Great video! I have the also have the Celestron C8-N scope and was wondering whether you used prime focus, afocal, or a projection method to capture your photographs? Just using the prime focus method does not seem to give me enough magnification to capture deep sky objects.
@mpeniak Celestron Pacific gives you the Extra XLT-Coatings of"Hafnium-Oxide Coatings + the standard Magnesium-Flouride and Titanium-Oxide".Meade only gives you UTHC coatings of "Magnesium-Flouride and Titanium Flouride"as your Coatings NO"Hafnium Oxide".But if you need a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain instead of a Celestron 14", 11" Celestron as myself, 91/4"Celestron or 8" Celestron Schmidt Cassegrains. If you want a 16" Schmidt, then you will go with Meade unless you take better Optics of Celestron!!
@omnipotentbaron The best leads are the Schmidt-Cassegrains offered by Celestron Pacific of Torrance California. At your closest Astronomy Retail Store the best Astro-Photographic starters are the CELESTRON SE6" and SE8" Schmidt-Cassegrains. But if you can spare more money than the Celestron 8",91/4inch,11" or14" Schmidt-Cassegrains either on CGEM or CGEM DX or CGE mounts are the most Astro-Photographic Schmidt-Telescopes with the EdgeHD Schmidts Specific for Astro-Photographic and Visual work!!
Hey these are incredible! I was just wondering where you got your t-adapter/t-ring from because I was going to get them but I didn't know which were the best. So I was just wondering what you used
when doing prime focus astrophotography i can not use the lcd screen on the dslr to focus as it is blank,no image,the image only displays after it has been taken, is that normal? thanx
@HiggyB61 Thanks for your comment, appreciated! Yes, as far as I know it is perfectly normal that you see the image on the LCD only after the exposure is over.
@mpeniak you took these photos in 2008, do you have any recommendations for a telescope i could use for astrophotography under or slightly over $1000 that would be good for getting pictures of nebulae and other such objects. like 1:18 , 1:39 , 2:55 , and what is that a picture of at 1:11 ? VERY COOL!
@TheChipAndSkip Thanks, I am happy you enjoyed the picutures. 1:11 is The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51a). Consider getting Celestron C8-N that should be within the budget and later, when you have more money you can upgrade the mount etc.
Hi, amazing shots! Absolute amateur here looking into getting into astrophotography, can I do much with a Nikon D5000 and a 70-300mm lens? I'm guessing the moon is about it? I'm only looking to photograph planets in our solar system, would you be able to recommend any telescopes/lenses?
@littleman787 You can do more with that equipment than the moon. You can do widefiled shots of shorter exposures and then stuck them together to get more detail out. It's hard to advice on equipment, its's very specific and you would need to tell me more about how you want to use it apart from photographing planets, how portable should it be, how much money do you want to spend, what is the sky like at your place and most importantly how much are you interested in pursuing this in the future?
@mpeniak Oh that's great news, could you advise a beginner on how to do this? I have a tripod already. I don't need the equipment to be too portable but ideally not too expensive, i.e. around or under £200 if possible. Around my area there is quite a bit of light pollution but I can drive a bit out of town to find a nice clear spot. I'm very interested in pursuing this but only as a hobby, nothing more. Thanks for any help you can give me.
NIce pictures. I recently got an Orion XT8 and a Nikon D90 and started shooting astrophotos. Do you think they are good enough to take similar pictures like yours? with lots of practice of course.
@znanyun If you are only taking shots of the planets and the moon they will be good, but Dobsonians are no good for deep space astrophotography because an equatorial mount with a motor drive is required to track the object.
Again at 2:50 it is an extraordinary shot. The fact its that bright and the colors are so distinct make it a fanominal shot. The red gasses tword the top and the blue in the middle are dazzling. I love how it leads to a white center as it truly does "light up the night sky" even more amazing the clear blue cloud just to the left of the main cloud. Where do you live that allows for nights that are this perfect?
@14goomba Thank you for your comments. I live in Plymouth, UK and hat picture was taken nearly from the city center. The Orion Nebula is very bright and easily photographed from most places.
At 1:39 there is no way that is an amature photo. And if it is, great job. you can see the bright center distinctly and the different gasses tword the outer edge of Andromeda. The distinct color changes suggesting there are many gasses in the middle ring of the galaxy. And twrd the top you casee the beutiful nebulie justst above the bright center. Its a great shot and incredibly rare shot if you took it your self. sorry keybord malfunction.
@14goomba Andromeda can be easily shot by anyone with any camera. I've seen much better amateur shots of andromeda, done with SLR camera only (no telescope) using a tracking system... :)
At 1:39 there is no way that is an amature photo. And if it is, great job. you can see the bright center distinctly and the different gasses tword the outer edge of Andromeda. The distinct color changes suggesting there are many gasses in the middle ring of the galaxy. And twrd the top you casee the beutiful nebulie stabovete bright center. Its a great shot and incredibly rare shot if you took it your self.
Hi, great Video. Are you using the Celestron NexStar 8 SE ? I'm thinking of upgrading from by Dob. I was worried how loud the motor was on these things because I observe from my garden. A
@SinishaTheScoper Thanks for that, and another quick question if you don't mind, I live in New Zealand, and straight overhead on a clear night with Binoculars, is a fuzzy ball, could this be a Galaxy also.
