The quality of each image is top notch. Very impressive detail for the exposure times on each one and most importantly, a great adventure for you both together. Trevor's pic gains a lot from the color separation but Ash has a better smile so she wins.

No comparison, you both win, on 2 points. 1 Awesome job of capturing and love the two different perspectives from two different rigs. 2, and most importantly, enjoying the hobby as a couple. How fun is that!

I'm holding out for the $10,000,000,000 telescope! Altho the $10,000 was very impressive

Ashley has become a good astrophotographer herself! Both photos were great in their own way.

Wonderful comparison!! I’ll take the $10 billion telescope. Thanks! For the Earthbound scopes though I’d say it’s a tie. Both are well captured and processed. Certainly that Redcat is a great 51mm scope!

I love these, I am a begginer astronomer Saving for my first camera. Trevor always gives me great tips throughout the videos. Keep it up!

Here I am with my $200 telescope 😢

Perhaps this has been requested in the many comments already posted, but it would be fascinating to see the results of a 'Round 2' comparison where camera/filter rigs are switched. I'd love to see RGB from the big scope and SHO/narrowband results from the smaller one. As far as the vote? Both are great. Judge them by their merits in the context of the capabilities of their equipment.

Excellent images! Way beyond my ability for sure! I want to vote for Ashley's images simply because it seemed like Trevor was a little too giddy about how much better his setup was than Ash's. ;) Still, both images were far better than anything I could do. Great job both of you!

Oh man THE PILLARS OF CREATION!!! William Optics did a great job not gonna lie but Esprit was just on another level altogether. Loved both of them. Keep up the great work Trevor.

Interesting comparison! Both images were great. Not sure if it was fair to process Ashley's image as RGB and the other as SHO, since the SHO is more colorful. An identical closeup view of the Pillars of Creation with both scopes would provide a nice contrast as to the level of detail capable and different in both scopes/cameras. The Redcat with the ASI2400MC gives an image scale of 4.9 sec/pixel. The Esprit 150 with the ASI2600MM gives an image scale of .74 sec/pixel. It would have been nice if the image scales for both telescopes were closer. I personally use a Redcat 51 and a 102mm refractor.

Truly amazing! I have been a photographer for close to 45 years. I never saw images like these until the Hubbell images. I still am amazed it is possible to get these quality of images from home gear. So I bought a tracker and will start with my mirrorless camera gear.

Both look amazing. Excellent quality in both images. Your pictures and videos are always inspiring. I say it's a tie. You both get a 10.

Both seriously good results, neither would be better as both show a different perspective on the the eagle nebula and the pillars of creation. 🔭 Clear skies

Great to see Ash taking part. Personally I think you’ve introduced too many variables. I have a Radian 61 (yes you sold it to me) and a C9.25 with HyperStar. I have the same cameras as you and I have to say the monochrome give so much more data in so any ways than the OSC. To be fair you should really swap the cameras around. It would make a great follow up and you could also do in to the differences in data and processing. All the best! 🔭

Both are very cool winners when you can print it out and tell your friends - "I took that picture" ! Thanks for the video.

awesome pics at the end you guys. It's so nice seeing how far Ashley has come in her blossoming Astrophotography journey! You 3 guys are living the dream!

You have inspired me so much Trevor! now im planning on buying my first real Deep Sky setup and i could not have done it without your tips TY so much❤

Incredible pictures 10 to both of you. I'm about half a year in astrophotography, still learning from mistakes each night, steeeep learning curve but I'm enjoying every minute of it. I know there are videos about post processing, watched them, but I'm really interested in the way you are doing it. Would love to watch an unedited, not speeded up longer video :)

Top notch production Trevor and Ash 👌 So good I'm even going to share with my family 😁 Truly a great video and really appreciate you're doing a fantastic job for the Astronomy community! Thank you and keep looking up and enjoying the journey 👍🌙👍 Cheers! Cameron

Wide field vs longer focal length. RGB vs SHO. Hmm … tough call. The Red Cat is more in my budget and Ashley’s processing is very good, but I love the focal length and SHO of Trevor’s. Can I just vote for Rudy? You two are awesome! Dr B from Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦

Okay. Trevor, your photo is stunning, as you got more detail in the Pillars. Ashley, your image is also stunning. I'm HUGE on wide field shots, so I'm going to have to go with Ashley's image. I've also took a similar image like hers. My vote goes to Ashley!

