Can you shoot astrophotography without a tracker?

[@NebulaPhotos]

28:25 Wow, had no idea that StarSpikes plug-in could do that 'soft flare intensity' - really cool tip. Now I'm even more motivated to finally build a nice Windows PC for astrophotography processing. Up till now I've been using mostly Macs for processing, but the ProDigital stuff is Win only.

[@cmahar3]

"...but this is art, not science, so you should examine yourself...." Love it!

[@RaysAstrophotography]

Wow! Seriously impressed with your capture and then the processing! ! If there is an oscar (not kidding) that can be given, what you were showing here, you deserve it, Bray! Now you got a fan here!

[@gonlaserna]

Hey Bryan! Thank you for this video, this actually helped me to get a better understanding of calibration frames...I've seen thousands of videos but the way you compared images with and without bias and flats seriously helped and pointed out things like vignetting, noise and dust...I've done calibration frames but normally skip flats and bias but then also struggle with things like vignetting...buuuhhhh, thanks for putting it the way you did.

[@gonlaserna]

Also your editing workflow is crazy and maybe chaotic but wow amazing results, will binge your videos. Star spikes pro...🤣🤣🤣 I laughed there but hey it's an awesome plugin and shouldn't be overused I guess.

[@astrofalls]

Thanks for the kind words! And my workflow has certainly changed a bunch over the last two years since this got posted lol

[@olliecrabtree]

Thanks so much for this! I’m pretty young so can’t afford trackers and this video was so great!

[@astrofalls]

Glad I could help! I was in the same situation not so long ago.

[@StagnantMizu]

by far the best video on this out there

[@tylerwestering6406]

Great job man! You're really helping others learn a lot!

[@astrofalls]

Thanks man!

[@OlliesSpace]

Cool looking final image well processed and yes everyone has there own taste in processing.

[@mohammad_yazbek]

No one on KZbin gave a fabulous explanation of star trailing except you! The best rising astrophotographer on YT! You absolutely deserve my subscription!

[@ianmcdermot]

This was insane just watching your mastery of masking and blending layers in photoshop. Do you have any recommendations on efficiently learning that? Any tutorials that jump to the front of your mind?

[@mikebenengtouncry3613]

yay new video. thanks bray

[@astrofalls]

Ur welcome :)

[@mikebenengtouncry3613]

@@astrofalls yay

[@Airsasquatch]

Thanks for the video! I’m going to Joshua Tree myself at the end of April, so I’m looking around for tips and all that on how I can use my camera properly to capture the night sky.

[@SackyX]

I'm so new to the hobby and the software it was to far over my budget, I don't want the headache of tracking problems so I have to buy a star tracker. Thanks for the videos, keep them coming please!

[@tristanfluchter5098]

Great video, followed along & got an awesome result 👀

[@einzwei3364]

Absolutely Stunning! Thanks for sharing.

[@dylanwaldron1806]

Sweet video! So much good info. You have the link to that color script? Thanks Bray, keep up the epic work

[@astrofalls]

Added it to the description!

[@adaocardosonetocardoso6560]

Basicamente minha ideia já existia 🤣🤣🤣 Seu trabalho árduo, cansativo e obviamente por amor a astronômia, é incrível... O tradutor não ajuda muito, seu idioma é muito rápido rsr Acompanhar a legenda e as imagens, o processo foi difícil. Reassistirei com prazer esse vídeo e cada um deles, bom trabalho. E que continue assim, e talvez quem sabe como diz Carl Sagan ❤️ um dia talvez viajar por entre as estrelas.

[@gunjanbagheshwarverma6808]

Thankyou so much for covering this in detail I literally needed to know how to shoot through untracking.

[@bryansmith1612]

Bray, I live in YV and have done photography for about forty years. Have some very nice equipment (Leica SL/SL2 with multiple lenses, Canon-not mirrorless-but 1dx's with multiple lenses, , Hasselblad - this is 503CW stuff with lenses) and am looking for someone to kind of team up with to share knowledge and ideas. Just went out to JT the other night with my girlfriend. We spent all night out there and we had a blast. That is definitely the place to go! If you want to get in touch with me I will em or text you and you can even stop by the house. All you have to do is let me know. Nice to see that someone in the area is as interested in photography as I am.

[@astro_hunter1823]

Really helpful video dude 🔥🔥🌌,btw how can I find what is the most efficient ISO for my camera ? 😁

[@astrofalls]

I think just googling what it is for your particular camera model should work. Your camera could even be ISO invariant so it wouldn’t matter

[@AnotherAmateurAstronomer]

Spectacular looking picture!

[@garrisonmarsh]

really impressive processing! Was your dslr astro modified? I've never been able to get that much of the horsehead and bernard's loop with untracked

[@astrofalls]

It is unmodded! The reason I can get so much is because of f/2 and dark skies.

[@daro8585]

mate 1tb in memory cards is an equivalent of tracker :D

[@astrofalls]

Hahaha true, I mean it used up 1TB on my computer after calibration, debayering, and registration

[@stef2499]

thats insane

[@akvsdkastroandtravel2433]

Pc will b burning 😅

[@AsVal6]

How did you manage to keep the orion nebula in center in all the frames because as the earth moves you would have different view of the nebula making it unstackable

[@MrMorellen]

Thanks for this! I want to try this with my Hasselblad, do you think it would turn out ok even if the ISO properties of this system really don’t compare to canon’s?

