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4:55:30 kris 4:57:02 kyle 4:58:48 kyran 5:00:04 larkin 5:01:09 larstronomy 5:02:48 leon 5:04:36 liam 5:05:47 linus 5:06:54 LShepAstrophotography 5:08:52 lukas 5:10:27 maksim 5:11:44 malte 5:12:52 marcell 5:15:13 marianne 5:16:24 mark 5:18:33 markus 5:20:21 martin 5:21:53 marty 5:23:28 marvin 5:25:08 matogolf 5:26:49 matt 5:29:03 matthew e 5:30:11 matthew m 5:32:11 matthias 5:33:49 mattia 5:35:04 max 5:36:15 maxime 5:37:35 maximilian 5:38:39 meika 5:41:05 menny 5:42:52 michael a 5:45:20 michael k 5:47:42 michael p 5:49:51 michal 5:50:45 mihajlo 5:53:08 mike 5:54:52 miki 5:56:23 mikko 5:57:14 mikolaj 5:58:46 mindaugas 6:00:58 momosquitos 6:02:12 monty 6:05:08 nandakumar rajesh 6:07:01 natan 6:08:00 nelson 6:09:02 nick 6:10:15 nico from texas 6:11:06 nicolas 6:12:19 nicolas p 6:14:23 nightskyobserver 6:15:39 nighttime imaging 6:16:40 niklas 6:18:45 njr95 6:21:16 noah i 6:23:30 noah k 6:24:48 nolan 6:26:31 noon 6:27:59 omers_astrophotography 6:29:32 orson 6:31:41 othman 6:34:09 otto 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8:11:49 swastik 8:13:22 szilard 8:15:20 taha 8:16:46 tamen 8:17:31 terry 8:19:10 the astroguy 8:20:21 the stellar remnant 8:21:25 theGhost 8:22:48 theo 8:23:20 thomas 8:24:33 thomas b 8:25:38 thomas t 8:26:54 tigo 8:28:32 tim e 8:29:44 tim r 8:31:30 timur 8:33:07 tobajer 8:34:17 tobias 8:35:42 todd 8:38:38 tohu 8:40:13 tom 8:41:59 tomas a 8:43:11 tomas d 8:44:53 tony 8:46:46 toozombi 8:47:57 toto 8:49:38 trebor 8:51:09 tristan 8:52:55 troy 8:55:07 troysworks 8:56:25 tuukka 8:58:01 umair 8:59:26 uri 9:01:03 v 9:02:57 val 9:05:14 valentin 9:06:54 vess 9:07:32 vince 9:08:47 vlad 9:09:29 widowmaker_895 9:11:08 will the snek 9:12:22 wojciech 9:14:05 ylemish 9:15:48 zachary b 9:17:34 zachary p 9:18:44 zafar 9:19:48 zixin 9:21:03 zminko 9:23:06 zoli 9:24:28 outro 9:26:16

Going above and beyond for your audience... 9h30 of critique, that's real dedication and a massive amount of work on your end... Thanks Nico!

I dont even own a camera and here I am watching a 9 hour video of other peoples pictures

Never thought I’d spend an ENTIRE DAY watching just one single KZfaq video. My hat off to you, Nico! Phenomenal work and effort.

Legendary commitment to your community here! Thanks for your comments. I was blown away by your edit of my heart nebula data. Inspired to re edit it myself now. 🤩

Put simply -WOW! What a phenomenal effort to put this together - outstanding commentary and critique/help being given for such a monstrous amount of time, inspirational! I take my hat off to you my friend, I know how much work even a short/simple video actually takes, so from one creator to another - maximum respect, it shows how much you really love the community you've built 🙂 Clear skies!

Really happy to have made the cut @17:28 with my heart and soul shot! :) Thanks for the advice on how to sort out issues with the stars using that lens too

Dude this super long critique is awesome. One of a kind, I’ll be watching in small chunks over the next few days. Love what you do! 🫶🏻

Thanks Nico for the critique, answers and tips ! Honored to figure in the thumbnail :)

Getting inputs on your image from your favourite astrophotographer is just a bliss. Thankyou so much Nico!!

Andromeda at 5hrs 20min for one night is just amazing. 💪 the celestron c8 rasa is for its price and what it can do just great

This is a wonderful service you provide to all us fledgling astro photographers … I enjoyed the entire video! Thank you for all you do to enhance the hobby

Wow, thank you so much for the critique Nico! Such an honor to be featured in your thumbnail for the video as well (I think it is mine anyway - second one in on top row).

