This is one of those tutorials I know I am going to keep coming back to for reference on the Siril process

watched dozens of tutorials on Moon Photography , and by far this is the best , you covered everything ... Keep up the great work , subbed

This young lady knows her stuff! Well done and thanks for posting:) Hi from Canada

Excellent video Sarah! Honestly so informative for people, and just plain fun to watch! :-D Keep up the amazing work, you're absolutely smashing it!

As usual, excellent tutorial from A to Z. I feel you're right beside me showing how it's done every step of the way.

This is such a great tutorial for beginners from start to finish. Great job Sarah!

This is the best moon stack processing tutorial on the Internet.

I'm so glad KZfaq recommended your channel. Your presentation is just so clean, informative, and enjoyable. I have been away from astrophotography for several years, and am looking to start up again. Your channel will be a definite resource in that effort.👍🏾

I use Siril for all my DSO stacking but always had trouble with moon stacks. This is the most straightforward Siril moon stacking demo I've seen, and it works, very helpful!

I was listening to the video in the backgound and all of a sudden I hear: "You may need to try pot (tripod)" hahah I was like ok that's gonna help me see the moon for sure :D

First of all let me say, “good job!” However, I think the process of shooting the moon can be MUCH easier. Your insistence on manual mode is spot on! For exposure at least. Not so much for focus. The camera can focus better than I can. Using a mounting system AKA tripod or even a go-to equatorial mount is not necessary. This is because, even with a long lens, it is possible to use a fast shutter speed. As you say, exposure is a function of shutter speed, aperture and ISO. What you failed to state was the RULE! The rule is, for an object in direct sunlight, at f/16 the shutter speed is the ISO. So, if I set my ISO to 100, I would set my aperture to f/16 and my shutter to 1/100 sec. Of course, any equivalent EV would work (1/200 @ f/11 for example). The moon is illuminated by direct sunlight. There is also no reason to make the ISO super slow. I like to set things to make the shutter speed at least 1/1000. If I use my Nikon, I keep it closer to 1/3000. I go outside, find the moon, if it is a good look I point the camera at it, let the camera achieve focus and press the shutter button. I set the manual mode earlier to achieve proper exposure based on the RULE. I will often bracket the exposure by changing shutter speed. It is not necessary to stack images. Gimp or Photoshop will allow altering the color curve to set the ranges of exposure scale. This being said, IF I have put the DSLR on my Newtonian scope, mounted on a computer controlled German Equatorial Mount, I may let it go in movie mode and use a stacking program. For sure, if I use my planetary imaging camera. Despite this rather lengthy comment, I enjoyed your video. Thanks.

The subtle, dry humor caught me off guard, I was laughing for the whole video. 10/10 will watch again.

excellent workflow. and your instruction is at a great level to give newbies the information and the examples to acquire and process a photo but not so much as to overwhelm. super well done. cheers from connecticut!

Oh, this is fabulous! This is right up my alley. I love your sense of humor! And this is exactly what I want to do, taking pictures of the moon. Great information and great presentation! Thank you. You just got a new subscriber!

You are so awesome. I have taken thousands of moon shots over the years. The best tutorial I have seen on the subject. Thank you so much. Keep going you are doing great!

Super helpful tutorial. It's really good to learn about how to consider the balance between quality and quantity of images to stack as well as other steps in the workflow. Thank you!

This is very well put together step by step !!! Amazing job!!! Thanks a ton !!!! Keep your contribution towards the universe 🌝

Great video sarah! You always do great productions. In a kind of textbook form. Keep them coming. Ive learned Much from you. Thank you

This was next level! Thank you so much for your hard work on this and for sharing your knowledge. Fantastic job. Cannot wait to get started creating images of the moon.

My wife bought me a Saxon 70mm/900mm refactor telescope about 15 years ago, and we used it a couple times then it went in its box because we moved house, and it's only just come out again. I am very much looking forward to making proper use of it, and just found your channel, which I am sure is going to be a great resource! Thank-you.

For years, I used the T7, and that same lens you present here in this video. It's a really awesome inexpensive lens. I now use the Canon 90 D and the Sigma 150-600mm lens. The results with this new setup are truly amazing. Yes! you can achieve amazing results with the setup in this video.

Thanks so much for the tutorial on the use of Siril, as this is all so new to me. Going from surfing and nature photography to Astro photography is quite fun but challenging at the same moment.

