Galactic Hunter
Helpful Astrophotography Content!
We are Antoine and Dalia, a married couple who take deep-sky photographs of space from Las Vegas and the Nevada desert. What started out as humble stargazing outings quickly turned into a love (or rather, an obsession) for astrophotography.
Our mission is, and has always been, to help amateur astrophotographers with imaging and making astrophotography easy for all. After many years in this hobby, it's our goal to reach the mainstream, and show the public (and the world) that astronomy is much more than the moon and a few stars - it's exciting and something you can make tangible with your own photographs.
All in all, we're just two space lovers with a telescope looking up.
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Will his first word be MA-MA, PA-PA, or NEW-TONIAN AS-TRO-GRAPH? 🐣
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New pic: LDN 1089. This is a dark molecular cloud of dust that is also surrounded by some Hydrogen Alpha filaments and other space dust. The nebula itself is also right next to a bright blue star that shines against its dusty neighbours.
LDN 1089 was discovered in the 1960’s and is 1.200 light years away.
More information: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ldn-1089
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This cluster of stars is called Caroline's Rose. It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783. This is a dense open cluster of stars 7,600 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Here is my picture of it, taken with the RASA 8 telescope and ASI2600MC. It totals 6 hours of integration time (one night). I was happy to see faint IFN visible in the background!
Full details: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ngc7789
Raw Data added to the Galactic Course: www.galactic-course.com/
6 months ago | [YT] | 115
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This open cluster lost in a huge sea of hydrogen alpha is the 38th object on the Messier Catalog: the Starfish Cluster. I love going deep on clusters to see what’s hidden in the background, and although this HA was no secret to anyone in this section of Auriga, it still feels so nice to see it appear on your own screen while processing the data.
This was taken a long time ago from UDRO but I only got around to processing it now. This is a good Winter target and definitely a fun one to process!
Info:
13 hours total
SVX130
QHY600M
RGBHA
More info: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-38
6 months ago | [YT] | 99
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M85 is a very beautiful galaxy in Coma Berenices. This is 13 hours of exposure time, you can see a zoomed-in version in picture 2!
With this one captured, we are now at 90/110 in our Messier Catalog! 🥳
More info: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-85
7 months ago | [YT] | 127
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A picture of our closest main galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, taken with just a tripod, mirrorless camera, and lens!
This was taken in under 30 minutes and it looks great! Beginners sometimes believe that it is impossible to do astrophotography without a telescope or a star tracker, but that isn’t true. You can shoot deep-sky objects without fancy gear! Of course, large and bright targets like the Andromeda Galaxy, the Orion Nebula and a few others are best for this task, but it should keep you busy until you’re able to upgrade to a tracker 😀
If you want to learn how to get this shot with just your camera and tripod, you can join my Untracked Deep Sky Astrophotography course for 100% free. I decided to make this one free to everyone in the hopes that it helps a lot of people understand what’s possible and motivates them to get into the hobby. The course has 35 videos, 67 lessons, and you get access to all updates for life at no cost.
Link: www.galactic-course.com/courses/Untracked-astropho…
Picture info:
Exposure time: 28 minutes
Camera: Canon Ra
Lens: Rokinon 135mm
No tracking
Bortle 4
ISO 6400
8 months ago | [YT] | 126
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Using my refractor telescope and monochrome camera from @StarfrontObs in Texas, I decided to spend many nights capturing just the Wizard Nebula to get a very nice and clean result. After spending 4 hours in RGB for the stars, 51 hours on HA and 42 hours on OIII, I decided it was enough to process! The data is very good, especially coming from a Bortle 1/2 site and from the 60+ Megapixel camera. Processing was more difficult than I thought it would be, but the result is great and I might give it another go at some point in the future! I especially like the blue streams visible to the left.
Blog post and higher res: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ngc-7380-the-wizard-n…
11 months ago | [YT] | 131
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Update on Charles Messier's Grave Decoration Project! 🕺
Decorations are complete for 2024!
As of November of 2024, Charles Messier's grave has a clean slab, while still keeping its antique look, and it is almost full of beautiful flowers!
One thing that surprised me when I saw the pictures for this month is that a second plaque has been added! As a reminder, we initially placed a gray plaque featuring text about Messier, along with his portrait and a telescope image. This new plaque is blue and has some text as well, though it's not fully readable in the photos. If you're the person who added this plaque and would like to be credited in our blog post, please send us an email – and thank you! 💪🏻
I've also noticed that keeping a couple of flowers on the grave regularly seems to inspire others to add their own. I wonder if the two large flowers on the other slab might be intended for Messier, as that grave seems unknown and never had any decorations in the past. 💐
Thank you for reading this update, and we'll keep decorating until all the donations are used up. If you’d like to honor Charles Messier as well, you can still contribute, more info here: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/help-us-renovate-char… . Be sure to let us know it's for this project so we can include you on our list of backers.
We'll keep updating you once in a while over the years, in the meantime, if you plan to visit the cemetery (Père Lachaise in Paris) soon, send us a pic of that new plaque so we can see what it says! 😃 🕵️♀️
1 year ago | [YT] | 105
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It's been a while but here is our new video! Learn all about IFN, how to find it, how to image and process it, and understand why it's often confused with a different type of space dust!
1 year ago | [YT] | 15
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461 hours on Markarian’s Chain! The full image doesn't fit here so it's cut in half, be sure to check the full version using one of the links at the bottom of this text!
In June of 2024, we started contributing to a new project with the Deep Sky Collective: Markarian’s Chain!
We’ve worked with the Deep Sky Collective several times in the past, and love collaborate with to reach crazy high integration times on various deep sky objects. Some of the images we’ve collaborated on are for example 255 hours on M51, 1000+ hours on the Andromeda Galaxy, 566 hours on M106, and more.
For our part of the data, we spent a total of 105.5 hours shooting this target using two different telescopes (64 hours with the RASA and color camera, and 40.5 hours with the SVX130 and monochrome camera). Out of the 105.5 hours, about 88 hours were kept and stacked with the files from the other members.
The full details about this image can be found on the official DSC’s Astrobin page, which we encourage you to check out here: www.astrobin.com/rwml2n/E/
Our Blog post about this image: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/markarians-chain
1 year ago | [YT] | 231
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