Planets through my Telescope - a Journey through the Solar System
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2021
- Hey folks,
in the course of the last two years I took images of planets within our Solar System. It is a great and inspiring - though ongoing - journey from the glowing sun to the icy gas giants.
In this video I want to show you whats possible with modest equipment and encourage you to step outside and explore those distant worlds yourself! Maybe it will change your life, like it changed mine.
Clear skies everyone!
- Chris
Hardware
Camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S Colour
Mount: SW EQ6R Pro
Guidecam: Omegon Guidescope 50mm
Guidecam: ZWO ASI 120mini-mono
OTA: SW N 150/750 PDS Explorer
Add: Omegon 3x Barlow lens
Software: PHD2, SharpCap, Stellarium
Processing: AutoStakkert!3, Registax6, GIMP2
#Telescope
#Planets
#SolarSystem
#Mercury
#Venus
#Mars
#Jupiter
#Uranus
#Neptune
#Moon - Наука та технологія
Nice shots! Love the presentation. CS!
Thanks a lot!
Holy crap I remember when you only had 600 subscribers, great content!
Haha ;-) has been a great journey so far! Thanks a lot man for sticking around with us! The feedback and help from the community members like you means the world to me! Thanks again!
Clear skies!
So pretty!
Thanks a lot!!
I love this!
Thanks!!
Great work, Chris!! 👏👏👏
Thanks Tom!! 😎👍 Cheers! 🍺
Great video ! i could too take like that !
Thanks!!
Very nice, great work!!
Thanks a lot Rafael!!
Excellent Video!!! It would be great if you could make tutorial about your amazing moon capturing. Really great quality picture.
Thank you for your encouraging comment!
I can do such a thing in the future, for sure. In a nutshell: I took 1min AVI files with 2.2m focal length and moved the scope between every image hoping not to miss any part. Then I stacked the files, sharpened them and used Microsoft's "image composite editor" to stitch the final image.
Cheers and clear skies!
Great Shots Of Planets!! Its Awesome That You included Vesta!! Have You Captures Dwarf Planet 'Ceres'!! Its In asteroid Belt as Well!! I would Love The Photograph them Myself :)
Thanks! I'll hunt for Ceres for sure! Right now I'd like to image a transit of an exoplanet or see how far in the solar system you can track objects. This hobby is so rich and amazing!! Never gets old.
Clear skies mate!
Hi Chris. Your videos are very high quality, keep up the great work!
Im a keen photographer with a lot of Canon kit. R5 and 1dx mark 2, some good quality glass and tripods, 3 way ballhead etc. I would like to do some more astrophotography, and have just under £1000 GBP to spend.
I was considering a Fornax mount and wedge totalling around £800 (mainly because of weight capabilities Ive read about)
However.. I can buy a complete telescope and mount that I can use with a DSLR for £900.
Which setup will give me the best images? I am not keen on stacking or spending loads of time processing.
My current lenses are canon 500 f4, canon 300 f2.8, canon rf 800 f11, Canon 24-70 f2.8, sigma 14mm f1.8 Art,
Cheers, David
Hi David,
Your upcoming decision depends highly on what you want to do within the field of astrophotography.
You said you already have a great camera and some good lenses and I think you should build up on this kid. I don't have any experiences with the mount you mentioned but I heard a lot of great things about the Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i. Using this Mount you can shoot up to to several minutes with a focal length of 200-300mm. It's all down to perfect polar alignment and stuff.
Using your camera and maybe an EOS clip in filter h-alpha or sulphur you can take great images of huge nebula constellations like the North American nebula. Truth be told: only stacking multiple stuff exposures each minutes long will reveal the true beauty of the night sky. Don't be afraid: stacking is no complicated process. you just need a free software called deepskystacker and load all your exposures into that program.
A very stable tripod and a good quality Mount is the base of all your further astrophotography experience. One step ahead of the Skywatcher Star Adventurer is the "skywatcher EQ 3 Pro" mount. It's a bit more expensive but it is a full functioning astrophotography mount capable of carrying smaller telescopes with ease and able to be connected with a PC for further stuff like auto guiding, go-to and remote control.
On the other hand the star explorer is much smaller and portable and can be taken to different locations more easily.
So my advice would be the star explorer and an Eos clip in filter at least for H-alpha.
Clear skies my friend!!
@@catchingphotons Thanks for the super quick response to my query. I'm now looking into the Skywalker mounts and was reading some interesting stuff today about the image quality using clip in Ha filters in DSLR cameras.
Clear skies!
Cool! Looking forward to seeing results :-) make sure to tag me of you publish some images.
Clear skies!
Great pictures. Congratulations that you managed to catch the ice giants as well. One small notice. I think it would be better if the planets were rotated correctly. The moon was upside down, and the polar cap on Mars was on the side.
Thanks buddy! Ice giants were fun to capture. Next are Plutoids and stuff ;-)
To your advice: Up and down are debatable but maybe you are right ;-)
Clear skies!!
Hi Chris. I've been watching your videos quite a bit lately and I'm learning a lot. Thank you for the great content. I'm currently experimenting in Stellarium with different Telescopes (OTAs) and Sensors, and I'm paying close attention to the arcseconds/pixel result of the various combinations. For DSO, I understand the "sweet spot" is to stay within 1-2 arcseconds per pixel to avoid over or undersampling. Does this also apply to planetary imaging? The reason I ask is because assuming you captured these using the gear you mentioned in the description, including a 3x Barlow, your arcseconds per pixel is something like 0.3. Also, regarding the 3x Barlow, in one of your tutorials you mention to not go above 2x Barlow (and the manufacturer's specs of your OTA also mention 2x is the max before image quality really suffers), yet you're using 3x. I was just curious to learn about your decision process to use a 3x Barlow, whether the loss in quality is a reasonable trade-off to get a larger image, and your point of view about the arcseconds per pixel. Thanks again for all your great videos! Greetings from Switzerland.
Thanks for your comment!
You are absolutely right with your points. I bought the Barlow bank when I was unaware of those things but I'm not eager to invest into a new one because I want to replace my planetary setup all together (my scope is not the perfect Planetary candidate anyway).
That said: I'm still quite satisfied with my results considering all the factors. It's not perfect but it's cool :-D
Clear skies!!
With my Bresser 102/1000 mm achromat Uranus looks just like a medium size star with no color.
It does so with my 750 millimeter Newtonian reflector. The image you see is the result of stacking multiple images on top of each other.
i have some hope now . Im from Argentina and got the same telescope in 2020. I take pictures from Jupiter, Mars , Saturn and Venus. I will try Uranus and Neptune next time.
I think it's Pluto time...
Dwarf planets, Plutoids and KBOs are next 😉👍
hey man, i was thinking about buying this camera a lot, after your videos i’m pretty sure i want it, great work ❤
Do it, its a great camera at all. I love the cost to benefit ratio with this cam. Can't really complain much :-)
Did you get this with a 6 inch telescope?
Yea! Love my 6" Newton!