Deepsky Astrophotography Editing - The Pleiades from light polluted skies

[@Sunshineleroy]

Matt, you have an easy to follow, but very instructive teaching skill. This was easy to follow. Thank you!

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks for watching Leroy and I hope the tutorial was helpful. Appreciate the feedback!

[@Erniemisner]

Beautiful Matt and thank you for this!

[@MattDieterich]

Amazing what can be done from light polluted skies ha! Thanks for watching Ernie.

[@NeilCorke]

Thanks Matt. This was really useful when processing my own M45 image this week. You must have the best job on the planet installing Planewave eqipment!

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks for watching and glad the video was of some help Neil! I do really enjoy working with our PlaneWave gear!

[@NeilCorke]

@@MattDieterich my dream is to have a CDK out here in Spain. Hopefully next year.

[@MattDieterich]

@@NeilCorke they're fun scopes to work with!

[@miroslavk.5049]

Another excellent, easy to understand and follow know-how video. Thank you for this one as for all you kindly published during this difficult year. I wish you all the best in 2021, hopefully, we'll rid of this virus forever and could get back to normal lives. Hope to see you next time you will head down to South America!

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks for watching Miroslav and I hope you and your family are doing well in Peru. Would love to come visit when down in Chile in the future!

[@patrickmadigan1900]

Thanks for sharing Matt. I am am still trying to come to grips with this fantastically frustrating hobby and find your videos very helpful.

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks for watching Patrick and all I can say is definitely keep at it! So worth the reward when you get the results in astrophotography after the hard work. Let me know if you ever need help, or need more tips.

[@patrickmadigan1900]

@@MattDieterich Merry Christmas from Somerset PA

[@MattDieterich]

@@patrickmadigan1900 Merry Christmas to you too!

[@doco6186]

Beautiful image.

[@MattDieterich]

Thank you.

[@Zealor365]

Clear and concise tutorial. Well presented. It would be great to see you create a short 3-5 minute tutorial on each process module separately so that we can gain a insight(pun) into the fundamentals of the action.

[@MattDieterich]

Hi Mark I like that idea. So you think a video about each section would be worth it for a short video? That could make a cool series I think for PI!

[@Zealor365]

@@MattDieterich One item I struggle with is converting my work to a "Non-Linear" TIF. I change the IEC profile, save it as a TIF, and it comes out completely unprocessed again in TIF. So, I take it over to Photoshop and do the work there...again.

[@MattDieterich]

@@Zealor365 hi Mark, I think the issue might be not applying a final stretch to the image before saving. Did you using the ArcsinH stretch to your image? That will take the image non-linear with that stretching so you can save it as a 16 bit TIFF and then open it up in Photoshop.

[@Zealor365]

@@MattDieterich That is the answer I have been looking for. Thanks so much!

[@MattDieterich]

@@Zealor365 awesome glad that worked!

[@neilfpv]

Amazing work as always!

[@MattDieterich]

Happy you enjoy the tutorial Neil! Means a lot!

[@ErnieStedman]

Wow, thanks! Very interesting!

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks Ernie!

[@RetroMike923]

Great vid thanks. May I ask, what iso and fstop did you use? When I take the same length exposures the shots are massively blown out. I'm using a 50mm lens, f2.8 800 iso. Thanks.

[@MattDieterich]

Hi Mike, for the M45 shoot I was running at ISO 800 with 3 min exposures. The refractor is running at F/5 as well.

[@fabrjcio]

Excellent job, channel with great content ... I just subscribed! Thank you for sharing these skills. What is the background music? Merry Christmas.

[@MattDieterich]

What you like the video Fabricio! I forget the exact name of the track, but it is called something Astral.

[@dionisiochavez9570]

A very informative tutorial. Some bright stars have horizontal spikes, where do they come from if you're using a refractor?

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks for watching! I noticed that as well when shooting. Since it's a refractor there shouldn't be diffraction spikes since there isn't a secondary mirror held in via spider vanes. I think the spikes are from the filters I was using, or some reflection off the filters inside the camera.

