Dart Frog's Astrophotography

Hello! This night was very eventful! We got Mars opposition (closest to Earth on july 31!!), Mars-Moon conjuction and of course, the blood Moon! I wasn't taking pictures of Mars yet. Hopefully the storm will calm down soon so we can see it's surface... Back to the lunar eclipse... it was the longest one on 21st century! However, there still will be more! If you missed this one for some reason, worry not! Just google "next lunar eclipse" and I am sure you'll find out the next one ;) Here are some pictures, taken with phone holded by hand in front of an eyepiece as I didn't bring my DSLR with me :/ but it turned out nice anyway! I remember taking all pictures like that around a year ago... that was horrible..

Hello yet again! Last time for today tho. Here is picture of the ISS I took last weekend! I also used lucky frame method, also because constant hand tracking the telescope after a small point is pretty hard and a lot of images turn out not sharp... This time I used barlow lense and IR cut filter. I also used shorter exposure and higher ISO. Of course Canon 1300D.

Hello again! :D Last weekend I wasn't catching any deep sky objects because of the Moon lighting the sky so much. I tried catching some closer things tho! the first one is Saturn - one of my favorite planets! I tried catching it in two configurations: A - DSLR (Canon 1300d)>T-ring>Ir cut filter> barlow lense x2> telescope B - phone (Samsung Galaxy S7)>6mm eyepiece>barlow lense x2> telescope What I did is I recorded a short film and then ran it thru some programs to get the final picture. I did that because the atmosphere is very wavy, you can see distortions all over the place. However, from time to time there is a clear image for a split second that shows details of the object nicely, a frame that shows that moment is called lucky frame. Then I centered the object on all frames and converted the file into .avi with program called PIPP, then I stacked some of the best frames in another program called AutoStakkert!2 and then finally I adjusted wavelets in last...

oh man! I totally lost motivation to write here last time for some reason :/ but worry not! I am back and I have plenty of pictures to share! these are like 2 months old I think? I'll post pictures from last weekend in a different post ;) So here is M53 star cluster! As always a few 30s iso1600 frames, I am not sure about the total exposure tho, I think it was around 5 minutes M64 - The Black Eye galaxy! One of my favorite deep sky objects :p this is just a test picture of it to see how it turns out, 5 minutes in 30s iso 1600 frames. I wouldn't get it that nice in the city tho, both of these two pictures were taken on my plot :) Here is the Milky Way from last month. Single 30s iso 1600 frame. Edited it a bit on paint.net. It turned out great in my opinion! Sorry I don't have more, but my telescope mirror was dirty same with my camera sensor and I cleaned it just last week... I also was very busy, end of school year and stuff... but that's no...