Request pictures from Newbies

Post by **zong** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:27 pm

Agree with remus, anyone owning a dslr probably won't be that "newbie" to astrophotography.. that's why I thought M31 was not a very good gauge of "newbieness". The moon or planets could be a good start, though. Particularly the moon! then i can submit my "anyhow-point-into-scope-and-shoot" moon photo

Post by **weixing** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:13 am

Hi,

Agree with remus, anyone owning a dslr probably won't be that "newbie" to astrophotography..

Hmm... but there are a lots of people who had DSLR and may be very good or professional photographer, but they never shoot any photo of the stars and had no idea how to do that... so I think they still consider as newbie in Astrophotography.

Anyway, M31 is quite a difficult target for newbie... Moon is a better choice as it require minimum equipment and minimum Astrophtography knowledge.

Have a nice day.

jermng · Post by **jermng** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:16 am

Actually, I think Meng Lee might be thinking bout Newbie DSO Photography .. in that case, M42 or M45 might be a good choice?

river · Post by **river** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:48 am

you never know, some can start the hobby with a LX200GPS and a dslr while others start with 1 x 7 or 7x50 bino. Having better equipment make the astrophotography much easier, not making the ower a master overnight... just my personal view.

Remus is right, certain imaging target like the moon will lower the minimum requirement of the setup thus increase the number of happy imager for that target. We never short of nice lunar pic here taken with either point and shoot camera or special CCD device.

I guess Meng Lee have his reason choosing M31 as the target. This target require more skill but still possible with erntry level equipment under Sinagpore sky. One can be contended with nice lunar pic taken with what ever they have, but it is time to move on to more difficult target for some people.

newbie or master can't be judged by equipment one own. Different target require different level of skill. A master lunar imager is different from master supernova imager. This post is newbie for M31, the way I see it.

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:56 am

Newbies = less than 2093 posts in the forum

ChaosKnight wrote:Seems to be an ill-posed problem.
May i suggest definition of newbies means < 217 posts in the forum?

Sam Lee · Post by **Sam Lee** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:26 am

Haha, you are one post away from disqualification..

Perhaps, instead of getting DSOs , why not start with our neighbourly moon ? I recall the time when we were in NUS , the astronomy students were eagerly using their digicams and handphone cameras (some even DSLRs) to capture the moon via A-Focal. Suprisingly , some of them had very good shots of the moon (haha , i had to admit , i try to do that at home .hehe) . It is both a refreshing and rewarding experience. You get to show your friends what happened during the session and show some 'WYSIWYG' items !

To add abit of spice to that , since its gonna be almost digital for everyone, we can have a PRE and POST digital image processing to show what you have captured and the post processing differences.

Regards,
Sam

jermng · Post by **jermng** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:51 am

I think the whole point of this thread is that Meng Lee wants to test water on what beginners can do here (perhaps for DSO?).

vhuang168 · Post by **vhuang168** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:22 am

Do I qualify as newbie? I'm NEW!!! No, really... look at my posts... very low #!!.

Meng Lee · Post by **Meng Lee** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:24 pm

Oh gosh, can't imagine a simple minded thread can grow into so many different views.

Ok, define newbie as in new to astrophotography.

In this thread, I do mean newbies who wants to try DSOs, meaning newbies who already tried his digital camera and point and shoot at the moon , yet cannot afford a scope on mount and Toucam to take moon at prime focus and negative projection.

I only hope that he can see the elongated smudge (at around 70mm focal length) of M31, hopefully, giving a sense of achievement.

ChaosKnight · Post by **ChaosKnight** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:58 pm

vhuang168 wrote:Do I qualify as newbie? I'm NEW!!! No, really... look at my posts... very low #!!.

Yes of course. Join the club. You certainly satisfy the stupid and narrow criteria.

Sorry arief, i understand you are desperate to be young and hip again, but 2k+ is just too much. Why, if i had a dollar for every of your posts, i could get a new telescope.

Anyway the definition of newbies has been revised upwards to less than 218 posts.