No Telescope, No Guiding, From AUSTRALIA
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2023
- Mr Steal Yo Galaxy coming into YOUR house and leaving completely satisfied. She said she was 19.. degrees over the horizon.
Learn some tips and tricks for widefield DSLR Photography using N.I.N.A. and the piggyback technique.
Shout out to High Point Scientific!
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Celestron 11" Edge HD Telescope
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SkyWatcher EVOLUX Telescopes :
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QHY268M Mono CMOS Camera
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Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro Mount
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NexDome Observatory by Sidereal Trading (Australia)
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Celestron RASA 8" F2 Telescope
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Celestron CGX Mount
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ZWO ASI 174MM (Planetary / Solar Camera)
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I'm glad you are choosing an honest and authentic path. It makes me trust your work more than others.
Hey, if you didn't grab those photons, no one else would. Why let them go to waste?
Exactly
I have the same problem mate! Buying, losing, buying again… kills me. As always, another great and entertaining video! (Nice haircut too 😊)
Hehe thx Phil!
I thought I was the only one who had this problem. Perhaps we can each explain this phenomenon to each other’s spouses? 🤔
Ah man, the Super Dylan flying across Andromeda skit got me 😂I love these attention to details and congrats on the nice clean M31..dither or die!
Hehe
I did the same last Saturday. Found a spot with nice northern aspect. Piggybacked my z71 on my 4" apo. Setup on the lawn and imaged Andromeda galaxy! Slept on the lounge in between checking the the roos and deer were staying away. It was a perfect night! 😊 managed 4 hours well worth the effort! Clear skies!.
Someone or thing was trying to stop you from publishing this video; but they teleported your dog instead. The little guy saved your butt. Man's best friend indeed.
She needs cuddles. Even when I’m making videos.
Damn! First time I’ve added a second comment… You are way too humble on the image of Andromeda! It’s brilliant!
Hah thanks for commenting before getting to the end then recommenting when you did! 🍻
wow ... mate ... great work. From Perth I have no hope, but from not much further north you have captured a masterpiece. Well played!
Thanks Perth! love your skies down there.
I can relate I have 2 of everything that isn't really expensive as it's easier to just buy another one. Every new project starts with an hour or two of "looking for stuff". I have a Nikon D850 that I have been reluctant to use, you have inspired me to try it.
Yeh I kinda want a spare now to sit up there all the time !
Go ahead you can have her! She shows herself to everyone in the Northern hemisphere and now down under but you had to slew to a new low to get her 😛 Nice shot Dylan and sounds like you had fun. Isn't that what is all about anyway? Clear Skies mate!
Thanks for sharing your advice 🙏💖✨🔭
You are so welcome :)
Always a good day when Dylan uploads a video! Thanks for sharing the great tips. You're right about skies being boring at this time of year......I set up my little rig last night and looked forlornly at the setting Lagoon and Trifid nebulae :D but then ended up getting 2 hours of data on Helix nebula. Oh AND the planets are up so it's all good :)
Yes helix is the saving grace up there!
and thanks Zigs!
happy that your big rock solid equipment was able to get it 👊
Cheers mate
Well done Dylan. Love watching your videos - they are instructive with a great dose of humour which makes it fun.
Take care
Sam
Wow so cool, well done
Great one, Dylan! Well worth the effort. Our DSLRs can still earn their keep. PM on Ben some time? Mel
Nice shot. A bunch of us managed to capture Andromeda at the Hunter Valley star party in August down here in Sydney - even further South than you… BELIEVE!!
I really, really like diffraction spikes from camera lenses. Now I'm doing to do a second setup with my Canon gear. Thanks Dylan.
Hey, there's a clear difference between hoarders and creativity! Creative folks have clearly (to those who know) useful stuff! Not junk, but often mistaken for junk by people who haven't seen the "guts" of cool stuff..
agree :)
My name for the dresser full of astro widgets I don't use often is "The Island of Forgotten Toys" (after the children's book)
that andromeda is pretty incredible for here in australia, gives me hope for me in sydney
You can do it !
You could get carried away and use the Edge 11 as a guide camera - rock solid.
HAH
Awesome video.
Widefield astro is like running naked through a meadow.
I love wide stuff ❤
And riding things
Yeh you do
Very nice!
I can’t keep up with your hair styles, mate! I highly recommend a plug in power source for DSLRs. I have one for my T6i and astro modified T2i. Great video!
No telescope, no guiding, just, you know, a telescope, and a phenomenal mount, and a really nice camera with an expensive lens, and also some software and a nice computer and perhaps years of experience, but hey presto! Nerd! Visual Astronomers rule! 😂 More content please. 😘
Hehe
If you try this again, get _yourself_ a little something by picking up a dummy battery for your DSLR. They're dirt cheap, and simply plugging your camera into a free USB power port is worlds better than worrying about if your battery is going to run out halfway through the night.
