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Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by sllabres »

rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

Congratulations :-)

Very nice shots. It must be a great feeling to see one's own footage in a feature film!

How long do you do astrophotography?

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by pants2 »

rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

Hi Rod, the images you have on your gallery and instagram are stunning but very low-resolution (unless I'm missing something). You mention in the article about preparing IMAX-ready photographs. Is there a way to download those full-res versions of your images?

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by [deleted] »

rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

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Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by recursivegirth »

dotancohen wrote: post #139
knappe wrote: post #107

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Traditionally (pre-ai) you would use another image of the same part of the sky and negate the items that you want to remove from the image As an example terrestrial telescope mirrors get dusty. You're not going to break down the scope just to clean up the dust as this is a many days operation in most cases. So instead you would take "flats" that were of a pure white background and thus showed the dust in its full, du…

> Traditionally (pre-ai) you would use another image of the same part of the sky and negate the items that you want to remove from the image. I'm not an astrophotographer, so I'm interested about why that method would work for stars. Are not stars fixed in relation to the images taken? I could see how the technique would work with planets, maybe, but not stars. Why does the technique not work with aircraft? Because t…

Earth moves - that's how you get the next shot without repositioning the telescope.

This time-lapse probably better visualizes it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by glidefarrow »

rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

I was thrilled to read through to the end of the article and discover a fellow Brisbanite! My friends and I were discussing this movie the other night, they will be stoked to keep an eye out for your images.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by hermitcrab »

rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

Very cool. Major bragging rights. And it is a great film to be associated with.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by hermitcrab »

rpastro wrote: post #147
fosco wrote: post #119

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Can you share what equipment was used to capture those images?

I’ve had multiple setups over the last 2 years, but for the images displayed in the movie there were two main setups: a William Optics RedCat 51 II and an Askar 130PHQ, both paired with a ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera, typically on a Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro mount, along with narrowband and RGB filters depending on the target.

What sort of magnification do you need to get photos like that?

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by ceejayoz »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #114
ceejayoz wrote: post #31

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Star Trek is largely fantasy .

IMO if "fantasy" tries to explain things as being technology, it's (soft) sci-fi. If it describes it as magic, then it's fantasy.

Technobabble is just tech-sounding magic.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by dotancohen »

recursivegirth wrote: post #154
dotancohen wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Traditionally (pre-ai) you would use another image of the same part of the sky and negate the items that you want to remove from the image. I'm not an astrophotographer, so I'm interested about why that method would work for stars. Are not stars fixed in relation to the images taken? I could see how the technique would work with planets, maybe, but not stars. Why does the technique not work with aircraft? Because t…

Earth moves - that's how you get the next shot without repositioning the telescope. This time-lapse probably better visualizes it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ

As the Earth rotates over the course of the night, the background stars and nebulae move as a single unit, no?

Maybe for some close stars parallax might work to remove them over the course of half a year. But no way could the Earth's rotation during a single night move background stars out of a nebulae.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by hatthew »

recursivegirth wrote: post #154
dotancohen wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Traditionally (pre-ai) you would use another image of the same part of the sky and negate the items that you want to remove from the image. I'm not an astrophotographer, so I'm interested about why that method would work for stars. Are not stars fixed in relation to the images taken? I could see how the technique would work with planets, maybe, but not stars. Why does the technique not work with aircraft? Because t…

Earth moves - that's how you get the next shot without repositioning the telescope. This time-lapse probably better visualizes it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ

Sure, but the nebulae also move along with the stars. The questions is how one can subtract the stars without also subtracting the nebulae. (I'm assuming different filters and/or a database of known star positions)
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