When ur too poor so u watch deep sky astrophotography tutorials for fun

@MatthewHolevinski

4 жыл бұрын

inorite, i got a "department store" telescope with motorized mount and the cheapie eye pieces, 90 degree angle mirror thing, and a DSLR(unmodified), but I'd just feel stupid trying to do this stuff. That pixl insight stuff is just bananas.

@Hyperia.

4 жыл бұрын

R E L A T A B L E

@cmdrcrimbo

4 жыл бұрын

By just spending a little a month (UK £100 - 200) after a few months all i need to start taking a few images is a mount and there are options for that too im getting the skywatcher EQ-3 then the motorised goto kit for it next month so there are a few budget ways into astrophotography . Second hand gear is also a great option.

@gunnarkoksnase3243

4 жыл бұрын

eq6 500$ used 130pds 200$ used canon 450d 50$ used baader mpcc 50$ used 12 ah led gel 30$ new adapters and cables and intervalometer 50$ new 880$ :P i found eq5 for 200-300$ and good newtons for 5$...

@soberhippie

3 жыл бұрын

It's not quite as bad as being too poor to afford watching astrophotography tutorials, or fun

"The night sky is not going anywhere and you have the rest of your life to enjoy it" I loved that part!

@paulcrackton7064

3 жыл бұрын

i wouldnt be so sure that the night sky stays as free. satelites will increase (starlink for example +40K) and global warming is clouding the sky.

@AmritP

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulcrackton7064 so true, we are not guaranteed anything. gotta enjoy this hobby while we still can as amateur ground based astronomers. harsh reality is when 40k+ starlink sats, amazons, microsofts, face books sats out there and who knows who elses, we are screwed. they are not all going to care about anti reflective matter, there will be collisions with more space junk, and even if they did have anti reflective materials it would still be disruptive to our hobby which they won't care about with the advent of more space based scopes which will be well out of our financial reach for years to come.

Yes!! First video in weeks, been waiting for this!

@themartin2629

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

Thanks Trevor! Absolutely love your channel. Please never stop! Love from Australia.

those quotes at the end though, gave me goosebumps when the music and image kicked in straight after them. Great video Trevor!

This is amazing stuff... I’m so excited about astrophotography now, thank you :)

I absolutely love your passion on astronomy and the stars. Your videos and blog has rekindled my dream of getting started at looking at space again. My mom bought me a telescope from Sears back in 1970. Didn't go any further until I watched your video on the harvest moon and a few days ago took some decent photos of the Moon. I love your down to earth explanations. Clear and concise. 47 years after looking through my Sears bought scope, I'm ready to start. My sons will be amazed. Thanks Trevor! You are a great teacher!

Amazing! Thank you for sharing. I'm really considering a slow start into it and enjoying all the research. Your videos are so fun to watch!

Trevor, great vid, been following you for a while now and just love the way you present your vids, easy to follow, simplistic explanations and overall never boring or tiresome. This vid in particular is very useful to newbies and those that have been at it awhile. I still refer to this to remind myself how important setting up is. I’m in the UK and have rare opportunities to image but the great thing is, there always a vid to watch, a tutorial to learn from and books to read that are full of important & useful info. I’m always learning something new with your vids. So thank you for all the effort and time you put into these and look forward to many more.

Great video, Trevor. It's exactly the type of video I searched for when I started attempting astrophotography. I'm an avid fan, keep up the awesome work. Clear skies, from New Zealand!

I love going out and setting up. was told once "miss the chill, miss the thrill" there is a lot of truth to this.

Keep them coming Trevor, been practicing the hobby for two years now, really enjoy your video's and tutorials very inspiring. Clear skies from 🇬🇧

Trevor you've always helped me out... either with questions in private messages or through your videos. This is a perfect video for a beginner. Yes your equipment is a level or 2 up from a beginner standpoint but the process is the same. Thanks man and clear skies as always!

