Using Stellarium to Plan an Astrophotography Shoot!
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- Download Stellarium: stellarium.org/
In this video we look at how you can configure Stellarium to best plan for your next astrophotography shoot. Stellarium can be an incredible tool for planning and can save you a lot of valuable time out in the field.
I recommend taking the time to research and plan your targets ahead of time! - Розваги
Nice overview of Stellarium, been using the framing feature a lot more recently to see the different outcomes with different equipment. Nice upload!
One of the best videos on this topic. Youre a life saver dude
Glad it helped
Fantastic! Thank you so much!
Finally understood...Thank you! Clear Skys!
You too!
Thanks for this. It has been a great help. Took me ages to find the info for the camera and lens, but got there in the end
Awesome! Glad to hear it!
A really helpful video, thank you for sharing!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for!
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic. You just made my astronomy assignment so much easier.
Cheers
Happy to hear it!
Thanks. I needed this overview to get started.
You’re welcome!
great review
Liked and subscribed.
Badass lead on getting people in the air. :D TY mon'. :D !!!
Spot on for a new user with the question , now I have my gear ready how do I start?
Man this is soooooo helpful. Just got a better tripod and Sky tracker but have and no luck other than getting stars.
Glad to hear it! I have a bunch of astro tutorials over on my other channel Rocky Mountain School of Photography. Check it out!
of course Stellarium rules on pc and mobiles too i know this so long :) and while you have mobile with gps chip then better for you
Very nice video. I have to mention (for geeks and nerds): It is the "America Nebula", NOT americaN nebula ;) - common mistake. - cs :)
Thank you for your helpful guide to setting up a shoot.
When I get to 10:40 I see that your sensors display along with your telescope. In my Stellarium application it shows up as Ocular and Telescope but nothing shown with sensor. As far as I understand I don't plan on using an ocular piece, but this is the only combination I get with telescope.
I discovered that I misinterpreted how the top icons should be used. I read only ocular because I was on the 1st icon which was for ocular. Had I looked at the 2nd icon it is for sensor. What my thought was is that the 1st icon was what the entire setup would see since it would go through the telescope.
Any chance you could do a tutorial on Stellarium set up on your phone?
Hi Gina, sorry for the delay in getting back to you! This comment slipped through the cracks. ua-cam.com/video/9xr9tltgVEg/v-deo.html
Very helpful, however I have added my canon T7i rebel and William optics redcat and something clearly is a miss. My field of view is the size of the whole application. Specs as follows
res x = 6000
res y = 4000
chip width = 36mm
chip height = 24mm
pixel width = 6
pixel height = 6
rotation angle = 0
binning x =1
binning y =1
Redcat
Focal length = 4.9
Diameter = 51
Any ideas here please?
Thanks
You have a few issues with your specs:
The rebel chip is: 22.3mm x 14.9mm
The pixel width/height is: 3.72
The RedCat focal length is 250mm
Give those settings a try!
Are all these options in the mobile and tablet version of Stellarium too?
Not sure!
Pros and cons of stellarium desktop vs Web? I believe stellarium desktop eats my laptops battery very quickly although I don't need access to the Internet? Is that so?
Yeah, that sounds about right. Stellarium is pretty processor intensive.
actually, local (artificial) light pollution is a major issue. how best tackle with this (in terms of planning, strategy, technique, and equipment) without travelling to obscured locations/regions?
There are light pollution filters you screw onto your lens but honestly, I don't know how effective they really are just because of physics. There is a reason the biggest observatories on earth are way out in the desert, it's because light pollution is very very hard to counteract even with the expensive optics they have at such observatories. Even if you managed to remove light pollution from your image, that doesn't address non-light pollution (smog and such) which is present to some degree over all big cities nowadays, sadly. So driving to a darker-sky region is your best bet. One thing I can recommend is checking a light pollution map; if you're lucky, there's a place relatively close to where you live with way less light and non-light pollution - you don't have to drive *that* far out to find places like that. Not as good as the Atacama desert, sure, but good enough so that the first time I actually drove out to a dark sky site like that, I was absolutely mind-blown because I had never experienced a night sky like that, not even close, because I'd lived in a big city all my life