@fjbutch i dont know what are you trying to tell me.You are watching that galaxy with Bino's but you dont know thats a galaxy or not? Well,if you see like star and a ''cloud'' around it,it is a galaxy. I just watched m51 for my first time today!
@mpeniak this may be a dumb question but some astrophotographies for Orion products for "best for imaging" say 'Deep Sky' while others say "Lunar and Planet" which is better? thnx
@EikC super thanx for the reply guy. i was a bit uncertain and didn't want to spend hella money without some assurance that what i was buying is what i want.
@TheTechnician090 Thank you, these pictures were taken with Celestron C8 on HEQ5 mount. The exposure times vary, usually quite short exposures, for example I would normally stack 100-200~ images of 30sec or 1min exposures. The images of planets are taken with a hi-framerate ccd camera (often a good webcam does the job). For planets I would usually record 2min video at 20fps which will give you 2400frames subset of which is then stacked in Registax, hope this helps :)
I am trying to get into astronomy and I am currently looking at telescopes. After seeing your video of the planets and being able to see Nebulas I would like to know what astromaster you have. I have been currently been lokking at the Celestron Astromaster 130 EQ Rflecting telescope and if you could tell me if that is a good telescope or recomend me one, it would help me out a lot. Thanks
What's the nebula at 2:49 and 1:17? I guess the one at 1:17 is the cat eye nebula and the one at 2:49 is the Orion but I'm just guessing, I'm probably wrong! Amazing pictures btw! Keep it up
Wow great photos! Don't mind those who say they're fake or not yours cause you wouldn't waste your time doing that - I'm sure they are yours. They're very good too! Keep it up :D
Very Nice pictures! I want to get into astrophotography as well. Tell me, will it be possible to take decent pictures with a 4.5 inch Newtonian? Also, where did you an adapter for your canon rebel? I want to buy one for my rebel xt.
Yes, you will be able to get some good pics even with 4.5 inch. Good pics of the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus for sure. When it comes to DSO (deepsky object) you will be able to photograph brighter objects without big issues. For the dimmer DSOs you would need much longer exposure times and hence good precision mount, probably with guiding. For that kind of stuff you might condier getting bigger telescope on a sturdier mount.
@DrFuckingPepper Thank you, it is another great compliment! Please educate yourself before accusing other people of plagiarism.
These pictures are perfectly achievable with amateur telescopes and my pictures are far from the best example of what you can get. I would suggest you to do a bit of research to findout how amateur astronomers' contributions are valued in the field of astronomy.
However, I would like to see my pictures in the journals you mention, please send the the link...
@Liqu1d16 Your a ignirrant boob..it's time lapse, it shows where the star was and how it got to where it is now..you know we are spinning at like 27,000 kilometers per hour you no..
@Liqu1d16 They aren't fake. When you take multiple pictures with a camera or webcam, say 20fps and shoot for 1 minute you end up with 1200 pictures just for that one minute, When you load it into a program it takes the pictures and stamps them into one large picture. The "motion blur" you see is the Earth's rotation...Good luck there nutty...While you are looking at your neighbor undress with a binocular...leave the Sky Observations with people like mpeniak and myself
Is this the exact view you would see from the scope or it is enhanced? Often times people use color filters and tinker with images to make them look better. So is that all in the visible spectrum?
wow when i seen this on youtube, i thought you had just got some pictures from the web but these are absaloutly amazing, id like to ask, can i request some of these? as a background for my PC?
@The1nd0nlyTom I'm glad you like them, please see my website (see video desc.) for more images, you can download which ever you like. Also if you google "peniak my amateur astrophotos" you will be able to download some from there. Hope it helps.
how do you take the pictures? is there a way to put your camera on your telescope to zoom it and take a shot? lol i dont know much about astronomy equipment and im only 14 but i love cosmology and i dont really know what equipent i should buy and what i should start with.
It's nice to see you're into astronomy already! Yes, you can use a special adapter to attach DSLR camera to a telescope. Many astronomers use dedicated CCD cameras in which case you can attach them directly to an eyepiece holder.
Once the telescope is aligned with the north celestial pole you can point it anywhere on the sky and the motors will make sure that telescope points at the same place despite of Earth's rotation. The you simply take pics and process them in PC.
got this added to my favs awesome video and the music really suits it, its kinda like, i think about the universe and part of me is scared because when u think bout it, its just overwhelming, n tht we still dont know how we got here, or why we're here and on the other hand it excites me to think of other worlds out there, with life on them, i mean out of all the planets and stars i think its so selfish to think we're the only ones here, its rediculous the odds of aliens is massive
The pictures are awesome. I'm hoping I will soon get into astro photography, I think it is one of the most interesting hobbies a person could have. And the picture with Jupiter and one of the moon's is truly a remarkable picture, love the work!
@jaskel555 join stargazerslaunge forums, on of the best forums for popular astronomy, you will find all the answers related to astronomy/astrophotography
now i have cpc925 but the way you attach the camera is the same. all you need is T-adapor and T-ring for Cannon, once you have these you can start right away. T-adaptor replaces the eyepieces and t-ring replaces your cannon lens, after that you attach the camera on the t-adaptor on the scope and job done
Thank you very much, i'm saving to purchase my own Celestron. hope someday can take pictures as good as yours. Keep posting these awesome images. thanks again.
