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Astrophotography 
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There are so many stars that we can't see with the naked eye. Thankfully our cameras can! Please share your pictures of the heavens here. Please be descriptive when giving details of how you obtained the shot (i.e. lens used, exposure time, f/stop, ISO, etc.) so that others may learn from your experience. Thank you.
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” -Edwin Hubble
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| Orion Rising Here’s another image where I tried to process only using Sequator and Affinity Photo, the former to... | 0 | 19 | 4 Hours Ago 05:44 AM by Lew Dite  |
| Where have I been? Don't know about anyone else but we have had a bad summer for astro here in the UK. There have been... | 3 | 126 | 4 Days Ago 09:59 PM by HoutHans |
| M31 Experimentation I happened to be up early this morning before sunrise and noticed M31 was just past the zenith. I... | 3 | 150 | 6 Days Ago 06:13 AM by cobbu2 |
| Took a road trip to McDonald Observatory So I took a trip from San Antonio to Az to see my son last week and decided to make a couple of... | 14 | 184 | 09-23-2023 06:07 AM |
| When all you see are trees,... ...you just have to use them. I wish I had some iconic rocks or mountains in my neck of the woods.... | 6 | 116 | 09-19-2023 09:48 AM by fewayne |
| Astro Pixel Processor rocks, Part The Umpteenth I just finished up my Crescent Nebula image -- shot mostly in HOO, but I wanted nice-color stars... | 2 | 90 | 09-18-2023 10:59 AM by fewayne |
| Astrotracer turns on, but icon doesn't appear in the camera screen Sooooo, I've tried to image C/2023 P1 Nishimura and wanted to use the astrotracer (type 1, so the... | 7 | 144 | 09-11-2023 11:43 PM by HoutHans |
| M31 2022 60 minutes at ISO 800 under Bortle 3 skies with my K-50. It was one of my first images with my... | 5 | 116 | 09-10-2023 04:29 PM by fewayne |
| Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura This is a bit of a tricky one since it's really close to the sun. I got up at 4:30, with just 20... | 5 | 134 | 09-10-2023 04:26 PM by fewayne |
| M31 @ 135 mm Here's a stack of some 240 60 second subs at ISO 200 of M31, the great Andromeda galaxy and its... | 6 | 126 | 09-10-2023 06:44 AM by HoutHans |
| Astrophotography on the go - Daneb I took my first airplane trip with my astrophotography setup last month, and I thought I'd pass... | 2 | 102 | 09-07-2023 11:04 PM by HoutHans |
| My First Stab at NGC 7000 So here's my first try from last night for NGC 7000 with my KP (and the Astrotracer), a 100mm f/2.8... | 6 | 166 | 09-05-2023 05:45 PM by cobbu2 |
| Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) This is the first time I have tried to image this nebula. I got only 51 minutes of exposure (102 x... | 3 | 161 | 09-05-2023 01:08 PM by fewayne |
| K-7 startrails I start to process some astro images from my vacation. While trying some "serious" AP I also ran my... | 15 | 306 | 08-27-2023 09:21 AM by Piotrek K |
| Another crack at Carina I've recently acquired a Star Adventurer GTi .... and it's not all beer and skittles! But I had one... | 10 | 226 | 08-21-2023 04:04 AM by Grimmus |
| Astrotracer Milky-way I shot this one waiting the Perseids last weekend.
Pentax K-1
Pentax 15-30 f/2.8 @ 15mm... | 4 | 136 | 08-19-2023 08:43 AM by Craigbob |
| Perseids 2023 A glorious time to be watching the Perseid meteor shower given the almost New Moon and clear skies... | 11 | 207 | 08-16-2023 04:37 PM by Lew Dite |
| Off-topic, non-Pentax, and maybe even illegal Every once in a while I try the mods' patience and toss up some non-Pentax thing I've been doing,... | 5 | 153 | 08-13-2023 07:31 PM by fewayne |
| Which Composite Mode for Meteor Shower. Hello All,
I was planning on using my KP tomorrow evening to try to get some meteor captures... | 2 | 91 | 08-12-2023 11:01 PM by cobbu2 |
| Sun from San Antonio in White Light Long story/rant time as i have no one else to commiserate with me.
So I decided to get some... | 6 | 127 | 08-11-2023 03:25 AM by rgknief60 |
![A reprocessing effort of my last M42 post.
M42 400
1576x20s
ISO 400-ISO 1600
K-3 + astrotracer
SMC A* 400mm F/2.8 ED [IF]
Bortle 5 skies
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![M45
307x20s
ISO 1600
f/3.5
Pentax K-3
SMC A* 400mm F/2.8 ED [IF]](/forums/albums/thumbs/138/26406882deaba3be6a630b65182e8a09_138001.jpg?dl=1637420974)