Maybe lazy scoring, but both are 10/10!! As someone who's imaged a year with even wider optics (Rokinon 135mm) and now even deeper with an 8" SCT, I think a good question/analogy is this; do you want to see one beautiful tree up close, or the equally beautiful forest around it?

Any chance of running this head to head again but with the camera systems swapped? might give people a better idea of the differences and what type of setup that might work best for them

I really can't decide. The two photos are really impressive and beautiful in their own way. I am pretty sure you both won.

THESE VIDEOS ARE JUST INSANE! Thank you for your hard work and sharing them.

To be fair, its not just a $10k scope vs a £1k scope, its the cost of everything else - the mounts, cameras, filters etc. The esprit setup was probably more than x 10 the cost of the william optics setup. Also, if I had spent all that money on gear and my image was not better than a $1k setup it would be $9k wasted. Both images are fantastic but the more expensive image does shade it in comparison - but is it x10 better ?

That was so cool. Thanks for the ride!! Awesome!

Nice work, Ash! May I suggest an L-eXtreme or other duo band filter so you can separate out the Oiii; also rotate 90 degrees CCW to see the Star Queen; and finally get some dolly casters or wheels for any heavier rig so you can just drag it out of the house rather than worrying about whether you can carry it. Trevor - this is great. 10 to both :--)

I love this video challenge! Two great images. Given the gigantic hurdles that Trevor heaped upon Ash, I chose Ash as the winner. She did more with less. But, I'm still jealous of Trevor's rig and Pillars. I appreciate this channel so much!

Looked completely different and both looked great. 10/10

Both are great photo's showing different aspects of the Nebula. Well done Ash and Trevor.

I think it’s very difficult to compare the two images. The one from the little scope is very, very impressive, but it’s also a completely different image than the one taken with the bigger scope. What I mostly got from this is that you definitely should start out with a smaller scope. It stays relevant and gets a lot of use, even if you get a bigger one later.

Thank you. In the 70th, I had 4 ainch reflector Newton. Impressed what you can do now. Dig cams and way better tracking. Have fun. But I'm not going into the rabbit hole again.

This video just infuriated me. The total cost of each setup is well beyond the reach of most people. The cost for the Red Cat rig is at least $7000 and the Sky-Watcher 150 pushing $16,000. And these are conservative estimates not including the cost for the equipment, software, and experience necessary to process those images. Yes, the images are breathtaking but so, too, is the cost.

That 10,000 image was breathtaking (and the 10M was 🤯)

Didnt expect an image from James Webb. Absolutely incredible.

My man, I absolutely love your videos. Can you do a video about your opinion on the best middle ground price point (about $5000 total cost) with the best middle ground for getting images as close as possible to the 10,000$ telescope in this video? Looking to get into this myself! You're the man! @AstroBackyard

Ashley for sure. I bet if you showed a time lapse of start to finish, Ashley have had so much more free time throughout the entire process, start to an early finish.

Trevor’s was spectacular, but Ashley’s was more realistic as to something I would like to strive for to capture myself someday. You both are fantastic and lucky to have each other. So nice to see such a great couple. Great video, as always. 👍🏻🔭

They are both great pictures for the telescope used! Fantastic!

10 for both of you! 🔭Very nice!

Ash is the winner of the heart and had the cooler and more practical setup.