@berengenutti I have currently Celestron CPC925, which has 9.25" aperture and it costed me around £2200. The one that was used to take these shot was Celestron C8-N, which was 8" in diameter and much cheaper, initially it costed around £400 and later I upgraded the mount to HEQ5, which was around £400 on its own. Hope this helps.
Hello, these photo's really are something thank you very much for sharing them. May i ask for a beginner astronomer would you agree that a Celestron Astromaster 130EQ would make a good telescope to get started with?
OMG those are awesome! I have canon EOS 1000D myself and soon a telescope and I'm going to buy a T-ring and T adapter for it. o you have any further tips for me?
Great pictures! I registrate that you used the C8-N telescope. I have the same, and I recently got a dslr (Canon eos 450d) that I would like to use with my telescope. Did you have to modify your scope to achieve focus like some other people have to? Thanks :)
I used to have C8-N and it was not necessary to do any particular modification to the camera nor to the telescope. All that was necessary was to buy a T-ring for Cannon D300 (rebel). Now I have a brand new scope, Celestron CPC925 as the main instrument for our local astronomy group in Plymouth, UK. Check my site if you're interested in today's image of sunspot 1087.
Nice! I am so sold on the C8 as my first scope. What nebula was that @2:49 that is a beautiful picture. I really want to learn how to take photo's of nebula's your's. Particularly this one. I guess I have to get the scope. I wanted the closest clearest view for the money, and thought about the Orion XT10, but I'm now thinking the good old C8 seems to have better images. What do you think? Thanks for your great shots to inspire a new commer! Cheers, IC
precioso el video ...pero solo una cosa pork esa musica tan terrorifica?esk da miedo en serio le podian poner una un poko mejor no? solo es un consejillo ...pero el video una pasada felicidades
great view of andromeda! right now i have a small scope its a meade ds2114 4.5 inch reflector but im getting a meade lightbridge 12" dob in a month so im hoping itll be great! Great astrophotos btw unfortunately i wont be able to take them on a dob
i got this software thing, stelluar i think its called, you use that? its quite good, its like a map of everything we can see when we look up, of course the far ones are not there though, although andromeda galaxy is... have you heard of that planet they're saying resembles earth? called OGLE or something, 5 times bigger than earth, but its the first planet they reckon could contain life, since its alot like ours
peniak, is it possible to spot andromeda galaxy in the UK, you live in england right? i know nothing about astronomy, like telescopes, star charts etc but i heard on a clear night you can see M31 as a faint smudge without anything, is that possible? i live in the south east, essex.
@Brady2k10 Hey, I live in Plymouth. Yes, you're right you can see it with naked eyes and it wont look much different than a star. With binoculars and telescope you can start noticing its elongated shape. Long exposures reveal much more detail obviously.
@mpeniak what so is there a certain place i should look, like north south east west? time etc? or is it possible to see it just by looking up on a clear night
a religious person would answer with "but god created space" errr how do you know that? from reading a book that HUMANS created? please. All this talk of god, someone who hasnt shown himself, its fucking bullshit, it really is. Space is god, period. We dont understand space, we dont understand how it was formed, why it was formed and maybe thats the way things have to be, accept it.
i think most of whats real is what we see, you see a dead person rotting, hes rotting. Hes just dead, gone forever, just like a star when it blows up, why does there have to be an explanation for this? there doesnt but our human brains want one, and religious people like to follow these "nice sounding excuses" because they're ignorant to whats real and what isnt, to me space is my god,
@Brady2k10 most of whats real is in fact what we don't see.97% of the matter that holds the universe together is something currently unknown to us.The remaining 3% is our universe we can measure with varying success and varying approximations.Out of these 3% we can only see a tiny light spectrum where anything below or above it is not perceivable by us.Finding from the physics, astrophysics and quantum mechanics are revealing a non-local universe full of "mysteries" forcing us to rethink stuff
@mpeniak i agree 100%, i think all religion is false, they're just excuses for people that want excuses as to why we're here, where we go when we die etc. they're the ignorant ones. I agree totally with what you said, nice vid btw i added it to my favourites
i think humans are just here... thats it, we're here like all the animals and other living things, we like to think we're special but when you look at space itself... and how clever it is, by clever i mean how planets form, life, how stars die, black holes etc, the scale of the universe and so on, thats better than anything i know, forget all these religions, all religion is.. they put nice sounding excuses i.e. when you die you go to paradise. How so?
i fucking love space man, im fascinated by it, like the thought of other worlds out there like our own its just one big mystery and its just amazing and im so happy i got to see it, space, and our universe, although only when i look up at night its an epic thing because this is our home, earth is our home but the whole universe is our home and as it fascinates me, it also scares the shit out of me too because we dont understand it and thats what makes me fascinated.
1:38 impossible for a usual telescope !
Arti575 4 weeks ago
Some stunning images there Martin ;)
sgtgrash 1 month ago
Magnific pics!
IAI777 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing, amazing
goofiegoofball 4 months ago
Great video! I have the also have the Celestron C8-N scope and was wondering whether you used prime focus, afocal, or a projection method to capture your photographs? Just using the prime focus method does not seem to give me enough magnification to capture deep sky objects.
gruendemannnathaniel 4 months ago
Iv got a Cannon T3I rebel and im looking for a good telescope to attach it to for this type of work. Can anyone give me some leads?
omnipotentbaron 4 months ago
@omnipotentbaron Celestron or Meade with aperture of 8" or more
mpeniak 4 months ago
@mpeniak Celestron Pacific gives you the Extra XLT-Coatings of"Hafnium-Oxide Coatings + the standard Magnesium-Flouride and Titanium-Oxide".Meade only gives you UTHC coatings of "Magnesium-Flouride and Titanium Flouride"as your Coatings NO"Hafnium Oxide".But if you need a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain instead of a Celestron 14", 11" Celestron as myself, 91/4"Celestron or 8" Celestron Schmidt Cassegrains. If you want a 16" Schmidt, then you will go with Meade unless you take better Optics of Celestron!!
