Let's Photograph The Pleiades! (with NEW gear!)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- In this video, I'll be showcasing how I took my latest photo of the Pleiades using a new scope, the Orion EON 70 ED. The Pleiades (Messier 45) are an open star cluster located in the constellation of Taurus, at a distance of 444 light-years away from Earth.
Equipment Details:
Imaging Telescope: Orion EON 70 ED Quadruplet Astrograph Refractor
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro
Guiding Telescope: Orion 30mm Ultra Mini
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI 290 MM Mini
Mount: Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G
Filter(s): Optolong L-Pro
Acquisition Software: Astro Photography Tool (APT)
Music Credits:
"Sleep" by Rythmatical
Music provided by The Jazz Hop Cafe: / thejazzhopcafe
Chillhop Music:
cocabona, Misha - No Problem chll.to/a2428140
invention_ - ebb//flo chll.to/f615d4bb
chromonicci - Parallel. chll.to/37c369c0
C Y G N - Before Nightfall chll.to/e764a1f7
less.people - Just up chll.to/8b4783b1
Stan Forebee - Circles In The Sand chll.to/b9cafbd2
This dude rocks a cool rig, presents well, plays great lofi beats, and even speaks Japanese... gonna give @Astrobackyard a run for his money eventually.
Having lost all respect for Trevor Jones aka "I designed the Radian", aka "Scam Artist", I'd say that this channel is already superior.
Well, I’m not a huge fan of Astrobackyard but the level of expertise between them is HUGE, and those long silent stares at the camera make my cringe a bit, nice content though.
Haha yeah deffo ! New sub here
I gotta give respect to anyone brave enough to put themselves out on UA-cam as a content creator 🙏 💯
@@poruatokin can you explain what you mean with this?
This is the first video of yours I have seen and I subscribed right away! Very cool image of Pleiades. Looking forward to more content from you, nice job sir.
Congratulations on your new Telescope Kwai! And the fun facts on the Pleiades. Excellent image ❤
The subject you chose, is a very interesting one "The Seven Sisters of Creation". The seven female A-nun-na that volunteered, their bodies, to birth, the new human race on Earth. 220,000 years ago. Their names are documented in ancient 7,000 year old clay tablets, found buried in Mesopotamia.
The seven sisters is the first deep sky object my 8 year old son could identify. Thanks for the video! Always a good day when you post.
Plieades, Casseopia and Orion, my 3 favourite things to see in the night sky.
I blame Sir Patrick Moore ( The Sky At Night, BBC.)
Kwasi, "なぜ日本語を使ったのですか？". That is my domain at Astrophotography Japan! (Just joking, of course.) I like the way you add a lot of story color and information around your imaging targets. Keep up the good work and congrats on the new scope!
そうだね、なぜ外人たち星とりながら日本語ぺらぺら？も、クラブとか、スターパーティー始まるべきでしょう？大阪からよろしくね。It's time to organize some gaijin astro-party! Where do you like to go? Yamanashi is dark and close to both Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
Hey Paul, I didn't mean to steal any of your thunder, lol. I was using some Japanese as a way to get some practice in. I've been studying the language off and on for a bit, but over the last few months I've been working on doing a deeper dive into it. I'm not fluent just yet, but it is one of my goals. I appreciate the kind remarks, and I hope you're getting some clear skies on you end in Japan! 見てくれてありがとう！
M45 is one of my favourite clusters but I prefer, slightly,M44 as I always want to see if you can see individual stars in M44 naked eye.I think that yes you can.... just.
I just fell outta my chair. You should have warned your viewers that they need to strap in. Thanks!
I'll try to remember that for next time, lol!
That’s so awesome how you capture the past,present and future. Beautiful images. I want to understand about the aberration and shimmering aspects of the sky.
Fantastic. Just found your channel and subscribed. I'm imaging M45 right now for the first time and was looking for some pointers. Fingers crossed mine turns out half as good!
Welcome Amy, and I hope your first imaging session on M45 goes well!
Funny thing is, that star cluster m45 is completely fully of life. Taygeta are our relatives.
That's true! The blue reflection nebula makes M45 more vibrant and interesting. Unfortunately, other star clusters don't have that luxury, so I've noticed that most people tend to pass on those targets. They're still interesting to me in their own right though.
