Ep #4 - Capturing M31, The Andromeda Galaxy (DSLR Astrophotography)

[@andrewdenton7708]

Great videos. I love the level of detail, and know that a lot of hard work goes into not only the telescopic work, but all the filming as well. Keep doing what you're doing.

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you!

[@kevinb6126]

What a fantastic result! I'm impressed with your drastic improvements in a short period of time. I'm just starting out so this encourages me. Thanks for the tips.

[@GalacticHunter]

We love to hear that our videos are motivating! Best of luck!!

[@MadMikey1010]

Fantastic video guys! What a huge improvement in your photos from a year ago. My vote goes to M33 but honestly, I will be happy with anything you two put together. Stay motivated!

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you Michael for your continuous support ! :)

[@alls4coo]

Amazing result after editing ! I vote for M33

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you!

[@bowlweevil4161]

it would sure help me if you told telescope, camera, and exposure time

[@tykingcrystal864]

I just know it's the Orion F/6.3 8 inch Newtonian Astrograph or something like that

[@recoilface]

Love watching the Galactic Hunters evolution and progress through these videos and catalogs. keep it up you guys. so cool

[@johndifrancisco3642]

Very nice. Persistence paid off for you 2. Thanks for sharing it with us. The star that really caught my eye though is at 8:21 and was wondering if the was a Texaco star because I thought they were all gone :P P.S. Who's to say we won't eat Andromeda? That would be scary cool to see in our sky!

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you John! The Texaco station is in a ghost town on the way back home :)

[@johndifrancisco3642]

@@GalacticHunter Ghost town, VERY cool! Thanks :)

[@romain3794]

MAGNIFIQUE comme toujours!! :o J'ai hésité, mais je vote pour la Galaxie du Triangle! Bon ciel ;)

[@gamechecktvbauloewe]

That moment when you hear the KSP music and feel home :D

[@MemoVids3]

Seriously your content is GOLD!! Thanks for making these videos and if I'm not too late i vote for M33

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you!! The next episode will be about M33 :) If only the skies could clear up we could finally start filming... :(

[@starhopper8862]

Great videos guys, you really capture the essence of the adventure when going out to stargaze (and photograph) the wonders of the universe.

[@user-kh9ki3kq8m]

I just took my picture of a star cluster tonight of the same cluster you guys first took a picture of! I’d been seeing it in the sky for years and finally after getting a 300mm zoom lens I pointed it up and took a random shot only to find out that it was in this video!

[@GalacticHunter]

The Pleiades? That was indeed our very first shot of the stars! Will always love M45. Good job and good luck for capturing more!

[@ricardomendes859]

This video is not only one of your best, but is also a kind of short movie piece of art! Very well chosen sequence of scenes and musics! The night driving scene gave me a bit of a David Lynch dejavu :) I didn't know Andromeda was on our way, what a fascinating universe! Like Carl Sagan wrote, I guess "hidden in each astronomical investigation (..) there is a seed of veneration".

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you for your support :) Episode 5 is almost done ! I don't know about David Lynch but I will check it out. What a great quote as well, you know your stuff ! :D

[@ricardomendes859]

I am reading "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan among other books :) I would suggest you to see "Mullholland Drive", is full of mistery and enigma; you might not understand nothing at first, but is studied by many people... don't spoil your first time by watching "movie explained" before! So happy to wait for your next episode, have a nice week!

[@acceler9]

Love it! Amazing photo, truly something to be proud of! I vote #2

[@vrxcld5014]

Love this channel especially how the story is linked with the exploring part , the background music is awesome too. Keep doing what you are doing, hope we all meet one day for a night of marathon observing session.

[@danielsdecorating3937]

Amazing, I discovered a great channel. Keep up the great work from England.

