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I'm Andrea, 41 years old Italian living in the Netherlands and I started doing AP approximately 1538 days, 3 hours and 28 minutes ago: http://www.astrobin.com/175471/?nc=user  |
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Greetings: I took my first image of the moon on 3/3/17 using the Orion Star Shoot USB CCD Camera on a Celestron NexStar 80GT. The telescope was not my pick. I told my wife that when I was about 12 years old my father bought me a telescope from Sears. My first real picture of the moon was taken with that telescope (I don’t remember its size) and an old Argus 35 mm film camera, that was back in the 1960’s. Those pictures have been lost in time, very sad. Anyway, my wife bought me the NexStar for a Christmas gift, thinking I could set it up at the top of the stairs and point it out the window (bless her heart). I have explained to her the equipment that one day soon I will buy, an EQ-6 and a Stellarvue scope. If you look at my images most are made with my used DSLR. For now that is what I am using to feed the hunger of this hobby. Until I get that new equipment, I like time lapse, star trails, and I hope I get one good night here to shoot the Milky Way. I am on this site every day, I have read or will read everything I can to improve but most of all I learn by going out shooting, deleting those images after reviewing them, make a change, and shooting on another night. So for me I have been at this for only 5 months 2 weeks. I am 63 years old so I need to improve my techniques while I have time left. Clear Skies to all! |
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Hi everyone! My name is Guillermo Spiers, and I am from Lima, Perú! I started doing astrophotography in 2013 when I bought my first telescope. It was a Celestron Nexstar 6SE, a very nice scope! It revealed me Saturns rings for the first time, the great Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and of course, a very detailed moon! I was fascinated with all this views, and naturally, I felt the need to photograph and share every thing I saw with other people! I started using a simple camera, and now I have a cooled color camera and a lot less money My first shots had a lot of comments on social media. No one around me believed that my shots were done at my rooftop, or my garden. As I kept gaining experience, I met a lot of people that were in the same page. This relations got me to my first star party, and for the first time, allowed me to use my scopes full potencial! That star party was unforgettable. I saw many deepsky objets like Orion, Andromeda Galaxy, Triffid Nebula, Ring Nebula, Omega Centauri, etc. My first deepsky shots were done there with Omega Centauri, and Orion. After capturing them, I began to understand the stacking and postprocessing techincs that revealed a whole new beautiful object. Who knew that the skies hide those beautiful works of art! After seeing those deepsky objects, I knew that this was my hobbie. This led me to create a blog called: www.astrofotoperu.com. The main purpose of the blog, is to guide and make astrophotography simple for every enthusiast that wants to get in. Its now in spanish, but hopefully Ill translate everything to english soon! My blog has become the most important astrophotography blog here in Perú. I am the first person in Perú that had the iniciative and that made me very happy of course! I have met a lot of people from different countries, and learned a lot new information thanks to it! This hobbie as you all know, is an endless quest! I recently sold my Nextar 6SE, and upgraded to a Celestron 8 EDGE HD with a CGEM mount. I am prepared for guiding with a Celestron off axis guider too! Hopefully, clouds will go away to test it! Its very nice to meet you all, and to be part of this amazing community! Clear Skies! |
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Hi All, I started with AP at the beginning of 2017, always wanted to do it since 1988 (yes, I am from the older generation) after I finished my Masters work in Physics and Astronomy. Started with an achromatic telescope, was actually better than I thought, but ultimately ended up with an APO. The same with my camera, I used first my old Canon DLSR 50D, moved on to get the Altair 183C. I definitely can say that all the help from other hobby Astronomers made it so much easier, a lot of tips, recommendations, etc. The last year was full of excitement, and I am sure that it will continue! Clear skies! Uwe |