Jules7892 1 month ago
@omnipotentbaron Celestron Nex Star 8SE <<< great telescope
Baltier2705 2 months ago
@omnipotentbaron The best leads are the Schmidt-Cassegrains offered by Celestron Pacific of Torrance California. At your closest Astronomy Retail Store the best Astro-Photographic starters are the CELESTRON SE6" and SE8" Schmidt-Cassegrains. But if you can spare more money than the Celestron 8",91/4inch,11" or14" Schmidt-Cassegrains either on CGEM or CGEM DX or CGE mounts are the most Astro-Photographic Schmidt-Telescopes with the EdgeHD Schmidts Specific for Astro-Photographic and Visual work!!
Jules7892 1 month ago
good !!
xanaxou78 4 months ago
1 year on and i still cant enough of this video
gamerrz27 5 months ago
@gamerrz27 Thank you, I am really happy you enjoy these pics :)
mpeniak 5 months ago
czad
eglebegleble 5 months ago
Hey these are incredible! I was just wondering where you got your t-adapter/t-ring from because I was going to get them but I didn't know which were the best. So I was just wondering what you used
sexxydracomalfoy 5 months ago
What music is this playing?
bamptonbred 5 months ago
hi great vid! got a question for u if thats ok,
when doing prime focus astrophotography i can not use the lcd screen on the dslr to focus as it is blank,no image,the image only displays after it has been taken, is that normal? thanx
HiggyB61 5 months ago
@HiggyB61 Thanks for your comment, appreciated! Yes, as far as I know it is perfectly normal that you see the image on the LCD only after the exposure is over.
mpeniak 5 months ago
@mpeniak hey thanx for ur reply! i thought i might be doing something wrong
so thanx for clarifying that for me TC
HiggyB61 5 months ago
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sigurdur63 6 months ago
awesome pics man, and also awesome track! i wud wanna see some tuts frm u in future vids if u got tym :)
nextblain 6 months ago
I love the moon photo at 0:16 :D beautiful!
tinjan94 6 months ago
Some very nice images well done
carlai2 7 months ago
Primarily I tend to observe things rather than image them but this video has inspired me to start imaging. Thanks for uploading :)
1516Tom 7 months ago
@1516Tom Thanks for your comment, I am glad that the video inspired you. Check my site for more recent images with a 9.25" Celestron :)
mpeniak 7 months ago
@mpeniak do you use registax?
daveshow07 7 months ago
@daveshow07 yes, for Solar System objects. For deepsky objects (galaxies, nebulae...) I use DeepSkyStacker. Hope this helps :)
mpeniak 7 months ago 2
@mpeniak you took these photos in 2008, do you have any recommendations for a telescope i could use for astrophotography under or slightly over $1000 that would be good for getting pictures of nebulae and other such objects. like 1:18 , 1:39 , 2:55 , and what is that a picture of at 1:11 ? VERY COOL!
TheChipAndSkip 6 months ago
@TheChipAndSkip Thanks, I am happy you enjoyed the picutures. 1:11 is The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51a). Consider getting Celestron C8-N that should be within the budget and later, when you have more money you can upgrade the mount etc.
mpeniak 6 months ago
@mpeniak awesome, thank you for the reply!
TheChipAndSkip 6 months ago
Hi, amazing shots! Absolute amateur here looking into getting into astrophotography, can I do much with a Nikon D5000 and a 70-300mm lens? I'm guessing the moon is about it? I'm only looking to photograph planets in our solar system, would you be able to recommend any telescopes/lenses?
littleman787 7 months ago
@littleman787 You can do more with that equipment than the moon. You can do widefiled shots of shorter exposures and then stuck them together to get more detail out. It's hard to advice on equipment, its's very specific and you would need to tell me more about how you want to use it apart from photographing planets, how portable should it be, how much money do you want to spend, what is the sky like at your place and most importantly how much are you interested in pursuing this in the future?
mpeniak 7 months ago
@mpeniak Oh that's great news, could you advise a beginner on how to do this? I have a tripod already. I don't need the equipment to be too portable but ideally not too expensive, i.e. around or under £200 if possible. Around my area there is quite a bit of light pollution but I can drive a bit out of town to find a nice clear spot. I'm very interested in pursuing this but only as a hobby, nothing more. Thanks for any help you can give me.
littleman787 7 months ago
NIce pictures. I recently got an Orion XT8 and a Nikon D90 and started shooting astrophotos. Do you think they are good enough to take similar pictures like yours? with lots of practice of course.
znanyun 8 months ago
@znanyun If you are only taking shots of the planets and the moon they will be good, but Dobsonians are no good for deep space astrophotography because an equatorial mount with a motor drive is required to track the object.
justme688 7 months ago
Again at 2:50 it is an extraordinary shot. The fact its that bright and the colors are so distinct make it a fanominal shot. The red gasses tword the top and the blue in the middle are dazzling. I love how it leads to a white center as it truly does "light up the night sky" even more amazing the clear blue cloud just to the left of the main cloud. Where do you live that allows for nights that are this perfect?