This is an insane level of dedication! Hats off to you man! Great work

Thank you for your critique of my photo, Nico. I learned so much from your videos. If I remember correctly, the first astrophotography video I watched is from you that started my journey. Thanks again!

Thank you Nico. That was obviously a lot of effort. 9 hours plus of video, and I ca only imagine the amount of prep time involved. Your work is very much appreciated, and I for one will be watching the whole thing to learn, and get inspiration. Thank You!!!

Not gonna lie, this video was a commitment 😅 But I got thru and got to see so many awesome images and info in here, thanks so much for doing this! It must have been quite time consuming to say the least. I also just joined your Patreon for a year just because I felt like giving back after lurking here for such a long time 😁 Keep it up! Clear Skies

Nice to see someone talking about formal concepts. Bravo!

Thanks for the advice Nico! I'm hoping to get some more time outside once the skies clear up a bit in Chicago. It's so awesome that you keep doing these!

Thanks for taking the time to give helpful comments for each photo!

This was amazing,thank you for the input and the opportunity for it,next time hopefully i will have my whole imaging train ready to submit a Superb quality picture

Thank you Nico for critiquing my image of the Double Cluster. I was blown away when I originally processed it and saw how well it came out. I took it right before I saw your video about submiting photos for the critique.

Ill give that advice a go and retry the Crescent data! Thanks Nico!

I've just found this video and i'm very happy to see that my image is included too. I'm so-so grateful Nico for your critique and I'll definitely pay a little bit more attention to avoiding star trailing by applying the NPF rule. I wish you all the best!😀

Glad you liked the annotated version of my Milky Way photo :D Thank you Nico!

Wow with this many submissions, I wasn't really expecting very meaninful comments after you said this was one marathon recording. But you really did it! Even on my photo more than half way through. Thank you so much!

I'm only about 40 minutes in but I need to comment and let you know that already I'm finding this very educational. Like many, your channel was one of the first I found and is one of the major reasons I am into astrophotography today. It has also made me realize that I think I have been sleeping on my 75-300 kit lens lol. I had been thinking about getting a short focal length refractor to use for large objects (I usually use a 130mm f/5 newtonian) but I think I might see about getting another dovetail and try out my kit lens for that purpose before I go about buying anything else. Keep up the great work Nico!

WOW! That was a lot of work Niko! I can't believe I finished it all! You give very positive critique, and gave some excellent tips! Very nice video to watch even if it took 2 days! Might watch a bit of the Director's Cut without the cut clap!! lol Thank You

Nico! Amazing content! I really love these critigue vidoes! I know they are long and not easy to do but thats why i love your channel so much! You go well beyond the call of duty for your community! Im only halfway through this video so i will be making additional comments. I love how informative this is! Sorry for all the exclamation marks!!! But i love this!!!❤

Incredible work! Thank you!

Awesome! Thanks so much! Crazy how the colors look so "plain" to me when it's natural. I'm very thankful you caught that! I'm going to have to start doing a "normal people" edit and a "colorblind" edit!

Thank you Nico for the critique, glad you liked that frame :)

This is the my "podcast" now. This is true dedication

6:34:29 Thank you for the advice! Funny thing is I did notice the clipping shortly after I sent you the email, I re-edited it and revealed 2 times the amount of detail you see here. I immediately uploaded it in the drive link I sent you and deleted this one but unfortunately I was too late haha! Anyway, thanks again! I couldn't imagine that went into making this video!

22:55 THAT. IS. AMAZING!!! What a well done shot...That should be submitted for that award where they pick an image to post on a website each day... APOC?? I dont know, but this image is amazing.

I've been waiting for this forever !!! It's almost like Christmas 🎄

I remember submitting my photo, forgot about it to be honest. Looking forward to watching all 9.5 hours over the next week or two!

I have a shoot and go camera and use the Celestron Digital Camera Adapter to shoot videos of the planets and stack them. I use a 127 Maksutov on a Twilight One AZ mount for planets. I used the method on C80, the Omega Centauri globular cluster and it turned out well too using a 102 refractor, a triplet. I did it to see if it would work and it did, but a member of my astronomy club asked if I did it during the clear sky period we had after a rain back in May and I said yes, seeing was exceptional for three days. Even the stratosphere cooperated with calm winds for the majority of the time. Took the video at 5400 feet altitude at 32 degree latitude in Southern NM. He said the video method won't work very well for certain DSOs that need a filter and Stackert won't work well for reasons you gave, but 60 seconds of C80 turned out ok from Bortle 4 green zone. C80 is a 3.7 magnitude and visible easily from the south side of the Organ Mountains hence only 60 seconds of video.

