How Can I Enhance My Deep Sky Images and Identify Celestial Objects?

[mad4itpete]

A very good friend asked me to post here obviously a fellow member. The images are from my seestar s50. I'd be grateful for any advice to enhance images and your thoughts on the images.

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF. I've moved your thread from the New Member Introduction forum to the Astronomy forum.

 

[russ_watters]

Welcome to PF!

Good start if those are among your first! To assist in improving: What are the specs on these images: Aperture, focal ratio/length, camera make/model and settings, exposure (number of exposures)? Did you take dark frames? Do you have raw images? What processing did you do?

 

[mad4itpete]

The images were taken via seestar the exposure time was 10 secs and between 50 - 60 images taken and then stacked by seestar and it's own software.yes I have the raw images. Focal ratio ect is automatically done by the telescope

 

[Andy Resnick]

A very good friend asked me to post here obviously a fellow member. The images are from my seestar s50. I'd be grateful for any advice to enhance images and your thoughts on the images.

Cool! The Seestar seems like a great introductory telescope: 250mm f/5 is very reasonable and a 50mm aperture is somewhat resistant to bad seeing conditions. The downside is that there's not much to do to expand/extend the capability of the device since it's fully self-contained, so I'm not sure how much you will use it before you are ready/desirous for an upgrade. I am curious about a few things:

1) since the device uses an alt/az (dobsonian) mount, the field of view should (slowly) rotate as you are acquiring images. I realize that image stacking is included in the device app, but I wonder if you notice any effect if you acquire images for a few hours rather than a few minutes.
2) From the blogs, it looks like you use live view to point the telescope at your target, set focus, etc. How easy is it to go through all that? Do you have to carefully level the scope first?

Edit: from your Mars image, I suspect your front element is dirty, as if there is a thin film present. Do you know how to clean your optics?

 

[mad4itpete]

I thought the same I'm going to leave it on an object for several hours. No it's pretty easy to set up calibrate the compass and level up is easy too got to get 2 circles conjoined. Yea I have optical lense wipes after blowing with compressed air first.

 

[AlexB23]

A very good friend asked me to post here obviously a fellow member. The images are from my seestar s50. I'd be grateful for any advice to enhance images and your thoughts on the images.

Beautiful nebula and galaxies, man. Astronomers in thr 1800s with the most powerful telescopes would do anything to get images of this quality. Most people today would still struggle to make images of this quality. 10/10 great work.

 

[mad4itpete]

Beautiful nebula and galaxies, man. Astronomers in thr 1800s with the most powerful telescopes would do anything to get images of this quality. Most people today would still struggle to make images of this quality. 10/10 great work.

Cheers Alex

 

[AlexB23]

Cheers Alex

You're welcome, brother. It would be nice if the objects were labeled, so folks knew which objects were shown. I know the moon and Orion nebula, but not all the galaxies.