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Recently I've become interested in taking images of deep-sky objects, and have spent quite a few hours trying to learn about it (plus countless hours on YouTube!). I began by taking a few stationary images on a tripod in the garden with my Fuji X-T2 and 100-400mm lens, and stacking them into one image. I quickly learned that stacking 100 single 0.5-second images doesn't give you much data to play with, and it takes an absolute age to process. At 400mm the only way to get longer exposures is to use an equatorial mount to counter the rotation of the earth. I don't want to invest in a full-sized EQ mount yet so I went halfway and bought myself a star tracker.
I ventured out last night to a quiet car park on a nearby hill, away from the light pollution of my town, and took some images. It was nice and dark and I was able to get 31 minutes of exposure in total. Processing the images is a steep learning curve, but I've managed to get something I'm really happy with. 2 weeks ago my first image was a muddy brown sky with just a white dot for the centre of the core. I feel like astrophotography is going to be a bit of a rabbit hole!
Fuji X-T2
Fuji 100-400 f/f.6
Giottos carbon fibre tripod
iOptron Skyguider Pro.
31 x 60 second light images = 31 mins total exposure
9 x 60 second darks
10 x bias
No flats
Stacked in DSS and processed in PS.
I ventured out last night to a quiet car park on a nearby hill, away from the light pollution of my town, and took some images. It was nice and dark and I was able to get 31 minutes of exposure in total. Processing the images is a steep learning curve, but I've managed to get something I'm really happy with. 2 weeks ago my first image was a muddy brown sky with just a white dot for the centre of the core. I feel like astrophotography is going to be a bit of a rabbit hole!
Fuji X-T2
Fuji 100-400 f/f.6
Giottos carbon fibre tripod
iOptron Skyguider Pro.
31 x 60 second light images = 31 mins total exposure
9 x 60 second darks
10 x bias
No flats
Stacked in DSS and processed in PS.