Best and simplest explanation of reducing stars on UA-cam! I got caught with the step about hitting Cmd H to hide the marching ants, before catching that you had a layer mask in use whereas I was working with just a layer copy, so when I hit Cmd H my screen disappeared......short panic till I caught it. Many thanks for your many videos and tips.....my go to channel for getting things done right!!!
How do you not have more subscribers? Your work is amazing and your videos are some of the best I’ve seen on UA-cam. I greatly appreciate the time you put into these, I’ve learned a lot from you. I’m new to Astrophotography and being able to come to one channel that has everything, is incredible. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks Andrew! I'm hoping to put out even more content this year. I'll be spending at least one full month out in the Utah desert, with the main goal of capturing nightscapes and deep space photos. Afterwards, I should have some even better techniques ironed out.
This is a great video. I had no idea how people I was seeing on instagram had their photos look so dreamy and someone on reddit linked me to your video and this is just fantastic. Thank you!
Thank you very much man! My photos completely changed after I watched this video! It absolutely shows you the way to obtain as much as you can from your photos! 🤙🤙
Dude, open up a Patreon account. I would happily support the work you are doing. It is a wonderful contribution to astrophotography and to the many people out there that use this resource to learn.
been watching your videos for past like 5 hours. After just purchasing a star adventurer tracker I am preparing for my first shoot with it. Hoping to even use the 150-600mm Sigma. I hope to get decent results. Might buy your course honestly. I feel like you have saved me so much time, effort, and failures. Photoshop is definitely my weak point. Thank you for your work. Subscribed for sure.
Really enjoying all your videos. In the old days we painted imagined nebulosity. Then computers gave us tablets and layer editing. Why not print out a stretched print at A3 size and draw the details as we like and scan in again. AI is not mature for astro images yet. But we are good at picking up wisps amongst the noise. Galaxy Zoo project with Hubble data showed us that.
Select - color range - highlights - fiddle until most stars selected Select - modify - expand Select - modify - feather - feather by half of what you used in expand Ctrl + H to hide the ants Filter - other - minimum - preserve roundness - set radius until most stars are dim, but not too much Ctrl + D to deselect everything ya dingus Adjust until happy with result
hi peter, nice video as always, i have one question, how do you fix the dark dot after star reduction? if you can give more info, i will be so grateful
Ed nope, just a standard Nikon D750! When you use a star tracker to take longer exposures, in this case 60 seconds, you're able to see a lot more color and detail
Thanx for this tutorial! Did you tried the "frequency Separation" for this Kind of purposes? Its a technique most used in Beauty retouching to separate the Details from the Skin, i think its also a nice way to separate the Stars from the nebula and edit them seperately🤔 will try all techniques in a few Shots from my milkyway motion timelapse from Last days Perseides. Thanks for giving me food for thought😉✌
Great! Star reduction is what I was looking for too! But I didn't know how to call it! I think that all tiny stars points are in fact some sort of noise..
Did you not want to remove the chromatic aberration blue halos? I dont know how to do this, but I would love to find out. Have recently bought a canon 200 2.8 and modified DSLR, there are terrible red halos around the brighter stars, they ruin the images.
amazing image... 1 question, did you ditther your image while you shot it? i'm curious if SA can ditther automaticly with some program. or it can and we just doit it manually? :(
In short, no. I originally tried this a few years ago, without a star tracker, and it was a huge pain. At 100mm you are limited to 2 or 3 second exposures before the stars show movement (on a full frame camera). I took 50 photos, hoping to stack them together. The Milky Way moves quite a bit over the course of the 50+ exposures, making stacking and aligning all of the photos a pain. The end result was mediocre. With the star tracker, I simply aligned it to the North Star, put my camera on the mount, lined up the lens with the Milky Way, and timed a 60 second exposure. That one image was virtually noise free and easy to work with.
Best and simplest explanation of reducing stars on UA-cam! I got caught with the step about hitting Cmd H to hide the marching ants, before catching that you had a layer mask in use whereas I was working with just a layer copy, so when I hit Cmd H my screen disappeared......short panic till I caught it. Many thanks for your many videos and tips.....my go to channel for getting things done right!!!
I admire your calm vibe when presenting your material.This one was very useful for me.Thank you very much!
Just to add the previous comments, the best technique so far I have tried...many thanks.
How do you not have more subscribers? Your work is amazing and your videos are some of the best I’ve seen on UA-cam. I greatly appreciate the time you put into these, I’ve learned a lot from you. I’m new to Astrophotography and being able to come to one channel that has everything, is incredible. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks Andrew!
I'm hoping to put out even more content this year. I'll be spending at least one full month out in the Utah desert, with the main goal of capturing nightscapes and deep space photos. Afterwards, I should have some even better techniques ironed out.
