Cheers.
Shawn
I tried loading my own landscape in Stellarium and I cant click on my custom at all , when I do it shuts down, not as simple as everyone says , any ideas
Sorry Steve. No ideas at all. Strange it shuts down.
@@VisibledarkAstro I know its me nissing something. Having the same problem with Pixinsight not working. Worked on a problem yesterday on pix for like 3 hours and then it jit me. Still have problems with other things like blink, one day it may hit me too
Why stay up when you can automate eveything?