How I captured the Aurora with the Dwarf 3 Telescope

[@nataliescott2261]

Beautiful ❤thx for sharing

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Your welcome! Thank you also!

[@scottm599]

Was just wondering about this topic and here you provided the perfect video. Hoping you will continue this and explore the opportunities for landscape astrophotography using this device. Thank you for all the excellent content you provide!

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Thnak you very much for the appreciation! More videos will come!

[@BommeltjeNL]

Nice experimenting with the Aurora Borealis Joan. One point of criticism if I may… the colors you showed in the first part of the video (around 1:28) were much, much too saturated. The northern lights are more pastel colored. Not that deep red, yellow, green and blue. The colors in the second part of the video, with the timelapses were better. By the way I photographed from 8.30pm until 5 am and i had the same amount of clouds as you had. But I gave it one last try between 4-5 am and the clouds disappeared before my eyes. The aurora gave one last show just for me 😂 2024 turns out to be a great year to see the northern lights. Never saw them before and then to know that I have a page about the aurora for almost 20 years on my website and this year is the first time to see them. So a great year and it’s not over yet 🌈🎉

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Thanks for watching. Level of saturation in post processing is a personal choice. I There are still the same colors, green and blue are part of the aurora that is in the lower part of the atmosphere.

[@happybee7725]

Some very cool images there GAM. You should start making prints of some of your images and put them up for sale.

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Thank you very much. I sell also prints but curently ifni get order, i have also many paintings and space art, must find a way to be able to sell them

[@happybee7725]

@@GalaxyArtMedia Why not advertise them at the end of your videos with contact details. Astrobiscuit does prints and they sell out pretty quick and your images are just as good as his. Just a thought.

[@wildyorkieoutdoors7271]

Nice vid loved the timelapse at the end, was the timelapse in actual video mode and not individually photos stacked? many thanks in advance

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Thank you! The timelaspe from begining and end was made from raw fits files, converted in tif, and process it later, the quality on raw files is better but more work and much more time involved, if i do not want to spent hours in processing, i would jsut use the normal timelapse mode and go with longer exposures and lower gain, if time allows

[@wildyorkieoutdoors7271]

@@GalaxyArtMedia Many thanks 👍

[@CaptainNorthernMan]

Great Video thank you. If you had the option to order a dwarf lab 3or a seestar s50 which would you order?

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Hello thank you very much, the seestar s50 vs dwarf3 video coming next, best to see it to see side by side deep sky performance review! I would buy the dwarf3 especialy for the wider field of view

[@CaptainNorthernMan]

@@GalaxyArtMediaI’ve been watching your videos closely and that’s great as I ordered a Dwarf 3 last month. This is my first step into astrophotography. Could you do a video or a short on taking calibration frames with the Dwarf 3 as most videos on YT skip this part. Thanks.

[@DpacOP]

Man wish I had the dwarf labs

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Think positive and you might get it

[@DpacOP]

@@GalaxyArtMedia I’m always thinking that but financially not possible

[@swelensax6348]

Thanks for sharing.. By the way, where do you live?

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Thank you also. I live in Romania. Transilvania region

[@bamaboy77079]

Where did you take shots from?

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

At 5 min from home outside the city, there is a large hill and forest nearby

[@bamaboy77079]

@@GalaxyArtMedia im not really sure where that is. Is that in the US?

[@StuartAnderton]

I don't understand why you would do this? You don't stack aurora pictures?

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

To get better signal

[@StuartAnderton]

​@@GalaxyArtMedia The aurora is bright, you don't need to stack for noise/brightness. And crucially it moves and changes shape from moment to moment, so all you are doing by stacking is blurring out all the details into just regions of colour. I don't understand why you'd want to do that? It's not like photographing stars or DSOs where the target stays the same between shots.

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

@@StuartAnderton Short stacks are fine, it does not move that fast, is like asking me why you take exposure of 10 or 15 seconds with the aurora and not take 1/50 of a sec, feel free to 1/50 will got with the long exposure option. one you can get also the stars visible, and you still have the shorter exposures available, to process or make a timelapse video. so i do not see your problem against live stacking

[@StuartAnderton]

@@GalaxyArtMedia Personally I wouldn't expose more than 10 seconds on the aurora as the motion will blur out the details. Fine if you're after smooth colour areas for the aesthetic effect, like a long exposure of waves on the sea, but I don't see the advantage of doing it in general. Stars are easily visible on a two second exposure.

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

@@StuartAnderton If you go shorter exposures like 2 or 3 sec and if you want to post process after the signal to noise ratio will be much smaller and also image quality will suffur, since we are not doing science here, in my opinion is more important to have a better quality image or more artistic, even if i get some blur, and if i want to process the short exposures i can also do that, since they are recorded on the memory card