This video is far more the best introduction i’ve ever seen, very educative, very straightforward, very well done, thank you !

Watching your videos for some time. All are outstanding, but this is the best “how to” for the neophyte in those looking to start! Thank you thank you thank you!

This is the best tutorial for begginers I've ever seen! Thank you very mutch from Brazil.

Always look forward to your videos Trevor. Keep it up!

Your unbounded enthusiasm for astro photography and astronomy is remarkable and infectious! Thank you.

Love your videos - appreciate your passion. Absolutely wonderful- thank you. 👍🏻⭐️

sweet, an almost 20 minute astrobackyard video for my birthday! thanks Trevor

Loved this video, Trevor - so well explained, and, as always, so passionate. Many thanks.

Your are a great teacher..better than several R1 colleagues I work with!

i have just received the last of my equipment today...its clear tonite and (as far as the weatherman knows) for the next couple of nites. i must say im a bit nervous (of all things to be feeling). I wanted to take a moment to thank you Trevor, I probably would not have done this without the proof that you have shown. Keep up the great work man, you have no idea how helpful this channel is.

Thanks, Trevor, great video! I was out imaging tonight and it was a great refresher!

Thank you for posting one of the more informative videos I've seen on KZread. Really great job!

Thank you! Excellent description. At last some things made clear for me. Superb photos! I appreciate your work and passion for astrophotography and of course your inspiring videos

Its not just about the adventure, it’s about the journey to get there. The learning and logistics. Keep up the great work!

@AstroBackyard

6 жыл бұрын

#Truth Thanks man.

@dedskin1

5 жыл бұрын

yeah , its about spending those stacks as well , spending your stacks that is .

@thedindon

4 жыл бұрын

@@dedskin1 Amateur musicians spend quite a bit on instruments, amplifiers, etc. A passion is never a bad thing to invest your money in ;)

@savtheastroguy

4 жыл бұрын

@@AstroBackyard I only have 200dollars and a DSLR camera What is the best telescope you'd suggest me buy with 200bucks I mean like can I buy anything with it?

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH for these videos you do. I've learned so much from your videos.

Thank you for this video Trevor. Your final image is very beautiful and i hope one day i could realize the same. Clear skies !

I've learned so many things from you. Now saving to buy astrophotography gear and can't wait to start. Thank you!

I started getting into amateur astronomy 20 years ago after seeing the rings of Saturn, and then fell out of it during my college years. I still have a 10 inch Newtonian on a nice equatorial computerized mount. Your videos are sparking my interest to pick up astrophotography more and more. Keep up your great KZread videos. The pictures you're getting are amazing compared to what I could get from the early 2000 with the digital cameras of the time. Thank you. Look forward to watching your next video.

An awesome video recently got into Astrophotography and this video helps a lot!

This is such an excellent video! I'm doing an astronomy practical for uni and this explains things so well! I'll be sending it to all my classmates!

Thanks a mill. It is not everyone who shares. Much appreciated.

You just condensed into one video what I spent countless hours figuring out. Awesome job :P

Trevor, you're absolutely right, it is the best hobby in the world! I've just recently gotten into this and I enjoy every clear night outside. Every night you learn something new, one tiny step at a time. It requires a lot of patience and dedication, but it is totally worth it when you finally see the image on your computer screen and you have revealed a small piece of the beautiful universe that remains hidden for most other people.

I loved that video. Just starting myself. The bit about failure is a stepping stone to learning (I paraphrase) ut keep on going is the bit I am really enjoying. Took several dozen small subs last night, all useless. Binned them and hope to have a go tonight after learning something. A couple of hours watching the sky with my eyes whilst scope was taking photos was thoroughly relaxing and enjoyable. The night was not a waste at all.

I like your Videos most!! Since I started Astrophotography a few months ago, I found your channel. Your passion inspires me going out into the Night doing this great hobby!!! Thanks a lot and carry on with your great KZread channel! 👌 Greets from Austria!

