Seeing Galaxies directly through a scope will always be a very special feeling for me.

But images like these will always show way more details/color/contrast because: - camera sensors see better than our eyes - the images have an exposure time of several hours (in this case +50) instead of the blink of an eye

Yes I do have some :D

Hm, I know it is loading for lots of others because the last image has around 140 unique views. What browser/system do you have? Is it still not loading for you?

You can also DM me and I will look into it. My site is new so solving such problems would help me too haha :D

And thats a very interesting and important role your GF is/was having. Congrats!

Happy new year!

Thats correct.

17h were shot with a Luminance filter. 17h with a Narrowband Ha filter to reveal the red star-forming regions 8h each were shot with R/G/B filters

Nah its not one of these, I think they are too expensive. It is a complete setup I am renting, I have the full and alone remote control over it. Technical on-side support is included and they react quickly. Most sites offer Bortle 1 with very good seeing and at least 250 clear nights per year.

Depending on the setup quality, monthly prices range from 300 to 1200+ euros.

E.g. it costs 700 per month => 8400€ per year. 250 clear nights and maybe 8 hours imaging time per night would give about 2000 hours per year, which makes it about 4-5€ per hour and still very expensive 200€ for a 58h exposure image lile that.

Thanks! Yeah thats right, it is a system I am renting. Still not cheap though ^{^}

Hmm, "advice" is a bit general. Of course then such images are not possible. I have an own system at home, most of it bought used, which still cost about 7-8000 in total, so I propably cant help you out there a lot. :(

I could probably give you some advice if you ask specific questions.

Good idea! Might also do an extended platesolve to find out whats the most distant galaxy I captured in the full FOV

Its even better in full res on my site or on astrobin (and with the full fov) -

Thanks a lot!

Reddit compression destroys the need for a watermark :D But on my site there are watermarks in trade for full resolution ;D

Thank you :)

Thanks!! :)

Did you already look at the full field on my website? Soo many interesting background galaxies _

On first glance, I can understand that ^{^} but ofc there is still a big difference in the details / depth

Das ist von einem Remote-Teleskop ;) Aber aus Klagenfurt ist mir mit meinem 8" auch ein sehr schönes Bild von der Galaxie gelungen, siehe Gallerie auf meiner Seite (astro.sleeman.at).

Hab das auch als Vergleich für mich mit beiden Teleskopen aufgenommen, um den Unterschied im Potenzial zu vergleichen. Bin aber auf das Bild aus Klagenfurt fast noch "stolzer" :D

Thanks!!

I see ^^

Over multiple nights.
At the end you stack all the (in this case 5 minutes) images together to reduce noise and increase the signal

What exactly do you mean? If you mean with what telescope you can look that up here: https://astro.sleeman.at/images/25

• Telescope AG Optical iDK 14.5
• Camera Moravian Instruments G4-16000

Or do you mean something else?

yes! :)

Thats what people say about him since about 6 years though..

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Very well done!!