Otherwise, great video! I've tried this a couple times, and it's pretty fun. For those away-from-home astrophotographers, a good trick to keep in mind is that it's possible to set up your "main" rig and get it aligned on a deep sky target for the night, then piggyback a camera/lens setup on top using a ball mount and point it in an _entirely different direction_ to shoot a wide-field target *simultaneously*. The imaging set-up doesn't really care which direction it's pointing once the mount is aligned and tracking, so you get double the data for only a tiny bit more effort to really maximize those hours between setup and teardown.
NO. DAMN. WAY.! ANDROMEDA! MAAAATE! Soo sooo good...
I spent my night trying Saturn and Jupiter, but it was a huge waste of time with all the atmospheric turbulence and the jetstreams....How is it you ALWAYS find something that will work despite the circumstances?
Hah .. I take it your in AU too? Yeh the sky is *reeeally* boring at normal hours right now. Looking forward to Jupiter though .. on a still night.
@@DylanODonnell Sunny coast brother, just a few short hundred K's up north
I was looking forward this season before i can comeback to my (now 2+ years long) journey with Orion Nebula
But, damn, it's really either clouds (and i don't have an observatory, can't take risks) or jet streams or kids or...
rewarding hobby, i enjoy every second of it when i have it :))))
Heh you and me both! And don't forget fires. I missed a whole Orion season with fires.
@@DylanODonnell well, to be fair, we weren't really affected by the smoke here on the SCoast. But 100km north and south, that was brutal...
Anyway, when we're around Byron Bay next time, beer's on me, your astro journey really enticed me to keep doing this and not give up after the first failed session :)
Good stuiff Dylan. I have Nikkon D600 i keep meaning to put to Astro use.
You can also use a dummy battery and hook the camera up to a big powerbank. No need for battery replacements!
True! I might try an astro cam on a DSLR lens soon.
Wow, that's an amazing Andromeda image! Pretty cool stuff, Star Stuff 😉 But you got me pause the video for a moment when you said 'When was the last time you bought yourself something'...
Hehe thanks !
I use that Celestron piggyback adapter all the time... as a handle...
Nice
As far as canon dslr goes, also make sure it's not in wifi mode...or it will not show up in NINA
This gonna be a good video
I hope so 🍿
How the hell do you only have 46k subs?? Have you seen the fcking production value?? Amazing flying cartoon super Dylan is AMAZING!
Thanks man :) I think it’s because I’m really annoying.
fugging wonderful :)
I'm into everything you can do with a camera. This really complicates hardware issues! I've been trying to figure out an orderly storage solution. Milwaukee Tool in the states makes a "Milwaukee PACKOUT" modular organizer system. It's not cheep, but may, at least partially solve this. I use the same rationale "kool shit isn't hording". As hobbies expand, my house is too small as well !
Hi Dylan. I just thought about how when people took a photo with a film camera or even an old photographic plate. Did the photons that formed the star or galaxy stay there in some way?Which means you have actually have a tiny piece of that object from light years away.
The thought of that blows me away.
Great steal!. Something I want to have a go at some time. Sometimes it's nice to go wide and experience the greater picture. Hoping to spend a few days in Byron Bay in about a month or so and take advantage of your Bortle 2-3 skies.
Oh cool .. let's have a beer!
Sounds good 🍻
2:57 I'm looking after me by buying things at High Point Scientific, but that ad could really use the phrase "self-care"
It’s for your mental health, do it.
Ah yes my Celestron 11 piggybacking on my skywatcher evoguide 50ed.
LOL
This is awesome, I'm running an SCT also have an unused guide scope with rings, and a 100-400mm canon... only thing is I suspect my mount can't handle the extra weight - maybe I should just try!
Is there any reason you couldnt have continued to use the OAG in this setup and get guiding as well? I understand for the point of the video you dont want to, but would there be any technical issues?
You could definitely use the c11 as a guide scope :) the main reason I didn’t is because the OAG is not on it right now while I do planet stuff.
Oh, yeah, I wanna see your office. And all that nice stuff. Wait, is this just one big ad? Da,•ta never lies, on the day•ta. Or is it the other way around? Nice shot.
Dar-tah mate :)
@@DylanODonnell da-da?
If you haven't trained the PEC on your mount, definitely do so, and then do things like this with the PEC turned on. Celestron's PEC works really well, in my experience.
I should try !
BTW, I do wide-field pictures with a Canon 60Da and NINA regularly. Well done. And greetings from a place where M31 more or less passes through the zenith :)
Also, I find it useful to take flats. The camera has to be in M mode for that. NINA tells you when to switch to M or B.
@@michael.a.covington Thanks for the tips Michael.. it's a pretty quick and easy rig. NINA is excellent too.