This is really well put together! I learned so much, well done!

I love that third party reason for blurry pics....love you, from London 🫂🙏🏻🧘🏻‍♀️🌌

Another nice video Sarah! I'm relatively new to Siril , so I was this old when I found out you could stack planetary images with it! I've always just used video then align in PIPP then stack in Autostackert. It's great when you learn something new or a different way to do something! Thank You

I always love your work and your tutorials! Thanks Sarah!

Outstanding. That is all.

Loving the humour, who else would refer to a remote gadget as "this little dude". Still waiting for an adapter so I can use my vintage zoom for this exercise but it seems to be coming on a slow boat from China.

I finally found the best Moon Photography tutorial! Keep it up, you're the best!

You don't need an App to tell you what the cloud situation is. You just need eyes. Also: sometimes is the simplest method the best. My best shot of the moon is one I made several years ago. I pointed my SCT to the moon, took a single shot with my dslr and I have that picture on the wall right now and it is fantastically sharp. No stacking, no video, no processing. Just a really really fantastic photograph.

Awesome video Sarah, love the way you share your knowledge.

A great video that gives me the tools to get into astrophotography. I especially like the advice to experiment and not accept everything as gospel. Thanks, Sarah. Looking forward to more in the future.

Millions of years ago, some kind of ball hit a globe and our moon was born, i love it !

Thank you for producing this video! Nicely thought out and planned. Your speech is easy to understand even though I have some hearing loss. I like that you don't assume the viewer has knowledge/experience since many of us are beginners. Keep up the good work!

I love the way your showing how to set this Camera up I just bought me a new one. This was great help, Thank you much

Thank you for your videos, have looked at this one 4 times now, slowly getting to know how to use Siril.

You are awesome! Nice job on this video. Very informative. I love that you are using gear that mere humans can afford. I always assumed I didn’t have the right gear for this. Thank you.

I actually laugh in your videos, i appreciate you making it fun

Yes go over a camera connecting to a telescope... and I hope you go into teaching astronomy or astrophysics.

outside sticker & moon on the wall was a nice touch . Great tutorial as always

Great video! Thank you for your hard work.

Hey thank you for this! Really great tut and super helpful. I was using image stacker and you showed me a whole new tool in Siril. Keep up the great work! Liked and subbed

Wow! What a course!

Snacks, don’t forget the snacks 😂 great video, oh and nice tan !

Thank you Sarah. I just started my journey in this hobby. Very educative and complete.

Great presentation. I appreciate all the details! Thank you.

Thanks so much, you're awsome!!! You really have a great talent for explaining something in a way that is understandable for everyone! This was the best possible introduction for anyone using Siril for the first time.😁

I quite enjoyed that, watched the whole sequence, appreciate the full explanation! I have experimented on photographing the moon, on my back deck, with my Nikon & 150-600mm lens, which wasn't exceptional, but I was happy with my first result. I'll have to give your lesson a shot at some time, so I'll put your video in my 'favourites' so I can come back to it! I too want to thank you, as you seem to have a full understanding of the photography process, with an interest in furthering it to Astrophotography!

Absolutely amazing visual display of the moon's birth 😂. Another great tutorial video! Thanks and keep them coming.

Thankyou and very well put together enjoyed your idea of things.

Thank you for this awesome and helpful video Sarah ❤

That's really close to the setup that I started with (same lens on a Canon T6). I upgraded the lens for my wildlife photography to the Sigma 150-600 C and then I could take the images hand held due to the image stabilization. Thanks for your knowledge!

Thank you for existing! Your content is deep, inspiring and full of insights.

Awesome tutorial. You are truly gifted!

Thank for the science, great job glad I found your channel

I think that one of the biggest takeaway from this for me is that the 75-300mm is a useful lens! It gets soooo much hate, and yet you have elected to show a strength that it has. It has always been discouraging to hear its disadvantages from others and look at it in my lens collection. Its so affordable and durable (while of course not amazing picture quality and its a bit overpriced used due to this and basically not worth buying brand new), however in my case it was the first actual glass lens i ever owned. Very refreshing to see someone use a lens that can be found for less than $100 instead of those big white USM zooms that cost thousands. Thanks so much for giving me this confidence in my 75-300mm. :)

Thanks, Sarah. The video was just what I needed to get started.

Perfect! Just what I was looking for, extremely informative and helpful, thank you for posting. Hi from the UK 👋🏻

Camera, snacks, optimism, and happiness - got it! 👍😁 This was awesome! Thank you for the time and detail you applied to this!

