Welcome to !astrophotography!
We are Lemmy's dedicated astrophotography community!
If you want to see or post pictures of space taken by amateurs using amateur level equipment, this is the place for you!
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Astrophotography refers to images of astronomical objects or phenomena exclusively.
~~Images that show objects or people below the Kármán Line (100km) will be removed.~~ We won't be enforcing this rule for now, but as the community grows eventually we will split and have a separate space for just landscape astro.
Images must be an accurate representation of a real astronomical object.
Image posts can only be images that you have captured and processed yourself, or discussion about capturing and/or processing your own images.
Images acquired from public sources, professional observatories, or other professional services are not allowed.
If you have done a drastic alteration or reprocessing of a prior submission, you may repost your edit - but only after a minimum of one week has passed.
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Questions are welcome here for the time being.
Links to blogs, articles or external websites should be interesting and promote discussion about amateur astrophotography.
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All submitted images must include acquisition and processing details as a top-level comment. All posts without this information may be given a warning, and if not updated will be removed.
This includes the telescope, mount, camera, accessories, and any other pieces of equipment you used to capture the image.
You must also include processing details, i.e. the programs you used and a general rundown of the workflow/processes you used within those programs. “Processed in Photoshop” is not enough.
Image showing the crescent nebula and fascinating surrounding objects, like WR134, the soap bubble nebula (very faint) and if you really know where to look there are even some pixels of Abell69 (only visible in full resolution)
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Data:
Edited with:
More info: https://telescopius.com/pictures/view/233261/deep_sky/ngc-6874/cresent-nebula/by-maxi_franzi
The stars at the right edge of that image seem to smear out to the right – significantly more than the stars in the center or at the left edge.
Could you explain why that is?
Also, what’s with that odd aspect ratio of 5,889 x 4,416 pixels?
Sadly my lens has not perfect back focus, since I‘m using a system camera there is nothing I can change about that. The effect is a little bit compensated with using BlurXTerminator.
The image is cropped a quite a bit, the aspect ratio is still 4:3 however.
At first I thought the bright object in the center was an asteroid and I had my mind blown that you were able to photograph that from Earth!
Now I’m happy my sanity is intact, but I am a little disappointed.