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[satanboy]

I love(d) Van Halen before the "1984" album. From that album they were just poppy crap to me.

 

[LD50]

Let us know when Kanye's dead

 

[satanboy]

Let us know when Kanye's dead

His brain is dead, the rest should follow soon.

 

[BloodrayneZA]

Understand that you'll never see colour on deep-space objects with your eyes. Grey-scale only.

The colour images you see are multiple photos that have been stacked, so you need an equatorial mount. A good one.

Costs rack up quickly.

Really? I always see colours with my own eyes so why shouldn’t it show up on photos as I see it? I’ve seen blinking orange, yellow and blue stars

 

[satanboy]

Really? I always see colours with my own eyes so why shouldn’t it show up on photos as I see it? I’ve seen blinking orange, yellow and blue stars

Brain tumour.











I see red and blue stars.

 

[spiderz]

Helloww mother truckers!!
Where is the coffels at?

/licks

 

[BloodrayneZA]

Brain tumour.











I see red and blue stars.

Lol, I've been able to see coloured stars for as long as I can remember and I've seen the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 (shortly after I came back from the UK). I was 18.

 

[spiderz]

 

[Sinbad]

Really? I always see colours with my own eyes so why shouldn’t it show up on photos as I see it? I’ve seen blinking orange, yellow and blue stars

DSOs generally are not brightly coloured. The colours are added/enhanced in post-processing.

The Beginner-Friendly DeepSkyStacker Astrophotography Tutorial

DeepSkyStacker is a useful astrophotography tool to calibrate, register, and stack your images. This tutorial walks you through the basic settings I use.

astrobackyard.com

Building a Deep Sky Astrophotography Kit from the Ground Up (In 2022)

An in-depth look at the core pieces of equipment needed for deep-sky astrophotography in 2022.

astrobackyard.com

 

[Spizz]

I lasted 26 seconds. Do I win a prize?

 

[dabean]

Really? I always see colours with my own eyes so why shouldn’t it show up on photos as I see it? I’ve seen blinking orange, yellow and blue stars

Stars are fine, I mean really far off stuff like nebulas and galaxies.

Observing Secrets of Deep-Sky Objects Revealed - Sky & Telescope

The secrets out on how to observe deep-sky objects the right way! Here's how to hone your galaxy-hunting skills—and what to expect at the eyepiece.

skyandtelescope.org

Let's say you've targeted Messier 87 (M87), an enormous elliptical galaxy in the springtime evening sky 55 million light-years away. At the eyepiece you'll see a small, shapeless, very dim gray smudge floating among a few pinpoint stars. While finding it should bring a thrill of accomplishment, many novices are let down by the sight. "Is that all there is ... to galaxies? It's nothing like the pictures in the books!" You've just come up against the fact that the human eye does not work well in the dark. It cannot perform anywhere near as well as a camera does at very low light levels. We are daytime animals who evolved under a blazing sun; our eyes are not built for observing the distant night universe. Your eye's view of a galaxy will never match the spectacular photos in books and magazines.

 

[spiderz]

I lasted 26 seconds. Do I win a prize?

Your wife must have been dissapointed ...

 

[Sinbad]

Your wife must have been dissapointed ...

Would have been quicker but the kak music kept him distracted

 

[Spizz]

Your wife must have been dissapointed ...

Not at all. I had headphones on, she didn't have to hear it.

 

[biometrics]

/sips beer

 

[Tribs]

Listening to this

 

[biometrics]

DSOs generally are not brightly coloured. The colours are added/enhanced in post-processing.

The Beginner-Friendly DeepSkyStacker Astrophotography Tutorial

DeepSkyStacker is a useful astrophotography tool to calibrate, register, and stack your images. This tutorial walks you through the basic settings I use.

astrobackyard.com

Building a Deep Sky Astrophotography Kit from the Ground Up (In 2022)

An in-depth look at the core pieces of equipment needed for deep-sky astrophotography in 2022.

astrobackyard.com

This seems like the way to go. So about R40k to get started?

 

[LD50]

Listening to this

Was nice in the beginning but now I feel like opening a vein

 

[dabean]

@biometrics The software I posted a screenshot of last night is called Stellarium btw.

You can set up scopes and eyepieces to get a good idea of what to expect.

 

[satanboy]

@biometrics The software I posted a screenshot of last night is called Stellarium btw.

You can set up scopes and eyepieces to get a good idea of what to expect.

Awesome website!

Stellarium Web Online Star Map

Stellarium Web is a planetarium running in your web browser. It shows a realistic star map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

stellarium-web.org