Got into this Hobby only about 9 months ago!! Been a Rabbit Hole but a good one!! Could not do it without your videos Trevor!!!

The transition from the red light on the mount to the core of the whirlpool was so good!

Galaxy Season can be a bit frustrating for owners of small refractor telescopes. On a clear night, it's often challenging to find suitable targets because everything appears either too small or too dim. I can understand why you opted for the big pipe.

I started astrophotography about 3 months ago and i can only say i learned so much from your channel, from setting up a telescope, choosing the right camera, photo proccesing exc. Ofcourse, i still have so much to learn but your channel made me progress much faster, and i kinda started this hobby because of your channel. It was the trigger i needed and i definetely dont regret it. I'd say this channel is best on youtube, for beginners and pro's also. Clear skies !

Very inspirational, Travor. What a beautiful hobby! I have a 14" Dobsonian and 12" SCT....I'm more of a visual observer ...but slowly getting into astrophotography... Clear skies everybody!

Galaxy season is here baby!!!

Have an 8" Orion Astrograph reflector. That scope has given me so many great images! Your vids are an inspiration! Keep it up!

It is totally new to me, that you could really take such images without an observatory. Im blown away to say the least. Great content! As an astronomy geek, you have me almost double dared to get into this hobby myself! Thx for sharing your experiences!

Recently started capturing moon with my small telescope and t3i, your videos are big inspiration to start with whatever available as long as the passion is there. Waiting for many more videos, clear skies!

WOW what a first image!!

Wow you make everything seem so easy. Amazing results.

I love my 200mm reflector! From DSLR to dedicated astro cameras, it has always performed, as long as it is colimated and cooled before imaging.

Oh my goodness!!! Well done Trevor

Absolutely beautiful! I've been trying to capture M81 the past few nights myself, and even though my gear can't get me anywhere close to that detail, it's just incredibly enjoyable to sit outside watching the stars and seeing a galaxy appear on the screen that you otherwise can't see. Super excited though, I've finally got a 533MC-P coming my way! : D Clear skies!

YOUR Videos are just outer-worldly, quite literally. THANK YOU!

Once again your editing and music montage is effing on point ! I love the Red Light of the mount blending into the center of the Whirlpool Galaxy !! Your an inspiration !

Trevor this is phenomenal! I recently purchased the 294mc pro and it works wonders with my 10” f/4. Similar image scale too. Your videos over the years have helped me immensely in my astrophotography journey. It was great meeting you at NEAF this year. Keep up the great work!

Man space is Soooo beautiful, surly this is our destination

I appreciate your channel and videos so much, I’ve been looking to get an 8 inch Celestron Dob as my first. Your knowledge has helped me learn and even grew my interest in astronomy!

True. For galaxies you need that aperture. I am very happy with my GSO RC10. Thanks for sharing!

I love watching your videos. I'm really into astrophotography. I don't have any tools so I watch all of these videos. It gives me a sense of ease.

Wow Taylor, amazing, have watched so many of yours and others great videos, but this one with the first 120s exposure of the M51 is mind blowing! Size and aperture both matters! This is like an earth based Hubble 😂

You absolutely inspire me. Last night I got my first ever bodes galaxy image. Stacked and processed it and it looked amaaaaazing!

What an incredible image!!! You're an inspiration to so many of us!!! Thank you!

That is amazing shot! Great job Sir!

The word great fails to describe your photo of M51. As always, you have inspired me to keep going! I look forward to seeing more from you.

Hello Trevor. I'm glad to see a mirrored telescope in this video. Clear skies.

Utterly amazing images Trevor!

Great video as always! I've been using my SW 8" 200P and 294mc pro. I've installed some upgrades, like a new focuser and primary, secondary mirror holder and it's been awesome for Galaxy season!

The last processing timelapse with that music track was just *chefs kiss.

Wow....!!! That final image is INSANE!! 😯🤯😍

THAT is a great shot!!!! Way to go Trevor

Wow!! Wow!! Wow!!! I’m in awe and speechless!