Do they only ship to new Zealand??
3 years ago. I brought something lol.interested to see how the 400 mm lens goes.
Half your luck. From my place in Port Macquarie I have zero chance of seeing anything like the Andromeda that only gets to 17 degrees.
The new observatory looks like it will have a good open area on the Town Beach side and it'll be a good place to setup for a night of imaging the stuff low in the the north and east.
I remember the spot well! Pity about those lights.. hopefully the new observatory takes precedence!
If you could sneak a HaytchFR into every video I'd really like that.
Long and thick or small and thin... Hell of a choice you have there mate...
You know it Greg
I can relate. I like 'em a little on the wide side too, but unfortunately it's also been a few years since I got to do any piggybackin'.....
Oh wait.... mmm my bad. Pretty sure I was thinking of something else....
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Surely the $10,000 mount helped just a bit :).
Maybe a little ;)
I think, Home Observatory should always be on rooftop, the highest point where one can see the entire night sky without obstructions from boundary wall or trees. Astro-BackYard had failed Home Observatory, the BDO (Black Dog Observatory) was barely used.
Rooftops can suffer from wobble .. at high focal lengths anyway! Nothing lots of money cants solve though.
Did you know, that here in Australia, trees are allowed to grow higher than rooftops :)
How much did you pay for the Skyshed Dylan?
I do this all the time as you can get two jobs done in one!
I ... might be the only one who didn't get it at all. I read the dithering description online and it states that dithering must be done in coordination with guiding, but you're saying you didn't guide. But you left it overnight and something was definitely moving the mount, no? So I'm kinda lost. Anyone can elaborate pls thanks.
It’s tracking (in RA, the mount moves at the sidereal rate), but not guiding .. which you do with a guide star and correction pulses.
@@DylanODonnell ah, thanks mate! Any recommendations on what to see as we go towards summer here down under?
Highpoint ship to Oz Dylan??
No, Bintel for AU :)
Just can't dither w/o guider, right?
You can! I show it in the video :)
Dr. Dylan, where have you been???? I haven't seen one of your videos in a very long time... Was ytube block you from me???
I’m posting every few weeks ! Don’t let big tech break us up. Click the bell next to subscribe and force them to notify you :)
Did you finish the southern sky or get bored.
Yep, all done 😆
Well, looks like Dylan cucked our hemisphere. This means war! 😂
bahahaha
Very nice choice of a target. A hundred years ago this picture of M31 made some history: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231006.html
I thought you said space is fake??
Is that Jupiter in the middle of M31? 😂
Hey I didn't go HDR lol
@@DylanODonnell Love your vids man 👍
Shame, Nina has no love for Sony dlsr which is strange because most astro cameras are Sony chips.
Shorter focal lengths and shorter hair? 19 is too low. At least 26...degrees.
I’m crazy. What will I do next?? Nobody knows.
Wait! Your hair… it’s short
Sorry.. forgot the trigger warning 🥚
Wait… all this time I could have dithered??? You don’t actually need to guide.
News to me too!
Dam wish I still had my equipment man.
Bloody women 🙄
"You're not a hoarder if your shit's really cool"
Stealing this, no i will not credit you
haha I stole it from somewhere so have at it 😆
I have Losmandy rings for a 4 inch scope on my C-11. Those rings are great fun and I have had different 4 inch achromatics in them and my Bausch-Lomb Criterion 4000 (a great little scope with a bad rap).
It never occurred to me to use them on just the camera telephoto lens for widefield. I also have a Sharpstar 76 EDPH that I never thought to try because I had the whole 4 inch thing stuck in my head. I hope it works.
Rain again tonight. I've only had a scope out once in 2 weeks. I grew up on a farm and for some crazy reason found myself trapped loving a weather dependent hobby. You'd think I'd have learned the whole weather lesson but it appears I did not.
Do you think there is a self help program to cure the masochistic tendencies of Amateur Astronomers the world over?
I'm curious Dylan, does your mount have renishaw encoders on the RA axis? I seem to recall from a video you made that you said it has encoders.
My top mount is a Losmandy G-11 but I would love to own a EQ8-Rhi. It looks like and from all reviews it is an amazing mount. The trouble is that it is $15,000 before shipping and taxes. Ouch.
Yeh I got it before the price increased! And yep, the good renshaw encoder on RA! Only meh bit is the internal usb cabling but I think it’s improved in newer production ones and I don’t use the mount usb power for anything mission critical.
@@DylanODonnell I've seen reviews about 10Micron mounts having a poor set up for internal cabling. I think it's a problem for even the top astronomy mount companies.
I have an external PegasusAstro Pocket Power Advance as my hub/central power source. Not as clean as internal cabling but it does the job well. I just wish they would change its colour because it clashes with all my white, red and black astronomy gear. Lol.