14goomba 8 months ago
@14goomba Thank you for your comments. I live in Plymouth, UK and hat picture was taken nearly from the city center. The Orion Nebula is very bright and easily photographed from most places.
mpeniak 8 months ago
At 1:39 there is no way that is an amature photo. And if it is, great job. you can see the bright center distinctly and the different gasses tword the outer edge of Andromeda. The distinct color changes suggesting there are many gasses in the middle ring of the galaxy. And twrd the top you casee the beutiful nebulie justst above the bright center. Its a great shot and incredibly rare shot if you took it your self. sorry keybord malfunction.
14goomba 8 months ago
@14goomba Andromeda can be easily shot by anyone with any camera. I've seen much better amateur shots of andromeda, done with SLR camera only (no telescope) using a tracking system... :)
tziuriky86 7 months ago
At 1:39 there is no way that is an amature photo. And if it is, great job. you can see the bright center distinctly and the different gasses tword the outer edge of Andromeda. The distinct color changes suggesting there are many gasses in the middle ring of the galaxy. And twrd the top you casee the beutiful nebulie stabovete bright center. Its a great shot and incredibly rare shot if you took it your self.
14goomba 8 months ago
the song is by Lama Gyurme- Sacred Words of Liberation
britarthc 8 months ago
whats with music dude? who are you traying to creep? nice picture though, thanks for sharing.
nojobnogirl 8 months ago
Added to favorite.
Misterknock 8 months ago
cool ..thanks...
fjbutch 8 months ago
Hi, great Video. Are you using the Celestron NexStar 8 SE ? I'm thinking of upgrading from by Dob. I was worried how loud the motor was on these things because I observe from my garden. A
Astronooby 9 months ago
@Astronooby Thank you, I used to use Celestron C8-N. now I am using CPC925
mpeniak 9 months ago
Very nice images.Do you know if i can i take such pictures using an HD CCD sony Handycam?
aerodynamic3794 9 months ago
@aerodynamic3794 Thank you, unfortunately, you need a good telescope and a good CCD/DSLR camera for that.
mpeniak 9 months ago
Is that the Andromeda Galaxy at 1:11 ?
fjbutch 9 months ago
@fjbutch Thats the m51,the whirpool galaxy.
SinishaTheScoper 8 months ago
@SinishaTheScoper Thanks for that, and another quick question if you don't mind, I live in New Zealand, and straight overhead on a clear night with Binoculars, is a fuzzy ball, could this be a Galaxy also.
fjbutch 8 months ago
@fjbutch i dont know what are you trying to tell me.You are watching that galaxy with Bino's but you dont know thats a galaxy or not? Well,if you see like star and a ''cloud'' around it,it is a galaxy. I just watched m51 for my first time today!
SinishaTheScoper 8 months ago
Just wanted to say this is really awsome dude!
coolness108108 9 months ago
@coolness108108 Thank you, very much appreciated!
mpeniak 9 months ago
thank yuu very much
great video !
kontr42 9 months ago
@MrSimonm1976 Thank you, very much appreciated! :)
mpeniak 10 months ago
@mpeniak this may be a dumb question but some astrophotographies for Orion products for "best for imaging" say 'Deep Sky' while others say "Lunar and Planet" which is better? thnx
arivas713 9 months ago
@arivas713
Deep Sky objects are things like Nebulas, galaxies, globular clusters. Lunar and planet is for the moon and other planets.
EikC 9 months ago
@EikC super thanx for the reply guy. i was a bit uncertain and didn't want to spend hella money without some assurance that what i was buying is what i want.
arivas713 9 months ago
0:27 on the right in the milky way is cygnus
astronomermax 10 months ago
Those photos are lovely, i especially enjoy the Nebulae. I should buy a telescope, perhaps sometime in the future.
ReDhAvEn1993 10 months ago
Great video! What type of telescope are you using and what are the exposure times?
TheTechnician090 10 months ago
@TheTechnician090 Thank you, these pictures were taken with Celestron C8 on HEQ5 mount. The exposure times vary, usually quite short exposures, for example I would normally stack 100-200~ images of 30sec or 1min exposures. The images of planets are taken with a hi-framerate ccd camera (often a good webcam does the job). For planets I would usually record 2min video at 20fps which will give you 2400frames subset of which is then stacked in Registax, hope this helps :)
mpeniak 10 months ago
I am trying to get into astronomy and I am currently looking at telescopes. After seeing your video of the planets and being able to see Nebulas I would like to know what astromaster you have. I have been currently been lokking at the Celestron Astromaster 130 EQ Rflecting telescope and if you could tell me if that is a good telescope or recomend me one, it would help me out a lot. Thanks
cgmanswim 11 months ago
Clavius was always my favorite crater; the arc and increasing size of the small craters seems super-natural. Thanks.
