Hey everyone, I've been a long time photographer on a hiatus. Ever since learning about the existence of EQ mounts I have been excited to get back into photography and try the astro side of it.

I have a 300mm f/2.8 lens for my DSLR and am wondering if that focal length is any good. Thanks!

I realized half way through the shoot I should leap through a couple frames. This was my favorite. Nikon D810. wide angle. Most of my aurora shots are from the October 2024 storm. I spent most of it driving around looking for angles and trying to track the intense bursts and different colors.

Nikon D810 for all the aurora shots, different parts of the Schoodic National Park loop. ISO settings timer settings were adjusted on the fly due to the severity of the storm.

Schoodic National park. Nikon D810. 20mm. 2.7 aperture. 8 seconds.

Image of the Monkeyhead nebula I took last night.

Equipment:

• Lumix G85
• Lumix 100-300 f4-f5.6
• Omegon Mount MiniTrack LX3 Essentials

Image:

• 5 sec, f/5.6, 6400 ISO
• 1634 Lights
• 50 Biases, Darks, Flats

Stacked using Siril and edited in GIMP

Got my pictures of the total lunar eclipse together, this was my first attempt at doing a final collage photo at each phase, which I kind of bunged up the timings a little bit but it still turned out good enough.

Wow thankyou everyone! I was not expecting to get 280+ upvotes

Photo taken at 6:32UTC from Burlington Ontario with a 4" f/9.8 refractor.

No eclipse glasses needed for this one!

Tonight, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from all of North and South America (except of course where I am, which is cloudy). The full eclipse begins at 06:26 UTC on the 14th, and will last for about an hour. The partial phases before and after this are also cool to watch. If you've never seen a lunar eclipse before, I highly recommend setting an alarm for tonight and at least going out and taking a peek at it (The next lunar eclipse visible from North America is in 2026.) Light pollution does NOT matter for a lunar eclipse, as long as you have a clear view of the moon in the sky.

Here's a good site with time zone conversions, as well as specific alt/az numbers for your location: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2025-march-14

Please keep our community rules in mind when sharing your eclipse pics (titles, acquisition/processing info, etc). I can't wait to see what everyone is going to capture! (definitely try out some HDR stuff if you can!)

I took a few pictures of the most common objects and am using a Lumix G85 with a 100-300 (200-600mm eq.) lens. That is around 2.2lbs/1kg (Yes, that is a micro four thirds sensor) together with a Omegon Mount MiniTrack LX3 Essentials. It is a very cheap mount which you have to tention manually and it only runs for 1h at a time, polar alignment is hard due to the cheap "straw" you have to look through.

I really like this hobby and want to upgrade to a newer mount and the Sky-watcher Star Adventurer GTi looks really good for the price. However, I am worried about it's max payload of just 11lbs/5kg. For me it is more than enough, but I want to know if it will be enough along the way if I upgrade to heavier camera or even a dedicated one with a proper telescope.

Can someone tell me about the Sky-watcher with a heavier load or pro-level gear on a different mount and how heavy it is and if you think this mount will be enouh for it.

I really have the bug now! This was a lot of fun with barely any equipment

Dslr, 50mm f1.8 lens, and a tripod.

I can't wait to get a star tracker now

My first time trying to shoot the Horse Head nebula! I have a stock Sony a6000, which cuts out most of the hydrogen red signal, but thankfully enough got through to at least make this a solid attempt.

The data is about 45 minutes worth of 30 second exposures out of my Sony and a Ttartisan 500mm f6.3 lens, on a star tracker.

Due to the very limited total integration time and the stock camera I had to stretch pretty far while fending off artifacts here and there.

Overall I'll take it, will revisit in the future.

Feedback appreciated!

I captured this image of NGC 281 with my S50 using 948 10s exposures. I stacked in Siril and processed in Siril, GraXpert, Cosmic Clarity, and GIMP. It's not perfect, but I'm still very much an amateur.

Stacked a 4 minute video last night, which came out very nice IMO

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/23704209

My second (and first successful) try of the orion nebula. Any advice for editing out the noise and these stripes? What are these?

Camera: Panasonic Lumix G85 Lens: H-FSA100300 (100-300mm f4-5.6) Settings: f6.4, ISO 6400, 5"

1020 pics at 5s each + calibration frames

Total exposure: 85 minutes / 1.4 hours

Captured using a Nikon D5300 and s 140mm lens

28x exposures ranging from 5-8 seconds

Stacked in astro pixel processor

Processed in Pixinsight

My 5th time trying to image a seemingly easy target with something being off... This time I must have nudged the lens out of focus slightly and there was some dew forming on the lens that I hadn't noticed. This hobby sure has a steep learning curve!

Still, decided to not throw away the whole attempt and did a quick processing. It's about 45 minutes worth of 30 sec exposures at 500mm f6.3.

Feedback appreciated!

Took a 8min exposure with my Nikon D800 and my 50mm f/1.4 by night.

I find it quite interesting how the image looks almost like it's daytime, just with startrails in the background.