Great video... the artistry of the process. It lets everyone know that “can’t do” because of conditions is a state of mind.💪🏽 Keep it up... I’m a subscriber now👍🏽

"The night sky is not going anywhere, and you have the rest of your life to enjoy" That's my motto as well trevor :) I always say that's the best thing about this hobby (to be able to take it easy) and now I've heard you say it. Funny stuff. Clear skies!

You are a legend. I almost cry when I nail shots in this hobby. Ill never forget seeing saturn and the orion nebula in my preview.

Probably the best video I've seen on this subject! Great job!

Thank you so much for making this video! I am getting back into astrophotography and this helps me a lot with understanding how all this new technology works. Lucky for me, I live in a rural area in Utah so I have plenty of lovely places in perfect darkness to take my telescope to! I can't wait!

Your video is an excellent introduction to astrophotography! Your work and passion create incredible results. Thank you very much!!!

Hi Trevor, greetings from Spain! I´ve being enjoying observational astronomy since 12 years ago and now I´m starting to do planetary astrophotography before jumping to deep sky one. I still need to spend more money to get that, but the journey is amazing! Thank you very much for sharing all these amazing videos!

Excellent video 👍 I'll definitely watch more of your videos, thank you for taking the time to make these videos.

Thanks! I’ve been looking for a video like this!

Thank you for sharing our common passion, your tips are always improving my astrophotography world

Another wonderful video. Thanks Trevor!

Strong work, great advice, congrats 25 K!

Wow, what amazing pictures you take!

Outstanding, keep up the great and enthusiastic work. Have another sub!

good work man cant wait to see your next image good job keep it up

Awesome! Also, I love the Mass Effect music. Nice touch.

Wonderful tutorial! I have just started to dabble in planetary astrophotography with my dslr and dobsonian.

This is the second video from Your channel I have watched (after, making Astro photography with t3i), and the words of wisdom in the end of the video did approved my latest contemplations of doing things with joy in life. I found difficult and sometimes hard to push myself without passion. After i did found passion, love came along. Again. Thank you for great work, and all the best in future projects, I'll keep up with your channel, as I found it to be very informative and with very friendly tone.

About 4 years ago I wanted to get into drone racing , I already race rc planes , if you want to build your own drones “quadcopters” to fly it’s a steep learning curve . I now race them after 3 years of learning . I found one person on KZread that became my guru in that hobby . After watching many KZread videos on astrophotography I’m happy to tell you you are the astrophotographers KZread guru. I wanted to get into astronomy again and bought a cgem ll mount with a 8” sct and a stellarvue 110 Ed doublet before I decided that technology caught up to astrophotography and it’s like the movie wizard of oz movie when it goes from black n white to color , omg . Now I have to make what I have work . I did buy a Cannon t6 on eBay , will mod later . Now the steap learning curve of post processing. All it took was a cellphone handheld to eye piece to get a nice picture of the new moon just days after I bought the setup , minus cannon camera , to ask myself hey this is cool I wonder what’s going on now . Of course had I watched the wrong things to buy for astrophotography video you put out I would now have a redcat and a decent mount . But I know I’ll be blown away by my first pictures . Only the moon one so far . And yes write the book . I am dedicating every morning with coffee and learning photoshop as a priority . My wife bought me an awesome gaming quality dell with photoshop installed . Gets here in a few days so I’ll have one comp to watch and learn and the new one with photoshop to practice on at the same time . I’ll post my first successful image on budget astrophotography FB group . Keep up the good work and write the book , oh wait I said that .

Thank you very much for the great videos, I can feel your passion in every single video you make! Greetings from Milton, ON from an amateur telescope maker and a (hopefully) future astrophotographer!

Nice recap of Astrophotography! Maybe I'll attempt this from my backyard.

A great explanation of our hobby!