Pipewing 11 months ago
What's the nebula at 2:49 and 1:17? I guess the one at 1:17 is the cat eye nebula and the one at 2:49 is the Orion but I'm just guessing, I'm probably wrong! Amazing pictures btw! Keep it up
Kanciapaa 11 months ago
@Kanciapaa 2:49 is Orion, and I THINK 1:17 is the Bell Nebula? Maybe?
davidmerriss 11 months ago
@davidmerriss Oh yeah it does look like a bell nebula. Thank you! :D
Kanciapaa 11 months ago
Wow great photos! Don't mind those who say they're fake or not yours cause you wouldn't waste your time doing that - I'm sure they are yours. They're very good too! Keep it up :D
Kanciapaa 11 months ago
i dont think that this pictures are fake......first of all you need to know what telescope is using and if he or she is using a ccd camera or not
otaner142 11 months ago
Very Nice pictures! I want to get into astrophotography as well. Tell me, will it be possible to take decent pictures with a 4.5 inch Newtonian? Also, where did you an adapter for your canon rebel? I want to buy one for my rebel xt.
Nice pics once again.
kmeleon829 11 months ago
@kmeleon829 Hi, thanks for your comment!
Yes, you will be able to get some good pics even with 4.5 inch. Good pics of the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus for sure. When it comes to DSO (deepsky object) you will be able to photograph brighter objects without big issues. For the dimmer DSOs you would need much longer exposure times and hence good precision mount, probably with guiding. For that kind of stuff you might condier getting bigger telescope on a sturdier mount.
mpeniak 11 months ago
@kmeleon829 i have a 4inch mak that does well
spike53560 10 months ago
I was lying.
DrFuckingPepper 1 year ago
Some of those pictures aren't yours.
I know this because I've seen them in Astronomy Journals.
The lesser quality ones are yours, for sure. We can tell that, but the deeper space shots are simply not achievable without space-based telescopes.
Do not use others fine work to bolster your ego.
DrFuckingPepper 1 year ago
@DrFuckingPepper Thank you, it is another great compliment! Please educate yourself before accusing other people of plagiarism.
These pictures are perfectly achievable with amateur telescopes and my pictures are far from the best example of what you can get. I would suggest you to do a bit of research to findout how amateur astronomers' contributions are valued in the field of astronomy.
However, I would like to see my pictures in the journals you mention, please send the the link...
mpeniak 1 year ago
the last pictures are fake.
Liqu1d16 1 year ago
@Liqu1d16 it's a compilement that you think the images are good enough to be "fake"
mpeniak 1 year ago 7
@Liqu1d16 Your a ignirrant boob..it's time lapse, it shows where the star was and how it got to where it is now..you know we are spinning at like 27,000 kilometers per hour you no..
DivineO2 11 months ago
@Liqu1d16 They aren't fake. When you take multiple pictures with a camera or webcam, say 20fps and shoot for 1 minute you end up with 1200 pictures just for that one minute, When you load it into a program it takes the pictures and stamps them into one large picture. The "motion blur" you see is the Earth's rotation...Good luck there nutty...While you are looking at your neighbor undress with a binocular...leave the Sky Observations with people like mpeniak and myself
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Videos4USArmy 1 year ago
Amazing pictures... i dont understand why 3 people say they dont like it!!!, whats not to like about this??? who needs nasa when you got this :)
WiggyVideos12 1 year ago
Hi what is the glowing thing at 1:03 ????
Is this the exact view you would see from the scope or it is enhanced? Often times people use color filters and tinker with images to make them look better. So is that all in the visible spectrum?
SaM52461 1 year ago
wow when i seen this on youtube, i thought you had just got some pictures from the web but these are absaloutly amazing, id like to ask, can i request some of these? as a background for my PC?
The1nd0nlyTom 1 year ago
@The1nd0nlyTom I'm glad you like them, please see my website (see video desc.) for more images, you can download which ever you like. Also if you google "peniak my amateur astrophotos" you will be able to download some from there. Hope it helps.
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak ahhh cool thanks, will have to have a look at that, im just about to buy my first telescope :)
The1nd0nlyTom 1 year ago
some beautiful pics Martin love the nebulaes and the plieadies looked awsome well done good work keep it up !
danodan1967 1 year ago
tahnk u 4 sharing ur light w/ us,,what star n neb is taht at 2:40????
TReBoryitNE 1 year ago
@TReBoryitNE That'd be The Flame Nebula
mpeniak 1 year ago
really nice pictures! can i ask what telescope you have and how much it cost?
seanymo 1 year ago
@seanymo
Thanks, Celestron CPC925 costs around £2000
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak how many $ is that ??? i wnt one
,,what u use to take the pics????
TReBoryitNE 1 year ago
@mpeniak how many $ is that ??? i wnt one
,,what u use to take the pics???? and what magnitude eyepeice???
TReBoryitNE 1 year ago
how do you take the pictures? is there a way to put your camera on your telescope to zoom it and take a shot? lol i dont know much about astronomy equipment and im only 14 but i love cosmology and i dont really know what equipent i should buy and what i should start with.
infamousinz 1 year ago
@infamousinz Hi,
It's nice to see you're into astronomy already! Yes, you can use a special adapter to attach DSLR camera to a telescope. Many astronomers use dedicated CCD cameras in which case you can attach them directly to an eyepiece holder.
Once the telescope is aligned with the north celestial pole you can point it anywhere on the sky and the motors will make sure that telescope points at the same place despite of Earth's rotation. The you simply take pics and process them in PC.
mpeniak 1 year ago
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tofleg10 1 year ago
got this added to my favs awesome video and the music really suits it, its kinda like, i think about the universe and part of me is scared because when u think bout it, its just overwhelming, n tht we still dont know how we got here, or why we're here and on the other hand it excites me to think of other worlds out there, with life on them, i mean out of all the planets and stars i think its so selfish to think we're the only ones here, its rediculous the odds of aliens is massive
Brady2k10 1 year ago
Hi.