I struggle with these tiny faint things but you owned it! Great image!!!

Nice shot man came out great i like to see reflector shots 👌

Nice! I have a vintage Meade 645 f/5 so I'm looking forward to this installment!

I'm still a beginner in astrophotography after getting deep into observing, but I don't need any reason to watch Trevor's videos, even if I'm a beginner and don't have all that equipment. I just find this channel kind of addictive. Just keep it up ❤

Didn't expect to see a reflector especially that size. Well done!

Awesome! I love reflectors. Great video. Clear sky’s!

YO. That's an absolutely mind-blowing result: both the 120s sub and the final image! 🤯

Wow. You nailed this!

Thanks for another fun video!!

Amazing sir, we appreciate your work, and patience to create such a wonderful image

Wow. Amazing how fast that scope is. nice job

outstanding work!

Great explaining and a very interesting video!

Alright, this just won, my favourite deep sky astrophotography pic I have ever seen. Thank you for this Trevor and Wife.

Nice work Trevor!

Great video as always.

This is the best image of the whirlpool galaxy I've ever seen

yea my dream telescope !Thank you for this amazing video great job !! Beautiful M51 Thanks!

That is an insane scope and what a pic man!!

Truly mind blowing

With a "cheap collimator" make sure it's actually collimated or the telescope won't be either. You can also try using the big Newtonian for planets (with a PowerMate instead of a reducer).

amazing photo trevor! cant wait to get my first galaxy. one day soon

Simply superb 👌🏻

That final image is CRAZY.

Looking at the image you got makes me want to see a lot more from that telescope. Wow.

Great result!

What an inspiring job and how lucky that you can capture galaxies from the patio of your house, here in the patio we don't always have that luck. Greetings from Colombia

Good reflector very nice!! and eq8 the beast mount!!❤️😉💪🔭🔝

I have the 200P and the Starizona reducer and that’s a beast. Dread to think what this feels like! Great video as usual and M51, Trevor.

I think your vids are great and I've been watching them for years. Great to see your having a go at newts, particularly this one. I'm hoping you do more with this as I'd love to see how get on as they are definitely not refractors (good and bad). I'd love to hear your comments on how you found it compared to your usual scopes. They are great but they can do very different stuff/used differently. Basically I have a 16" f4.5 on a big eq fork mount - full narrowband imaging rig (typ 0.8 arcsec) and I love it but also often hate it. Good luck and hope you enjoy...

Great video. I love big scopes. I hope you try it on planets this summer

Absolute unit of a telescope. I could tell it was huge based on seeing how tall you are in person and it was still WAY taller than you haha. Final image came out so good! I especially loved the two tiny galaxies (IC4278 & IC4277) below and to the left of M51 - so rad! Fun fact, because I had to look it up: M51 is about ~23 million light years away, but IC4278 (the barred spiral) is about 10x farther away at 230 million light years!

Amazing 🔥

Trevor that is a wicked image!!!

Love your all your videos! Are you planning a video about the ASKAR 65PHQ? I'm looking at small refractors and I was wondering about your opinion..

Hi Trevor! Love the image you got, the detail in it is awesome, and the amount of deep, faint parts of the galaxy that you can see... anyways, I have a few questions. I'm still on the hunt for buying a newtonian, and from many different forums, I've heard that collimating and getting to work an f/4 newtonian is a big hassle, even compared to f/5. This also includes the coma corrector, which if it is actually good and corrects the full image circle well, is going to be expensive. So my question is, what is your experience with using such a giant, how's the collimation, which is even worse at f/3, did you have any tilt issues? I've heard that at f/4 using a cheap laser collimator doesn't work precisely enough to get the full potential of the telescope's detail. One last question, with the 4/3 sensor camera you used with the nexus 0.75x coma corrector/reducer, how were the stars on the edge of the field, are they well corrected? Thanks in advance.