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you =)

[@supernovagaming7544]

Just gets better every time and I'm just getting in to astrophotrography I'm live in law Vegas but the light population is very bad so it makes it difficult to get a great picture thru my telescope but I don't have a dslr camera so I do this manually by hand it is not easy it I do this any ways your videos inspired me to go out at night and see the night sky that is before me

[@GalacticHunter]

Thanks, living in Vegas is actually awesome for astronomy because we are surrounded by the desert sky! Just drive off a little bit :)

[@JasonBradbury]

I love this video. I feel like a with you on ur journey. Awesome!

[@GalacticHunter]

Thanks Jason!

[@samirpatel8585]

Great video guys, you are producing some amazing quality videos and images.

[@Dwayne_Green]

1:42 Fix the car or buy more imaging equipment?

[@paulfityo1]

Just caught up on all your vids. Great content keep it coming!

[@johnwayne7987]

off bitch!!!

[@LukeSmith-pp4hn]

Ahh i love your channel so much you guys are great been trying to shoot andromeda for about a week now but i can get my auto guiding to work . Very stressful

[@hudsonriverlee]

Amazing work which still is unknown to so many people. Sure, many people gaze up into the night sky, this is a fact, however many of these same people have little idea of what they are viewing. Perhaps they can spot the known constellations and this is very awesome all in itself. Yet with a little research and these same people could be so much better educated of what else lies up in the night sky. The two of you have just fueled the imaginations of so many many people to purchase a telescope and head out to explore the night sky. I am 60 years old, and it was only 3 years ago before I ever saw the Milkyway for the first time. It happened by accident, traveling with my Girlfriend Cathy along a very dark road in Gorham Maine. I was amazed. Why I asked myself had I not ever seen the Milkyway???. Even I have the equipment yet lack the knowledge to grab photos like you have presented here. So this video of what you have achieved is just amazing to me. To a young child's mind? This is a video that I know will send a child away with questions in their young minds. When you form questions, some cannot sit still until they find the answers. Point in mind is the Wright Brothers, or Galileo..... Thank you for your efforts. I enjoyed watching and learning. I own an Orion 6" Dobsonian style telescope along with several Dslr cameras. I have the T adapter as well to fit the camera to the telescope. It will be interesting today to go and find your other videos. A job well done. D Fuller. Biddeford Maine....

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you for your kind words D Fuller! We are hoping to open the eyes of more people with our videos, and hopefully a lot of them will take the time to drive to a dark zone with some binoculars and look up... We did an episode (#3) with a young child, where we were able to show her (and her mom) Saturn for the first time! It was amazing to see her reaction.

[@jerrymoostache7821]

I loved the video and I hope to do this one day. Thanks so much for the vid! You got a new sub

[@MadMikey1010]

Hey guys. I just came across the article Orion did on you in their latest catalog. Great stuff!

[@GalacticHunter]

That's awesome! Thanks for passing by :)

[@bushcraftandastronomer.3775]

I enjoyed this video and I've photographed the Andromeda galaxy with my Samsung S7 smartphone on tripod and the constellation and I couldn't believe phone could have done this but it was a great feeling. I really do enjoy smartphone Astrophotography. I have the Canon 700d DSLR could you tell me what's the best f2.8 lens to buy thats not too expensive? What latest smartphones are best suited for Astrophotography?

[@joecool8005]

What time does the content start, all I've seen for the first 5 minutes is a car and talking heads

[@michael10196]

Can you have a another try at getting the great andromeda galaxy please.

[@GalacticHunter]

We will revisit this target when we get a wider telescope :)

[@abomshhour]

one of the best and easy understanding astro Chanel u get me interested to buy the telescope

[@TIBETAN_PRIDE]

I tried capturing it..but middle of m31 blew my whole image it was too bright...how to tackle the highlight of middle of m31

[@GalacticHunter]

Take shorter exposures for the core (30sec) then stack everything together including the longer exposures. You can also use the HDRMultiscaleTransform tool in PixInsight which will reduce the blown out areas in your image and usually works really well!

