Astrophotography on La Palma with the 10micron GM1000HPS mount
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Two times I was already on La Palma to do astrophotography and to explore the beautiful island. But it was a long time ago. The desire to visit La Palma again - this time with modern and sophisticated astrophotography equipment - was great.
After two years of pandemic and many uncertainties, La Palma seemed to be a good option to spend the summer vacation 2022 there. After long planning to rent astrophoto equipment from the ATHOS Star Campus in Las Tricias and thorough research regarding suitable Fincas near Puntagorda, I went to Isla Bonita for 14 days during the new moon phase in August 2022.
Unfortunately the weather played caprioles. After initial rain - in August on La Palma a rarity - then came the Calima with hot temperatures and high clouds, which covered the whole island. This made the ambitious astro program more difficult. The rented finca south of Puntagorda was almost ideal as an astro observing site. The beautiful terrace tiled with natural stones offered a passable view to the southern sky despite some high trees. The view to the Atlantic Ocean 500m below was terrific!
On seven days I had rented a 10micron GM1000HPS plus Aries tripod and powerbox from the ATHOS Star Campus. In addition I had brought my Image Train with A&M TMB LZOS 115/805 APO, the large M82 Riccardi Reducer and ASI6200MM camera and filter wheel in the flight luggage. I had to book 30 kg of additional luggage at high cost to be able to transport a total of three suitcases plus hand luggage with Condor. The entire equipment is very similar to the mobile astrophoto setup I use at home, so that I had very quickly set up a working system.
This short video summarizes my astrophoto journey to La Palma and gives a quick inside of the veritable 10micron GM1000HPS mount.
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M22 is absolutely stunning
Thumbs up for Athos :)
Fantastic astrophotograpy scenes, but the video tells this story so well and there is an effortless flow to it, with clever transitions and editing. The time just flew by. Deserves a bigger audience
What a beautiful video of a very beautiful island. Extremely creative and artistic and conveys a sense of true wonder.
I'm couting down for my vacation on La Palma in September. I visitng the island from 2011 till 2022 many times and almost experienced the vulcano erupotion in 2021.
Amazing video!
You deserve more views!
What a great video, thanks for sharing!
WOOOOOOW, what a great video! Very nice Mike!!! And yes, i love the GM1000 in combination with your TMB.
Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. CS!
Amazing Mike 🔥. What an awesome experience that must have been in such dark skies
very impressive
Very nice video, thank you for sharing! I am planning to visit La Palma as well so this video was perfect! May I ask how you animated the stars for the picture presentation? The bright stars are on a separate layer but then what? :-) I'm pretty fluent in photo & video editing so a quick explanation would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and clear skies!
Very serious astrophotographer.
Price is not high. It is the same as AP Mach2. Why do you use guide scope? You wrote that it is Swiss watch, no guiding is needed. What mounts did you use before? Are you sure that it is better than Paramount?
Insane video bro
keep it up
post this on tik tok and it will blow up
Die gegen Gewichte sind sehr heiß wo bekommt man den Stoff?
Do you have any problem about that mount i wanna buy it im thinking between paramount myt or 10 micron
I noticed you had a guide scope attached, did you actually use it?
The GM1000HPS can track very precisely by self-guiding, but I still used an autoguider to have as little tracking error as possible.
I’m curious what place to stay you rented.
The Astrofinca ATHOS on La Palma was unfortunately fully booked. Therefore I rented a finca near Puntagorda,called Casa Miramar.