Shooting & Processing Orion Nebula with a DSLR and Tripod, NO TRACKER - Astrophotography Tutorial

In this beginner tutorial video, I show you step-by-step how to take an amazing space photo of the Orion Nebula using ONLY a cheap DSLR and a tripod (NO TELESCOPE OR STAR TRACKER NEEDED)! Everything you need to know (planning - photographing - processing) an astrophoto like the one in the thumbnail is in this video, including tutorials for both Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop. This video is perfect for anyone wanting to learn astrophotography and take photos of space, even from the front yard, and is a great beginner's intro to this amazing hobby. Be sure to subscribe for more STARt to Finish tutorials like this, and other videos all things astrophotography.

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Timestamps:
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0:00 Intro
0:29 Gear (camera, lens, tripod)
1:46 Location (clear sky, light pollution considerations)
3:26 Time (time of year, new moon)
4:31 Camera Settings (see below)
7:46 Shooting (where to look, focusing, intervalometer)
10:50 Calibration Frames (dark frames, flat frames, bias frames)
15:03 Stacking (intro, Deep Sky Stacker tutorial)
19:02 Processing (Photoshop tutorial)
27:12 Celebrate with a friend

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Credits
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Music | "Help me" by LiQWYD

Music | "Coral" by LiQWYD

Light Pollution Map Data:
-Earth Observation Group, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
Falchi F, Cinzano P, Duriscoe D, Kyba CC, Elvidge CD, Baugh K, Portnov BA, Rybnikova NA, Furgoni R. The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness. Science Advances. 2016 Jun 1;2(6):e1600377

[olafsastro]

I just started this journey but this video IS THE BEST on YouTube! In the last 3 weeks I saw hundreds of tutorials but this is the simples and clearest one! Thank you so much!!

[vedangkelaskar]

Hands down the BEST beginner astrophotography tutorial.

[xmadeinwyoming]

This was one of the best videos I’ve seen on beginner astrophotography in a while! Super friendly and upbeat throughout, plus your editing and sense of humor is amazing lol

[Herblay]

Brilliant... you've completely demystified the process for someone who just wanted to know how it's done.

[dungeonsnon]

To be honest, this is probably one of the videos that got me into astrophotography. Your just the most underrated astronomy youtuber and man is the tutorial simple ... I will probably rewatch this tutorial after I save up enough money to buy a decent dslr.

[jamesbagshaw]

Finally an easy to follow tutorial. Your start to finish explanation has taught me more in that one session than countless others combined. Brilliant and will be watching out for more.

[CammieRacing]

The most comprehensive tutorial I've ever seen on astrophotography. Incredible.

[hephestus]

Maybe you've seen this a hundred times but this video is the BEST in all of YouTube tutorials that i've seen thankyouuu

[thomasoh]

I just came back after a year to say my thanks to you. I started this hobby in November of 2022 and oh boy it's been a long journey. I owe it to this video of inspiring me and showing me how easy it is to take photos of Orion, and what this hobby and the quality of my images have snowballed into would make my past self extremely proud. Thanks again for making such an easy to follow and fantastic guide. You deserve more subscribers.

[Morris]

Amazing tutorial. I recently decided to go mirrorless with a Canon RP and figured I should give astro a shot. This video gave me the exact the motivation and help I needed to get going! Thanks a lot! :)

[gzm]

This just made everything I'm trying to learn so freaking easy now

[stefanfloric]

This is actually insane. I just bought a rebel t7 and I've always wanted to take astrophotography. Tried on my OnePlus 11 with the hasselblad camera and was genuinely taken into the whole field. Im so freaking excited for this.

God bless you brother. Amazing video.

[MazzifLOL]

Something I learned recently as I was getting into this. I didnt have an Intervalometer, but I did have a basic shutter remote trigger. You can set your camera to shoot 'continuous' and set your 'exposure' length to whatever your value needs to be. When all set, move the remote trigger to 'lock' and it will shoot continuous.

[danishahmed]

THE most underrated astro video on youtube

[Bigbenji]

Excellent tutorial from start to finish! One of the easiest to follow tutorials for post processing I've seen with the simple and effective explanations as to why you were doing it. Added bonus, it was enjoyable to watch at the same time.

[allanburns]

This is BY FAR the best tutorial I’ve seen on how to do this. If I could boost this video a thousand times I could. Extremely well put together thank you!

[SeanKD_Photos]

Thank you so much, I followed your processing step by step and was able to bring some great images out of stacked images that I thought didnt turn out well.

[claudiohess]

Aaawwww!!! Perfect video!
Fast, detailed, humorous, complete!
Keep doing them!!

[levilively]

Dude, THANK YOU! This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Seriously, this is absolutely wonderful. I can not thank you enough for making this video! You definitely won my sub and like!

[nvRDEE]

This Guy deserves millions of Subs!! Never seen a Video which explains it sooo good!😍