[@astrofalls]

Yeah the same principle will still hold. Try to find what the best ISO is for your camera, and then take a ton of images.

[@Conor874]

how did you get such detailed 3 second exposure picturew? when i do this you can hardly see anything and i live in bortle 5 its not too bad

[@lepetitbaigneur9073]

Is the canon you used astromodified? Those colors from barnard's loop 👌🏽

[@jesuschrist2284]

Any advice on taking flats without touching focus?

[@evansumner9261]

Idk what start spikes pro is but I am mad now jk great video dude!

[@mateialexandruionut2545]

Hello! I’ve got a Nikon D3500! Does this lenses (rokinon 135mm f/2) work for my camera? Please answer asap! :)

[@xeroeddie]

I'm gonna try this with my Fuji 56mm 1.2.

[@timstopar8694]

Nice video.

[@astrofalls]

Thanks!!!

[@ridleyroid9060]

Could you perhaps go over the lens youre using and any similar recommendations? I see a lot of untracked videos that show what you can do without a tracker and while that is appreciated, some videos Ive watched feature lenses that are more expensive than a tracker, so at the end of the day is a bit of a mixed message! I myself only have a kit lens I got with my camera, at 18-55mm f/3.5 > 5.6 and would like to make the most of it while saving for a star tracker, but at the same time I may also want to get a better lens with a higher focal length first so I can diversify my target options even untracked while getting the cash together for a tracker. Tl;dr, would you recommend getting lens first before a tracker and if yes which ones do you think would be decent to do so?

[@astrofalls]

I use a rokinon 135mm f/2 which is about $500. You should get the tracker first, it is the most necessary part of the whole system, and will allow you to do so much more with your kit lens.

[@epic_playz4283]

im 16 and looking at a mount that could help for astrophotography with the orion astrograph 10 but man their all so expensive and i am saving up from my job.

[@hacksesh]

Dude, that's a sick shot for untracked!

[@nathanchristopher7770]

really nice image man. what bortle skies were you in??

[@astrofalls]

Bortle 3-4 transition

[@kushchandaria1115]

Awesome video! What bortle sky were you shooting from?

[@cucubits]

DSS saves so much time and space vs PI when you have so many subs. I'd be willing to bet you wouldn't be able to tell the difference is you compare the same stack from both DSS and PI. Rather strange that you send essentially newbies (who just want to image without all the gear) to process with three of the most expensive programs at the same time. There really is no reason to use APP for background extraction. DBE or ABE would work just as well in PI. Since we're on a roll... 2s exposures probably would've been better. At 3s your trails seem quite significant. Edit: got to the end results... wow, that's WAY too much makeup you have on there but if that's what you go for, it's fine.

[@antoinechp4945]

Hello from France ! thanks for your "attractive and instructive" vidéos. Just a question : can you speak french please ??? (i joke) Best regards...

[@akkarparkiamopas3401]

Plus the photos need to be taken in a relative low light pollution area as well I think

[@EdmundBB]

this 6D is unmodded?! :o

[@mikoajmazik1207]

Modded

[@vicamaral]

mega awesome need an tutal

[@sarathappu1890]

Nice

[@Cancington42]

How did you copy and paste the luminance of the image into the mask at the end?

[@astrofalls]

Command+a, command+c, command+v. Or ctrl if on PC

[@Cancington42]

@@astrofalls when I do that on the layer I want to use the luminance from and go to paste it into new mask, it doesn't copy the luminance to the mask, it creates a new layer with the copy of the selected layer. is there something i'm missing? most things i've seen, and used, specify to go into the channel panel and make the copy from there. I was surprised when you did it so quickly. I just can't seem to make that happen. is there a setting that i've missed somewhere? thanks for you help, I use luminance masks all the time, and if I can make them quickly, that'll be great. anyway, really enjoy your videos, I always learn a lot!

[@HydraLunatic]

Quote of the day: " this is art not science"

[@astrofalls]

Too many people get their panties in a twist over editing hahaha. The second the data is nonlinearized it becomes subjective

[@HydraLunatic]

@@astrofalls I honestly love it, it makes it more interesting to look at and pulls your eye to the main object which is exactly what art does.

[@Butzemann123]

@@astrofalls Just because its nonlinearized, it doesnt automatically turn into some form of art (what does that even mean) and all scientific value is gone. Of course each for themselve should decide how much they want to mess with the image. And there is no hard line, it goes smoothly from "i only apply a first stretch" to "i paint brush my data into abstract art" 😂

[@Vilerviette]

thats still 1h of light you got there. i mean i got the point but its crap ton of captures and you sure got one beefy PC to handle all of those. anyways, this sure was awesome content and im stealing some of your editing process xD cheers!

[@astrofalls]

Glad you enjoyed! And yeah it is certainly not an efficient method at all

[@zbnmth]

You changed the aperture when taking flats... -.- Literally one of two settings you can't change when taking flats; focus and aperture. Nevermind, cool project nonetheless ;-) Also - a TERAbyte for 1200ish frames? That's around 800 MB per RAW. What?...

[@ASAALLA]

Gran vídeo però no hay traduccion

[@fabriksu]

I cant follow you,super fast,super pro.

[@ШынарАрсланова]

Классное видео, молодец

[@medifreeman2998]

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