4.5 Tips for Better Astrophotography Images
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- In this video I'm giving you a few tips for better astrophotography images. These are the key things that I wish I knew when I was first starting in astrophotography and will help you capture more beautiful images.
Drop your top tips in the comments below!
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Great tips Nick. Good video as usual. 👍
Thanks Nick. You always give good, solid advice that is helpful to back garden astronomers like me. I prefer your modest, practical and enthusiastic approach to the channels that show off highly expensive (often sponsored) ranges new equipment that most of us can't afford as we potter around in the dark trying to capture those elusive cosmic ghosts in the sky.
Thanks Ken, I really appreciate that!
Another particularly useful tip would be, don’t get sucked into gear acquisition syndrome. Use the 60% rule. - about the time you think your equipment isn’t capable of something you’re likely at 60% of its capabilities. More gear, no matter how expensive won’t make for a better photo. More attention to details in setup and consistent application of techniques will improve astrophotos quicker than shiny new gear. From the basics to more advanced equipment this axiom applies well. Another good video Nick. Cheers!
Great tip!
I'm giving a try to histogram tip right away!
Love the last tip lol thank you sir great channel.
Very useful and to the point.
Good stuff Nick! Thanks for posting and good to see you!
Thanks Michael, great to hear from you!
great video! im a new subscriber btw
Some great advice there Nick 👍
Thanks Ian 👍🏻
You're absolutely correct about finding darker skies.
I went from bortel 6 to a bortel 3, and it made a world of difference and finding and tracking. To say nothing of the quality of my photos improving almost exponentially.
Bortle 3…nice!
Great tips, Nick!! "Here's my advice...feel free to ignore my advice!". So true that it can all get too serious at times, whereas I really just go out to do AP because it forces me to look up at dark skies. Thank you for taking the time to do what you do.
Thank you!
I’m definitely guilty of target hopping. But sometimes my secondary image turns out better than the main one.
Fully agree on getting into guiding. Beginners tend to shy away from guiding noting it as a complex process and usually get into it a little later on. This could impact their early AP experience negatively as they are not utilizing a key component.
Personally, when I got into AP, I jumped head first into guiding; went the whole 9 yards. I've always considered it part and parcel of AP from the get go. Other than for possibly financial reasons, there is no excuse not to be guiding. There are plenty of guides to get you guiding. :)
Totally agree! For me it was the financial aspect that held me back but wow what a difference guiding makes. It’s probably the single biggest difference one can make image quality
Great tips Nick! Terrible at moving on to other targets when more data would get me a better image. Also, good shout on the capturing histogram clipping. Pretty sure I'm too comfortable in just using a ex. length that i know i can guide at, rather than pushing it where i can to get a better data set to process with. :)
I am awful at moving on to other targets too, there’s just so many targets and so few clear nights!
I think one of the most important tip is - To have fun, and don't think of it as a job. Do as you like, really! Enjoy looking at things that you can't otherwise see!
Don't try to please others, try to please yourself! I spent my first several months of "target hopping" and doing EAA (electronically assisted astronomy) by using nothing but Sharpcap Pro. Just swirl around the sky, I wanted to see things first and it's so easy if you got a goto mount, plate solving software and stellarium, sharpcap pro and a laptop. That's all you need.
Set the camera to high gain and 10-20 seconds exposures and do a live-stacking and have the DSO come to your screen in a few minutes! Did that for an hour or 2 each night , then settled on a target and did a few hours of imaging. Didn't try to please Facebook crowd and the image wasn't anything amazing, but I went to sleep that I just saw things on the sky not visible otherwise and saw it the first time.
Don’t try to please anyone but yourself is a great tip!
Love the "first tip" anyone trying this hobby who lives in a large city or a few miles from an airport is not going to have much luck success regardless how good their equipment is. This can not be over stated... You will see more at a dark site with a cheap pair of binoculars then you will with a 10" Cat under polluted skies.
I don't know. I've seen some amazing images from Bortle 7 and 8 skies with good filters.
That being said, it's definitely not going to get you to 100%, but even 85 or 90 is pretty damn good considering.
Fortunately, I'm only 2 hours away from a Bortle 2, so will be interesting to see how much the images improve from there.
What's the diff?
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