Calling all Astrophotographers, all skill levels. Post your work.

As I didn't have my camera I had to use my sister's camera, not as good as mine, and this is what I got.

The moon from last night.

Peteh Tikva , Israel :


Haifa , Israel (by Uri Benny):

originally posted by: nOraKat
a reply to: egidio88

Is that taken from the ground?!

How did u do that?

yes of course, i live on the ground, HAHAHAHAHA...telescope + cellphone.

I want to get a telescope...I have the one I want picked out along with the camera stuff I need. Expensive, but that's not the kicker...

I live in Alaska, so darkness isn't a problem. I'd only have to drive maybe 30 minutes to get outside any light pollution. The real problem is the temperature. I don't enjoy standing around in -15F for hours on end.

I want an 8" Celestron schmidt-cassegrain...I don't think I'd want to pack and lug around anything larger.

a reply to: egidio88

Well which telescope is that? How can you pan around the moon in such minute increments? Also a 4K phone camera?!

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a reply to: ngchunter

Holy cow! .. ring nebula from home.

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What if you live in an area with lots of light pollution like in a major city; would you be able to see closeups of moon craters like in your video or nebulas?

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Telescopes have advanced since back in the day. I remember the last one I looked through decades ago was nothing like this footage.

a reply to: vinceg

Wow, incredible.. which telescope is that?

a reply to: ratcals

originally posted by: ratcals
Here's my first attempt at photographing Saturn with my new 6" Schmidt Cassegrain. It's not great, but considering it's a single exposure I was pleased with it.

Ok, now this is more like what I remember.. no offense.

Thank you for this post and thank you all for those beautiful pictures!

a reply to: Vitrude

Very beautiful pictures!!!

a reply to: hillbilly4rent

Such a beautiful picture!! Thanks for sharing!

a reply to: vinceg

The beautifulness that comes from M45 has no limits,and you never get sick of looking and photographing this splendid cluster!
Thanks for sharing!
Love and peace!

a reply to: JadeStar

Beautiful picture, thanks for sharing! This photo is very useful to me.

a reply to: abeverage

Beautiful picture! Keep going with this awesome hobby!

a reply to: vinceg

The Andromeda Galaxy is one of the biggest in our galactic cluster, maybe the biggest... I do not know, humans haven't research the whole cluster yet.
Thanks for sharing and good luck with your mosaic pictures.

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less magnification than last time, conditions weren't good to push it to 535x, but still...enjoy!!!


ps: last time:

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a reply to: MystikMushroom

I don't enjoy standing around in -15F for hours on end.

I use a intervolometer or the Majic lantern intervolometer function in my 50D, just set up, compose, push button and back in the house I go. If you have a GoTo or tracking setup you can do the same.

Hi All

A quick test image with my friends new tracker.



18mm f4 1600 iso 50 secs.

M31 the Andromeda Galaxy can be seen on the right of the image next time it will be used will be at the Dark Sky park just over an hours drive away.

Next test longer exposures & focal lengths and stacked images.

wmd.

i often look through the amazing photographs posted here. kudos to all !

i've meant to upload these images ever since the eclipse. this is how i saw the moon that night. although this time i was not lucky to witness the eclipse itself, it was a stormy and beautiful night

the pictures are taken with no special camera, just good enough to capture the mood

a reply to: lucia2389

Not bad a Nikon Coolpix 7800 is better than a camera phone.