Beautiful image!
No surprise that airplane and satellite fly by while perform astrophotography imaging.
Happened to me before.
The dynamic range is absolutely incredible ! Really inspiring for a beginner in this hobby
Pleides is a great target for your little refractor, it is a triplet!
I just imagined M45. But I used a 6 inch f4. I think with the larger aperture I cut down on imaging time.
When I was in the 3rd grade, oh so long ago, the Pleiades was the first celestial object I remember identifying. Nice video.
nice job !! Old skool astrophotography in the field and cold,respect for that.
a good tip for youreyes,you can make the screen red,so your eyes adept more and you see the area around you also better.
You never know what is walking on the streets at night.
i would love to go outside in the dark woods here,but there are illegal hunters sometimes..so i dont haha.
good job on the pleiades,its not that easy as it looks.
Another astro gaijin from Japan? Hello from Osaka! Let's shoot together!
はじめまして! I'm in the United States, so I can't physically image with you. But when I'm working on an imaging session outside, I'm sure there's dozens, if not, hundreds of astrophotographers all looking at the same night sky as I am. So we are shooting together in a sense! I hope you're getting a lot of clear skies on your end in Osaka!
@@AstroParkAstrophotography Your japanese confused me :) Cheers.
Handle your bidness Good Brother!
I had no idea about the subaru logo, I won't be able to look at the same again
Beautiful work Sir. Props from North Carolina!!
Awesome! 🙂
Thanks for the video! I am a relative newcomer to this hobby and look forward to imaging M45 soon. Do you have a lot of non-LED light pollution in your area? I was told (and I have read) that the L-Pro won't eliminate LED light pollution. Your thoughts?
Yeah, with the L-Pro, it reduces the light pollution from the old sodium and mercury vapor lamps. These are the type of lights in my neighborhood currently, but it's slowly being phased out with the new LED lights. So I'll have to research light pollution filters that reduce LED lights. I hope your upcoming imaging session for M45 goes well!
Beautiful shot! Thanks for an informative and entertaining video. Well done sir.
Nice work - an impressive rig and gorgeous final image!
Hey you should come up to the Naylor Observatory near Harrisburg. We have members night and would love to have you!
If I'm ever in the area I will definitely swing by! I appreciate the invite!
Great new video. Always enjoy your new content. Thanks!
Great video, subscribed
Great job!
Sorry, maybe I missed it, but what scope are you using ?
No worries Spacey! I used the Orion EON 70 ED, a quadruplet astrograph refractor telescope. For your reference, I placed all of the equipment details in the video description.
Grats on the new scope.. looks like a keeper. Great final image!
Nice job my brotha, you just earned a new subscriber !
It's good to have you here! Welcome to the AstroPark!
Did you just say three nights of imaging? That's the entire period of september - novermber for me. It's crazy cloudy!
I hope you get some clear skies soon! I was only able to image for two nights on 11/21 and 11/25, so I had three nights in-between with some clouds.
I love star clusters, especially M45 and doing binary stars. I haven't been into astronomy with telescopes for very long. I'd been using a 60mm spotting scope for a few years just for observing. I do a little photography, it isn't much, but it looks clear. Learned about checking the space weather or what the stratosphere was up to to cut down on aberrations and shimmering when viewing.
I know I'm just a beginner, but didn't you spend too long on the Pleiades exposures? The clouds, well some of them, seem more painted on, than a natural look. A little too streaky. Or possibly it is the small aperture because larger aperture telescopes do not seem to do the front stars so streaky? Guy in my astronomy club has a nice photo of the Pleiades, but the clouds are smoother, but he used an 8" reflector Newtonian and I think he said about 30 minutes exposure time.
When it come to deep-space astrophotography, the more exposure time you can get, the better your image will turn out. This is because when you collect a large amount of quality data, you're increasing the signal and decreasing the noise (aka the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR)). Throw in some darker skies to your long exposure time and you'll be amazed at the fainter detail you can pull out. It's not uncommon to hear most astrophotographers putting in dozens of hours across multiple nights to achieve some incredible results.
