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The rings of Saturn relative to the Earth from 2015 to 2024 (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I literally just got into astrophotography and found this out pretty recently. Still nice to see, but it does suck that I'll have to wait a few years to get cooler pictures!

This is just with my phone and an 8" reflector telescope on a manual dobsonian base (touched up in gimp):

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looks great! Do you do image stacking? You might look into that. I did microscope photography and used it, but it's also used for astrophotography.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks! That image isn't stacked, but I am just getting into learning about all of that. I think I'm having an issue with clarity (I'm just using my pixel 8 pro and a cheapo phone adapter hooked up to my telescope) so the stacking software I've tried isn't picking up on most frames.

If I have to begrudgingly thank Trump for anything, it's pushing me to buy a seestar s50 now before prices go up with the tarrifs so I'll be getting much better images soon! Not for planets though lol It's mostly for deep space objects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can probably get a pretty decent Canon or Nikon SLR for cheap on eBay, especially now that everyone is going mirrorless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the advice, I'll have to look into that! I know I'll be somewhat limited with the seestar so it would be nice to have a good camera too.