Awesome vid, helped so much! Love the Mass Effect track in the background :)

"The night sky isn't going anywhere, and you have the rest of your life to enjoy it." What a great and profound statement. It makes so much sense. I think this way of thinking can be applied to most of life's pleasurable activities. No need to rush to become the best. The preparation and anticipation of climbing the mountain at times far exceeds the sitting atop it.

Poetic description for an inspired activity.

Hi Trevor, you must have heard that numerless times before how great you are and I just have to confirm that. I really like your enthusiasm and the human dimension that you deliver in your videos, whitch makes this fantastic hobby for me even more amazing.. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and passion. Your fan from Slovakia.

Congratulations Trevor! 25000 Subscribers Milestone Reached. Love you brother. Best Astronomy Channel ever on KZread. Regards, Milind Chandwe from India. Once gain Thanks for sharing your videos always with us. #Love #Congo #Cheers.

I love your videos, I would rather see ur images of the galaxy from ur backyard, you make it so real, thanks so much for sharing

Thanks for a great video, as a beginner there is a great deal to learn

You have a knack of explaining things easily. Enjoy your vids!

@AstroBackyard

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Noel!

I've enjoyed many of your videos and this one is no exception. As I watched it I realized we had some common ground with the hobby because I started with Canon Utilities and moved up to BackyardEOS. I also have an iOptron mount, the EC model, but my experience with it hasn't been rewarding. Looking back, I should have purchased the base model because I'm convinced I received one of the original EC models that had elusive glitches that were discussed extensively on a couple astronomy websites 4 years ago. I bought mine used just two days before I planned on ordering a new base model CEM60 which by the way had no issues when it was introduced for public sale, unlike the EC model. I have been struggling with the mount for a couple years now and it's been to the factory twice, the jury is out on the second repair because I haven't been able to image for over a month due to the heavy smoke from wildfires in Northern California. iOptron tech services have been fantastic in terms of response and their desire to fix the mount, but my frustration level got so high last year that I purchased a replacement mount, a never used Astro Physics 900GTO. I promised I wouldn't do first light until I resolved whatever the problem is with the iOptron mount, so that is where I stand at the moment. I recently reached out to a professional astronomer and outstanding imager regarding the issues with my mount, I did so because he was one of the original purchasers of the trouble-plagued EC model. He has agreed to try and help me, but can't do so until I can send him screenshots of the PHD2 guiding graph. He will be looking for anomalies associated with some of the issues identified by others, including beta testers. The one criticism I have with iOptron's service department is the fact they do not do final testing under nighttime conditions, only a computer analysis of performance from the end coder (on the EC model). I don't think this is an adequate test and others have questioned its accuracy as well. I don't think there is a substitute to actually setting the mount up under real-time conditions. Anyway, all I can do is plow forward and perhaps the second opinion from an experienced user with a deep background on this topic will produce some positive results. I've gotten to the point where deep learning curves are a turn off after all I have been through. Despite the mount issues, I was considering taking a look at SGP and I knew going in it can be very challenging to understand. From a previous multi-page discussion on this, I think if you can properly set up all the parameters correctly, fill in the blanks accurately, you are on a good path from that point on. However, you have convinced me to at least take a look at APT, it would be foolish not to. I didn't realize it also handled CCD and CMOS cooled cameras as well, unlike BYEOS. I don't want to complicate things more than they already are or consider software that is more than what my needs are. Thanks for the great videos and keep up the fine work you are doing.

I really enjoyed your video thanks...has made me put my wallet away and start simple, enjoy the journey and get there slowly

These videos are brilliant and helping me alot to learn what i'm doing here in the Isle of Man, Uk Keep them up i love watching them.

From the first time I watched a video from AstroBackyard I was hooked, turned me from just viewing & after seeing your beautiful images I wanted to try for myself ,though mines a small setup it works well. Thanks for the knowledge & look forward to the next instalment.

Another very helpful video - thank you.

