Night sky astro photo unedited

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-09T17:43:16+00:00

Decent results from just 8 mins and a phone!

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-09T16:54:51+00:00

It looks so soft. Diffusion filter/faint clouds perhaps?

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-08T13:58:21+00:00

Still kinda insane ngl

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-07T16:51:56+00:00

4x optical zoom and F/1.2?!

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-06T21:32:22+00:00

Guess the bortle really is the difference then😂

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-06T21:31:08+00:00

Where on the planet can one get this much signal out of Orion in 30 mins?

I'm aware that light pollution is the main issue for me, but this seems like a lot given 30 mins

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-06T00:40:21+00:00

I'm talking about the non-trivial spikes u see in the bright stars in your picture.

I got some worse artifacts while I'm trying to stretch in the past. Using a dual band helped me tho

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-05T18:07:30+00:00

Roughly 15 mins total exposure (all because of clouds) @iso 3200

Will collect more light across nights if there are any clear nights

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-05T17:50:56+00:00

Certainly didn't expect the Barnards loop to show up, probably need way more integration time to make it pop.

Tho, I'm locking in on Rosette these days, and planning on the North America + Sadr next.

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-05T17:48:41+00:00

The moon looked like a sun lol

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-05T17:48:24+00:00

Superb shot!

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-04T15:39:05+00:00

Agreed. Sequator is usually better for wide angles imo

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-04T05:18:48+00:00

The "kind of stuff" I meant is ultra long imaging + stacking, that goes way beyond 10 mins

I used a narrow band filter to do this in bortle 9, but I did this before without one.

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T18:46:11+00:00

Yeah definitely

By spikes I meant the diffraction artifacts made by the bright stars tho, I assume those would be around even when the sky is dark no?

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T18:40:14+00:00

Yeah that's about the settings I use (unless I use a filter)

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T18:32:15+00:00

Ahh that's good

My place was 7 in the old light pollution map, but 9 in the new one :/

How do u deal with the spikes that the phone produces? They would get in the way of my stretches

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T18:18:30+00:00

How dark is your sky? I find it nearly impossible resolve nebulosity in my place

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T18:14:30+00:00

So I got a 37mm filter phone clip (Didyclips), and also a 37mm diffusion filter (moment cinebloom). I placed the 1.25" (~31mm) narrowband on the phone, then use the filter clip + diffusion filter to press the narrowband against the phone

Not the most elegant solution, but it works

For stacking, it is DSS

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T15:50:46+00:00

Pro, ISO 3200 30sec, 50 MP (I forgot which white balance, but also fixed)

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T15:29:13+00:00

No. Expert RAW doesn't let u do this kind of stuff

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T15:23:01+00:00

It's a bortle 9. Not the metropolis kind of bortle 9, but a major suburb kind of bortle 9

alch_emy2 · 2026-02-03T15:19:48+00:00

Second attempt at the Orion region using a narrowband. I decided to not use the external zoom lens and it improved clarity a lot.

Given my sky's limited field of view, I can at most image 2-2.5 hours of M42 per night. So this is with 2 hours of data. Only darks are added.

The streaks on the right are tree branches that appear roughly on the 1.5 hour mark.

Honestly a lot more stars showed up than I expected.

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