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Astrophotography continued...
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N00B-SAIB0T
MK Financial
#1 - 2015-09-18 16:28:29 UTC
Some of you may remember me from my first posts when I started this hobby years ago:

Astro 2011

Despite taking many breaks from EVE, I never really stopped doing AP. Here are some more recent images:

Lagoon (right) and Trifid (left)

Elephant's Trunk in Narrowband (work in progress)

Fish Head in Hydrogen-Alpha

Heart Nebula in Hydrogen-Alpha

Eagle Nebula

Feel free to ask any questions. I hope you enjoy them. I'll post more as they come in.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#2 - 2015-09-18 16:58:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
The photos look astonishingly good.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2015-09-18 17:35:30 UTC
NovaCat13
Ember Interstellar Inc.
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#4 - 2015-09-18 18:04:36 UTC
Now you gotta do a post on how you do this.

Just say NO to Dailies
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#5 - 2015-09-18 18:18:03 UTC
Its all explained in the closed thread.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
N00B-SAIB0T
MK Financial
#6 - 2015-09-18 18:33:02 UTC
NovaCat13 wrote:
Now you gotta do a post on how you do this.


Sure.

Stick a camera to the back end of a telescope connected to an electronic mount. Do manual exposures on a target for a certain number of minutes. Keep repeating the exposures until you have multiple frames. Use a special program to combine them and then touch them up with Photoshop.

The more frames you take of an object, the greater the detail. Here's an example of one nebula:

This is one single 5 minute exposure

Same object, but 10 exposures each at 5 minutes and all stacked together

There's a lot more that goes into doing this but that's the general idea.