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Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. OPT's Rod Gallardy gives you a brief rundown of some of the various solar viewing options that are available and how best to use them for safe solar viewing. This video should get you up to speed with solar safety in time for the upcoming Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21st, 2017. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. In this video, OPT's Ian Lauer gives you a rundown on the basic telescope types. He discusses the benefits and considerations of the three basic telescope types (reflector, refractor, and catadioptric) so that you can make the best possible choice for your astronomy needs. Music: Namaste by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your MaxIm DL workflow. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your MaxIm DL workflow. Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. OPT's Chris Hendren shows you how use layer masks in Photoshop to mix the best results of previously-aligned long and short exposures. This method is great for getting high-quality results from images taken and/or aligned with MaxIm DL. 00:10 Intro 00:19 Last Time 00:37 Overview 00:48 Importing Files 01:05 Processing (long exposure) 01:54 Processing (short exposure) 02:45 Layer Mask 03:44 Blending 04:11 Eraser Tool 05:05 Refinement 05:47 Saturation 06:19 Final tweaks 06:46 Flatten image 07:12 Outro Other videos: This video is part of a series on processing in MaxIm DL: *MaxIm DL Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I8IfsJIiw&list=PLeN_xhcI__l1-Ds25puXHnooxxuzOFIy9 *Image Processing video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgg1zhpvv8&list=PLeN_xhcI__l3GRJYLGNoUGc2PkLA0F6aY Music: 10 Sleepless Nights by Olivaw https://soundcloud.com/olivaw Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/E6pjsL7w-RA Edited for length, volume, and EQ ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your MaxIm DL workflow. Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. OPT's Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your astrophotography using MaxIm DL. In this fifth video in the series, Chris discusses MaxIm's auto calibration features, as well as how to preprocess your images for smooth importing into Photoshop. 00:10 Intro 00:41 Part 5 Overview 01:04 Long exposure (over-exposed) 01:30 Short exposure 02:03 Applying Flats 03:53 Stacking 05:15 Stacking (short exposures) 06:11 Stacking Results 06:52 Aligning 08:30 Stretching 09:38 Saving the images 09:50 Outro Other videos: *MaxIm DL Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I8IfsJIiw&list=PLeN_xhcI__l1-Ds25puXHnooxxuzOFIy9 *Image Processing video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgg1zhpvv8&list=PLeN_xhcI__l3GRJYLGNoUGc2PkLA0F6aY Music: 10 Sleepless Nights by Olivaw https://soundcloud.com/olivaw Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/E6pjsL7w-RA Edited for length, volume, and EQ ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your MaxIm DL workflow. Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. OPT's Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your astrophotography using MaxIm DL. In this fourth video in the series, Chris shows you how to use your previously captured data to calibrate your images. 00:10 Intro 00:15 CCD Dark Frame 00:41 Part 4 Overview 00:49 Quick Calibration 01:11 Flat Frames 02:16 Hot Pixels 02:46 Color Frames 03:16 Set Calibration 04:31 Align and Stack 06:47 Median 07:29 Combine Color 08:23 Screen Stretch Histogram 08:56 Saving Processed Images 09:21 Outro Other videos: *MaxIm DL Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I8IfsJIiw&list=PLeN_xhcI__l1-Ds25puXHnooxxuzOFIy9 *Image Processing video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgg1zhpvv8&list=PLeN_xhcI__l3GRJYLGNoUGc2PkLA0F6aY Music: 10 Sleepless Nights by Olivaw https://soundcloud.com/olivaw Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/E6pjsL7w-RA Edited for length, volume, and EQ ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your MaxIm DL workflow. Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. OPT's Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your astrophotography using MaxIm DL. In this third video in the series, Chris shows you how to utilize the Observatory window to integrate your equipment into the MaxIm DL shooting environment. 00:10 Intro 00:16 Part 1 Review 00:29 Part 2 Review 00:35 Part 3 Overview 00:55 ASCOM platform 01:24 Equipment setup 02:04 Focuser setup 02:23 Observatory window 02:37 Focus tab 03:00 Autofocus 04:16 Telescope guiding 05:06 Outro Other videos: *MaxIm DL Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I8IfsJIiw&list=PLeN_xhcI__l1-Ds25puXHnooxxuzOFIy9 *Image Processing video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgg1zhpvv8&list=PLeN_xhcI__l3GRJYLGNoUGc2PkLA0F6aY Music: 10 Sleepless Nights by Olivaw https://soundcloud.com/olivaw Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/E6pjsL7w-RA Edited for length, volume, and EQ ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your MaxIm DL workflow. Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. OPT's Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your astrophotography using MaxIm DL. In this second video, Chris walks you through configuring a multi-filter sequence and shows you how to manage some of the program's advanced guiding parameters. 00:10 Intro 00:17 Part 1 Review 00:30 Part 2 Overview 00:45 Exposure Settings 01:06 Filter Wheel setup 01:42 Options 02:39 Taking exposure 03:28 Autosave menu 05:10 Autoguiding Parameters 08:47 Tracking 08:58 Set Exposures in Autosave 09:27 Outro Other videos: *MaxIm DL part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I8IfsJIiw *Image Processing video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgg1zhpvv8&list=PLeN_xhcI__l3GRJYLGNoUGc2PkLA0F6aY Music: 10 Sleepless Nights by Olivaw https://soundcloud.com/olivaw Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/E6pjsL7w-RA Edited for length, volume, and EQ ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your MaxIm DL workflow. Visit https://www.optcorp.com/ for all of your astronomy product and knowledge needs. OPT's Chris Hendren shows you how to get the most out of your astrophotography using MaxIm DL. In this first video, Chris shows you the basics of the menu layout and how to get started with the Camera Control window. 00:10 Intro 00:18 Basic Menu Layout 00:37 Camera Control window 00:57 ASCOM platform 01:03 Setup your camera 01:37 Setup your filter wheel 02:09 Standard configuration 02:27 Connect your setup 03:02 Cooling 03:46 Expose tab 04:58 Continuous Mode 05:12 Guide tab 06:13 Outro Other Videos: *Simple Stacking in Photoshop with Chris Hendren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgg1zhpvv8 *Image processing tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgg1zhpvv8&list=PLeN_xhcI__l3GRJYLGNoUGc2PkLA0F6aY Music: 10 Sleepless Nights by Olivaw https://soundcloud.com/olivaw Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/E6pjsL7w-RA Edited for length, volume, and EQ ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Take breathtaking, detailed astrophotography mosaics in this tutorial of The SkyX software. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Need to know how to collimate your astrograph newtonian telescope? Here we give you a simple runthrough of the collimation process. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Want to know how to stack your astrophotography images without having to fuss around with a bunch of different programs? In this video we show you how to stack and process your images using Adobe Photoshop. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Charles Walker shows you how to use The SkyX to generate and apply Periodic Error Correction data. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

See how to replace your telescope's collimation knobs with simlpe-to-use Bob's Knobs. You can find and purchase Bob's Knobs here: https://optcorp.com/collections/bobs-knobs ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Robyn gives you the rundown on the benefits of using Lunar Filters for visual astronomy. You purchase Moon filters here: https://optcorp.com/collections/lunar-filters ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

In this video, we show you how to take flat calibration frames using Nebulosity 4 to get the most out of your astrophotography images. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

We give you an explanation on how and why you should balance your equatorial mount. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

Celestron's Bryan Cogdell introduces the Celestron CGX equatorial mount. You can learn more and buy it here: https://optcorp.com/products/celestron-cgx-computerized-german-equatorial-telescope-mount ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

In this video, Charles Walker shows you how to create a TPoint model in TheSkyX for better pointing and tracking accuracy. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope

OPT's Dustin Gibson gives you a fun and lighthearted look at the pros and cons of color and monochrome cameras for astrophotography and night sky imaging. ===== OPT - The Telescope Authority since 1947 Telescope equipment? Astrohotography gear? Professional Astronomy? We help with it all. Check us out at www.optcorp.com ===== Let's get social! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OPTTelescopes LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanside-photo-&-telescope