Just saying Hi

[A_Lawrence]

Hi all my name is Amelia! Just wanting to see everyone's setups and photos if you have any? 😊 I've just recently got an edge HD 8" (upgraded from a nexstar 4se) here is a few of my photos !

Amelia

[billdan]

Welcome to Ice in Space Amelia, you have a very nice setup there perfect for viewing planets and DSO's. Have a look around the different sections on IIS for equipment setups and images. There is a wealth of information here to help you with this hobby.

May I suggest stay away from DSO imaging for a while as it will empty your purse/wallet real fast. Stick to photographing planets for now until the astro-imaging bug takes over and then its downhill from there, money wise.

Cheers
Bill

[JA]

Hello Amelia,

Welcome to the forum. Join in and have fun.

Best
JA

[A_Lawrence]

Hi Bill, thank you for your advice,

I actually have some experience in doing DSO it's more so the time I need to find as I have a 5month old son I use a cannon dslr 650d and then just photoshop but I have heard of other programs like PHD? For processing and or stacking? I do have heaps of moon images and some of the Orion Nebula but yeah I totally understand it's such an expensive hobby haha I've also taken a picture of Saturn and Jupiter with my old scope such terrible weather here so I haven't fully tired out my new set up yet I've done Jupiter with it so far whichever I was just amazed by that. I also noticed your location is in narangba I actually live in narangba as well. But I hope to learn more and do more viewings.

Amelia

[that_guy]

PHD is for guiding and has no affect on the images you take itself (other than better tracking). If you're taking DSO shots, to reduce as much noise as possible and bring out more detail, you can take multiple lights to stack using DSS (deep sky stacker), you can do minor processing through that but you'd want to do additional post processing in photoshop.

[ChrisV]

If you want to do some simple DSO viewing, have a look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85CYhrOU6WU&feature=youtu.be

Howie up in Queensland use cameras like the 650D. Collects with EOS Utilities and processes live with astrotoaster (deepskystacker). Gets a pile of live images each session with single 30-60sec shots. No guiding used.
I'd just be concerned that the SCT is slow (@ F10) and will have a small FOV so might be hard without guiding.

Welcome and join the rest of us beginners !

[A_Lawrence]

Thank you!

[Atmos]

If you want to ditch PHD altogether drop $20,000 on a Bisque Paramount MEII and do some sky modelling and you'll be set :thumbsup:
:lol: