It’s hard to believe, but summer’s over. I absolutely had to take one last astrophoto before moving to the Bortle 8 skies that I’ll have to deal with this winter. What better target to shoot than the legendary Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy. My image Image specs CAMERA: Olympus Pen F (unmodified)LENS: Olympus 75-300 @300mm...
At the end of this post I said that I would have revisited those two astrophotos with my EQ3 mount. I haven’t shot the Milky Way yet because of extreme light pollution in the South direction, however I did reshoot an object in Cygnus: the North America Nebula. Image Specs CAMERA: Olympus Pen F (unmodified)LENS:...
I finally got my setup working as it should so, on June 15, I decided it was time to take a good picture. I was navigating the cosmos in Kstars searching for an object to image and my eye fell in the constellation Sagittarius. The Lagoon and Trifid nebulae The Lagoon nebula and Trifid...
Are your images noisy even if you stacked lots of exposures? There is an easy solution for that: dithering!But why are the photos noisy in the first place? Fixed pattern noise Fixed pattern noise is a type of noise that does not change between one exposure and the other. This means that FPN will...
I now have an EQ3 Pro Synscan mount and I would like to pair it with a 130/650 Newtonian telescope. To check if the tracking is good enough for this focal length, I designed a test. The theory My Olympus Pen F has a feature called High Res Shot that quadruples the resolution of...
If you’ve read this post, you should know that my SLT mount broke. However I was really lucky: the product was still under warranty so I sent it back to amazon and they gave me the money back. When I had my old telescope I learned a lot of things and I discovered that...
This summer my Nexstar SLT mount broke, but not before letting me take two of the best images I have ever taken to date. Here are the last two photos taken with my old mount. The “specs” of the two photos Although the targets are different and the images were shot from different locations,...
I have already tried planetary imaging last summer, taking photos of Jupiter and Saturn with my camera and my 127mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope, using both prime focus and eyepiece projection. However, last Christmas I bought a 2x Barlow lens to boost the focal length of my scope from 1500mm to 3000mm and I’ve been waiting...
On the seventh of April, the Moon was at its closest position from Earth, the perigee. Our only natural satellite was also 94% illuminated, so it was the perfect time to take a photo of it and its minerals. There are various minerals on the Moon and they can be revealed by boosting the...
This is my second attempt to take a Moon HDR photo and here is a guide so that you can easily make yours. The acquisition Obviously, if you don’t have good photos to start with, it is impossible to have a good final image, so it is important to choose your camera settings wisely....