Totally thought that lizard was real, even when you were petting it 😂

Started this hobby in December, there is so much to learn. Amazed at the detail you are pulling out, subscribed.

Great tutorial of how to mix humor and knowledge, love it!

You are not only knowledgable but funny, I've seen a lot of videos about astrophotography and I can say that yours are very easy to follow, thanks man!

Dude that cloudy shot was nice. Highlights the constellation itself. Sometimes accidental shots are the coolest!

I used to live in the middle of nowhere and it has many benefits.

It give me excitement to watch your videos to learn and laugh a bit. Great videos bro the best. Lol

wow that finnished image is insane.

Immediately thought about Robin Hood men in tights when you were petting the lizard 😂🔥

You are ridiculous; I love it! Thank you for the cheesy humor, that I love, and the education!

Beyond how amazing is your tutorial to take pictures of night sky. Your style it's incredible.

that last one really has an artistic charm to it with the haze and halo-ing

Hey! I tried the same shot last weekend, I own a Sony A7II and Sony 50mm f1.8 but at 1.8 stars were way too purple... I had to close it a little bit. Amazing result!! It really encourages me to keep it up!

Awesome image. Thank you for tips

G'day from South Australia, I too use the Nifty fifty, but on my crop sensor Nikon D7200, I have a long way to go in my processing, but you have inspired me to push on, I will be going to a very dark location later in the year, if I can get half the clarity you have here I will be happy

you're an amazing content creator, i appreciate all the tips i learned from this and i thought the lizard was a nice touch :) keep it up!

Fab pic and great step by step guide

Another fabulous video, great presentation.

I enjoy your videos! They give me hope and the will to not give up on my new hobby. I’ve been steadily improving over the past few months. But I know you understand the learning curve frustrations.

Very nice! I'm glad to see folks here on KZfaq getting others excited about the wonders of the night sky. I enjoyed your photo and your video - very entertaining and to the point. I've been a planetarium director teaching astronomy for 20 years, and it does my heart good to see people like you dispelling the myth that expensive equipment is required to enjoy a relationship with the night sky. Good on you!

Thanks! for teaching me all this cool stuff :)

Wow! You’re the most funny teacher I have ever met

I just ordered the nifty fifty and my entry-level canon. I look forward to taking pictures of the sky and moon as well as the ocean. thank you for having inspired my interest in photography.

Dude, I love your videos! Spacey greetings from Berlin, Germany ✨ Your content helped me to get a foot into astro photography

Nice. I must have missed the part about the details of camera settings and how many shots the final image was. It'd be good if you also put that in the description.

Great video!! Thank you!!

That is one helluva beautiful image

Tried following this tutorial from start to finish. I am a little confused as the lizard keeps appearing even once I get out to shoot and ruins my exposures. Any advice please

dude idk why this lizard bit is so funny 🤣🤣🤣

Dude!...with the lizards. That was hilarious. I thought it was real on the first shot

love you videos sir! specially aligators, regards from Colombia

Very nice video. Subscribed and eagerly awaiting more. Final shot looked great!

Thank you.

What a beautiful photograph.

Amazing image Walt! I really enjoy your vids.

love the SV-1!! i miss mine so much..

Can't believe you were still vloging while you had such clouds behind you!!! Apart from that, great work!

I wish you had more subs, you are very helpful and funny

First thing I noticed when you zoomed in on tracked photo was m78 !! Love it. So I tried this myself about a week or so ago from a Bortle 8-9 zone and I couldn’t differentiate the light pollution from nebulousity unfortunately. After watching this though I might revisit my shots and see if they can’t be processed better. I’m not sure if I additionally had some funky flats or maybe the focus ring changed when I did my flats but I recall having some obnoxious rings in my processed photo

This video and your post-processing guide are so helpful! Thanks!

I enjoy your approach to astrophotography and the explainations that you present to the viewer. Easy decision to subscribe to the channel. Thanks bunches...HB

loved the video. You are funny

I love wide angle astro shots because it gives you a perspective of the place of the object in the night sky. A first step to build the connection with object. Then comes the deep sky astrophotography to give more details about your object. I'm planning to buy a used Canon EOS R --> get it astromodified --> use Rokinon 50 mm F/1.4 lens --> drive to Bortle 2 sky --> shoot with star tracker (60s +) of Orion Constellation around 100 light frames, 25 darks, and 25 flats --> Stack them with dss --> Run Adobe photoshop to do some stretching and curve adjustments and Starnet++ to get nebulosity details --> bring the stars back in photoshop --> do some final contrast enhancements in Adobe lightroom and call it a day 🙂. What do you think of the pipeline for Bernard's loop and other nebulosity around Orion? This camera will also be my permanent camera for Milky Way, Rho Ophiuchi and other big targets with some landscapes during the night.

