After having basic camera setups with simple trackers, I was gifted a seestar s30. Closed in back yard has a small area that isn’t covered in trees but has a perfect view of Orion. Going to let it run as long as I dare tonight and pull the fits files to import into siril and do a proper stacking but the apps stacking after only fifteen minutes is already making me excited for what I can pull out of it with an hour+ integration time.

Now if the clouds and fog stay away long enough for me to get quality subs, I’ll be a happy night owl

Edit: cloud bank came rolling in shortly afterwards. Will have better seeing the next few nights so hopefully will be able to get a lot more time to help clear up the noise and improve detail. Fifteen minutes is nowhere near enough

  • qupada@fedia.io
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    23 hours ago

    I was given an S50 for Christmas.

    Where we were staying was fortunately right on the edge of suburbia and it was a clear night, plopped it down on the deck and apparently we’re twins? Because the first picture I took was also Orion.

    (this was only a couple of minutes, so doesn’t look amazing)

    • DokPsy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I actually tried Andromeda as a test, then did 40 min of the 7 sisters, then Orion nebula. This was the first one that was somewhat impressive out of the box.

  • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I just gifted my nephews an S30 too and those kids lost their minds. As did my brother-in-law and my dad.

    • DokPsy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It is! There are several sprinkled in both sides of the Orion nebula. Sadly, I can’t find its name at the moment as it’s late and my star charts don’t list it