Colourful MILKY WAY PHOTOS with an unmodified camera using a H-alpha filter - bring out the nebulae!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- I explain how to bring out colours of nebulae in milky way to get beautiful and colourful milky way photos even with an unmodified camera like DSLR or mirrorless. I show how to create HaRGB images with the help of a Hydrogen alpha (H-alpha) filter from Astronomik for my Canon EOS R. Should I modify my camera for Milky Way shots? If you ask yourself this then after watching this video you'll have the answer!
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Excellent dude. Saves me from making the vid :P
man id still watch it 😂
Thanks man!
Thanks for all your help too , alyn, your a G
im really excited for my duonarrowband filter... assembling your equipment step by step is one of the best feelings ever
Thanks for this - and all the other terrific videos you do. They are among the best on the internet. I have a question. I have a Canon EOS R and an Astronomik HA filter as well as an old Rebel T3i. Which would you recommend - buying Pixinsight or sending the T3i off to be modified? I don't know which would be better in terms of bringing out the colours of deep space and given they are similar in cost I would rather just do one or the other. Thanks very much.
I bit the bullet and had one of my D810 Nikon body's converted to Full Spectrum for Astrophotography. Cost was about the same as buying that Astronomik H-Alpha slip in filter for the body. I can now photograph the night skies with the 14mm to 600mm lenses that I have. If I get a IR/UV filter I can also take normal images.
Kamil, would you be able to do a video explaining the process of star-alignment with image reference to combine both types of images (h-alpha and rgb) on PixInsight?
Thanks for making this hobby easier for me to learn 😌, its a real mammoth task for a beginner very scary for an uneducated scaffolder haha
Amazing video Kamil! could you recommend who can astromod sony a7riii? many places say they cant due to some technical issues
Excellent video Kamil, very usefull.
I used to have this set up as you have but it was a nightmare to focus and I decided to modify my camera. The filter cost is way to high to compare to camera modification. I find a company in US and they have a sort of filters to use on modified cameras during day time shooting, also you can pick any size on a lens or front of camera sensor.
Custom white balance on modded cameras does the job too! Unless you unlock full spectrum, then a UVIR filter is a must
I have unmodded Nikon d750 and i was able only by using star tracker to bring out a lot of h Alpha colors without h Alpha filter. Playing with selective color in Photoshop helps a lot. Cheers
Great video! Maybe Canon will Release a R5M2a. Wish the Ra was still obtainable.
Excellent information
Thanks for this Kamil. Much appreciate the play by play re: Pixinsight. One question: I notice that the Milky Way photos you took using the Ha filter seemed to be taken with a 24 mm (or perhaps 35 mm?) lens. But I have been told that you if you shoot Ha at anything less than 50mm, you get bad distortion in the stars on the periphery of the frame? Is this a problem that you have had to deal with? Thanks kindly. PS I am currently using a astromodified Canon 6D. I note you're using an Canon R-- perhaps the optics are different enough from the 6D that you can get away with using the wider lenses for your MW photography?
Does stacking without tracking work? I would be tempted to get a front screw on filter to avoid the necessity of refocusing.
Hello Kamil, I hope you are well and Nice job 👍🏻. Two questions please, do you sometimes use the -1.6- crop factor in deep sky astrophotography with the EOS R? To gain more focal length. Is it convenient to do that? I have an EOS RP and an APSC but if I can use the full frame and the cropped one in the RP then to better sell my Canon 80D. Thanks.
I’d keep the 80D. Cropping in with RP makes you lose a lot of resolution!
@@kamilkp Ok! Thanks Kamil.
Great video! I willing to buy a Ha Filter as well. But, for image processing, I need to take photo also without the clip Filter as a RGB image? And then combine It with the photo taken with the Ha Filter? Thanks in avance.
Yes
Hello, thanks for your tricks and your work, it is very helpful.
I have a question, in 2:39s you said after taking RGB photos, take off the lens and put the clip filter and do the Ha photos... but doing this won't be dangerous and we'll move the camera some milimeters so we will loose the alignment?
You can always realign in post production
@@kamilkp yes, that's true. Thanks. I use or DSS or PixInsight for alignments.
What kind of tweaking did you apply as you have mentioned at 07:51?
Have you modified your camera(s) yourself? Do you have any videos on that process? I've watched a couple of videos by Gary Honis, who apparently was one of the gurus of astromodification, and I also have the detailed written steps he provides, but his information is from many years ago. Wondering if you have any added perspective on dos and don'ts.