Great video. I like your opening statement about collecting data from other telescopes and that being better, yeah right. There is nothing like doing the capture yourself

What an awesome channel! I don’t have any of this gear but dream about it. ONE day I will start and that’s a promise I made to myself, and I credit Trevor for a decent chunk of my enthusiasm! Thanks so much!

Thank you Trevor. I enjoy your videos for quite a while now and you aswell as your pictures a truly inspiring. I´m still pretty newbie but it is so much fun staying outside, watching those small points while knowing they are so incredible far away, huge.... it is just a mindblowing hobby. I´d like to say (German) Dankeschön

I just spent $700 getting a very very basic, go-to setup with a 2 megapixel dedicated camera... this is just to learn. I have a feeling this is going to be an expensive hobby and I am barely even scratching the surface... Luckily I have a very powerful laptop already for image processing. I figure I will start small with this basic set up I put together and go from there. At worse the cheap set up I have put together will make a fun camping set up as well. I ended up getting a 5" reflector with a 650mm focal length. I also picked up my collimation laser, 3x barlow, and a .5x focal reducer. There is so much to learn and it is going to be a great hobby! Your video was super helpful breaking this down more than the written tutorials have! Thanks!

Yup. Great stuff as always Trevor.

Trevor you're honestly the greatest thank you for another great video you've inspired me to start astrophotography and my setup should come any day now rather than just a camera on a tripod. You're absolutely right about the difference between a setup 1000 miles away or just sitting on your porch. Thanks again for being such a great guide in this confusing but AMAZING hobby

@AstroBackyard

6 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that Wes - sounds like we're on the same page. Clear skies buddy

Great video! Extremly helpful for a newbie :D

Thanks for the video Trevor!

Excellent presentation. Thanks . Keep it up

Thanks Trevor, great resource and well done!

Thanks for this great explanation, for a complete aspiring astro photog , im wanting this mount , so im gathering all the info ,while waiting for your book ,

Thanks so much Trevor. Been waiting for a video just like this. Extremely helpfull. My backyard is like yours. In New Jersey. Not far from the lights of Philadelphia

My wife Rae is very supportive, but she has been thinking of starting a group for "wives of astrophotographers"! I am thankful for every video you make. They are so well done!

Excellent ! great video, thanks!

Nice video Trevor! You earned each and every one of those 25K!

Very very good video... I've watched quite a few of yours but this one was of particular interest as a beginner into astrophotography... I just scored a vixen equatorial set up from a friend for a great price and this has been very helpful... Thank you so much for posting. You have a great Channel on KZread

Hey Trevor! You are an inspiration and really gives me motivation to continue with astrophotography. I started with a Go-To Alt-Az mount and it worked fine for viewing the night sky. But soon realized that i had to get a equatorial mount for photography, so i bought a Skywatcher Eq3-2 with a Explorer 150PDS tube. I have tried astrophoto many times, but there's always something that comes in the way. Either it's my DSLR that aint got enough juice or it's just another night without clear skies. Now i got myself a Bahtinov mask and some USB extensions, so hopefully i will be able to capture Jupiter on July 31 when it's in opposition. Wish you all the best and a Big thanks for all the tutorials and tips/trix. PS. Please write that book. I will be the first who buys it. /Mike

Hey Trevor, newbie here. I look forward to checking out all your videos and learning all that I can.

Very sweet video sir, I enjoy your videos and images, thank you for your work on these

Great video. This would probably be the best presentations of what our hobby is all about, that I have seen so far. Having to deal with all the technical issues and a constantly moving target, means that it's like photography on steroids

Great educational tutorial video Trevor

As always another great video!

excellent informative video. Thank you!

This is such a great channel. Thanks

Stunning.. Getting my first scope soon, nothing like your setup just a Skywatcher 127 AZ to get me looking up… Thanks for the inspiration.

I love your channel man!!!!!! Your videos have inspired me in so many ways! i am starting out from beginning. i will probably get a refractor first for affordability and slowly move up :)

Very good introduction, very helpful. Thanks Trevor.

@AstroBackyard

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Frank!