Well done Ash & Trevor 👏🏻 both images are fantastic and this is a great way of highlighting different focal length and the images you get on an iconic target Cheers Si

It really depends on the object. For Andromeda or Pleiades - large fov, for planetary nebulae - long focus

Great choice of music! Very impressie imaging too :)

The images under discussion, in both instances, exhibit commendable quality. The assorted hues, colours and complexity of detail apparent in each image appear to be predominantly attributable to the differences in focal length. In light of her less experience and the use of a smaller refractor, the commendable outcome delivered by Ashley has impelled me to endorse her image. Regrettably, on this occasion, Trevor, it seems that the odds are not in your favor 🙂 Well Done Ashley 🙂

This is a fun comparison, but I think it needs to be put in the context of a beginner type rig as opposed to a super advanced one. Of course Trevor’s image is mind blowing, but a beginner getting an image like Ashley’s with just a little experience would be a tremendous boost of confidence. That’s the real value of this demonstration and as such you Trevor and now Ashley as well are doing great things to advance this hobby. Thanks and please keep it up.

All I can say is WOW! Thanks for sharing.

Great comparison and two epic results, Trevor! Well done to you and Ash! :)

10,000 blew it all away. Take out the cost element and the difference is massively more than I had expected!

Fun video. I do love to zoom into details. The "pillars" get all the love, but there are so many other areas of the Eagle to study. Love Ash's wide field. It is hard to beat a RedCat51 for nice crisp wide field views. Seeing an object with its surroundings seems to give context and that "deep space" feeling.

$1k Vs $10k….that doesn’t matter with those priceless hugs for Rudy!!

I am partial to the Redcat 51 but man what a shot the Esprit did. Both pictures are 10/10 for what they are imo.

Here I don't even have one😂

Am I correct to assume the $1000 telescope shows the actual color picture that you witness without filters and with the naked eye through lens? I do love the contrast that all of the filters add, which naturally have high scientific value because you can more clearly and closely inspect the interactions in deepspace, but if the $1000 telescope gets the same filters, what would the quality then be? Is there a difference between the camera-systems in terms of number of megapixels or is it just a different fitting camera system for different eyepiece systems?

I vote 10/10 for both images. They show different perspectives and both are super cool.

Well done to both if you. Beautiful photos. But I must admit Rudi had the deciding vote and that went for Ashley. Congrats Ash!🦴🐾

I imaged the Eagle earlier in the year with a similar set up to Ash. There are two things Ash could have done to blow Trevor’s rig out of the water. 1. Include the nearby Omiga nebula in the image (both will fit in the Redcat’s wide focal length 2. Perhaps extract the Ha and O2 using software like Siril to make a ‘Hubble’ image like Trevor’s. Great video and Rudy for the win!

The new house gives you SO much more horizon, congrats. It might have been interesting to see both images processed in non-SHO pallete.

The Eagle Nebula is one of my highest wishlist targets. I would love to someday be able to get something like a Celestron Edge HD 14 with a proper camera to really zoom in on the Pillars of Creation. It's just such a fascinating and beautiful object. Kudos to you and Ash for some spectacular pics!

Highlight of the video - Ash playing with Rudy at the very end ... all smiles! :)

We can peak so far to understand complexity, felt goose bumps while looking those glorious photos.

So how much for a whole set up?!

That big scope really is big and so is the tripod. I bet that big scope weighs about 30 pounds. Hey Trevor when are you going to build your observatory? You have a great location.clear skies my friend

after a few years dusted off the telescope i even had a brand new eyepiece X-cel Lx literally new in box i want to get back in it but get more in it and actually get stunning pictures like yours loved ur videos since the start 1 ontarioian to another love it!

Am I the only one that get a bit of compolsive "This is the right spot, there is many spots out there, but this one is mine..." When you do your setup ritual? Its all about the compounding effect of right gear, right ideas and overall philosophy !

Awesome video and final images Trevor and Ashley! The difference in focal length was a lot more than what I previously thought, such a cool target the Eagle nebula is!

Well I do of course love the narrowband image :) By the way Trevor Love the transition edit of the telescope objectives into the image. I have to steal this transition.

You are both totallly adorable ! Superb video, clear & crisp advice

It seems to me that telescopes, like horsepower in a car, scale in price with the question of "how far do you want to see", and "how fast do you want to go".

Apples to Pomegranates. Both are brilliant. I just put an Ash rig together, but with the RC61 on top. So much fun. Anyway...Ash 10 - Trevor 9.8. Thanks for all your inspiration.

