And I am a 66 year old beginner astrophotographers it also means watching all your videos I can find. You have been such an inspiration.

For Me Being A Beginner 11 Year Old Astrophotographer Means Watching Your Videos A Lot,! Keep Up The Great Work Trevor!

I watched this a year ago and here I am watching it again. I wish I could give it a second like! I'm slowly getting my stuff together and trying to find opportunities to get out more. What I lack at this point is a laptop for auto-guiding. I really appreciate the patience you exhibit toward your craft, and the way you explain things for noobs like me.

I've been dabbling in Astrophotography for barely a couple of years. I learn something new with each of your videos, keep. I really appreciate you "dumbing it down" (in lack of a better term) and over-explaining what perhaps is considered of many to be basic minor details. It really does help.

A great video, so helpful for those like me who are just starting out with guided DSLR +telescope astrophotography. Much appreciated, Trevor!

Still just dreaming about getting into AstroPhoto, but I value the time and effort in putting together this video. Thx for the work!

I followed some it last night but it was quite late in the UK so just finished watching the rest. Love the final image, great colours and no noise. I have a few CMOS cameras, cooled and non cooled but I still like to use the dslr.

Looks great Trevor and thanks for these videos, you have helped me alot over the years so never quit making the beginner to intermediate videos with a ton of info.

Love your "mistakes" video and this dslr basics. Glad you are seeing it as important to cover these things.

You have a gift! Thank you for getting so many of us and me started.

The ending of this video sums it all up perfectly. The sky after sunset, how your busy with it all and the results. And a perfect piece of music along with it. Even my 20 month old daughter is watching it with me...hope she will have the astrovirus as well someday 🙂

Thanks for doing this very detailed video. It's hard for me to believe how far astrophotography has come since I was dabbling in it 30+ years ago, and it's stunning the results that you and others get from your back yards in city environments. You have what looks like a perfect yard to set up this stuff, anyway. (aside from the mosquitoes -- always a peril of this activity) If I decide one day to seriously get back into this, I'll definitely be using the instructional material you provide here.

Great video, and great results Trevor! I bought my first telescope recently and am starting to get into astrophoography. Your videos are always inspiring and it is nice to see some videos for us newbies as well. Kepp up the good work!

As always, another great, educational video to help all of us that are just starting out. Thanks Trevor.

all I can say is thanks! Waiting on my first setup to be delivered now. And I've poured through so many of your videos for either education or inspiration! The APT tool is gonna be my best friend. Automate all the things!

Hey Trevor! my first passion was viewing thru my Celestron C-90 way back in the 80's. Have a Sky-Mentor 10" dob in the garage that I just dusted off after about 15 years thanks to stumbling onto your vids. Re-realize how much I love it:) Thank you!

Don’t fix the counter weights. It’s iconic to Astro backyard. You show real results from humble beginnings and prove that one doesn’t need to break the bank to produce great photographs of space. Keep up the great work.

This channel is amazing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Trevor, it's inspiring

As always, great information! Love the final image!!!

Coming across your videos has brought me back to the night skies.. Having had a 6" reflector of somewhat dubious Russian origins many years ago just visual observing and showing the 'kids' another view of our world was always awesome. Now having seen what you can do from 'your own back yard' with the advances in technology I am again hooked. As usual Trevor a great video. As an aged newcomer some details on physical connections between pieces of kit would be useful . Keep up the great work

Amazing man, what an average person can do with this stuff today. Just found your vids, and great to see someone trying to help out those beginners. I always think, one of the most beautiful sights in nature, is a clear nights sky. You have a great hobby there, and nice to see how much you appreciate all this.

Everytime i see you with a light shining on you im like.. How is he not swatting mosquitos! Also having 2 little dogs myself I really enjoy seeing your bond with Rudy, dogs are THE BEST!

Good timing! Just dug my scope out and need to start learning again.

Man.... Your videos are extremely informative and helpful and very enjoyable to watch, I really appreciate the hard work that goes into them and the quality is second to none! 🙌🔭👏

A Red-Shouldered Hawk! They are so beautiful. Oh, astrophotography, wonderful work and demo.

Thanks very much, Trevor, for the very clear and well done Videos. I have 50 years photography experience and one week in Astro, but I'm feeling the passion and looking forward to learning with your help!! Best in All from outside of Boston!

Literal chills at the end. Great work!

Thanks very much Trevor! Really appreciate this type of tutorial. Indeed, very few of us have the knowledge, let along the gear but I can bet many of us want to know what can be done with the basic gear they own, or could get as a startup kit. 👍🌟🔭📷

Thank you again for an excellent video that is informative & entertaining. Your video production gets better with each release.

That was really interesting to watch! Thanks for your videos!

Really enjoyed the music track you used with the final image sequence. Great match! And excellent information!

Wow!! Just wow! Well worth watching all the way through.