Mind blowing man, good stuff.

Nice video mate.. almost convinced me to buy an iOptron Skyguider Pro..

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Awesome pic and video, thanks for sharing..................................peace

Just wow !

Thank you for this. Started doing astrophotography about a month ago and bought this lens recently. Nice to see how someone else uses it. Inspiring

A great tutorial and superb result. I’ve only recently bought this lens for this purpose and haven’t yet had the opportunity to use it on my Star Adventurer tracker. I have a Canon 600D/T3i with a crop sensor so will be interested to see if I can capture the entire constellation vertically, before Orion disappears. Thanks for sharing 👍 Edit: I got to use this a couple of nights ago. The sky appeared clear but there was obviously some very high cloud which added to the light pollution. Orion was starting to drift downwards into the SW sky which also didn’t help. The images I got all had a light brown tinge to them just like some of yours in similar conditions. But lessons learned - the lens is clearly a ‘light grabber’ even though I had to settle for an ISO of 200 with 60 second exposures at F4. It also proved that I could see all the constellation stars in ‘live view’ within the field of view. Just hope I can get another go at it before Orion finally disappears until next winter

Started watching for the tutorial, stayed for the lizard, subscribed for the knowledge

Superb video! And that’s quite funny I just shot the Orion Nebula with the nifty fifty the last weekend (without star tracker though) and obviously my photo is way less good that yours (I stacked 800 photos). Your video clearly shows me I need a star tracker! Superb video again!

A newcomer will be asking many questions, one of them will be, what image format? RAW, CR2, jpeg-etc. some folks will have a Nikon, Sony, Pentax etc. ? Best image format to use. Pause after shutter up to allow for mirror slap vibrations to settle before next shot, electronic remote control can be a simple hand held and press for each shot, or buy a cheap Chinese intervalvometer for a fraction of the price for a genuine Canon etc. unit. I have several cheap ones and never failed. Newcomers need to get into astrophotography as low cost as possible to see if it is something they want to get into more seriously, but without spending too many dollars to start with. Newcomers find there is a whole new dictionary-terminology to learn/understand, so what experienced folks take for granted-is all new for someone starting out. Just watched a presentation by a fellow using a $10,000 mount, plus a telescope, cooled camera, filter wheel, guide scope, various filters and the rest, no change from $25,000 upwards. Hope these comments help in your future presentations, they are not meant to be critical in any way. I used to teach scientific photography among other medical subjects. Have been into building my own scopes, mounts, observatories over the past 60 years and into professional astronomical photography & photometry when I retired from a medical career. If interested, Google my name and Southern Cross Observatory-Tasmania 42 South. Keep up with your KZfaq presentations-you will help many others. I am 83 and find it takes me a lot longer to get things done, I have many interests and really not enough time to get into making KZfaq videos, my teaching days are behind me. Regards from ‘Down Under’ where we have so many wonderful celestial objects visible year round. 👍🇦🇺🔭🦘

Wow nice image. I have the nifty fifty but never thought of using it that way. I tried taking a photo of my brother-in-law's barn one night and had some halos in the image from the light on the barn so didn't think it would be good for astrophotography. I will try it for sure now. I can mount it to my telescope or to my star adventurer.

just started this hobby with a rebel t7 and a 75-300mm lense and i’ve been taking some amazing photos surprisingly of orions nebula, my next target, rosette nebula

Beautiful final image!

Amazing, astrophotography has become more accessible than ever with tutorials like yours, keep it up!

Nice video and nice shots. There's a good alternative to the 500 rule for avoiding star trails when shooting on a static tripod. It's called the NPF rule. The formula asks for several variables including aperture. I've noticed over time that IF you use the 500 rule, and then divide that result by 2 or by 3 you'll avoid star trails completely. Recently I made some shots and got that brtownish sky color. It looks interesting at first, but gives me a challenge while editing after doing the stack. More recently when I see the brown on my live view screen I just decrease my shutter speed or my ISO until the brown is gone in my test shots. Keep up the good videos.