As entertaining as it is informative ... my type of humor. Your channel has been a great find!

Thanks for the video Sarah!!

In awe tonight of what the moon looked like and clicked the first video that popped up for help, was not disappointed!

You are fun to watch! Great video!

This is super helpful, thanks so much!

Very amusing. You make the information easy to absorb. Fun watch

New subscriber here. I am extremely appreciative that you are as clear explaining and showing this as you were. I have wanted to take astro photos but have not done so yet. I am in Central Florida and the weather has just begun to change. We are going into our fall with less humidity, lower dew points, and lower air temperatures that will help with the clarity issues you described. I can take videos and photos from my driveway of rocket launches at Cape Canaveral. Now I can take photos of other astro bodies also. Thank You!

Thanks a lot Sarah, the next time I try to photograph the moon, my result will be much better tanks to you. 😊

How is this not the top video when searching for moon photography. Thank you!!!

Regarding the focal length. On most digital SLRs you will have to multiply the focal length by 1.5 for Nikon and 1.6 for Canon. So a 300mm lens on that Canon camera you have will actually have a focal length of 480mm. This is due to the smaller sensor size on most digital SLRs. Only the most expensive cameras have a 'full frame' sensor.

This helped a lot! Thank you😊

You're super fantastic, thanks for this! Informative and fun!

Wonderful and informative video. In addition to learning a lot, I love your sarcasm and humor! It makes it entertaining to watch while learning.

Thanks to Sarah for this very informative video.

Defintely not what i expected when i clicked on this video. I have taken my fair share of moon photos and they were all pretty decent. This tutorial, I feel like I can land on the moon. I expected decent shots and then edits in Lightroom/Photoshop. This is a new method for editing and will give it a try, thank you for the in-depth walk through. The features in that application do not seem as foreign now. Happy shooting and love the shots you have posted on your other pages!!

I totally digged this video yo

Knowledgeable, excellent video and presentation, Good parts, sound was good, no music and no BS, loved the props. You might recognize my avatar.

Siril looks like a nice program. Thanks for the in-depth instructional video.

0:00 I like how you explain how the moon was formed as if it's proven scientific fact instead of just a theory.

This video is great! I like how you dumbed things down a lot without skipping on details and everything made a lot of sense

That was awesome. Your step by step explanations of the process made it easy to follow. Going to find my DSLR now and give it a try.

Thank you for this! Side Note: your acting is impeccable.😂

Great video and clear explanation of a simple step by step process, brill, thank you

You hooked me with your stellar moon formation demonstration.

I have the exact same camera and lens and was underwhelmed with my single shot result. You've convinced me to try stacking sometime soon. Thanks for the great video. Clear skies!

highlight of the video: "muy importante" excellent tutorial

Thank you. Very clear

Great video Sarah. Very informative

Thanks for this. Wish I found this before I tried on the moon last week. I used Rawtherapee, Hugin and GMic to get the 1700 pics I took whittled down, stacked, and merged which in the end stacked about 100 of the images together. Despite all the stuff I done wrong (moon low in the sky, middle of town, on a wooden deck, clouds) I was quite pleased with the result. Siril looks as it it will simplify and improve the stacking so I will have to try using that the reprocess. It works on Linux as well - bonus.

wow i literally just finished watching a SW movie but still took me 5 minutes to notice that shirt.... amazing :D also, a sub & patreon reminder rarely makes me laugh, nice job hahaha

Ahh. The atmosphere is where I went wrong. I can see the wavy wobbles last night in my photo. Everything else was great except that. Also this was lowkey a quick photography run through. Kudos for making it to the end.

Your videos are always great Sarah

You had me at the sand/dirt debris 😂 great video!

Nerdy. I`love it! :))❤😁

Awesome, thank you!!

Thank you Sarah! I created my first stacked moon photo thanks to you! One request for future videos, please describe exactly where you're clicking on the software to do each task vs. "click over here." I had trouble tracking your mouse and finding the right buttons. That said, wonderful guide and much appreciated. Very informative end to end.

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Please definitely do a video on connecting your Cannon to a telescope for photographing the Moon. Thanks.

Great explanation!!!!

Really good in depth information Sarah, with some nice touches of humour..I have subscribed. Great. ❤

thanks, it was a great video. Good luck with future videos