Great video - great advice - thanks so much for sharing your dslr image capture info and knowledge. Btw, nice to see your wife, and Rudy - and your yard looks fantastic. Another Spectacular image! 👍🏻📷🔭

Very nice video, well explained making it easy to follow. Love the image. Keep them coming along with your pod cast, love listening to them on my drives into work. I wish I had skies like yours unfortunately I live in a Bortles 9 area and not too many clear skies.

Absolutely incredible info! Thank you so much! Great pic of the bird too! ☺

I love your feeling for the nature, for the sky, I love too the sunset, that thst you show to us was so beautiful!! Thanks man!! All the pictures of the sky are very very nice!! Have you a great holiday!!

Thank you for suggesting to enjoy the view and getting to know the sky first. I just starting watching your great tips. I wondered if you ever just enjoyed viewing the sky. You did your lens to one eye time. I am currently happy finding simple things I have not seen before and taking pictures of my new discoveries with my cell phone. But I want better quality. Got a little Nikon. So not yet a astrophotographer. Just want to remember that enjoyable moment. Thanks again Trevor!!

Hi, thanks for an awesome video. I am busy researching what I should invest in to start in astrophotography and your videos and website have been refreshing compared to some tech-heavy videos/websites that I've looked at. You explain things very well. I know I have a ways to go but I feel better informed with every article/video of yours. Thank you.

excellent video, just what i need to help me decide what gear to start off with.

Amazing work as always Keep it up!

Enjoying learning from your experience. Very excited.

Great video Trevor, One of your best!

I absolutely adore your videos!! I LOVEEEEE astronomy and I have a telescope but it’s not meant for deep sky. I’m saving up a telescope and I watch your video to know what the best thing is to get I’m thinking of getting the setup you have in this video!! I love love loveeeeee the picture you take they’re breathtaking!!!!!! Keep up the good work! 😁😁😁

hey brother love your work thanks for helping us all out

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="79">1:19</a> shooting deep sky objects using 'beginner' level gear. Oke, I am interested. I am a beginner. Ffwd to 2.09. What do we see: an expensive tripod, a computerized goto mount with hand controller. A 73 mm apochromatic William Optics Zenithstar 73 refractor telescope with F/5.9 as main scope, paired with a smaller William Optics as a guidescope (with camera of course. A Canon 60 DA (optimised for astrophotography) a dew heater and a laptop. Oke Trevor, I really like you videos, I really do. They are quality, and it's videos like this that made me pick up my old astronomy hobby in times like this, but, I really have to say this: This is by far not a beginner setup. Yes it is a setup I am interested in for sure, but it is really really really not a beginners setup. The amount of cost going into this is huge! I am financially good, but I can not buy this in one go. I am more looking towards a redcat 51 with a skygyuider pro, a good tripod and some other stuff. Even that combination is just south of 2000 bucks. No, I disagree with you in this video. That's not to say that as I mentioned already I think you are a great guy, make great tutorials and videos, but in this case, you have missed the ball...... sorry...

This is high quality content you are producing. Really well done. The Cocoon Nebula is very beautiful. Thank-you as always! I am going to focus on observing for now and get a dobsonian, and maybe come back to astro-photography. I'll be watching here.

The dust trail is so cool on that image. I thought the cocoon nebula was too small for my 80mm but seeing this makes me want to give it a shot.

Glad to see some beginner videos. Thanks!

Excellent informative video. Thanks.

Wow - I had no idea! Thanks for sharing your passion

I'm glad I stumbled upon your site please keep it up it is very helpful.

haha, "Staying put like a boss!" I love it.

I’m looking forward to watching this! Keep up the excellent work! 😀🔭

Thank you for sharing this great video!!

You should do a video on setting your polar scope. I had trouble with this and still dont think I perfected it but would be a good video for beginners.

Thank you very much for this video. I learned a lot.

Very clear and complete. Been looking for this for a while. Thanks! I thought your final piece of advice was going to be.... insect repellant!

Another great video Trevor! Have just purchased all equipment needed. ASI Air, asi 183mm pro, skywatcher eq6 r pro and all required filters. Now just waiting for nights to get dark here at 60 degrees north in Norway 🇳🇴!

OMG. This video is SOOOOO good! Thanks!

fantastic video clip!! i am just beginning to understand how it's work!! thanks mate :)

Very helpful video-thank you!

Your videos always motivate me to try new techniques I'm gonna start to save money to buy that APO telescope

Thanks very much for the tutorial !

Hey Trevor, great video as I am glad you went back to reintroduce your old equipment and techniques 'cause I am exactly where you were. As I am just 'down the road' from you and part of the Halton Outdoor Group, I can share that when it comes to those mosquitoes I live by 'Great Outdoors' by Watkins. You can get it at a dedicated Hiker shop or even on Amazon. The bugs go from driving me batty to 'what bugs?'. Cheers!