🌌 Both Images Are Fantastic! 🌌

actually the light gathered by the f4.9 is more than the f7. the size of the front aperture doesn't mean its going to gather more light. its all to do with the end cone of light that hits the sensor, which in the larger one, is f7. ergo, gathering less light

Both pictures got astonishing good, congratulations!

Both are gorgeous. Naturally the higher-priced scope has better specs and captures a better image. Both are blown out of the water by the NASA photography. Money may not buy happiness, but it definitely buys better equipment!

Ashley 10 Trevor 10 Nasa 0 - given the cost of JWST/Hubble and advantage of not having to deal with light pollution, atmosphere etc. Well done Ash and Trevor. Keep up the good work. 🎉

The addition of the comparison with NASA's $10,000,000,000 telescope caught me off guard and was really quite funny. For the vote I have to give it to Trevor's image. The extra detail from the punched in magnification, filters just making the colors pop, and I love to see the mixing of gases creating multiple colors. Very much a Top Gear moment of "This is brilliant, but I like this."

I don't see the point here. Everything is different so how could you compare those two set-up ? I mean, i would understand if the two telescope had the same apperture and focal length but a different optic formula but here it's not the case.

Congrats from Brazil. Thanks to bring us the quality that we can get from each type an price.

Both 10/10

Idk..., I like that $10k shot 😂 The heavens open up just a wee bit more.

Ash wins in my book! Love the wider field and natural colours. Let’s see more from the Ashley picture portfolio, please! Clear skies!

Love the ESPRIT 150 ED APO! 🙂

In my honest opinion, I think if you consider the cost outlay, Ash's picture is obscenely good. I think she wins. Value proposition wise the little red guy punches well above its weight.

Both images are beautiful. But both are very different in that the equipment used was very different. Now I am a visual astronomer using a 81mm ZenithStar and a 200mm Classic, same kind of difference… managing expectations in how you can/cannot see things. Great teamwork, thanks! And thanks for inspiring us all to go out and look!

Love that colors of the bigger System - it’s the cam I guess?!

Astrophotography is always about the telescopes, astrophotography is really about the patience, time, effort and all else that is included.

What's really interesting to me and I don't recall seeing it before, is that there was a noticeable depth to Trevor's picture.

I think that is your best image of the pillars yet!

I'd like to see you switch cameras. Put the better cam with the filter wheel on the red cat. Give us a video with a good telescope and different camera options. Basic dslr, modified, dedicated astro cam, dedicated Astro cam with filter wheel.

Telescope?! I’m here using my phone 😂

Can’t beat lots of experience and sound mounts, 2 beautiful pictures. I’d want to use eyepieces!

There are so many different variables between these photos. Most notably the colour differences are vast between the monochrome+filter setup and the full spectrum camera. Secondly, the magnification difference is striking between the 250mm/51mm (~F4.9) and the 1050mm/150mm (F7) scopes, you get a lot of magnification with the difference of 800mm focal length between the two. Lastly, most surprisingly, the difference in aperture doesn't seem to translate to much more light even though the larger 150mm aperture receives about 8.6x more light, the long exposure time seems to make up for it. Totally fascinating, I'd really love to see the difference between them if just the cameras had been switched! I'm not gonna give a rating because they're both amazing and it seems to me like an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Gonna start saving up for the 10,000,000,000 dollar telescope. The pictures are amazing.

The $10,000 telescope picture reminded me of the Hubble telescope pictures. The $10,000 pictures are superb. An interesting comparison would have been the 10,000 with a Smith Cassegrain model. Thanks for the video.

Damn, the image from the 10k telescope is just like Hubble's but wider FOV. Mind=Blown

Can't really compare the 2... Completely different classes of pics. Both are gorgeous!

Trevor great videos as always, been watching you from the start and always love seeing the progression. Would love to see you put a Seestar s50 up against the redcat rig. Yours is ZWO'd out and would be a good shootout. I just can't drop 5k plus atm to even approach your red cat rig. But i did order an S50.

Both were amazing, so win win!