Astrophotography: Imaging Thor's Helmet Nebula (NGC 2359) using ASI294MC Pro and Orion 8" Astrograph

[@AVAstronomy]

Nice Video Ed and even nicer result! Love that you are getting your son involved in astrophotography too. Keep up the good work!

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks so much!! I truly appreciate the compliment and thanks so much for watching!!

[@elmikol2443]

Neat Video! Cool that your son is participating in this hobby with you!

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks!! Sometimes my kids can’t because it’s typically too late. But in winter they can if they can manage the cold at night.

[@RaysAstrophotography]

Beautiful Thor's Helmet! I like the best at 2:49. I have a 4 year old son myself! I completely understand!

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks Ray! He is my oldest! Thanks for watching my friend!

[@Thunder_Dome45]

Ah, Texas. I used to live in San Marcos in about 1995. My foster parents took me to a guy's house for July 4. He had telescopes he built himself and I spent most of the evening looking at Jupiter. I guess since I was laying on the ground it was a refractor, but it was big. Made of wood I believe. I have no idea who it was, but he gave me a shirt that glowed in the dark and when you wore it and looked down it was a star map that you could use to find stars with. Great image. I think I might try it.

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Wow, such a cool story! Seems like that experience made an impact on your life? Those people seemed to care about you! So awesome. Thanks for watching and good luck on Thor’s Helmet!

[@benc7805]

Ed Great work mate I really enjoy how you put tutorial together Keep up the fantastic work!!

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks Ben! This was a difficult target for me. Thanks for for watching!

[@CarolinaSkyAstronomy]

Great capture of Thor's Helmet

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks man!

[@tamrich7762]

Beautiful image Ed!, nice to see your son helping out , he has got a excellent teacher,I had problems with M97 a few weeks ago what could go wrong did go wrong the joys of astrophotography.

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks Tam! Hopefully my son will like astronomy more as he gets older, its a fun hobby. Bummer about M97, indeed the joys of astrophotography!! Ups and downs, but the rewards are beyond words sometimes!

[@vlaams5932]

Very nice thor's helmet congratulations!

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks so much!!

[@brianbishop83]

Your videos just keep getting better. I love it!

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks so much! Some times I question if they are good enough to even release! Thanks a ton my friend for watching!

[@StuRaw]

Totally agree with Brian below, your videos just keep getting better and better. Fantastic final image Ed, really pleased for you, it looks really well balanced and well processed. I know how difficult it is to image deep sky targets and absolutely love following your journey 👍🏻 Keep it up 🥶

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks so much! I truly appreciate the compliments!! This target was difficult for me and I’m not 100% satisfied but there always is next year. Have you ever imaged it?

[@theinterstellarfeller]

Nice job! Thor’s Helmet is on my list to image next.

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks, I will check out your channel for that one for sure (if you post a video on it)! Thanks for watching Don!

[@HEARTBEATofaLION]

First time viewer and loved the video man! Really enjoyed those timelapses inbetween the commentary. Of course awesome capture too. Subscribing and looking forward to the next one!

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Sweeeeeeet!! Thanks dude! I appreciate you watching!! Next one is the works!

[@ColinDane]

Nice photo, one of many targets left on my to-do list, but I live pretty far up north so it wont get to a higher altitude than 25 degrees for me :(

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks. Thats is pretty low. Luckily for me it was around 45 degrees or so... Thanks for watching!

[@bouiglob]

Awesome video, enjoyed watching. Good music and editing with a nice tracking timelapse. Nothing ever runs smoothly, especially when in the experiental stage of the hobby. Have you considered a duo narrowband filter to help out on those moonlit nights?

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks for watching!! I have considered it, but I’d rather save/spend money on narrowband imaging camera system then spend money on a duo narrowband filter. That is the next step I want to take...however I wouldn’t mind having one 😉

[@indianala]

Increíble! Felicitaciones. Gracias por compartir 🤗👏

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Gracias!!! 🙏

[@LTJC70]

What's with the reddish orange lightning strike looking things always on the right side?? Just curious... New sub, really enjoy your channel... Much thx

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

I sucked at processing back then, probably an artifact of the type of noise reduction I was doing.

[@SpaceFactsWax]

Thank you for sharing. I had the opportunity to view a rocket launch in 2018. Memorable experience. I uploaded a pretty cool video of the trip to my channel.

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Absolutely! I’ll check out your video.

[@karenjohnson5795]

NICe job Ray.. What was the exposure duration, gain you used and did you use a filter?

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

My name is AstroEd, some call me Ed, I use 3 min subs at unity gain with the ASI294MC pro, no filters used. Bortle 6 skies. This was a total of 8 hrs integrated signal. Thanks for watching! Much appreciated!

[@Pipe-organ-recordings]

Hi did you just use rgb ? Thx

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Yes, this was straight RGB no filters. If I used a filter like the triad ultra, I am certain my results would have been way better!

[@Pipe-organ-recordings]

AstroEd's Astrophotography Channel thank you

[@toolan]

Hi :) Any issues with ASI294MC after this video? :) I'm thinking about buying one for me, no time for mono... Have you experience any color artifacts produced by this camera? Cheers

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

When the asi 294mc pro is used with a uv/ir filter or with a narrowband filter at appropriate f/stop it performs superbly. If you’re going to buy one, please consider using my affiliate link at www.astroeds.com for the asi294mc pro. It helps out my channel! Thanks and clear skies.

[@AstroForumSpace]

Nice tunes and helmet Ed! Is that an atlas or an atlas II?

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks Man! It’s called an Orion Atlas EQ-G. It has been pretty good for me this last 1.5 years. This target was hard to image and process... feel like it was just an ok result. Thanks for watching!

[@AstroForumSpace]

@@astroedsastrophotographych4562 you'll be fine. Just keep on collecting data.

[@FlemingAstro239]

Nice

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks!!

[@mcmacts238]

The vastness of the universe is incomprehensible! A miracle of Creation! “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse”.

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!

[@x00m41]

its nice, but youve used WAY too much deconvolution in processing.

[@astroedsastrophotographych4562]

I agree I had issues in processing this data... lessons learned. Thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching! I have tried processing this data 4 times. I will try again but need to clear my mind.