This is always a good galaxy for advanced astrophotographers, myself I’m still struggling with andromeda 😂, but still good to see people like you Trevor!

F/3! That’s not fair!! 😅 Great work!

The final image was totally incredible! It was really impressive that you were able to take that image in only an hour! I can’t wait to see the next video 😀🌌

Lukomatico's latest video on telescope speed is quite interesting. Great job!

For one hour that looks good. Nothing wrong with that!

Hey Trevor! I think the reason why you managed to get 20 subs within the hour is that the time on the photos is recorded at the end of the exposure, so your timer only started 3 minutes after you actually started taking exposures. Still an amazing image nonetheless :)

Trevor I wish I could produce a galaxy image this good with 5 hours total integration, never mind just 1!! such is my poor post processing! 😩😂 Loved that teaser at the end of the vid!? Can't wait to see that vid! Thanks as always Trevor! 👌👍 Wes, Liverpool, England.

This is amazing. Love your work Trevor.❤️🙏🏽

Love all of your videos. Been a subscriber for a long time. I have learned a lot and I always look forward to seeing your next new one!

Great video by a true artist! Trevor, you really should look into getting an OCAL Electronic Collimator Pro for your large Newt. It’s a bit tricky to use at first, but the results are absolutely spot on! I’m sure a lot of your viewers would appreciate a video by you on how to use it. The current vids on it are not so great.

Once again!! Love the content and Images!! Truly an inspiration to a beginner like myself!! The Thanks Trevor!!

It was all greek/ gibberish form me but the end result is amazing, marvelous, superb, awesome. It's most beautiful presentation. Very well done 🎉

great video! i love how your videos are so relaxing man. love your work so much.

Who is gonna be mad for seeing such a beautiful picture of a Galaxy ? I love it ❤

"Oilers in 7!" OOF, the biggest of OOFs. Sorry Trevor, I also hoped that we were going to witness one of the greatest comebacks/absolute collapses in sports history.

That looks absolutely stunning for only 1 hour! Btw, what would your tips be (if any) to help protect a telescope like that from extreme temperatures, especially if you permanently mount it? It's going to possibly get 120°F later next week and it gets down in the 20's or even high teens in the winter. I'm worried about possible warping if I were to mount one in my yard.

wow super video! great musical choice and stunning final sequence!!!

amazing trevor. your vids are just awesome man

Amazing photo for just one hour Trev! Looking forward to seeing you Saturday!

wow! This video is amazing. And I need to try the 1 hour challenge my self lol ❤😂

Another amazing video 🔥🔥

Nice one mate great work

Amazing image! I've been wanting to shoot that galaxy as well but I will only be able to get an hour or two exposure before the trees block it! Good to know it can be done

Great video, fantastic image - thanks for sharing!

That 12 inch is a monster. I am good with my 8 inch Vixen RS200SS with the 0.75x reducer. Wish me clear skies.

You always do a great job trevor. You guys have a beautiful home. My wife liked the doors you have of glass. This has been a bad year for astrophotography. Now we have smoke here from the fires in canada. I would like to move to utah. Beautiful skys.

Amazind what u can get in 1 hr with the 12in reflector. Cant wait for your details from Austrilla !! Bill Needham

Well done, the 12"is a beast, I have the 8"and love it but struggle with collimation.. great pic. Looking forward to your adventure Down under

Awesome video and great picture!!!! Can't wait to see what comes out of the passport clue at the end...

Looking forward to seeing you in person in just under a week!

Bless you and the Oilers. That was an incredible final. Nice photo.

Hi @AstroBackyard, nicely done! Looks great. Quick question on getting setup tips from you - is that a Starizona Filter drawer attached to the Nexus Reducer? Did you use any spacers/adapters between the filter drawer and reducer? I have the same reducer and am trying to get the spacing correctly for use with my ZWO camera, filter drawer, and Nexus Reducer. Thanks!

Wow. Aperture fever lives! Nice image Trevor.

Great work!

