This is not only a great tutorial for the moon, but it is a great tutorial with PIPP and Autostakert, something I have always had issues with. GREAT VIDEO Nico!

For the past 2 weeks, weather has been great. For the coming 2 weeks it looks great. In that timeframe, there was only one bad night with heavy rain and storm. For a few hours. Precisely when the Lunar eclipse was happening. Now I need to wait for only 3 years...

@marxiewasalittlegirl

Жыл бұрын

You had a chance yesterday

thank you for giving us hints using free software for stack processing of planetary images.

Thank you for making this video. Your comments while processing confirm what I found when stacking lunar photos.

Man, I’ve been struggling with my eclipse data for the last few days. Weather was horrible. Perfect timing

This is very detailed and well explained. Thanks a million. You are the best! Can’t wait to shoot the eclipse tonight!

Final product was awesome, it was cool to see how these images are created, all the adjustments and “mess ups” like with the halo. ;) Definitely cool to see, thanks!

Thanks Nico, for taking the time to explain all the steps and sharing.

We got clouded out in Portland, OR. Was disappointing. Love your pic in the end. Thanks for the tutorial!

@krishparikh1728

2 жыл бұрын

Same… it was lame

@michaelmckeag960

2 жыл бұрын

We were able to take advantage of a wide band of clear sky that developed in the late afternoon over the east Columbia River Gorge. We did have west wind to deal with.

Ayee I made the credits! Love to see it, thank you!!! 🤘🏼

For reviewing images while still on the memory card Fast Raw Viewer is convenient. Rejects are moved to a _reject folder on the card. Only images that pass this pre-screening are imported. The pre-screening is done on a full size monitor, a more informative view than the camera back display.

Que buen tema , realmente interesante , saludos para todos 👏👏👏👏👏

Thanks for this. I've always struggled with PIPP Registax and Autostakert. I might have to revisit the thousands of sun, moon and eclipse shots I have. Thanks Nico!

Enjoyed seeing the entire process and picked up some tips to use in future night sky images. Great tutorial. Thanks.

Just wanted to say thank you for your tips on your last video about shooting for 1 sec. To get the moon and stars in a single exposure it was my first and I was happy with the outcome. Again thanks and keep the great content coming you are appreciated sir!

Your editing videos are very useful, thanks a lot

Excellent Tutorial Video. Thank You.

Great video as always

great video as always!! a hot key in photoshop I’ve found useful recently is holding down alt when clicking the layer mask icon; it automatically inverts the mask so you don’t have to invert the selection!!

This was great! Thanks :)

Thank you for sharing this detailed process and your full workflow! I followed along to process a 10 image sequence - tomorrow I'll give my 480 image sequence a go. Only thing you missed was a link for Deep Sky Stacker :D

Excellent 💚💚👍👍

Cheers mate

Hi Nico, great tutorial as usual! I'm referring to this video for the recent total lunar eclipse, but I encountered some problems: 1. When I ticked the “lunar full disc” optimize option in PIPP and chose the “surface feature” for stabilization mode, after pressing “do processing”, I will get “failed with errors” in the status box. I have searched this problem online but there seems not to be a straight answer to this particular case. It is fine with “object/planetary”. When I do not tick the optimization, the “surface feature” works, but there will be only one image in the generated folder. 2. After ticking AOI (assuming the processing is fine), when I expand the area too much, a Windows error will pop up: something like “unhandled exception”, but I think I’ve figured that out: the area cannot be bigger than 5000x5000 pixels. 3. While using DSS and lowering the threshold to the lowest 2%, I got a result of 2 stars. After deactivating the “median filter”, I got something like 4 stars. I thought it’s enough for alignment. However, after registering for a long time, a warning popped out saying “only one frame out of 48 frames will be stacked”. I also searched this problem and one possible issue seems to be the problem with focusing. I admit that I did not focus the camera perfectly that night, but when checking the pictures one by one, I can easily identify 4 stars in every frame. 4. This is actually not very important: since I first failed with PIPP, I tried to directly use AutoStakkert to align and stack the frames, but no matter how many alignment points I set (both dozens manually and tens of thousands automatically), the result was always not good (bad actually, it seems to not perform alignment at all). Thank you for your time looking through this (It’s actually not a very big deal for me since after choosing the “object/planetary” stabilization mode in PIPP, I still succeed for the stacking)!😄

Thanks! I'm looking for a way to keep both stars and lunar. great vid!

