Dart Frog's Astrophotography

  Hello again! Recently I've shown you my first attempt at the Eastern Veil Nebula - NGC 6992 That attempt was of course very out of focus, but I decided to give that data a shot anyway as BlurXterminator made it workable  This time however, I have a much better attempt to show off! This one was taken across two nights, on the 11th and 12th of August last summer. Honestly, I'm still not too happy with this, definitely not by my today's standards haha.. there are some weird color gradients in the image that I just could not get rid of no matter what I tried - unless those gradients are dust that I just didn't capture properly? Either way, decided not to waste more time trying to fix it, shit data in - shit results out haha I cannot WAIT to shoot this target again with my current setup the upcoming summer though! Here is the final image, in total I gathered about 3.5h.. this is of course still data from my old, slower telescope as well as the Canon 1300D DSLR, so that rea...

Hi again! Today we've got a rare occasion where there's not just an image - but a video! After imaging deepsky thruout the night on August 10th/11th last year, I configured my scope for planetary and pointed it towards Jupiter before disassembling the rig. This was just as the Sun was rising, it was very interesting trying to see Jupiter for as long as possible before it disappeared in the daylight! Due to this, you can also see the background of the video get brighter over time :) I ended up grabbing data across about 12 minutes with my random brand-less 2x barlow, individual frames were processed in AstroSurface (which I've been liking a lot!), and then put together into a video with PIPP! I'm honestly surprised just how much Jupiter rotates in just 12 minutes! When I took the data, I didn't even think about putting it together into an animation, but now that I'm processing my old data I thought I'd try it! Hope you enjoy it:   Also on Astrobin: https://ap...

  Hello there! Today I'm showing you a picture that originally I wasn't even gonna bother processing, and I've basically marked this folder off as a throwaway in my head. That is because the day after capturing this back in August, I've noticed how horribly out of focus it was.. However, I've recently purchased a BlurXterminator license - a plugin for PixInsight which automatically deconvolves an image to sharpen it up. I've honestly not expected it to work on this dataset, but to my surprise it did! Of course it doesn't make the imaeg good by any means haha, but it at least makes it *passable* 😅 Here is the raw, autostretched stack to show off how out of focus it was originally (notice the diffraction spikes not lining up as well as clear donut shapes, especially noticible bottom left)     And here is the final image! It was only about an hour of data unfortunately, but given it was gonna go to the bin? Could be worse! Also on AstroBin: https://app.astrobi...

  Hi! Gradually processing last summer's data, I've arrived at a folder I intially dreaded processing.. "08-10-Sun" I usually don't like processing planetary much.. the whole process often felt messy to me, especially as when I tried processing some of this data with AutoStakkert!3 and RegiStax6 a few months back, there have been some issues..  However, I was since then recommended another program called AstroSurface, which I personally find much nicer to use! (while Registax is quite old and not updated, I feel like AstroSurface vs AS!3/AS!4 is pretty much personal preference?)  Not only did the processing go very well, I actually really like the final result! Funny enough, the best stack came from a clip that initially didn't look that good seeing-wise!      I went thru all the clips I collected that day. Some of them I took with a 2x barlow lens, while others I've just imaged native (1200mm focal lenght), the native focal lenght clips seemed to come out...