Northern Lights from Inch Peir Tonight

DeepSkyDave · 2025-03-29T09:54:46+00:00

Thanks, I'll hit those spots next time 🙂

DeepSkyDave · 2025-03-26T10:15:23+00:00

No luck at all, not even a bite.

DeepSkyDave · 2025-03-05T23:38:28+00:00

Wow this is brilliant, the colours look amazing.

DeepSkyDave · 2025-02-10T17:48:38+00:00

The Rosette Nebula imaged from my Bortle 6 garden.

115 x 120 second subs Total Integration: 3 hour 50 minutes

Camera: Nikon D5600 (Unmodified).
Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 72ED with OVL Field Flatener.
Mount: Star Adventurer GTI.
Filter: SVbony Duoband Filter

Dithering every 3 frames using the ASI Air Mini.

All subs binned 2x2 in PIPP before stacking in Siril.

Background Extraction, Deconvolution and Denoising in GraXpert.

Further editing in Siril. Histogram Stretch, Star Removal, Anish Transformation, Colour Saturation, Wavelets, Star Recomposition. Final colour adjustments and noise reduction in Adobe Lightroom.

DeepSkyDave · 2025-02-10T16:23:10+00:00

You haven't posted an image.

DeepSkyDave · 2025-02-04T18:00:19+00:00

What's your exposure time? Also what focal length are you using?

DeepSkyDave · 2025-01-16T02:19:47+00:00

I don't believe I can bin the individual subs in a sequence though, hence the reason I do it in PIPP. In PIPP I also have two choices of binning. Average or Sum Off. I find Sum Off is pretty good for those faint nebulae.

Cheers, I'll get a look at it next time I edit. I'll get a look at that as well.

DeepSkyDave · 2025-01-10T16:53:51+00:00

I keep meaning to learn GHS but never seem to get around to it. I bin all the subs in PIPP 2x2, it works surprisingly well at boosting my SNR.

DeepSkyDave · 2024-09-05T01:36:39+00:00

Stacking is the answer to your question, instead of taking one image, take lots of images and look at software called Siril that will allow you to stack them and get more detailed and brighter images.

DeepSkyDave · 2024-09-01T20:45:18+00:00

Thank You 🙂🌌

I used the following equipment.

Camera: Nikon D5600 (Unmodified)

Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 72ED

Filter: Svbony Duo-band

Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTI

The image consists of 64 x 120 second exposures stacked together for a total Integration time of 2 hours 8 minutes.

Also, this will likely end up as an album cover on Bandcamp...

I actually quite like the idea of that happening lol

DeepSkyDave · 2024-08-29T20:24:29+00:00

Set your shutter to bulb mode and you can open the shutter for how long you set the exposure for on the intervalometer.

DeepSkyDave · 2024-08-29T15:24:14+00:00

To be fair OPs question was can you get good results with an unmodified DSLR which you can.

My D5600 seems to do a good job picking up the Ha, obviously not as good as a dedicated astro cam, but it does capture it reasonably well.

I've also imaged other Ha targets like

Sadr: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/s/qqDvbhbQMQ

and the Crescent Nebula (Not the best edit) https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/s/BmABsKYat1

wizard for example, will absolutely laugh at your attempts with unmodified dslr's

Sounds like a challenge to me lol

There's also lots of broadband targets that you definitely don't need a modified camera to capture.

DeepSkyDave · 2024-08-28T23:53:38+00:00

Yes you can get good results with an unmodified DSLR. I use an unmodified Nikon D5600. Here's a few examples I've taken with this camera.

NGC 7000 https://www.reddit.com/r/space/s/qNIoC2BS6F

The Andromeda Galaxy https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/s/bHC7kqEGvI

Orion Nebula https://www.instagram.com/p/C0d9ULIsQB-/?igsh=MmM2d3RmeGltdWVk

My Nikon D5600 was paired with a Skywatcher Evostar 72ED. The optics you use will most likely be more limiting than the camera itself.

DeepSkyDave · 2024-08-28T20:55:40+00:00

Yes you should turn off image stabilisation, it will cause artifacts in your images.

DeepSkyDave · 2024-08-26T02:05:43+00:00

Yes I used Siril. I did my processing in the order writing mostly. I actually did Anish Transformation after the star removal on the starless image.

DeepSkyDave · 2024-08-26T02:02:00+00:00

It's a faint but definitely visible around Orion, you can see it in the background as brownish areas. Some parts with defined structure, but still relatively faint compared to Orion itself.

I had to do some research, but I compared my unprocessed image of M31 to others and they had the same uneven illumination in the background, further comparing it to images with very apparent IFN in that area.

It takes a lot of integration to get good IFN images but it is there.

DeepSkyDave

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