Welcome to !astrophotography!
We are Lemmy's dedicated astrophotography community!
If you want to see or post pictures of space taken by amateurs using amateur level equipment, this is the place for you!
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Astrophotography refers to images of astronomical objects or phenomena exclusively.
~~Images that show objects or people below the Kármán Line (100km) will be removed.~~ We won't be enforcing this rule for now, but as the community grows eventually we will split and have a separate space for just landscape astro.
Images must be an accurate representation of a real astronomical object.
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Questions are welcome here for the time being.
Links to blogs, articles or external websites should be interesting and promote discussion about amateur astrophotography.
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All submitted images must include acquisition and processing details as a top-level comment. All posts without this information may be given a warning, and if not updated will be removed.
This includes the telescope, mount, camera, accessories, and any other pieces of equipment you used to capture the image.
You must also include processing details, i.e. the programs you used and a general rundown of the workflow/processes you used within those programs. “Processed in Photoshop” is not enough.
Got my pictures of the total lunar eclipse together, this was my first attempt at doing a final collage photo at each phase, which I kind of bunged up the timings a little bit but it still turned out good enough.
Wow thankyou everyone! I was not expecting to get 280+ upvotes
Here are all of the individual pics in case anyone wants to see them
The third and fifth are my favorites, because it looks like a giant red balloon with the round spot. The bws are nice too but I'm thinking of the 99 red balloons (only in English version).
that pic is cool af
Wow! Congrats on doing this. This community keeps impressing me, sure one of the most impressive OC stuff I've found on Lemmy.
Nice! Except...
Apparently the first 4 photos are off by 90⁰ from the last five photos. I'm assuming the auto leveling sensors got a bit confused when the moon was directly overhead.
It might have helped to disable the auto orientation/leveling thing in the camera app first, but at least it's easy enough to turn 90⁰ in software.
Yeah I was using a reflector telescope on a tripod with a counterweight so once the moon reached peak sky height, I had to flip the orientation of the telescope. Basically the reason why they flipped was because I kept the camera leveled with the horizon while I flipped the telescope instead of also flipping the camera.
Thank you, that is gorgeous and I was sleeping at the time! 😻
Nice work on this! Let's see, that really bright point is Jupiter, right? I know Jupiter's been hanging out in Taurus, so the moon eclipsed while it passed through Taurus?
I don't remember where specifically I pointed the camera for the night sky picture but it was roughly inline but out of the way with the moon going upward in the sky near the peak I think
What equipment/settings/processing did you use?
Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing. I just started painting again and decided to do a series on the moon. I’ve done the first painting so far. These are great inspiration!
Am I correct to assume that the red glow is always there, but since the white reflection is much brighter, it only becomes visible when the moon is completely dark so the camera adjusts to capture the fainter light?
Red's only there in this constellation, when the sunlight goes throug earth's atmosphere.
i know but I'm talking about why only the images in the middle show red, it doesn't just appear out of nowhere right?
I think that's what they're saying, when the light passes through Earth's atmosphere before hitting the moon, the blue is filtered out and the result is red.
That said, I do also believe it doesn't show up immediately on full eclipse, so there is some red light before, and indeed it's just overwhelmed by the much brighter direct illumination.
yes that's what I meant, thanks