Hello All! I am new her to the forums and this budding astrophotog is looking for a little help. I have a 4.5" reflector with an f/8.8 ratio
I recently purchased a basic set of color filters and have been searching high and low for a published chart of what may come from the various combinations you can make for stacking. I’m just starting out with the photography thing and am learning something new each night. I use my webcam in two ways; without the lens over the sensor and directly in the focuser and sometimes I pop the lens back on and attach the cam directly to my eyepieces. I find this works very well for imaging DSO's giving my current set up. I need to get a reducer to have better luck with directly putting it in the focuser. Realizing now that this hobby is a spendy one, i am trying to do as much poor man DIY as I can. So I do realize I already have limitations but I am ok with them for now. It’s great learning for when I can purchase nicer stuff.
Sooo..... My question is does anyone know either from a published source or your own personal trials of a good filter combinations, if there are any, for the various things in the night sky. Specifically the basic RGB filters I have now: #12 Yellow, #58 Green, #25A red and a #80A Blue. Right now due to my location (North Carolina) and the fishbowl of pine trees I live under, i get good looks at Jupiter all night and Anything in or around Cassiopeia and below (below meaning along that line of the milky way under cassi as she climbs higher in my sky throughout the night. My three current obsessions are the Double Clusters, Andromeda and the very pleasing to the eye Pleiades.
I love picking the brain of those in the know so any help or tips or suggestions are greatly accepted. Thanks in advance! Happy hunting!
I recently purchased a basic set of color filters and have been searching high and low for a published chart of what may come from the various combinations you can make for stacking. I’m just starting out with the photography thing and am learning something new each night. I use my webcam in two ways; without the lens over the sensor and directly in the focuser and sometimes I pop the lens back on and attach the cam directly to my eyepieces. I find this works very well for imaging DSO's giving my current set up. I need to get a reducer to have better luck with directly putting it in the focuser. Realizing now that this hobby is a spendy one, i am trying to do as much poor man DIY as I can. So I do realize I already have limitations but I am ok with them for now. It’s great learning for when I can purchase nicer stuff.
Sooo..... My question is does anyone know either from a published source or your own personal trials of a good filter combinations, if there are any, for the various things in the night sky. Specifically the basic RGB filters I have now: #12 Yellow, #58 Green, #25A red and a #80A Blue. Right now due to my location (North Carolina) and the fishbowl of pine trees I live under, i get good looks at Jupiter all night and Anything in or around Cassiopeia and below (below meaning along that line of the milky way under cassi as she climbs higher in my sky throughout the night. My three current obsessions are the Double Clusters, Andromeda and the very pleasing to the eye Pleiades.
I love picking the brain of those in the know so any help or tips or suggestions are greatly accepted. Thanks in advance! Happy hunting!
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