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HI all. I started astrophotography late December 2017. Been reading about AP a few months prior to that and have been viewing planets and galaxies through my 3.5 inch Skywatcher refractor and my 6 inch Dob since June 2017. So I'm fairly new to astronomy in general but I've learned quite abit in such a short period of time. I've been imaging for the past 3.5 months and use a 4 inch ES APO refractor with the Altair Hypercam 183C one shot color CMOS camera. Been learning quite abit these past few months imaging and I'm happy with the results I've been yielding so far. Still a long way to go but it's been an exciting and rewarding experience. Clear skies to you all!  Jirair |
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Hey Everybody. I am also imaging through an ES127 APO. I've had the telescope for a little over 2 years, but just started seriously getting into astrophotography this past December. I am imaging with a modified Canon T3i from my red zone location outside New York City. I have just been amazed at what is possible given the amount of light pollution. Below are a couple links to my first two captures, M8 and M51. Please let me know what you think and where I may be able to improve. I am constantly battling the autoguider which seems to be my biggest limitation right now. Clear skies! Jeff |
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| Hello everyone, I started AP about a month ago. Telescope's that I have, Meade LX70 R5 1000mm fl. at a f8.3 ,Ioptron 80mm 40mm fl. Cameras Neximage 5 , Orion All In One Camera. |
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Hi Guys! I started taking my first astro images half year ago, I try to improve with every session. I live in a 1 milion city, but have access to a village cottage under Bortle 2/3 sky. Feedback about my photos is always appreciated! Tom |
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| It all started at Costco on a day in 2016 when, on an impulse, bought a Nikon 7200 camera kit. I was blown away at the improvement in quality and features of the modern digital DSLR. (My previous workhorse DSLR was a "great" Minolta SRT101 that I purchased in 1969). I started taking many pictures of family, landscapes and anything that looked interesting. After purchasing a Sigma 150-600 mm lens, I started on wildlife and especially birds. One night I aimed it at the Orion nebula and was amazed at the quality. At that point I was hooked on astrophotography and started watching YouTube videos (especially Dylan O'Donnell and Trevor Jones). I decided on the Celestron RASA 11 with the CGX mount and in June of 2018, the delivery truck arrived in my driveway and with a forklift unloaded a pallet of very heavy boxes. My first pictures were with the Nikon DSLR and the quality and precision of the setup blew me away again. I have since added a ZWO ASI1600 MM camera and am even more impressed with the setup! -- I really do appreciate the many kind and knowledgeable people in this hobby who have shared their knowledge to help a beginner get up to speed. (My woodworking hobby has suffered since I got into this). I still have a lot to learn about astrophotography and hope to get much more competent with narrowband and processing in the future. Now that I am retired, I can spend more time on my hobbies. |
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Hello, everyone. I grew up on a farm with beautiful dark skies, but never a good telescope. I remember climbing up onto the roof of the house and lying back just looking at the night sky. In 2016 I came into some money and bought my first 'decent' telescope- an 8" netwonian reflector from Orion on a Sirius EQ mount. From there it was just a short jump to a Nikon D5300 DSLR. I've been slowly upgrading to my current rig of an 8" RC with an ASI1600 monochrome camera with LRGB and NB filters. Processing is my biggest hurdle, and I am ALWAYS struggling with producing better quality images. Light pollution is my greatest enemy today, living on the outside of Atlanta, GA!! |
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Hi All, my Name is Michael, and I live in Germany. I started with Astrophotography in October 2019 with a7 III and Camera Lenses on iOptron Skytracker Pro in my Bortle 4/5 Backyard. In December I wanted more, and bought my first Telescope with Mount (150/750 PDS and Skywatcher EQ5 Synscan GoTo). After a few problems with the Mount, and lots of unsuccessful Nights, I sent it to Service. After that it really works well now, and I´ m very impressed about better and better results. Now I´ m working with modified Sony a6000a and MGEN II Guiding, and two weeks ago I could get the TS65Q APO from a friend, and I love it <3 |
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Hello everyone, I'm Jürgen, living in the south of Germany near Ingolstadt. I am astronomy on and off for several years but only got into astrophotography very lately. Fighting with the equipment is is still very much a constant. Still trying to keep exposure times relatively short not to run into more problems with guiding. But even at very slow exposure times my stars are not really round yet. I learned quite a bit this summer when I can image for several nights and slowly climb the learning curve. But then there may be weeks without clear skies and I tend to forget what I already learned. Clear skies to all of you Jürgen |
