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Written by Chris White on 2025-01-09 at 16:47

Couple quick photos from my first try with new little telescope last night. The horsehead is real quick, like 5-6 min total exposure, needs like an hour. M42 was a good 45 min total exposure and I’ll want to reprocess it from the raw stacked frames at some point. The third thing is a terrible shot of Uranus (too close to the moon), but I’d never imaged or seen it before.

Poor seeing, weak focus, big moon, but I’m still pleased.

[#]seestar

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Descendants

Written by Chris White on 2025-01-11 at 17:20

Had a go at reprocessing M42 from the raw frames. Probably a bit overcooked, but I’m in the steep part of the (re-)learning curve. #seestar

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Written by Kernel Bob on 2025-01-09 at 23:25

@stoneymonster These are impressive. Were you in your own yard or did you go someplace darker?

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Written by Chris White on 2025-01-09 at 23:26

@kbob front yard, facing a street with cars coming up periodically. We’re not dark skies here certainly, but we’re not as bad as an urban area. Plenty of stars visible on a good night and faint milky way if we drive a minute or two.

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Written by Instant Arcade on 2025-01-10 at 05:16

@stoneymonster @kbob Since our neighborhood power is still out I was able to clearly see Orion in the sky as I was walking the dog.

Wasn't over impressed with his belt though - 3 stars.

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Written by Chris White on 2025-01-10 at 06:10

@InstantArcade @kbob 🥁😜 You’re in the LA area right? Stay safe! I’m gutted by what I’ve seen.

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Written by Instant Arcade on 2025-01-10 at 06:13

@stoneymonster @kbob Yeah Simi Valley. We were watching the Kenneth for a while. But looks like we're going to be okay.

Hopefully getting my power back on sometime overnight.

It's been terrible though. Altadena to our Eastand Pacific Palisades to our South both got pretty devastated.

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Written by KeithTheEE on 2025-01-11 at 21:00

@stoneymonster

So because I want to see more of these amazing things, How did you do this? this looks so good!

I've heard of astropy https://learn.astropy.org/

and toyed with scikit-image: https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/auto_examples/

They seem helpful and related, what kinds of tools do you use for this?

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Written by Stargazing on 2025-01-16 at 21:58

What programs did you use for post processing?

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Written by Chris White on 2025-01-16 at 22:11

@MessierGazing Pixinsight and a bit of lightroom. I’ve also been playing with Siril and GraXpert which are free and getting pretty good.

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Written by KeithTheEE on 2025-01-11 at 20:29

@stoneymonster

What kind of telescope are you using? (And what camera? I have grown to be very into birding and the idea of buying a camera for that + space pictures is dangerously tempting)

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