Very nice! Just wondering ..... would be nice to do another video on Astronomy books if you've come across any New one's you've encountered

Thank you Trevor for your video! Clear Skies:)

Newtonians for the win. I've been using my 10" @ f/3.5 with the Starizona Nexus for over a year now and I love it!

love your videos.

I photographed this galaxy and the Hockey Stick galaxy when one of the Leonard comets was in the foreground. Unfortunately I didn't have very good equipment at the time so the subs weren't very good. No calibration frames either. Still, you can see clearly both galaxies and comet Leonard. I still haven't tried to process these frames, but at least I captured a rare event of a comet passing in front of two closer background galaxies. I now own an Orion HDX 110 mount, similar in many ways as the SkyWatcher version you own. I'm using an Orion 10" Newtonian astrograph on the mount and a newer William Optics Zenithstar 61mm, which I don't have a dedicated camera for yet. Unfortunately we may never see a comet in front of these galaxies again in our lifetime, at least I don't think we will. I am curious how often close background galaxies are joined in the same field of view, on average, by a comet. I'm guessing though it won't happen again im my lifetime.

Well done Trevor, love your content. Are you in Australia?

Very nice final image Trevor. I have just got back into the hobby this year and the weather out here in SE Utah has not been cooperative at all ! I have only had one night (with a full moon) that was clear in June (crazy). I'm pretty sure that I'm the cause of all the cloudy weather after my interest peaked and I spent quite a bit of money to get up and running...Murphy's law at play. I'm looking forward to longer and clearer nights in the months ahead. Lets hope the weather gods cooperate with my plan. LOL... Anyway you do inspire me and I appreciate your videos...Cheers from Moab.

Amazing 👏

Cinematography is always on point🤙

Wow, what a beast of a scope. Love all your material you put out. It’s very inspiring and educational. Can you tell me the name of the first book you were looking through? Thanks

Welcome to Aus mate!

Great image, and in record time! That rig is a beast! Dr B from Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦

Fabuloso amigo Trevor bella galaxia buen procesado saludos desde Honduras

Very cool!

Great image as always! 👍👍

Hey Trevor, amazing video as always. I moved to Canada to do my bachelor's in Astrophysics and i started Astrophotography because of you which lead me to studying Astrophysics. I am in the durham region and i dont really know any dark sky regions here in southern ontario,would you suggest any spots, thanks a lot.

instead of a laser collimator, either use a barlowed laser collimator for enhanced precission and best for that beast you would need an autocollimator like the one astrosystems sells in conjunction with a artificial star. Both will help you collimate the scope before the astro session. Also how are you taking the flats after the session? since everything can affect the flats if you do it afterward?

What makes you take three fifteen minute long exposures instead of five 9 minute long exposures or nine 5 minute long exposures? How do you know what the sweet spot is? Is shorter more frequent exposure always better? What determines the limit?

Great result, Trevor!

Impressive as always!

Great video Trevor , love a fast Newtonian, & liked your comment about the 365 cover , I notice you have not put your observatory back up yet , I have a pod but 60 next month and increasingly difficult getting in and out although I still love it, I was contemplating getting a roll of roof type , but just something about a telescope in the garden with a 365 cover covering every angle of the sky ! No zeniths or walks to worry about ! Ps .. star clusters the underrated wonders of the night sky 👍

This video is definitely for me, with our famous weather in France 😂

you should do a project with this setup and get as much integration time as you can get; would be cool imo.

love ur content❤got in astronomy about 1 and a half years ago and finally could get a telescope last week!

You're a master at your craft, Trevor

That’s awesome for 1 hour! With Asiair how does it know where the telescope is currently pointing so it knows how to slew to target? Do you have time align it/ calibrate first?

Regarding your question at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="470">7:50</a> in the video, 20 subs in an hour is not possible with dithering, it's just a math error. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="642">10:42</a>pm is when your first exposure *ended*, so you actually started shooting at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="639">10:39</a>pm. 20 exposures from <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="639">10:39</a>pm-<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="701">11:41</a>pm makes sense - it's actually an hour and two minutes of shooting. 60 minutes exposure time with 2 minutes overhead.

