Stargazing and astrophotography

Subject: Stargazing and astrophotography Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:09 am

I wondered if any of you were interested in stargazing, own a telescope or do astrophotography yourself.
If that's the case, you/we can share some images here, discuss them, exchange software for observation or image processing (GIMP works well here lol).

Would be fun if we got data from all over the world. xD

I'll start, here are some pics we made back at school in my astronomy group (my own telescope is small and good for nothing, school telescope was far better, but I prefer the cool uni telescope in a dome I work with now xDDD)
all copyrights by my astronomy group and the school xD

ring nebula M57:

Moon surface, Hyginus:

Me and two friends applied for observation time at the ESA satellite "Mars Express", were successful and could collect some raw data from Mars orbit which we processed to stereo images. Here's a sample, pm me for the detailed article if you want, I can't post it here. xD

Mars stereo image:

Subject: Re: Stargazing and astrophotography Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:04 pm

http://www.stellarium.org/ i use this free program to see the planets and everything! this program is really cool! i used it for my astronomy class too. CHECK IT OUT

Subject: Re: Stargazing and astrophotography Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:40 pm

lol I use this program too, along with another one on my uni computer, but this one is my favorite, I'm pretty surprised I found someone else using it xD
one of the environments (Garching) is the meadows behind my uni buildings, since the guy who programmed it worked here xD
It's detailed and easy to handle, I only can recommend this one as well xD

Subject: Re: Stargazing and astrophotography Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:59 pm

oh woow XD! u too huh? well XD oh, thats cool that you have someone that can work with this program. ^^ neat. i'm not really into astronomy since it's so hard to memorize a lot of information, but other than that i like the galaxy and the nature of it. ^ ^

Subject: Re: Stargazing and astrophotography Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:42 pm

Wow that is so freaking cool. O_O I'm only in high school and we only have one astronomy course so our astronomy equipment is nonexistent XD Are you planning on going into astronomy kiwa?

Subject: Re: Stargazing and astrophotography Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:34 am

I think after finishing my basic studies I'll proceed with KTA, (nuclear, particle- and astrophysics), so I might end up there xD
I had the idea for the thread because a professor here set up a new, better telescope and asked me and two other guys to help him set it up, calibrate it and debug the software in exchange for having access to it as soon as it works properly <3

Subject: Re: Stargazing and astrophotography Thu Nov 14, 2013 12:16 am

nice that your into difficult studying. ^^ i hope everything works well for you.