Very cool
Lovely.
Ah amazing.
What price you need to pay to get those pics/views?
Incredible! If I wasnāt such a city slicker Iād totally get into this stuff. My dad loves it.
Whatās your setup? I donāt know anything about it but Iām interested to see how itās done. Thereās a good subreddit, some people get amazing shots
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Same, always fancied it but never fully looked into it.
pun intended?
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Now I need a telescope
Did you sneak in a picture of a grapefruit to troll us?
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Well, Iāve got this thing:
But itās on eBay now, it just takes up too much room and mostly gathers dust because itās just such a pain to use and the skies here arenāt really dark enough for direct observing of anything but the brightest objects.
All those pictures were taken with this little guy, a Seestar S30:
Small, affordable smart telescopes like this have changed the game a bit recently. Not long ago youād have needed a scope at least as big as the other one I have, some imaging kit and a lot of time to invest to get the knowledge for these sorts of results. This one works by tracking objects, taking lots of pictures and then stacking them to create images that get clearer the longer you leave it running. Thereās really not a lot you need to know other than how to use a phone.
I was a bit worried that I might not like it, though. itās ridiculously easy and thereās a certain magic and immediacy about looking right at something through a telescope. With this you plonk it down in the garden and sit there on the sofa just watching as the images take shape. Time will tell I suppose, right now I love it though, I never thought Iād be able to take pictures like this from my back garden. And itās small enough to chuck in the van for trips away in places where the skies are darker.
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The IT manager at work has one of those Seestars. Heās well into astrophotography for and has shown me some amazing pictures since Iāve been here.
His one from last weekendās solar eclipse was great - same as your grapefruit but with a bite out of it.
I shut him up with my telescopes effort though.
Keep yours coming!
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Those are a conspiracy to further the globe theory and indoctrine the masses to believe what they tell you is out there. itās just preloaded photoshop images!
You just canāt see that far with such a small device, people have needed huge telescopes in the past to get those images.
Is what a flat earther would say.
Proper magic man! googles price
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Haha! I did that too.
Canāt add to cart quite yet.
Complete no brainer, itāll pay for itself in no time.
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Iām really tempted. Nights spent pissing around in the cold with me and my sonās dobsonian, trying to balance a table outā¦
Managed to get the Orion Nebula last night before it gets too low in the sky until after summer really.
Need to get into taking hours of data and then stacking on the PC for more detail but I was pretty blown away by this considering it was already really low in the sky.
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Chill out NASA
No but seriously that fucking sick
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Final straw. Was trying to egg myself into it all yesterday. Buying one nowā¦
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incredible!
Orion is absolutely massive and bright as these things go. You can see it with nothing if you have a dark sky once you know where to look. Well worth just looking at with some binoculars too.
Another plus for that countryside retreat with no light pollution.
