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Where is that observatory located?

After much frustration I installed the software and the driver. The qhyccd website so sucks! Don't bother to look for product support. There is none. No instructions come with the camera. My computer says usb device unknown when I plug the camera in my USB port. The software will not recognized the camera either. I installed the driver and software both on my windows 10 and windows 11 computers. I've read on forums the software is not compatible with windows 11. The pdf file you are directed to click on which I assume are instructions or the manual is blank. Maybe I got a defective unit. I'm returning it. Totally frustrating experience.

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Thank you, that was a great explanation! As a beginner I thought that I could only do b/w photos not thinking that colors could be caught/ made visible with filters. Thank you!

Thanks , nice video 😊

Monochrome sensor is better at low light?

Moded Dslr anyday baby. Save money and use it to shoot objects other than stars as well, they aslo have greater accessories

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i mean nice video, i have a Nikon D5600 with a 24.3 by 15.6~ sensor size in mm, and it can do 6k by 4k images. It costed me roughly 21K in our currency as of 2022. but an astro camera that does 4K is litterally 700K 😭 thats 21K of DOLAHS bro... is there a main difference of these? i personally dont really care about the infrared thingy.

what happens if your focal length is too high?

Don't just hang a bag under your tripod and let it dangle freely. There is still some air movement at night and even a slight breeze can cause some vibrations and ruin your images. Slightly defocus your lens to get the nice and fat creamy star trails. Shoot at low ISO (like 400-800) to keep the colors in the stars. If you shoot at to high ISO all the startrails will be white. Shooting at lower ISO keeps the colors, you can still make them all white in post processing if that's your thing, but this way you get 2 options out of 1 imaging session. Shoot 30s exposures. And most importantly, shoot at least for 5-6+ hours if you want the best startrails possible. 2-3 hours is just going to look underwhelming. Ask me how i know.

Excelent video

Thanks, guys. Thinking of getting into astrophotography and this video (watching 3 years later) is one of the best I've seen so far. Short, but has a lot of info packed into it.

Explain with which lens you defocus as in my experience youre unlikely to be able to see the star like that with a 14-24mm. If polaris moves a little bit during exposure your trails will be blurred but your original statement that it doesnt move was correct. Georgia guidestones proved that. However its an interesting location.

i want to get a camera that can work with my projector to put the sky over me onto my ceiling. i would love to see a meteor shower or a thunderstorm in the safety and comfort of my home. Thank you

I just found out opt is closed permanently. That is a bummer. I was in scope sales there from 2006-2011, and the first person to ever dethrone Mike W as top salesman. The full end of an era, but when Craig sold the company was the beginning of the end, it just took over a decade to die. What did it in and when did it end? Covid? Shortages during covid? Maybe Wikipedia might have some info, im gonna check

Killer upgrade!!!

Great video! Thank you!

At the end of the day you can't tell if a deep sky image was taken by a 1600 or a 2600.

Thank you OPT for all these videos and for your great store. Sad to see you go.

Wonderful couple. I have watched their videos from the beginning and learned not just technical details, but the joy of the night sky personified.

How can I know when & where tbe moon is visible over trees3 for my swme location? Los Angeles hills. June 22 full moon was visible upstairs out the bedroom window through a tree at 21:09 but last night I couldn't see it even waited till 22:20

Broooo my picture was RAW and it needs to be JPG WHYYY

Here's another idea, if you use mono camera and filter wheels then why need color correction in scope, adjust focus as you change filters, correct for other things but don't worry about color

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Grayscale is a toy, show us how to do it in RGB

My problem has been getting the programs, and drivers to work on windows 11. I never had the problems I am having today with my old Mead cameras and my old windows 98, or was it 97, computer. All my old equipment got destroyed in a flood. I use ZWO cameras, and SVBony cameras now, vs Mead cameras before. I use SkyWatcher GEMs now, EQM-35PRO, AND EQ6 R PRO, vs Mead EQ 75. And a Windows 11 computer vs Windows 97. I sure would like to get the computers working before I get my observatory built.

Thanks for this, very useful.

Very nice!

for the life of me, I cannot find the polemaster software. The all in one software does not install it for me, I have tried 3 times now, and all I can find other than that on their website is drivers

An excellent overview to study and digest. Now I need to factor in light pollution and seeing conditions. I've heard that both affect what pixel size is best, which is what most real-world astrophotography encounters. I'll look through your video catalog. Thanks again, Michael

Why does my canon 90d seem to have a buffer of 4 seconds?

Very good! Fast and lots of information!😊

Great information. Some people on CZcams make it into a dark art . Thanks

Lots of information for me as a newbie. Seen a guy somewhere on CZcams using his DSLR hooked up to a laptop for an imaging session. Not sure how to do it .Many thanks for the video.

LOL they showing Amazon stuff no wonder they went under.

Great tutorial! You wouldn't be able to do this if we were living on spinning ball, would you?

M13, Hercules Cluster, is not 22-million light years distant. It is approximately 22-thousand light years away.

Very well done! Thank you

Thanks. Very clear. However, you skipped over a couple of things. Getting the adapter optimally seated in the mount. Focusing the Polemaster. Also, since the polar alignment with Polemaster is independent of Declination position, polar alignment can be repeated if the alignment gets bumped by just moving the RA.

I’m looking at purchasing an astro camera, but don’t want to spend too much ( I’m stage 5 renal failure ) and it’ll be short term use. What cost range would I need to get a good photo? Can anyone recommend something a beginner can afford and use easily enough? Thanks

you missed tarantula nebula, the one nebula outside the milky way really worth to be in your top 10 list

really nice tutorial, nice and simple and to the point. thankyou

Well.. I don't quite understand this video and it makes me believe you never went to the southern hemisphere ? Large and small magellanic clouds, the Carina nebula, indeed the chicken one.. but why mention the eagle nebula, the cat's paw or the planets ? you can see those from the northern hemisphere.. weird

2:39 How does a person connect a DSLR to a Losmandy & Vixen dual dovetail saddle? For example to the ZWO AM5.

Were all the images taken in raw ??

do I hafta watch all the way thru to find out if its a joke??

I had to put this comment using my computer because when I destroyed that like button, I broke my phone.