Shot with Olympus Pen EPL-7, SkyWatcher Explorer 150P-DS, and SkyWacher N-EQ3-2 Pro. Stacked with Sequator and edited with DxO PhotoLab 3.
Tag: Sky-Watcher 150PDS
NGC 2232
Shot with Olympus Pen EPL-7, SkyWatcher Explorer 150P-DS, and SkyWacher N-EQ3-2 Pro. Stacked with Sequator and edited with DxO PhotoLab 3.
Gibbous Moon March and April 2019
Equipment Equipment: Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P-DS Sky-Watcher N-EQ3-2 with aluminium tripod Olympus PEN E-PL7 2x Barlow lens (Full disc shot without the Barlow) Software PIPP Auto Stakkert! 3 Polarr Photo Editor Adobe Premiere Rush CC Music in the video: Ether Oar by The Whole Other
Quick astrophotos from the balcony
So far I have only done afocal moon photos with a smartphone, so a couple of nights ago I try prime focus photography with my system camera. Because I do not have tracking motors, I was able to use exposure times up to only 0,5 seconds. With the ISO turned up to the maximum I…
Copernicus crater through 150/750 Newton telescope
The final processed image shown at the end of the video is the one from My First Telescope. I used a trial version of Adobe Premiere Rush to compose the video. The user experience was much better than the open source editor I used for the previous Moon video, but the software was sluggish even…
The Moon through 150/750 Newton telescope
While figuring out which telescope to purchase, I searched for examples of how different targets would look through various telescopes. There are a lot of pretty heavily processed long exposure photos available, but it is harder to find examples of how things would appear when looking through the ocular. I found some videos of the…
My first telescope
About a year ago I started to think about getting a telescope, and I have finally acquired one. After considering alternatives and consulting with the dealer, I ended up with a SkyWatcher Explorer 150PDS. It is a 150 mm aperture and 750 mm focal length Newtonian reflector instead of an achromatic refractor that I had…