@ethanhao6724

2 жыл бұрын

you kind of skipped the deepskystacker stacking options part but it won't hurt anyway.

Hey Nico. Hope all is well for you. I was wanting to request a potential future video. I know you have videos for a camera, tripod, and an intervalometer for beginners. It is great and I have learned a lot, especially with your processing videos. I know a lot of your channel here seems to be aimed toward newbies and gear reviews (which is great with your very fact-based and unbiased review). I know that you live in very light-polluted skies, as do I. I think you might have me beat though, as I live in Raleigh,NC. So, my request: could you maybe do a video on the gear, setup, and capture of a DSO from a very light polluted sky? So basically what scope, what camera, what filters (and why), which tracker mount, best/most efficient setup method, etc. I know that at some point it becomes almost a requirement to use plate-solving with the guide scope on your main scope, and I THINK you have to use a laptop for that. Maybe do options with a guide scope and without, and what software is best to use, what is the most efficient method of power supply for all the equipment, etc. I think that would be extremely helpful for those of us that may not be "newbies" but also aren't ready to spend $20,000 on a setup. Also, it would be great if you could do some smaller videos (maybe for 5min Fridays) and cover some of the terminology and how it relates to astrophotography, like arcsecond, backlash, back focus, etc. Just thought I would throw out some ideas that I know would be helpful for me and I would also guess that there are others that it could benefit. Maybe take Back Focus and cover what it is, how it affects astrophotography, how to account for it, and things like that. Like I said, just some thoughts. Keep up the great work, my friend!

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the ideas. Cheers Kevin

I've got a series of photos I took during my live stream of the eclipse. Gonna try to stabilize it since my scope was drifting bad. Then maybe try some various composites and mosaics

Nice

Wow another great tutorial Nico. Just finished cropping some +300 raw images by hand, so nice to learn about PIPP. Also good to have a better understanding about the high-pass filter in PS. Looks like I get to try and re-tweak my image again. Was there a particular reason as to why you converted the RAW files to DNG as PIP appears to accept TIFF, RAW?

Thanks to your video my final pic came out with great detail! I tried using sequator and was a failure😬. Thank you again! 22 subs ISO 200 15” tracked (ioptron sky tracker pro) F/8 Canon T7 (300mm) La Grange, CA

@xander1052

Жыл бұрын

Where can I see your pic? to note, planning to shoot the next full moon with my rather ancient Yashica FX-3 Super with my 210mm, hopefully no clouds!

👍👍

Chicago area here. It cleared up at around 1am which was basically when it was all done ;(

I had some work to do on that day, so I didn't have time to drive out of city to take shots. From where I live, air quality is not good, and it's just blurry. Also my release shutter was not working properly, so I had to take shots from touch screen on the back of my D850. At 600mm, it wobbles so much even with a light tap on the screen. After watching your tutorial, I realized I should have taken more photos, and maybe I would have more usable shots to work with.

Great information. Some questions: Not clear why you had to rotate the image? Meaning, what caused the image to be rotated 90 degrees? Was it the Lens or Reflector or a Refractor that you used? I was fortunate to have clear skies. I used my SA to track and photograph the eclipse. So I was wondering, is there any value to stack images, taken at different exposures and go through this process? I was able to track up to 40 seconds with the tracker set to the Moon.

Outstanding Nico, many of us have Astro Cameras with FITS files, Same workflow? Great video though.

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, if everything is well-centered without much space, you might be able to skip PIPP. Otherwise same workflow should work

Interesting that from the west coast. The moon is on the left of the three stars. Pivoting from the top star, my line of the three stars points closer to 4:00 while yours points to 5:00.

Great video! Thank you so much. Just wondering... is it better to place manually the grid in Autostakkert or is it better to select size and Autoplace?

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Autoplace, but it wasn't working for me with this photo

Hi, thanks for this great tutorial. About your comment on Instagram settings, could you expand a bit? Have you found that resizing it at that size and compression settings, Instagram doesn't re-compress and resize it?

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Correct. That is my theory.

Thanks for this great instructional video. With the Star Tracker, is the setup different for tracking stars than it is for tracking the moon or planets?