This is jsut a stock camera with no Ha modification? Wow. That is truly incredible.

Thanks for the video. Just was researching telescopes and instead came across astrophotography. I already have a Canon 80D and recently got the 50mm lens for Christmas. So, seems like a good place to start to see if this would be an additional level of photography to pursue. Really useful video and definitely subscribed. Andrew

Awesome. Tried it with my new astro tracker and also got Barnard's Loop !

Thanks so much you have given me so much advice my latest shots are incredible! and I do not have a star tracker, Dark nebula are so possible with stacking.

Great video, I also love your editing tutorials! Is the camera astro modified or can you capture the nebulae also with a regular one?

I love seafood so I'd love to visit the crab cake nebula!

like a James Bond baddie with that lizard.

Bought an 1100D few weeks back at a bargain price. And today got my nifty fifty which I was lucky to win a bid on at half its usual used pricing. Still learning and can't wait to try my gear out, without the star tracker at first 😅 Nice video and the final processed image looks epic. And oddly enough the shot with the clouds looks pretty nice too. Looks dreamy! But damn the dso's looks really nice.

just found this channel. fun content. subbed

Mississippi Delta kid here... trying to place your locale, I'm astro' photog'ing over in N Miss area but skip over towards Clarksdale some ... enjoyed the video, well done!

Dang, I can't wait to try this! I don't have a star tracker though, but still feel like it would be fun. Now only have to find dark enough skies 🤣

super content and very enjoyable!

awesome video!!!!

Nice work

Wow !!!

10/10 lizards to you sir

There's no northern star on the southern hemisphere !

So funny to hear you spelling Betelgeuse like Beetlejuice) I envy you for such a warm weather and clear sky. Here, where I live, Orion constellation is visible in winter and what is most annoying - it is on south-east, where lies huge city with all its illumination. But this is not that bad, because in winter (I would say starting from october and up to april) ur sky is mostly covered with clouds. And don't forget about frost which together with humidity makes all unbearable.

cracking video, will have to watch the editing later on

and can you make a tutorial or tell me how to stack photos with a startracker or without with a landscape in the foreground?!

I have that same 50mm....haven't quite gotten the right pic yet

Korg SV1 in the background!

What's the best way to know about different things I see on my screen. Like, every astrophotographer knows about different nebulae, galaxies and such. How do I learn to spot what's what?

Thank you so much! I just got the nifty fifty a couple days ago and am waiting on the star tracker and tripod. I have a canon xsi and it can only get up to 1600 iso, do you recommend taking more pictures since the iso can only go that high?

Cool vid. I have a Star Aventurer or Giuder (I don't even know) Tracker. Had it a year, yet haven't used it yet!

Hey great video, what software do you use to process images and do you have any recommendations on how to start..beginner here.

Ideak haber puesto la pantalla de la camara con la configuracion de esta o una screen en el video para hacer pruebas.

very cool !!!!!

Amazing image. Has your camera been astro modified? Thank you Barry

I took my profile pic with that very same lens model... messing about with a moth close up 😂

Enjoyed the video and your style! Have you any experience with the Canon EOS RP camera for astrophotography? Heard anything insightful?

Nice work Delta, I like the video. What bortle sky scale you had there? I am thinking to get also a star tracker as a secondary mount to have more fun with wide field lenses while i am imaging with my other telescopes.

When I increase the shutter space to 10 seconds, it gets too bright. How to fix that?

Thank you for the video. It was very helpful. I have one question: can a Nikkor 50mm 1.8D lens give any good result? Thank you in advance for any response.

Nice job enjoyed the vid

Hi, awesome vid and detailed explanation, can I ask if your 6D is astro modded or stock?

If I'm in the city with a star tracker what would be the best iso and shutter setting? I can't seem to find one that does give me a black screen or all white

Please do share the processed files on some cloud it's really useful to look in high quality.

My panasonic LX100 on my new clockwork drive is goin to get cold!

Hi! Love your videos. I am very new to the hobby and am looking for budget equipment to get me going. I have a Nikon D3100, what Nikon equivalent 50mm F1.8-ish lens would you recommend on a budget?

Great video, also watched the tutorial on the processing. Is your camera astro modified?

I’ve got the same pics roughly that you took, but how did you pull out all that colour at the end??