10 Common Astrophotography Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Whether you’re using a smart telescope like the SeeStar or just starting out with manual stacking and PixInsight, this video breaks down the most common processing pitfalls beginne...
The Space Koala Astrophotography by Luca Bartek
Revisting this video again and probably will again as reminder of what this hobby/obsession is truly about. Although we all aspire for great images we all forget the basics from time to time and should remember that you can only process what you have got not necessarily what you want it to end up looking like. Each processed image has got to be subjective and not necessarily perfect, I wish but we still persevere and that is what it is all about. Thank you for this valuable video please keep your values true to the hobby and your heart and keep reminding us that we are not perfect.
"you can only process what you have got not necessarily what you want it to end up looking like" is an excellent way to put it
You are correct my error😊
As a beginner to astrophotography Thank you very much for the video !!!!
There's a much better way to use ChatGPT/Claude, upload your image and ask it to criticize it. If you know what you are doing, it can give excellent advice. I've been doing landscape photography for almost two decades, I have a master degree in photography and I still get useful feedback from time to time from ChatGPT. And I'm applying this to my first (long) steps in astrophotography. Thanks for the excellent video. Very useful.
Best and most intelligent astro content on YouTube. Great as always Luca.
I agree ChatGPT gives you confidently wrong answers. I stopped using it for astrophotography troubleshooting after it was completed useless for the issues I had with phd2. By far the best answers I got were from the community (cloudy nights etc.). ChatGPT is useful to suggest per filter integration time and things which don’t require actual thinking. For image processing it was completely useless.
I agree with what you said in the beginning. Processing “by the feeling” will get you nowhere, unfortunately. These is a ton of youtube material on Pixinsight but it will nevertheless take years of studying to get some good results. It took me a lot of time to streamline my process for galaxies, clusters and nebulae. For OSC and mono. I have a protocol written down which I follow and it works quite well. But then I watch one Adam Block video and feel like a complete noob.
Prism deep is the next gen de-noise solution.
When I started I was taking way less subs than I should have. I was rushing through targets. Now I spend days, even weeks on a target.
Just wanted to say Thanks for putting together a very thoughtful video!!! Thanks again and I wish you the best! 🙂
Wow!!! This video was extremely useful. I’m going to watch this periodically and take notes until it’s branded into my head. Lots of good information, especially for beginners like me. As a beginner, I’m already making some of these mistakes. Thank-you so much for creating this video.
Great video! Rings true with how many novice photographers overuse the HDR tool. I'm a novice with a camera and in the astro field. Bought a dwarf 3 and just having fun sharing with family. I upload my images to AI for critique purposes, then process. It's impressive the tools we have and you don't have to break the bank!
is it possible to capture the squid nebula with seestar?
it is possible from under very dark skies, but you would need many-many hours of integration time and you'll have to process it separately to see the squid (the h alpha overpowers it)
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Thank you. Great advice
Really wonderful. Best hint: look for Integration time, don‘ t overprocess and be confident looking for your next better result! Thanks a lot
You always have good videos. Informative. Thank you.
Great advice
The last 2 mins of the video were most inspiring
Brilliant video. Definitely make some of these mistakes. Time to adjust my approach but I'm in the early stages of learning how to process and keep hitting roadblocks, I'm sure this will help. Also I already spotted that with someone else's use of ChatGPT it wasn't his data it was very obvious.
you would be surprised how many people will argue right back at you when you point out the chatgpt thing. I think it is really coming from a place of not understanding how it works and it's just just wishful thinking, it is nice to believe all that nice data is yours. While a trained eye will spot an AI astro image in a second, those new to this do not have this skill, so you kind of have to look for specific things and point them out (e.g. stars that "moved")
100%.