[@charlesbickel4295]

Do you have a video of how to set up the camera on your scope

[@GalacticHunter]

Yes, right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJS0iK2YabuDa8k

[@charlesbickel4295]

Thanks. That’s a good video but is that the only thing you use from camera to telescope. No Barlow or eyepieces.

[@GalacticHunter]

Charles Bickel correct, no eyepieces or Barlow for deep sky objects. There is just a t-ring as well as a coma reduced between the DSLR camera and the telescope.

[@rh5908]

How many pictures do you take for this very important Shot??

[@GalacticHunter]

This was a total of 5.5 hours :) www.galactic-hunter.com/post/m31-the-andromeda-galaxy

[@Maxi86inAction]

So glad i live in the black forest in Germany, the night sky is unbelievable. I saw about 200 shooting Stars caused by the perseides meteors.

[@vrxcld5014]

Lucky bastard lol

[@gamechecktvbauloewe]

Schwarzwald? Gut... ich werde dann wohl umziehen :D

[@dedskin1]

yeah right , kzbin.info/www/bejne/epnac4Owecikhpo

[@kingdom777866]

I did love your story, I live in the UK and where I am also suffer with bad light pollution and have to drive somewhere to get away from it.. I want to photograph andromeda With my camera and 460mm lens.. and using a tracker. My problem is getting andromeda in my viewfinder... I can see it in the sky ok but getting It in view with my camera is proving very difficult ? Any ideas ? You put in a lot of hard work but you got a very good image in the end.. well done. !

[@GalacticHunter]

Hi and thank you! We used to photograph M31 with just a DSLR and a lens before as well, the easiest way to find it is to first finding it with a long exposure and center it perfectly using a wider lens (ex: 50mm). Once you are perfectly centered, quickly switch to your bigger lens and if your tracking is good then it should stay there!

[@BritishRoyalFamilyFans]

Hey,will you guys be taking any up to date shots of the Andromeda Galaxy anytime soon? I see it was 2016 you guys last done this,im thinking your tech/cameras will be more up to date again to get even better shots of it. Great pics. 😀 Take Care Gary

[@GalacticHunter]

Hi, yes we plan to image Andromeda again in a few weeks :)

[@BritishRoyalFamilyFans]

@@GalacticHunter Ahh Brill! I'll definitely look forward to that & keep an eye out for you're post. 🙂👌🏽

[@coldeb8911]

Great video.... I’ve been trying to find Andromeda with binoculars for years, I believe you can see Andromeda with them.. ...I know were Cassiopeia and Pegasus is to try and locate it ( though Pegasus is a bit difficult to make out most of the time) however , when I put my 8x10 binoculars up to my eyes I see so many stars that the constellations just get over swamped and lost in them all and I can’t make them out, there are thousands that just pop into your eye pieces , so trying to find Andromeda is almost impossible... I’ve never managed to find a single Galaxy, or Nebula or other DSO with either binoculars or a telescope, I keep trying, but after several years maybe it’s just never going to happen for me...😢

[@GalacticHunter]

We know the struggle! Our first time, we were just scanning the sky around the andromeda area randomly until we spotted the fuzzy ball. It was almost impossible to find again but after attaching the binos to a tripod and taking our time, we managed to see it. Today, we can usually find it in just a few seconds using the Pegaus square and Mirach, but it does take practice, don't give up :)

[@darbycarpenter3032]

I love the video. I live in the Vegas area also. Where did you go to setup?

[@erwinsmith7883]

Thank you so much! I'm very much inspired by you!! May I know what the current telescope you use is?

[@GalacticHunter]

Thanks! We use the Orion 8" Astrograph f/3.9 in all our videos (it should be linked in the description)

[@korpmannen8234]

I am very, very, *very* late but i just want to know what binocular that was!

