Photographing The Winter Milky Way With A DSLR And A Star Tracker

In this video I photography the winter Milky Way with my Canon DSLR and a star tracker. I also fix my star tracker when it dies. There are no dragons in this video sadly.
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[@combatwombat71]

That 'black gear on the right' inside your iOptron is the optical encoder disc that allows the motor to regulate its speed. The slots on that disc pass through a light source and a light detector to generate pulses to the mount electronics so it can monitor how fast it's moving, so it can regulate its speed.

[@ma9x795]

Another great video. I just wanted to share my solution for all-night power to my camera, which I almost always use with no source of AC power nearby. A large power pack is out of my reach financially, so I bought a Neewer battery grip for Canon EOS 70D, which screws underneath the camera with a socket that goes straight into the battery slot. The grip itself comes with 2 removable slides that contain the batteries. One slide has slots for 2 of my camera batteries, and the other has slots for 6AA batteries. I use rechargeable AAs and they work flawlessly. As soon as the batteries run low, you just swap slides and carry on.

[@nightscapejournals]

Great video, Walt - it’s an awesome section of the Milky Way and a beautiful image. I can’t imagine how much work goes into making your videos, so thank you for the dedication. 👍

[@deltaastrophotography]

Yeah I could just make talking head videos and could probably pump out material a lot faster, but I like putting in the extra work. Makes the final video a lot more fun.

[@user-qg3zh7pe3z]

Amazing job! I had no idea that even existed in the winter!

[@mikegphoto]

Digging the Andromeda Galaxy in the shot🔥

[@deltaastrophotography]

Right! That was a lovely surprise!

[@jeroenmiddag1132]

For milkyway shots i now use my Pentax OGPS-2. I put it on the hotshoe, use my sirui light tripod and shoot with 10mm at 2 min. easy as that. Just a single divice of 2 inch on the hotshoe and ready to shoot. It only works to 200mm above that i altways use mij star adventurer

[@UNLKYHNTR]

Amazing picture as always. Really puts you in your place!

[@Tony-Elliott]

Great video Walt looking forward to seeing you editing this image

[@rkarlson0083]

Man your videos are amazing I love how you present them, just started watching a couple months ago, you deserve a lot more subscribers!

[@deltaastrophotography]

Thanks! Let's hope to get to 50,000 subs this year! Woo hoo!

[@davidletz9123]

Entertaining as usual, Walt!

[@robb7342]

Nicely done and good point about the MW during the winter months. FYI, I also had my tracker freeze up and simply did a the calibration and self test.

[@seventhsun1]

Great tutorial and the final photo aswell mate! thank you

[@oldgittarist]

Great job Walt!

[@joshrysavy]

Good luck with the patreon! I think I was the 8th or 9th... You and Nico from Nebulaphotos are my two favorite astro-youtubers.

[@deltaastrophotography]

I discovered Nico after I made my channel. Such a great teacher!

[@SilverLoggerhead]

❤❤❤

[@lordOfwaRRR]

final picture literally blown me awayyy!!!!!!!!1

[@yervantparnagian5999]

Wonderful job as always. Great end result. Would love to see a video on your processing on this image.

[@deltaastrophotography]

I have to finish a review on a filter, then I'll start working on more processing tutorials. It looks to be a nasty winter so there will probably be a lot of processing.

[@crrc250]

Maybe you can do this again and get the comet! Awesome photo!

[@RonComstock]

Wouldn't using the arrows buttons to rotate the tracker forward and reverse free up the atrophy from it sitting?

[@briancarl5566]

Great picture, I love it!!! Which focal length did you end up using on the zoom lens?

[@deltaastrophotography]

24mm!

[@keithhanssen7413]

I thought for sure it was in the fridge 😃

[@deltaastrophotography]

Me too! But that's where I keep all my telescopes.

[@hangerbird]

Great video. Wonder why you are using Sequator instead of DeepSky Stacker? Does Sequator give you something that DeepSky doesn't?

[@deltaastrophotography]

Speed and simplicity. That's it. I use it for Milky Way photos or when I'm teaching in a beginner friendly video. These days I mostly stack in Pixinsight.

[@JLCubing]

Since you have pixinsight wouldnt stacking on that give a better result? sequator is really bad at widefield images

[@deltaastrophotography]

Yes! I just tried to make this video a little more beginner friendly. But I prefer to use WBPP with drizzle on images like this.

[@JLCubing]

@@deltaastrophotography ah I see, same! WBPP is the way to go

[@user-qg3zh7pe3z]

What portable battery do you use?

[@deltaastrophotography]

Yetti Goal Zero 400

[@user-qg3zh7pe3z]

Thank you!

[@adityakarade8034]

Hii i have one doubt i dont have star tracker i live in bortle 6 zone i want to photograph orion nebula can i take 30 minutes exposure every day for 6 days to collect 3 hours of worth data on same camera settings for everyday to collect same data everday and takes dark frames and other frames and can i stack this data pls reply i have this doubt from long time can i try this

[@deltaastrophotography]

Yes you can stack multiple days. In Deep Sky Stacker you use groups. You can see them at the bottom of the screen. Each group can be a separate day. Every time you add images to a group, a new group gets created so you can stack unlimited days.

[@adityakarade8034]

@@deltaastrophotography thank you love your content great video

[@GyanPrakash]

Early Squad 😊

[@dillhole4603]

👁️👁️

[@EricCampbellUAV]

lol DSLR. does anyone still make those relics?

[@deltaastrophotography]

Oh yeah! They are so much cheaper than mirrorless cameras on ebay. And there are a ton of second hand lenses out there for them. And I would never ask somebody to modify a new very expensive mirrorless camera.

[@virgilfoster5270]

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