Just a question, is your DSLR modified ?
Thanks for posting, great images !
9belvedere 1 year ago
@9belvedere Hi, thanks for your comment.
Nope, the camera was not modified apart from hitting the ground several times :D
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak
The pictures are awesome. I'm hoping I will soon get into astro photography, I think it is one of the most interesting hobbies a person could have. And the picture with Jupiter and one of the moon's is truly a remarkable picture, love the work!
JFri4321 1 year ago
Awesome pictures, congratulations!
karmincernescu 1 year ago
music goes perfect with the images .brilliant
saxonwarrior23 1 year ago
at 1:24 you seriously got that shot of Saturn?! That's unbelievable!!
theone2225 1 year ago
Where do you live? Just want to know how much light polution there is around you...
Boss5414 1 year ago
thank you so much
have you got a blog could you make it ,it would be very good sorry for my poor english
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wedgetv31 1 year ago
excelent
R0darancabezas 1 year ago
hi, did you use any adapter or just had the rebel on a tripod?? what lens and settings u use?
Very nice pics!
jaskel555 1 year ago
@jaskel555 thanks, the telescope is the lens
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak yeah cool, I just got the same scope and I have a canon 400d (Rebel XTi)
So how you do that?? please let me know, im keen to try it! do you need an adaper or just sit it in front of the eyepiece?
jaskel555 1 year ago
@jaskel555 join stargazerslaunge forums, on of the best forums for popular astronomy, you will find all the answers related to astronomy/astrophotography
now i have cpc925 but the way you attach the camera is the same. all you need is T-adapor and T-ring for Cannon, once you have these you can start right away. T-adaptor replaces the eyepieces and t-ring replaces your cannon lens, after that you attach the camera on the t-adaptor on the scope and job done
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak awesome, ill join up! thanks man and keep up the good work!
jaskel555 1 year ago
ok thanks dude, because i only have an orion funscope witch is pretty beginner,but for christmas im getting orion starblast 4.5. ok well thanks
rsplayer1100 1 year ago
shoot..amateur...these look great they make mine look like garbage
SaturnAndItsRings 1 year ago
excellent photos
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Guenna1084 1 year ago
Thank you very much, i'm saving to purchase my own Celestron. hope someday can take pictures as good as yours. Keep posting these awesome images. thanks again.
berengenutti 1 year ago
@berengenutti I have currently Celestron CPC925, which has 9.25" aperture and it costed me around £2200. The one that was used to take these shot was Celestron C8-N, which was 8" in diameter and much cheaper, initially it costed around £400 and later I upgraded the mount to HEQ5, which was around £400 on its own. Hope this helps.
mpeniak 1 year ago
fantastic job
askharjoon 1 year ago
Magnific job!
IAI777 1 year ago
Hello, these photo's really are something thank you very much for sharing them. May i ask for a beginner astronomer would you agree that a Celestron Astromaster 130EQ would make a good telescope to get started with?
Many thanks
airrunner85 1 year ago
@airrunner85 Thank you, that'd be a nice starter scope for sure! Good luck with it!
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Hypsan 1 year ago
what kind of telescope do you have that you can see this stuff!?!?! this is amazing!!!!
rsplayer1100 1 year ago
@rsplayer1100 These pics were taken using my previous 8" Celestron C8-N reflector.
mpeniak 1 year ago
so amazing!
millionhera22 1 year ago
i cry when i look in space
with a telescope or not
its just all the beauty of giant stars with planets that may have life
blaster132 1 year ago
@SmilesAllRoundxx1 Yes mate, all of the pictures come as I took them. The images very only slightly processed to pull out the detail already present.
mpeniak 1 year ago
Can the celestron c8-N filter images to where you can see things you wouldn't normally see zoomed in?
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Do you have a full size hi res picture of the moon from 0:14-0:18 of your video? Very nice picture!! I want it for my desktop!
utp216 1 year ago
Do you have a full size hi res picture of the moon from 0:14-0:18 of your video? Very nice picture!! I want it for my desktop!
utp216 1 year ago
beautiful.......... we are a very very very small planet so fragil
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wedgetv31 1 year ago
WOW!!
niva4v4 1 year ago
A tip for people august - september is AWESOME to look to the start i EVEN saw 10 falling stars in 15 mins
donator6 1 year ago
how did u do this?
jecoharman 1 year ago
fantastic images
seanLFCcoyne 1 year ago
fantastic!
omkaratube 1 year ago
OMG those are awesome! I have canon EOS 1000D myself and soon a telescope and I'm going to buy a T-ring and T adapter for it. o you have any further tips for me?
gallan30 1 year ago
Really nice view of Clavius crater at the beginning! Gr8 upload , i wish i had clear views like this! Cheers!
propaghandi2 1 year ago
Beautiful pictures.
Beuzer0 1 year ago
0:15, that is one nice picture of the moon
Amatoposters 1 year ago
i wish to have that telescope
fumfulapenguin 1 year ago
Great pictures! I registrate that you used the C8-N telescope. I have the same, and I recently got a dslr (Canon eos 450d) that I would like to use with my telescope. Did you have to modify your scope to achieve focus like some other people have to? Thanks :)
typhonfighter 1 year ago
@typhonfighter Thanks for your comment!