Those SW Quattro telescopes are quite amazing instruments. I got my 10" Quattro a couple of years ago and paired it with the Starizona 0.75x corrector. My APO refractor has been collecting dust since that time 😊😊

Hi there, nice setup and final image. After initial focus , How did you manage focusing with an F 3 setup throughout this session without an auto-focuser?

It pleases me to no end to see You stricken with aperture fever.😮 Good job. ( building a 600mm dob here)

Hey Trevor I started Astrophotography in November but because of your videos my astrophotography is a long term. And also what Barlow lens you recommend?

Great results, can you make a video also explaining the editing? thank you!

The man I thought was immune to aperture fever falls... Nice image!! 👍👍

This is my favorite galaxy and this photo is crazy gg

So talented! I tried to shoot M51 before with a reflector telescope. In the end, it came out as a very noisy, unclear image. I tried processing it more, and it got even worse! I might try some time again thanks to this helpful video. Thanks Trevor. Keep the great videos coming!!!

Awesome job! So you use the goto function to find things or slew manually?

wow, thats some power!

Awesome photo bud. We always pick the same targets haha. I’m excited to show you mine, hopefully this weekend provided tonight and tomorrow night remain clear for me to finish RGB. Other than aperture, we are similar in focal length+speed. I like to run anywhere from 60-90sec exposures on mono for good results, and just put up with storage space after the fact. I’m sure you could get away with the same since yours is faster with bigger aperture.

So timely! I got an 8", f/4 newtonian (mostly as "very portable visual scope") and now of course I want to use it for imaging ;D Plenty of good tips here, such as "camera down"). The pic is outstanding!!

Hi Trevor. Thanks a lot for this great video. Can't stop watching it. I just received my Quattro 300p. I ordered it thanks to you. I will install it this weekend on top of an EQ8-R too. My ROR observatory is in southern France and the sky is pretty good here. I also loved the timelapse music at the end. Could you please let me know which one it is? Regards, Cedric

Thanks for sharing!

I watched you put the tube assembly into the car and even said you needed to pick up the mirror. I have one and find it amazing. It runs on the EQ6 and I'm about to get the CQ350 mount to hold it better.

That's a wow!

Is it possible to see galaxies like the whirlpool with an 8 dobsonian?if so which size eyepieces would you recommend?(visual only) thanks!

I highly recommend you to use losmandy plate. Dovteil could be a bit unstable for that kind of hugh sope

Hi Trevor, Thanks for this video. I noticed that you used DeepSkyStacker 4.x instead of the "new" release 5.x. Is there any reason for that?

Hi, I just saw your video about the milky way at the darkest sky, could you please share how were you able to locate the milky way? If there's like an app or a website to track? I used stellarium and sky guide app, I was able to know the direction of the milky way like NS/EW but not an exact location where we can see it like yours! Thank you!!!🙏

So nice 😍

awesome you two

👏awesome

Wow what a picture

I appreciate it ❤

So jealous of some of the targets you get in the Northern Hemisphere.. I have had 1 go at that one but where I am it never makes it more than about 30 degrees above the horizon. Great shot.

How did you like the filter though?? Im in bortle 7 and looking to do some broadband.

Aha, a storage unit!!!! Was wondering where you stashed all your stuff.

That's been my next scope for a while That's is very nice

Hello, I bought the Apertura AD8 Dobsonian 8" telescope that you recommended in your beginner telescope video. I also recently bought a DSLR camera as well. I tried buying one of the connectors to put my DSLR through the eyepiece, but when I did, it would not focus, I would adjust the focus knob all the way in both directions, but it wouldn’t focus enough to see anything. I was contacting you to see if you can send me the name and possibly a link to the one you use to connect your DSLR to your Dobsonian. The camera is a Cannon Rebel T7 if that means anything.

I see you have that normal vignetting but also a dark circle in middle and i get that too with my newtonian, is that something we have to live with as newtonian owners or is there a way not to have that dark circle in middle ?