@@AstroParkAstrophotography What's funny is the front of my apartment is Bortle 6, but the back is more like 4 because there is no light on that side and the three story bldg. blocks the light from the other side. I wished it faced South instead of North. Best stuff is on the other side, but I only live 3 miles from Bortle 4 and 30 miles from 2 next to Bortle one at White Sands. The only national park periodically closed for missile tests.
Just when I thought I was running out of astrophotographers to learn from, I saw your channel pop up. You have some cool videos man! I'm learning all I can while I build up my rig, starting with a nexstar evolution 6" sct. Thanks for the inspiration, I subbed too!
(this question is coming from ignorance) what do you need so much stack time for stars for... is that just to bring out the nebulosity? North VA neighbor btw
No worries! A long integration time is needed to bring out the details in nebulae and galaxies. I learned recently that if you have the time to do a deep exposure on a star cluster, you may be able to reveal some integrated flux nebula in the surrounding region. M15 in Pegasus is a great example of this.
Thanks! Being from MD you must be enjoying the constant cloudy nights!!@@AstroParkAstrophotography
great stuff...
I'm always amazed by astrophotographers.
I do eaa, and my AL programs, plenty of work there.
But the quality of images by dedicated photographers is really its own art.
Loved your effort bro.
Thank you for a great video, nice scope., lovely image. Greetings from the UK
Instead of klipping pixels to remove satellite trails, utilize the process of dithering to ensure you get more data, all clipping does is dim or brighten the pixels resulting in either star bloat or faint dim signal from nebula being lost.
Awesome video and great picture! Keep it coming bro!
Nice shot! Very informative video
Great video, and fantastic information.
Sometimes the UA-cam algorithm strikes gold. I really enjoy astrophotography vlogs. I used APT for years myself and have nothing but good things to say about the software, but I have just started to make the transition to NINA. Have you tried it yet?
I've heard great things about NINA, but I've usually been one of those "if it's not broken, don't fix it" type of people when it comes to most things. Perhaps I might give it a look in the future, but APT has served me well thus far.
Very nice looking image you came out with Kwasi. I tried this a while back but struggled with the elevation of it down here.
Thanks Ollie! Yeah, dealing with objects at low elevation can be a pain, as you can't get the total integration time that you want.
great job on the image and video.
Great video as always!
Great final image and congrats on the new scope. Here in NZ we call M45, Matariki and from this year forward, we now celebrate it as a public holiday because of it's cultural significance.
That's awesome!
I appreciate it Logan, and thanks for sharing some of your cultural tidbits! I just learned something new!
Splendid Kwasi !
Alright, just subbed! Well done video. I live in central Tokyo, am a beginner currently using a pair of 8x56 Nikon Monarch binocs on a rickety photo tripod, and the Pleiades looked great last night! I am going to use this winter to research and prepare to buy a telescope so your channel will be part of my learning curve in the coming months. よろしくお願いいたします！
It's good to have you here BC, and it's cool to see you were able to get a nice view of M45 with you binoculars! I hope your research for your first telescope goes well. 見てくれてありがとう！
@@AstroParkAstrophotography どういたしまして🔭❗️
Hey there good sir. Could you do a video of how to do polar alignment? I just got my first star tracker, and the polar alignment was a freaking nightmare. Thank you in advance!
Hey Kevin, I'll take a look into this and add it to the list of video ideas to see what I can come up with. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@AstroParkAstrophotography My pleasure! You do a great job, so keep doing you. Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
Nice work :)
Awesome
Lovely shot
Nice!
Nice
Great photograph! Do you use a field flattener?
I think that quadruplet is fully corrected out of the box, correct me if I am wrong
Thanks Jon, and you're correct Aramil. The field flattener is built into the telescope, so it's fully corrected out of the box. I'll go more in-depth about this when I release my overview video about this telescope later on.
@@AstroParkAstrophotographyOk thank you. I am still on the fence as to if I should switch over to a refractor.
what light pollution level do you have?
In my area, I'm under Bortle 7 skies.
@@AstroParkAstrophotography Nice picture! I also have something like Bortle 7-8, but even after 5 hours of exposure I still can barely see the nebula around the m45 stars, even with optolong L-pro filter. I wonder what would be the difference in Bortle 4 zone :)