[@GalacticHunter]

Hi! Those are the Orion 20x80 binoculars :) Those ones: amzn.to/2AufJ2b

[@ghost70]

Nice video wish i lived near a warm dark sky site. For this target will need a 60-80mm scope with a camera and do 2 sets of images one long and 1 shorter so galactic core is not blown out :)

[@Goldies24]

When I'm outside looking at Andromeda (M31) with my optics - with a trillion stars, I get this profound feeling from the journey of the light traveling for 2.5 Million years just to reach my eye. {mouth agape, feeling like I'm going to fall into the vast expanse, man's existence is just a whisper compared to the infinite..} ...Then read in the Bible at Isaiah 40:26 “Lift up your eyes to heaven and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who brings out their army by number; He calls them all by name. Because of his vast dynamic energy and his awe-inspiring power, Not one of them is missing." Words can't describe the awesomeness

[@Charlie_wildlife_nature]

That’s beautiful am looking to get into this thanks for the motivation

[@drohanp]

Big difference in equipment result....so how much is the difference in $$ for the result obtained? Great work.

[@GalacticHunter]

We would have to do a little math for that but I think the most important is the experience gained from starting with "low" gear and because of starting small being able to use those skills with bigger equipment.

[@DIY3DTECHcom]

Nice story telling, can’t understand only 3.2k subs.

[@SPACETVnet]

Interesting channel with lots of potential. Subbed!

[@benlewis7859]

Wow, you really aint messing around. She got me emosh😭 absolutely beautiful. Those upgrades... yep you win😂

[@banday78]

Please do a galaxy capture from within the city or your backyard, want to see how u tackle light pollution .... as i cannot travel to a dessert or any dark site ... ur response would be much appreciated

[@GalacticHunter]

We wish! But we do not have a backyard... :(

[@alejandrojimenez201]

What telescope are y'all using? As I want to see our beautiful outer space

[@GalacticHunter]

Hi Alejandro! You can see our complete gear here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5bPaYVnpc6pnpI

[@92OnTV]

One of the most underrated channel of youtube :( I mean, very very Very underrated... VERY !!! Thank you :)

[@GalacticHunter]

Thank you for your support :)

[@92OnTV]

Galactic Hunter Thank you for your great and beautiful work :)

[@nibuam]

Superb episode! Your progress is impressive and it is a very beautiful M31 that you offer us. I vote 2, I would like to see M33! Thanks for your videos! by the way, what is the outro music ? Sorry for bad english :p

[@GalacticHunter]

Thanks! It seems like M33 is winning. The Outro music is Bensound - Slow motion

[@PeteV80]

Your videos are great!

[@GalacticHunter]

Thanks Pete!

[@chrissords1]

What software do you use for stacking and processing?

[@GalacticHunter]

We use Pixinsight for all our images :)

[@chrissords1]

Thanks you for the fast response! By the way, your videos are great! They are very informative and they are definitely getting excited to get into this hobby! Keep up the good work!!

[@mrsa101]

thank you for the motivation

[@gordonramsay1921]

hello how do u process these images

[@GalacticHunter]

We go over our processing steps in a couple of episodes, I think ep5 is one them :)

[@gordonramsay1921]

@@GalacticHunter thanks :)

[@GalacticHunter]

@@gordonramsay1921 Actually we go more in depth in Episode 6 sorry!

[@gordonramsay1921]

@@GalacticHunter i watched it already silly gilbert haha

[@Nerdico_at]

very nice!

[@wwaqashussain]

love ur vedios, From Pakistan,

[@elJossu]

You guys need more subs !!!

[@madtrapper6186]

Ya do M33

[@Jaysun1726]

Don't you guys know that nasa recreate the original image by using 3d graphic

[@123chandimal]

Her Eyes ..