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Same setup, with the Star Adventurer 2i, I just changed the tracking mode to 'lunar' (moon icon). My polar alignment was very rough because I did not have a view of Polaris. For deep sky, that would be a deal-breaker, but for this it was okay since I was using such short exposures (3 seconds). If I had more time, I would have drift-aligned using the moon.

Hey! I live in Central Square. I also found that opening in the clouds for my photo... lol!

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I was happy. Same thing happened for the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction a while back.

@JohnFerrier

2 жыл бұрын

@@NebulaPhotos My pic isn't as nice as yours but I was using a GH5 with an 85mm at 8 f-stop and a 1/250s shutter. Came out alright but I need something better than 85mm

Hey love your videos. I am personally somewhat new to astro photography but I have been doing visual for 4 years and I am 13 which means I can’t afford anything so I was hoping I could get in touch with you or could you give advice because right now I am under bortle 9 and have a 90mm with my phone for photos and I want to do deep sky Astro any edvice

I live near Detroit and it was cloudy and raining all night long. 😢

Wish I was able to see it

Nice Nic@! Tks, Wich app can I use in the mac platform for do that procedures ? Tks so much!

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

There aren't good native Mac options. There is an old project called Lynkeos, but it doesn't look like it's been updated to work on M1 Macs. Some people in the comments said they have used Wine to run PIPP and Autostakkert on Mac

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Love the full workflow video that's classic Nico. I have a question. So I have used PIPP and AS3 but not the red box blue box in PIPP. Anyway so if you did NOT use PIPP and just went straight into AS3, that would work right? How would that hurt the final image? Could you see the difference?

@NebulaPhotos

Жыл бұрын

It will often work to just go straight into AS3 with no drawbacks (no visible difference in the final output). I showed the PIPP part to make the workflow more foolproof. Eclipses have less contrast than the moon does normally so sometimes just using AS3 for alignment will fail. Depends on a number of factors.

@jodyschultz5870

Жыл бұрын

@@NebulaPhotos Got it. Thanks.

Nico, in Mac PIPP works fine with “light” emulators like CrossOver or Wine

Pipp có hoạt động với video định dạng mov từ máy ảnh gắn ống kính tele quay mặt trăng không ạ

Hey, I managed to get some luck, clear skies for the entire totality. Now I just gotta get rid of the hot pixels.

Hi. sorry for my english, i use google translator. Tell me what can be pulled out from the photo from the SW 1201 achromat? I would like to buy such a pipe!

Your lucky I live in north central mass and from the storm I wan sent ableism see it.

If you didn't track the moon, and it moved in frame, does PIPP align the moon images accurately? I've found with Autostakkert that I have to crop each image prior to stacking, to assist the software with proper alignment, if I shoot untracked. I'm only 6 minutes into the video and probably won't watch the whole thing at this time since I wasn't able to catch the eclipse, so if you answer this question later in the video, I apologize. I've saved it to my photo editing playlist, so I will watch and reference it the next time I do have moon images to process...

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I don't know if I explained it properly in the video, but that is exactly why I used PIPP to make sure the images would stack properly when I got to Autostakkert. PIPP can work quite well for centering untracked images in my experience as long as you use the right settings.

Hi Nico, whats wrong with taking a (or a few) blood moon shots and a (single) full moon regular illuminated and combine these? Thats what i did in the past. I used the blood moon as color source and the full moon as topographic „map“ for details. I didn’t find this „un-ethic“ as the regular light and bllod moon light had the same angle of reflection. So no side illumination of craters. What do you think of that?

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

I guess it all comes down to the details. If you were truly just using the color from blood moon, and the luminance from the full moon, that wouldn't look quite right because at every stage of the blood moon, it is passing through the earth's shadow so a different part of the moon is darkest. Do you lose that variation with your method? I think beyond the color that variation in shadow is part of what makes the eclipsed moon an interesting subject.

Last night i was take 552 light frames with the dumbbell nebula,untracked with a telescope,but with coma aberattion in the corners from a 6-7 borttle sky i take flats,darks,bias but flats where not good they where not flat i take them with a t- shirt,t shirt is not good,a paper is better you think?please.would you shoot dumbbell nebula step by step and create a video,please would you?.I am a beginner astrophotographer.

I got clouded out just after it started turning red. The clouds kept building up until I couldn't get my camera to focus on it, not even manual focus either.