I have two cameras, the second of which I bought specifically so that I could astromodify one of them and not have to worry about losing normal functionality. I've been waiting for the Astronomik clear glass filter for my camera to become available again here in the US, but I'm at the point of being willing to pay the extra money it would cost to buy from a German retailer and have it shipped.
No, I have not done this myself. I’m pretty savvy with screwdrivers and tools but I didn’t wanna take any chances that I would damage something. I was more comfortable paying a guy who does this for over 20 years to do it for me and I think he mods the vast majority of cameras for astrophotographeres here in Poland. He is a polish local though so that probably won’t help you
can you list the exact link to this filter for eon R fullframe camera ? thanks :)
Nice video. It would be much better if you slow down a little bit ;-) Sounds like you want to finish asap.
Sadly clip in filters aren’t supported by my 6D mk2 :( and screw on lens filters are just so awkward
Does that clip in filter work with full frame as well as APS-C sensor sizes? I only see APS-C listed on the website.
This particular one works only with full frame as far as I know. Not sure about the new R7 and R10 cameras though
Is this valid for color CCD?
Interesting !!! Is it possible to do the same thing with Nikon cameras? 😳😳😳
If you can find a compatible H-alpha filter then yeah, absolutely!
Astronomik does make XL-Clip filters for the Nikon full frame cameras
When to did the filter ? Can't find it for R mount as clip in. Thanks !
www.astronomik.com/en/astronomik-h-alpha-12nm-ccd-clip-filter-eos-r-xl.html
@@kamilkp thanks a lot, but good lord that price xD
Astronomie and others als die OWB Filters, which put Fullspektrum or Astromodified Cameras Back to normal white Balance.
How many nm do you recommend?12,6 or 3 nm?
I am wondering if this filter can be used in a non mortified camera?
That’s exactly what this video is about. It’s even stated in the title 😉
What about using an OWB filter made by that same company to make your Astro modded camera usable in the daytime?
No need for that. Check this out: ua-cam.com/video/J47QmSW0mhQ/v-deo.html
Unless you have a full spectrum mod - then you need an OWB
@@kamilkp Full spectrum mod or not, getting proper color accuracy with the method you use in your video appears to be just as expensive as having the filter... Are there some glaring disadvantages to this filter that I've been missing?
Props to you for your creativity in discovering that method though, it was a really interesting watch!
Without this filter in my unmodified camera , would I see any red at all ? Thanks
From my experience no. But if you are under a very low light polluted sky or on the southern hemisphere (where these nebulae are higher in the sky) then maybe. Also different camera manufacturers have different filters and different spectral responses so I don’t wanna say it’s absolutely impossible but it’s unlikely
Thank you man , ill invest in one , I haven't had an imaging session yet so I will wait for now . The weather has been harsh in the North UK recently
just paying double the price of that filter to get the camera modded saves hours of time down the road. maybe days.....until you get to the point where you want to use the filter on a modded camera anyway for even MORE h-alpha 😅
is this double process possible without pixinsight?
Yeah. Look up on youtube how to do HaRGB in Photoshop
@@kamilkp thank you , can i ask whats the difference in optolong L pro / or CLS and Ha filter , if the optolong helps bring out HAreds anyways?
L Pro and CLS are light pollution broadband filter. Ha is narrowband that passes almost only 656.3nm of light
@@kamilkp so it would be worth using both HA filter , and CLS to maximalize HA and reduce lightpollusion ?
Ha is rejecting all the light pollution that the CLS is rejecting and much much more. No need to use anything else while using the Ha
czy do sony sa takie ? :)
Chyba są
ME HAS AHORRADO UN MONTON DE PROBLEMAS CON ESTE VIDEO, ESTABA INDECISO DE COMPRAR ESE FILTRO PERO YA VI QUE DE MOMENTO NO MERECE LA PENA PARA LO QUE QUIERO HACER.
To be honest it's really not worth all the trouble using the regular camera with the H Alpha filter, it's just so much easier to bite the bullet and have you camera ( astro) modified, then if you still want to use the camera during day light once in a while, you can always add the IR cutting filter instead for those rare occasion. removing lens in the middle of the shot and realigned camera with all the dust and moisture in the middle of the cold night is the last thing I want to mess around out there, a modified camera makes my life a lot easier and the shooting much more enjoyable.
Kamil, for god’s sakes man, take a breath and slow down. The intensity of one sentence rapidly flowing into another with no pause throughout your videos is too much man. Sometimes I just cant be bothered listening. Otherwise, great content.
Slow the speed down lol. Easy fix