I used to have C8-N and it was not necessary to do any particular modification to the camera nor to the telescope. All that was necessary was to buy a T-ring for Cannon D300 (rebel). Now I have a brand new scope, Celestron CPC925 as the main instrument for our local astronomy group in Plymouth, UK. Check my site if you're interested in today's image of sunspot 1087.
mpeniak 1 year ago
Great Images
ttoyota 1 year ago
this tune is epic
Brady2k10 1 year ago
What telescope did you use and what size of lens? Nice stuff!
skyliner288 1 year ago
Nice! I am so sold on the C8 as my first scope. What nebula was that @2:49 that is a beautiful picture. I really want to learn how to take photo's of nebula's your's. Particularly this one. I guess I have to get the scope. I wanted the closest clearest view for the money, and thought about the Orion XT10, but I'm now thinking the good old C8 seems to have better images. What do you think? Thanks for your great shots to inspire a new commer! Cheers, IC
IcechickenSr 1 year ago
@TheSkyScanner Thanks, yes I used EQ mode but did not autoguide.
mpeniak 1 year ago
precioso el video ...pero solo una cosa pork esa musica tan terrorifica?esk da miedo en serio le podian poner una un poko mejor no? solo es un consejillo ...pero el video una pasada felicidades
lisburys2 1 year ago
great view of andromeda! right now i have a small scope its a meade ds2114 4.5 inch reflector but im getting a meade lightbridge 12" dob in a month so im hoping itll be great! Great astrophotos btw unfortunately i wont be able to take them on a dob
hiian123 1 year ago
whats with the scary Music?????? =O
MrMultiLol 1 year ago
Awesome stuff.
mattimattiusa 1 year ago
1:57 what is that?
dovlex 1 year ago
@dovlex Mars
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak nop that image before mars ...blue thing in left corner...
dovlex 1 year ago
@dovlex Ring Nebula
mpeniak 1 year ago
@dovlex sorry, that is Ring Nebula
mpeniak 1 year ago
What is that at 2:52?
taslebf 1 year ago
@taslebf Orion Nebula
mpeniak 1 year ago
i got this software thing, stelluar i think its called, you use that? its quite good, its like a map of everything we can see when we look up, of course the far ones are not there though, although andromeda galaxy is... have you heard of that planet they're saying resembles earth? called OGLE or something, 5 times bigger than earth, but its the first planet they reckon could contain life, since its alot like ours
Brady2k10 1 year ago
peniak, is it possible to spot andromeda galaxy in the UK, you live in england right? i know nothing about astronomy, like telescopes, star charts etc but i heard on a clear night you can see M31 as a faint smudge without anything, is that possible? i live in the south east, essex.
Brady2k10 1 year ago
@Brady2k10 Hey, I live in Plymouth. Yes, you're right you can see it with naked eyes and it wont look much different than a star. With binoculars and telescope you can start noticing its elongated shape. Long exposures reveal much more detail obviously.
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak what so is there a certain place i should look, like north south east west? time etc? or is it possible to see it just by looking up on a clear night
Brady2k10 1 year ago
one at 1.43 is breathtaking
Brady2k10 1 year ago
a religious person would answer with "but god created space" errr how do you know that? from reading a book that HUMANS created? please. All this talk of god, someone who hasnt shown himself, its fucking bullshit, it really is. Space is god, period. We dont understand space, we dont understand how it was formed, why it was formed and maybe thats the way things have to be, accept it.
Brady2k10 1 year ago
i think most of whats real is what we see, you see a dead person rotting, hes rotting. Hes just dead, gone forever, just like a star when it blows up, why does there have to be an explanation for this? there doesnt but our human brains want one, and religious people like to follow these "nice sounding excuses" because they're ignorant to whats real and what isnt, to me space is my god,
Brady2k10 1 year ago
@Brady2k10 most of whats real is in fact what we don't see.97% of the matter that holds the universe together is something currently unknown to us.The remaining 3% is our universe we can measure with varying success and varying approximations.Out of these 3% we can only see a tiny light spectrum where anything below or above it is not perceivable by us.Finding from the physics, astrophysics and quantum mechanics are revealing a non-local universe full of "mysteries" forcing us to rethink stuff
mpeniak 1 year ago
@mpeniak i agree 100%, i think all religion is false, they're just excuses for people that want excuses as to why we're here, where we go when we die etc. they're the ignorant ones. I agree totally with what you said, nice vid btw i added it to my favourites
Brady2k10 1 year ago
i think humans are just here... thats it, we're here like all the animals and other living things, we like to think we're special but when you look at space itself... and how clever it is, by clever i mean how planets form, life, how stars die, black holes etc, the scale of the universe and so on, thats better than anything i know, forget all these religions, all religion is.. they put nice sounding excuses i.e. when you die you go to paradise. How so?
Brady2k10 1 year ago
i fucking love space man, im fascinated by it, like the thought of other worlds out there like our own its just one big mystery and its just amazing and im so happy i got to see it, space, and our universe, although only when i look up at night its an epic thing because this is our home, earth is our home but the whole universe is our home and as it fascinates me, it also scares the shit out of me too because we dont understand it and thats what makes me fascinated.
Brady2k10 1 year ago
very nice shots my good sir!!! keep it up, you inspire me
Aaron87Whodey 1 year ago