Autostakkert is showing its age, and you're not allowed to sell your resultant images (odd/awful licensing) I'm unable to stack 64MP images due to a hard cutoff of 8000px... why? it's 2024, I have a ridiculous amount of RAM. what alternatives would you suggest?

I will watch the entire video, and if you answer my question, then don't worry about replying. I took a ton of pictures of the eclipse during totality. The question I have is that the darkest part of the shadow moves across the upper half of the moon, so if I stack them, with that dark shadow cause any problems? It's not stationary, and I was using the 10 second delay (I didn't wanna have a cable just dangling around) so there is a total of about 15 seconds between shots. Also, I got a bunch of lead up shots, where the shadow looks like a bite out of the moon. Once it got about half way or more, I cranked the ISO to 3200 and set my exposure to just about a 1/3 of a second or 1/4 of a second. The white part was blown out, but you could see the red half nicely. So, I'm just mainly concerned with the darkest part of the shadow moving, or should I limit myself to 2-3 images stacked, so that the movement isn't noticeable? Also, is it bias frames that get rid of hot pixels?

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Good question. I wouldn't mix images of the partial phase and the total phase in to the same stack. As far as the shadow moving, yeah you may want to limit yourself to just a certain group of frames rather than stacking them all. I'd say try to stack at least 15 frames.

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

And temperature matched darks get rid of hot pixels. I also have a short video about getting rid of them in Photoshop if you forgot to take darks.

@kevinashley478

2 жыл бұрын

@@NebulaPhotos yeah, I will look at that... I was thinking that bias frames would get rid of hot pixels. Which video is it that you show how to get rid of hot pixels using Photoshop?

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinashley478 kzread.infoK48BNJVQpp4 In my experience, no, darks get rid of hot pixels if done correctly, bias do not.

I work on conservation of old photos and documents and i never use DNG converter cause it degrades a lot the image, you can see that by the size of both documents, you will loose a lot of megas, and loose megas is equal to loose quality, nothing bad to the eye when you looking at 100%, but the loss is there. Maybe it helps in better times with Pipp and DeepSky Stacker cause lighter files. I do not know another free software than DNG converter, so is a good option to someone who do not have Camera Raw or something similar. I convert in Camera Raw sometimes, but most of the time i convert in Capture One cause i use it in my daily work. The vantage of DNG converter is lighter files less storage used.

Hey Nico. I’m having a issue where it only outputs 1 frame out of 31. It says “Frames discarded with no AFV found: 30.” Do you know or anyone know why it’s doing this? Thanks. - Giovanni.

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

AFB is the red box. Try placing it right on a high contrast detail like a crater and run again.

@10:08, any ideas why "Manual Draw" isn't enabled for me? So I can't check it off to draw the alignment points.

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not super familiar with errors in autostakkert to say for sure. Check out this tutorial: star-hunter.ru/en/lunar-sun-imaging/ Make sure it's set to 'surface' in the window on the left. Try control-click on the moon, then click 'analyze' and after that see if the manual draw option is available. I did try placing the alignment points automatically, and that didn't work for my images (maybe not bright enough?)

@timliscum2861

2 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't be using manual draw anyways.. only as a last resort if you want to add in some areas of detail not selected by the automatic process below the "manual Draw" click box.. Start with AP size 104, Min Brightness 40, check "Replace and Multiscale"... adjust Min Brightness so the AP point cover the Bright Detailed areas of the Moon. Some AP box spilling off into space is ok,, IF too much of the AP boxes spill out.. then use smaller AP boxes. Ending up with 150-1000 AP boxes is fine.

Does anyone's images keep turning purple even after aligning the color channels? PIPP does not seem to like my images of normal moons or my recent lunar eclipse data.

@landonengel3558

Жыл бұрын

Future note for anyone else working on this. I unchecked Debayer Raw Image Files under Raw Image File Options (DCRAW) and then selected Debayer Monochrome Frames under Colour Debayer. The GBRG pattern seems to be what my camera (Canon T7) uses as I am able to get the orange colors back. Now I'm dealing with an entirely different issue of the debayer process leaving artifacts on my image.

Hi Niko i am a young astronomer and astrophotographer.Can you create a video with dumbbell nebula step by step ?

Thorndike field?