Just as I thought I'd moved past the cup finals 😭 Oilers '25 make it happen!! (Leafs preferably but you know..). What an incredible image too, amazing job as always!

Start a whole series on one hour challenge

Great image Trevor

gotta love the 12" quattro. Mine is on the CQ350. How to you find the reducer?

Are you going "Down Under" with that same scope? because that would be beyond epic.

Great work Trevor!

My understanding is the SvBony laser collimator comes pretty well aligned and doesn't lose it too easily. Ive had no problems with mine

I would love to see you experiment with lucky imaging with the 14" skywatcher using NINA.

I just got back from Colorado and saw the ring nebula and M13 for the first time in my awkward 90mm Orion. It was cool

What about dooing a 1shot image mono style challenge ? You get 1 exposure per filter to create an image, combined with calibration frames ofcoarse.

Nice job! You started from the finish time of your first image, not the start, which I think accounts for your dithering time (~2 extra minutes based on your timestamps) I'd sure be interested in seeing an image of the _rest_ of the subs compared to the first hour

another awesome pic trevor

great video as always... but so sad for Leon and the Oilers :( :)

Great video, Trevor. Yes, aperture counts. Question: How long did it take to stack in PI using WBPP? I'm guessing it was longer than the total integration time. - Patrick -

Sorry to break Oiler fans hearts but it was our first Championship. Trevor, I love your channel and content. It takes me away from the crap of reality, thank you, keep'em coming!

This is why I love Newtonians, especially when they are this fast. See you at Byron Bay next week!

Beautiful scope! No Bob's Knobs? I've found that a 2" laser collimator sits better than using the 1.25" adapter. Great image in just an hour 🔭

I wish one day I can have a rig as good as this or even skill like this I just can’t afford a descent rig or tracking mount

Can you do a tutorial on how you calibrate and stack images from your ASI294mc pro .

Do you upload your photos to astrobin so we can see the uncompressed images? Thank you sir!

Dylan and Trevor get to battle in the Thunderdome!

Waiting for that collab 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Uhhh, the pain. I wanted Edmonton to win but of course I knew Florida would take it in 7. Also, for a Newtonian *nothing* is a better tool than an autocolimator. When the optics are aligned the light circuit is closed and the image in the autocollimator goes dark. There's no doubt that the optics are in alignment.

Trevor, did you ever end up using Hyperstar on your C11 Edge? I mean F1.9 come on. Oh, and good luck, clear skies, on your trip to Byron. See if you can get out to a Bortle 1 site while in Oz.

So when you said okay to coming to Australia...I'll be there in a month! I thought you were joking!😅

Do you keep that mount and Newtonian outside Trevor?

Looks Good! But how much Post Processing time was involved? 🍻

Hi Trevor! I’m 14 years old and am new to astrophotography. All I use for my images is a Dwarf 2 smart telescope and process with apps on my phone. I was wondering if you had any tips for me, Clear Skies!

Well, it's not about good vs bad laser collimator. They just usually need to be calibrated first. There are adjustment screws for that. I mean it's probably close anyway. But that's what they meant.

Would b really cool if u can take pic of the JWST if that is possible

It would be cool if you used Space Engine to fly to that Galaxy from Earth, to visualize its position/distance relative from us :)

I'm curious how much time on a picture like this do you spend doing the final edits after stacking?

Ohhh dear, my 8" now has to be upgraded lol. Brilliant result!

We have a dob and l love when you make dob content

Great video, im actually shooting to EAGLE nebula rn, could you tell me the name of the book you have used to see the celestial body?

what is a good budget telescope for deepsky objects?

And I thought you were a dedicated refracror guy. See you in Byron Bay!

Can u make another seestar video please I want to see how I can improve my images for my channel u inspire me to get more and do more

I don't know if this is a dumb question since im new to this but cant you reuse dark frames if im using the same equipment and settings?