Wow...such a good critique session. Your help is much appreciated and you were extremely thoughtful in discussing and passing along your experience. Everyone who submitted should be proud of their work especially the beginners. Astrophotography has a huge learning curve and just getting an image shows your dedication to even just accomplishing capture.

Thank you! You’re the best!

Woah... 10 hours, what a beast!

looking forward to this !!

4:38:12 - Thanks for the advice!

Nico, will you have a long, gray beard at the end of this session? I LOVE these critiques and learn so very much. Thank you.

Incredible commitment, but don't push yourself too hard for us ❤

Really looking forward to watching this as I submitted an image so fingers crossed we'll see it 🤞, I wonder if Nico will do another video when he reaches 200K?

Thanks for the info!

I was going to send in a photo but for whatever reasons the email didn’t send and I didn’t notice until about a month ago. I wish I could have been a part of this but it’s great to see everyone else’s submissions!

Thank you for your knowledge

Brilliant!

Noticed a lot of people were using the Canon 75-300. From what I've heard, that lens not super sharp at 300 mm. My suggestion would be to keep it at around 200 mm.

Hi Nico! I was wondering you had any interest in doing a myth buster video where you test the real weight capacity of some popular mounts and star trackers, especially the smallers ones like the staradventurer 2i or the star adventurer gti (and the bigger ones as well). This would be helpful to see if the "rule" of not loading your mount with more than 1/2 the capacity still holds true in 2023 or if there are some exceptional mounts that can even go beyond their stated limit. I think it would help people understand what they can expect from their mounts or star trackers

Just wanted to correct, at 48 minutes you mention the composition of an image and said that Deneb looks weird but it’s actually a small reflection nebula not Deneb.

1:16:33 What is "walking noise"? What causes it and what options do you have to prevent/stop/fix the issue?

7:19:35 - Thanks for the review and your time! :)

5:50 So when someone is imaging Jupiter, given how fast it rotates, are you always limited to about 3-4 minutes worth of data to stack before the rotation becomes an issue for stacking?

Hi friends, I am watching these amazing video from Central América.

Would you recommend a 130mm triplet scope for me if I have the redcat 51mm already? i feel like 130mm would help me click pictures of galaxies and small nebulae in more detail but is 130mm too zoomed in (with zwo 533m) that I will not be able to click full pics of any objects should I go with 102mm or 130mm if I have the redcat 51mm for wider pics? amazing video btw, only watched 1 hour yet but i am watching more while having dinner lol

Thank you for the critique Nico! Andromeda was indeed very high up, skirting the balcony upstairs. And sorry it was just another Andromeda picture, you must be sick of them.

54:20 How do you calculate the arcseconds-per-pixel in your image? How is that useful, and how can you change it?

I am just at 50 Min and there was a lot of realy great images till now😊

22:35 cant you disable noise reduction on Sony? Becouse i am choosing Camera and i dont know if i should get 600d, 1100d a6000 or a6300 for dso, daylight photography and landscape astrophotography

Dithering question. Can you dither manually? I have an ioptron skyguider, no guiding, no asiair, Sony a6000. Could I shoot say 10 lights @ 120sec, then dither. Shoot another 10 and dither again and so on through my session? Or would I need to dither after every single shot to lower my noise signal?

This review should have received at least 360*360*360 likes

Nico, watched every minute of this wonderful contribution to our hobby. Since, you use Siril as I do; why did I NOT hear any suggestions from You for the contributors to use Photometric Color Calibration? Or even regulare color calibration? Doesn't that hellp with "Star Color"? ThX

Do you ever use a MAK, and what is your take on them?

So excited!! :D

3:51:35 Pix Insight

Enjoyed the critique. Unfortunately I didn’t see mine that I submitted

Bro's face looks like he's about to commit nefarious acts.

Thanks for the helpful advice. I don't know how you can talk for 9.5 hours! this must have wiped you out. AJ

You're the MAN>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Holy! 😂

Do you accept phone camera astrophotography?

The Achilles' heel of astro photo is really that all pictures look identical. Incredibly fun operating the equipment to make the pictures - not so much looking at them.

Oh wow 🙂

3:55:24 That looks more like a brain than a crescent.

I emailed in a submission, hope to see it and get your input

Too many! Please, split up next one into 20 x 30 minutes video...

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