Astrophotography

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I’ve dabbled in amateur astronomy for many years, but I’ve never really gotten into astrophotography because, frankly, I didn’t have the patience. Or the funds. Especially considering where I live. It’s a Bortle 6 zone not far from Seatltle, so observing conditions are rarely great. This time of year it’s mostly overcast.

Orions jewel captured Feb 13th

Second attempt at the orion nebula with the dwarf 3.

My first attempt at NGC 281 Pacman Nebula with a Dwarf 3.

I got myself a seestar s50 and this was the first thing I took with it where something showed up lol. I’m still learning how to use this thing though but overall I’m happy so far. Even though the s30 pro got announced like 2 minutes after it hit the buy button haha.

Missed the full Supermoon the day earlier, this was taken on 4.1.26 and I’m pretty satisfied with the detail out of it.

After having basic camera setups with simple trackers, I was gifted a seestar s30. Closed in back yard has a small area that isn’t covered in trees but has a perfect view of Orion. Going to let it run as long as I dare tonight and pull the fits files to import into siril and do a proper stacking but the apps stacking after only fifteen minutes is already making me excited for what I can pull out of it with an hour+ integration time.

Whit Dwarf 3. Non EQ mode. 15x 15 minutes.

Equipment used: - Lumix G85 - Lumix 100-300 f4-f5.6 - SA-GTI

Hello!

This is awesome.

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