This is a great video. I had no idea how people I was seeing on instagram had their photos look so dreamy and someone on reddit linked me to your video and this is just fantastic. Thank you!
Thank you very much man! My photos completely changed after I watched this video! It absolutely shows you the way to obtain as much as you can from your photos! 🤙🤙
Dude, open up a Patreon account. I would happily support the work you are doing. It is a wonderful contribution to astrophotography and to the many people out there that use this resource to learn.
I've considered it, but I want to make sure it's a worthwhile investment for people before I create it.
Ez valami hihetetlenül szép lett, alig várom, hogy egyszer beszerezzek egy trackert :) Keep up the hard work!
This was excellent tutorial. Thank you very much.
Super useful vid mate! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Man you're the BEST! I watched a few others yours gets to the point and it worked beautifully thank you and God bless!
been watching your videos for past like 5 hours. After just purchasing a star adventurer tracker I am preparing for my first shoot with it. Hoping to even use the 150-600mm Sigma. I hope to get decent results. Might buy your course honestly. I feel like you have saved me so much time, effort, and failures. Photoshop is definitely my weak point. Thank you for your work. Subscribed for sure.
hi mate, how did ya go with the 150-600?
Oh my!
This actually worked extremely well. :o
Thanks for the tutorial!
Super helpful tutorial. Thanks.
Really enjoying all your videos. In the old days we painted imagined nebulosity. Then computers gave us tablets and layer editing. Why not print out a stretched print at A3 size and draw the details as we like and scan in again. AI is not mature for astro images yet. But we are good at picking up wisps amongst the noise. Galaxy Zoo project with Hubble data showed us that.
Select - color range - highlights - fiddle until most stars selected
Select - modify - expand
Select - modify - feather - feather by half of what you used in expand
Ctrl + H to hide the ants
Filter - other - minimum - preserve roundness - set radius until most stars are dim, but not too much
Ctrl + D to deselect everything ya dingus
Adjust until happy with result
Great tutorial Peter thanks 👍🏻
WONDERFUL tutorial!
Excellent workflow, loads of information!
Wow this raw file is amazing should be interesting to have one of this file to apply your theory!!! Great job!
hi peter, nice video as always, i have one question, how do you fix the dark dot after star reduction? if you can give more info, i will be so grateful
Are you using an Astro modified camera body? How does the pink nebulous region appear so prominently? Nice video. Thanks.
Ed nope, just a standard Nikon D750! When you use a star tracker to take longer exposures, in this case 60 seconds, you're able to see a lot more color and detail
Thanx for this tutorial! Did you tried the "frequency Separation" for this Kind of purposes? Its a technique most used in Beauty retouching to separate the Details from the Skin, i think its also a nice way to separate the Stars from the nebula and edit them seperately🤔 will try all techniques in a few Shots from my milkyway motion timelapse from Last days Perseides. Thanks for giving me food for thought😉✌
Great! Star reduction is what I was looking for too! But I didn't know how to call it! I think that all tiny stars points are in fact some sort of noise..
Did you not want to remove the chromatic aberration blue halos? I dont know how to do this, but I would love to find out. Have recently bought a canon 200 2.8 and modified DSLR, there are terrible red halos around the brighter stars, they ruin the images.
Many Thanks.
amazing image... 1 question, did you ditther your image while you shot it? i'm curious if SA can ditther automaticly with some program. or it can and we just doit it manually? :(
I don't do any dithering, so I can't really say
Your almost to 11,000 subs! Hopefully you can get a yt paycheck now! This is a great tutorial!
Thanks for the reminder! I thought I removed all the "begging" segments from my earlier videos, I guessed I missed this one.
Thank you just what i needed 😀
so THIS is how people do it! my milky way photos have been good, but i find that i often got way too bright of stars
Thanks!
THx alot, It was So Usefull for me, really really thank you, Hope you wil be Success in your job, Pendar
What kind of tracker you used and what lens? :)
Nikola Milicev Tokina 100mm Macro lens with an ioptron Skytracker Pro
Thank you, awesome tutorial +1 seb received :)
is it possible to shoot the center of the milky way with good results without that tracker?
In short, no.
I originally tried this a few years ago, without a star tracker, and it was a huge pain.
At 100mm you are limited to 2 or 3 second exposures before the stars show movement (on a full frame camera). I took 50 photos, hoping to stack them together. The Milky Way moves quite a bit over the course of the 50+ exposures, making stacking and aligning all of the photos a pain. The end result was mediocre.
With the star tracker, I simply aligned it to the North Star, put my camera on the mount, lined up the lens with the Milky Way, and timed a 60 second exposure. That one image was virtually noise free and easy to work with.
thanks for the information
Thank you crack
stacking is nonsense??!!