Help please: 0:29🆘💁‍♂🆘 I know this image is the later phase of totality, but am I correct to say the two stars below are Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali? I did notice that the moon start to cover the star more to the left, I guess Zubeneschamali and when she later showed up at the upper rim of the moon again (Should I say "StarRise" at the moon's horizon!), at about 10 o'clock position, that was the real climax of the eclipse for my sensations! as viewing it live... The problem: These two stars should be in a more oblique orientation and not a horizontal arrangement as I could see and as we see here. So if I'm wrong in naming, could anyone correct me as to which star these are? I guess farther lower in the constellation Libra or out to the lower left, maybe Lambda and Kappa from constellation Scorpio! PLEASE HELP... and THANKS for that. Long story short and WHAT A NIGHT it was. One that I won't forget in my lifetime and surely feel sad if you couldn't watch it for any reason and have to wait for another supermoon total eclipse that I believe is the next opportunity is scheduled for the year 2058! 🤪

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

The three stars in a line were: HR5749, HR5756 (double star), and HR5762. The star you guessed was Zubeneschamali that was covered and then emerged on the other side was HR5756. Sounds like you had a great night!!

@samsen3965

2 жыл бұрын

@@NebulaPhotos 🙏🙏🙏🙏

is there a reason no one uses cassegrains for photography? I went to my school for a star party and they used cassegrain for viewing the moon. What is your take?

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

They are used a fair amount. Especially Schmidt-Cassegrains (SCTs). I don't own one because I have limited space, and prefer the ease of refractors for my deep sky work which is what I do the most of. Cassegrains are great for lunar/planetary though!

I was so mad. we had cloud coverage that did not allow clear views of the lunar eclipse until it was too late

Of course it was totally cloudy right when the eclipse began until the moon went under the horizon. It's a common coincidence here in Germany... but at my location I would have seen a half eclipse at best anyway.

no clouds at all till the end for me!

Gerhana bulan total pada hari Senin tgl 16 bln Mei 2022 itu sebuah pertanda akan adanya. Banyak angin besar. Banyak sesakit banyak kematian dan para pembesar negara pada bertengkar Kehendak alam tidak bisa di elakan

Now if someone can show how to photograph eclipse using a mount

PIPP is being a buggy mess and, in addition to how much of a pain it is to move the red/blue boxes, it won't let me move the red/blue boxes over the moon at all due to an untrapped value out of range error. I don't think it likes input images over 5000px wide :(

@rossk7927

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like you can work around this issue if you crop down one image of the moon and load it first - then load the rest then setup the alignment area on the cropped image.

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

@@rossk7927 Ah, good tip. I struggled a bit with the red and blue boxes, but didn't run in to the other problems. Glad you found a workaround.

Nico I have one humble request to you…please make a video for nikon dslr with kit lenses for shooting any galaxy or nebula…I tried for the first time and couldn’t do anything…it’s a humble request please please please.

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

Anything specific? What objects did you try to shoot?

@Ishan7019

2 жыл бұрын

@@NebulaPhotos I tried North American nebula but I was so confused in so many settings and camera lens that I couldn’t capture anything…I have two lens 18-55mm with f3.5 at 18mm and 70-300mm with f4.5 at 70mm

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ishan7019 The issue probably isn't the camera, but the object. North America Nebula is VERY difficult with a stock DSLR and kit lens untracked. It is very dim and mostly blocked by the stock camera's IR-cut filter. Going after one of the ones I've made videos on for untracked you will be more successful. For N. Hemisphere: Lagoon Nebula (Summer), Andromeda Galaxy (Summer/Fall), Pleiades Star Cluster/nebula (Fall/winter), Orion Nebula (Winter). Settings should be same as Canon, just in different places. Just take an afternoon at home to find everything (ISO, Shutter speed, etc.) Best of luck!

@Ishan7019

2 жыл бұрын

@@NebulaPhotos thanks a lot for your guidance

@Ishan7019

2 жыл бұрын

@@NebulaPhotos just one thing more…which lens should I use from above??

Sorry if I keep annoying you with comments, but I was in a community with astrophotographers, and it seemed that Canon was *HIGHLY* stigmatized. Is it really that much worse than Nikon? Because I’ve already spent so much money, and I’ve seen you with Canon cameras before.

@NebulaPhotos

2 жыл бұрын

No, you can ignore those comments. I did a video on this topic (Canon vs Nikon) if interested.