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Hey all, Clint here. I took my first extremely wide Milky Way photo in Feb of 2019 and have spent more time (and money) during the pandemic on shooting more. Here's my most recent shot |
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Hello! Lucas here from Rhode Island USA. I've been shooting deeps sky AP with a OSC for just about 3 months now and found myself engulfed in the hobby. Here is my first deep sky object (M31) https://www.astrobin.com/28125w/?nc=user and one of my recent photos (NGC1499) https://www.astrobin.com/123vwf/?nc=user . I've upgraded from a table top 8" dobsonian and Nikon D800e that was manually tracked to a deep sky imaging rig. Celestron AVX mount William Optics Z73ii with Flat73a ASI533MC-Pro WO 50mm f/4 guide scope ASI120MM-Mini Acquisition- NINA Thanks! and Clear Skies! -Luc |
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Hello, I am Francesco and young in the hobby of AP, I started approx. 1 year ago. I am sure that participating in this group will help me improving my AP skills. Thanks and clear skies. |
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Just want to say hello. I started imaging about 9 months ago and I am now hooked. My user name is Prea and I have loaded my first image's . Looking forward to the dark sky's in the autumn. Clear skies everyone Peter. |
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| Hi Everyone. I have been into Astronomy all my life but as a visual Observer. I did take star trails and wide images of the Milky Way. While these images are beautiful and show the grandeur of the night sky I didn't really class them as Astrophotography, more night landscapes. I purchased a Skywatcher Star Adventurer and started to take my telephoto lens and shoot large nebula and the bright sections of the Milky Way. I had the opportunity to get an Orion Sirius EQ-G mount and not long after an Orion ED80. I have started to enter the realm of deep-sky photography with this setup. Knowing how my visual observing went from moderate size scopes to eventually a 25" obsession, I'm a little worried about where this may lead. But it will be fun finding it out. |
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| I am brand new. Just received my equipment and I hope to see my first light this week. |
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Hi Everyone from a cloudy Scotland. I tried astrophotography a few years back with my 200P and an Olympus E-420 dslr. Being unguided the images were sort of OK. I also did some planetary imaging with a 120MC. However, my main efforts were via the remote networks of Slooh and Telescope Live. I have processed these images with DSS, Photoshop Elements, and Affinity Photo Plus. A friend said that remote imaging was not true astrophotography so I have invested now in an auto-guiding system for my EQ5 and hope to have some home-grown images once I master PHD2! best wishes to all, Graham |
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Hi all, I bought second hand old Celestron last summer and did first few shots of Sun and later Moon in following few months with my Sony a6000. Then I got hooked and invested some money for monochrome ZWO camera & needed stuff and waited long to have few nice days. Just this month I did first SHO shoot with unfortunately only 2 hours of usable integration - but it's a nice start I love the hobby - so many different things to learn and so nice results can come out. Looking forward for quite some nice learning |
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Greetings from Denmark :-) I just started out AP at age 51, but I had the interest in space & astronomy since I was 5 after I got a cheap telescope from my granddad. Back then we was living in the countryside on what I believe must have been a bortle class 1-2. Today it is 2-3 and one of the darkest places in Denmark. But unfortunately I live north of Copenhagen in what must be around a bortle 5 - 6  Thinking back at those dark skies in the 70's start 80's that lit up the hole fields from starlights was really something.Why did it take me so long to get started..? Well I ask myself that question and I guess work, life and many other interests got in the way. Better late then never anyway..  Cheers, Btw. Here is my first deep sky image I just processed. I used Siril for processing.. It's not super I know, but I still struggle with the software and basically everything :-) Lot's of new things to learn. Now i'm trying make the same in Pixinsight. A bit more learning curve I feel.. https://www.astrobin.com/pxqpn8/ |