[@Scrottobaggns]

I just got the SkyGuider Pro Christmas, so I'm looking forward to getting into some astrophotography. Now I just have to decide on which software I want to jump into. Which would you recommend for a complete beginner? I'm assuming there will be a learning curve on all of them. I do hear people complain about the price of PixInsight but from what I've seen in other videos that have done comparisons, the PixInsight software seems to have the edge over the rest.

[@MattDieterich]

That is awesome you got a tracker! They are a great piece of gear to start learning astrophotography with. I do know PI can be tricky to learn, but there are many great tutorials available on YT and online in general to help learn that software quickly. I have heard good things of Astropixel Processor, but I stick with PI since that is what I have used for 5 years or so. Photoshop is another software you will want to get and begin. As always, reach out if you need any help!

[@hazybrain7]

Wonderful shot ! I wonder could you tell me what the backgrond music is ?

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks! The song is called Astral.

[@hazybrain7]

@@MattDieterich Thanks Matt ! I searched and listened to over 1000 tracks on spotify with this title but couldn't find it. I'm guess you don't know the artists name to help narrow it down a bit ? Anyway thanks for the response and you have a new subscriber !

[@MattDieterich]

@@hazybrain7 found the track name it is Astral Roar by Lama House.

[@hazybrain7]

@@MattDieterich Thank you so much Matt ! I found it straight away on Tidal, and it's a gorgeous piece, perfectly suited to this video and astronomy type material in general - great choice ! If you haven't already heard of Stellardrone (artist) - they have some glorious spacy ambient music in a similar vein. I'm a musician myself and love finding new stuff that resonates. I wish that more youtube creators would credit the music they use in their videos, as it's a small token, and most people don't realize the amount of years, time, money, sacrifice that musicians go through to create and record lovely pieces like this - just a thought. Best wishes for the new year to you and yours !

[@MattDieterich]

@@hazybrain7 glad you found it! Really love this song for the space videos and found it on Epidemic Sound.

[@benburden9323]

Did you capture that with a blue filter

[@MattDieterich]

I shot this with a one shot color Canon EOS R camera.

[@benburden9323]

See I got a canon tib3 ruble 600b what should my my dlasr see I am at a f/10 and I got 8inch telescope

[@brucemurray3226]

What filter did you use to get rid of LP but still capture the blue nebulosity?

[@MattDieterich]

Hi Bruce, I had Spencer's Camera drop in light pollution filter in place when using the full spectrum Canon EOS R. Fun camera to use with the R to EF adapter that has the drop in filter slot.

[@brucemurray3226]

@@MattDieterich Thanks I tried to capture the Pleiades last night as Mars is close by and the LP filter I used filtered out the blue nebulosity. what was the specific filter you used?

[@MattDieterich]

@@brucemurray3226 it was just called the Spencer's Camera light pollution filter. They might get them from another source to have the transmission graphs for you to checkout, but ya dark skies too are helpful for revealing the blue reflection nebula.

[@framed-tales]

You are very good at teaching. Thanks! I like the idea from a commenter that if you could make a series of features of PI and how each feature affects a picture. It will be extraordinary resource on YT

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks Abu I am glad you watched the tutorial and I look forward to creating more videos on PI.

[@Scrottobaggns]

You lost me at selecting a debayered image? I have no idea where those are.

[@MattDieterich]

If you convert the files as TIFFs then you won't need to debayer them. I accidentally added that additional step into the video.

[@technosaurusrex7152]

@@MattDieterich When I click run it says, "*** Error: No registration reference image has been specified." I do see an option for registration Reference Image above the output directory. Do I just select one of my light frames?

[@MattDieterich]

@@technosaurusrex7152 correct you need to select a reference frame.

[@J_ttank]

i want to know promgram name!

[@MattDieterich]

I mainly used PixInsight and then finalized the photo in Photoshop.

[@grandmasteryoda9893]

the fs might be a great apo, but dear lord is that brand expensive!

[@MattDieterich]

The quality of their equipment definitely makes astrophotography a lot simpler :)

[@cucubits]

I'll be honest, it actually doesn't look too good. That blotchy background doesn't really look like the dust and gas which is around there. Something happened, maybe during your background extraction, too little data or too much light pollution.

[@MattDieterich]

Thanks for the comments. Ya hard to say, fun pushing the data though. Could be light pollution since it was from the suburbs.