Love your channel btw keep it up!

Watching this while my scope is outside imaging the Iris nebula, the first time I mustered up the confidence to leave my equipment alone outside lol. I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for you Trevor, so thank you for introducing me to this wonderful hobby.

Thank you for this!

Excellent! Thank you.

great video using a cheaper set up just what us beginners need keep up the good work

Wow! Great video and as an absolute beginner, this answered some of the questions I had in a comment on another video of yours. Just a couple here: How do you power the rig when you are not at home? Does the software save the images to your laptop vs on the camera card? Once you are polar aligned and tracking, why would you need to use the autoguider for sharp stars? Once you are focused, polar aligned, and tracking at sidereal rate, why would your images show trailing or any tracking errors that would require autoguiding? I hope I am not being a pain in the ass with all my questions. You are an absolute inspiration and it is great and motivating to see someone who is teaching others that is as passionate about the subject as you are. You should be very proud of what you are doing. Thank you.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1110">18:30</a> I think I can tell you what's happening there: Electroluminescent foil or LED based Flat field generators have a certain frequency, usually about 100 Hz; If your shutter speed (like 1/1600s) is faster than this frequency, you will get rolling shutter effects in your flatframes. The way to mitigate this is to lower your flatfield generators light output by putting some sheets of white paper between the panel and the scope so you can take flats at shutter speeds longer than let's say at least 1/50s. Maybe you could get rid of that Artifact that way. Would be very glad if I could help you, as I learned most of my skills from this Channel :)

Awesome!! Great work!!

Thank you for this very informative video..

Great, thanks man for sharing

I use the live view function with the crosshairs in APT for alignment, much easier than the DSLR screen.

Great video Thank you!

really cool videos Trevor ! I really enjoy looking them. i like the way you explain things ! I´m quite new in Astrofotographie but with your videos there is no way not to make it :) Thanks buddy !

very detailed video, like it

Wonderfull as always! Can't wait to get out there again, bad wheater in belgium right now :(

Perfect timing just got my first second hand DSLR.

Good Job as always!

Brilliant 🙌🏼🔥

Im just starting out. This video is very interesting, but looks really advanced. haha. Im going down that rabbit hole pretty fast! Sheese!

All I can say is, "wow". The final image left me speechless.

Awesome video!

Amazing ! ! !

Thank you for all your videos Trevor, they have been extremely useful! I have been shopping for a more serious astrophoto setup for the past few month and I use alot of your info to validate the research i have been doing. I just bought HEQ5 2 days ago and my Zenithstar 73 is ordered. All I need (for now) is a light pollution filter. Would you recommend going with that IDS 2 inch filter to put in the field flatner or a clip-in for the dslr (i use a Canon T3I). I am near Ottawa, Bortle 7 zone. I will be unguided for now. Is their a big improvement when using a guidescope vs the Synscan PEC training? I can't wait to get started with the new gear, its a big upgrade from the Star-Adventurer /EF-s lens.

That was an excellent tutorial on the setup and process, thanks much. I think i'll go out tonight and hook up a 200mm to my sony and the Move Shoot Move tracker....nah, just kidding. But I am going out to shoot milky way and a time lapse.

Amazing video!

Really cool video for us new folks. Thanks for making it. Loved the final image. It is amazing what you get in your backyard. How much processing time did you have in it? Do you have any teaching videos on doing the processing? I have mostly been a visual observer, but now want to dabble in this as well.

Great idea and video your new house is really lovely mate!!

I am buying my first home really soon and I really want to give Astrophotography a try. I bought my first DSLR camera and trying to get use to it. I am hoping to buy a telescope by next year and start giving this a go. This video will help me out. Even saving it to get back to this easily.

Trevor, I really love your videos. You provide a great service to the astrophotography community. Just one thing (lol) - as a former astronomy teacher and planetarium director (34 years, I'm retired now), sidereal has four syllables, not two (si·​der·e·​al | \ sī-ˈdir-ē-əl ). Blame the teacher in me for finding your pronunciation a bit jarring, :P Keep up the good work.

Another spectacular video and a great tutorial as well. However, you're about 3 weeks too late. LOL I've chugged through most of this using your other videos as guides and enjoyed it. I would suggest others do the same, even if there is a huge portion of what you need here. The individual videos go more in detail and you get to see more of Trevor's images. Great job, Trevor!

amazing video man.

Great video.

Awesome man

I got here through your bird videos, what a interesting story.

Damn that was amazing

Thanks for all these informative videos! I want to get to get into astrophotography and have the patience to go nice and slow! I have many yrs experience with landscape/wildlife photography and editing. Presently , I have a Skywatcher 120ED Refractor and I am awaiting the Skywatcher AZ/EQ 6 Mount and Tripod. I see many people into this prefer a shorter focal length for refractors but I assume my 900mm scope will be ok for astrophotography?