[@mikip3242]

I took all the prices of the equipment used in their videos and it amounts for a total of 5520 $ in case you wanted to know (not considering the gasoline spent in long trips out of the City). Consider this and compare the 0 $ it takes me to search a Hubble image of Andromeda with higher resolution ans quality. Yeah sure, experiencing those extraterrestrial photons entering your eyes in real life is very romantic and the experience of working it yourself is probably worth the money. But remember also that you are never going to see with your eyes M31 looking like in that picture, even with all this equipment. You are only going to see a tenuous fuzzy ellipsoid. The final image is obtained after hours of long exposure and digital processing of the image (an interesting art indeed). So, is it still that romantic? This is the reason I prefer to study Astrophysics itself and wonder with the Hubble images rather than doing the amateur astronomer. It's expensive, much of its romanticism is lost in the post-processing and the time lost while waiting for the long-exposure to finish, and en the best case the result looks worse than any observatory image. If you only want to wonder with the Universe I reccomend you to buy a 20x80 binoculars and have fun stargazing. You could spend 10.000 $ and still the difference with that vista would be not so much of a quantum leap. I would only reccomend people to buy this things if they are going to do actual science (for example hunting asteroids, measuring occultations or making light curves for binary and variable stars, that indeed are a very important contributions from amateur astronomers to the scientific community since large observatories have to handle their priorities, times and schedules in a different way) and not only beautifull photos.

[@GalacticHunter]

Hi Miki, while your comment is interesting, I am not sure I understand where you got that number from. If we are talking about this capture of M31 as an example, all we used was our telescope ($500), the mount ($1500), the camera (t3i which we used in this video costs about $250 on Ebay), the T-Ring/Coma corrector (about $250 at max together), the Autoguider package ($350) and the power source ($70 from Walmart). This equals to about $2920. Yes it is still a high number but far from the 5K+ you are mentioning (which will deter any newcomer get into the hobby if this is what they read when they come to this video and don't do any other research). I am guessing you counted the camera lenses, drone, filming gear, etc, which don't really count for capturing Deep Sky Objects). Yes, anyone could google any NASA image and be in awe, but there is something special and very rewarding about photographing the sky ourselves. it is a very difficult hobby and sometimes very tiring as well, but I can assure you, with all the memories, the people we've met, and the other things we randomly experienced in the desert since we've started this hobby, astrophotography IS romantic.

[@mikip3242]

Yeah yeah, for sure it's romantic. And true, I counted all the items (even the drone) so no fair for this shot you are right. My point is that people have too high expectations (at least for an equipment of that price) when they start and I known some people that I would say... they have an adiction and need to buy more and more just to gain an inperceptible amount of new pixels in the CCD or the hability to see 0,5 magnitudes more or to make the autoguider smoother. Your job is fantastic (I didn't said that before), trully awesome, and a demonstration of dexterity and patience. But many people forget that part and jump to the "I want that right now" (which is great since that lowers the prices of the market in the long run, I hope) neither realizing that this is hard, this is harsh, this is expensive and there is plenty of room for romanticism and awe in using actual scientific data from observatories and telescopes around the world to go deeper since the beggining and for much more less expenditure. I know it is not a widely shared view between amateur astronomers. This is like when I think of people taking photos of some monument when no new intrinsic value is added there (if there are no details or parts of you appearing in the picture), time is lost that could be used to whatch and appreciate the actual monument in real life, and you could also add to your album better images from the net. But I guess this is not the same for some reason, we like to appreciate the result of our own work.

[@vrxcld5014]

@@mikip3242 it's not about just looking at images from the huble telescope, its the thrill of the hunt when getting and processing an image from your own telescope and camera that makes it all worth it. Its a great hobby and I don't know why you are so negative Miki P. You can achieve big things without spending a lot of money.

[@vrxcld5014]

@@mikip3242 If Galileo was thinking the way you are thinking we would not have made discoveries. Humans love to explore and experiment by nature hence astronomy and astrophotography is a wonderful hobby for millions of people and you should be encouraging it. Obviously it can get expensive if you want it to but it can be done with a single binocular too.

[@trentinh]

Pretty dick-ish comment.

[@أيوبالتليدي]

the earth is flat

[@alexmakos6039]

matrix matrix your head is flat