r/DWARFLAB

Another attempt with my Dwarf 3. This time I tried to capture the rosette nebula and I’m quite pleased by the result - especially considering the time and effort it took.

Are there other smart scope users out there? I’d love to find some like minded people or something like an Instagram community. Feel free to drop your user names, I’ll gladly follow you guys and join the gang!

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30 sec | 60 gain | 2 hours of integration time

Bortle 5 skies

Dwarf 3 + app only, no complicated stacking software has been used.

999 images stacked with dwarf app processed with lr mobile does it need anything

I'm sure everybody is sick of seeing these but I'm very proud of myself and super excited to be involved in this new hobby of mine.

Here are my first two images from my Mini ( just got it for my bday).

DWARF 3 | Megastack | 1.300 x 30sec | Gain 60 | Bortle 5 | Stellar Studio | Siril | Photoshop

I am a complete beginner at this hobby, and got my dwarf mini a few days ago. I noticed something though, with my pictures. They start to develop a static effect near the corners and edges. Why do they do this and how do I fix it?

M8 9 hours worth of data.
120 second subs Gain 40 EQ mode
Bortle 5 sky
Imaging on roof top
Processing - re stack in mega stack then processed in stellar studio

998 pics

60 / 15s

Bortel 9

Dwarf 3

Mount 

48.800532, 2.297859

Long-time lurker, first real post. Hoping the mods give me a pass for self-promo because I think this community is exactly who I need to hear from.

After years of doing astro the conventional way — Windows laptops on the balcony that kept crashing, dedicated cameras with driver problems, endless cable management — I decided to find out whether modern iPhones could actually do live-stacking natively. Turns out they can, more or less. So I spent the past year building it.

AstroStackerPro: real-time live stacking entirely on-device, up to ~600 frames per session, IMU-based derotation using the gyroscope for untracked long integrations, on-board editor with denoise (AI, on-device), sharpen, light-pollution removal, and exports to FITS for those of you who want to take the stack into PixInsight or Siril.

Privacy: 100% on-device, no cloud, no analytics, no account.

Requirements: iPhone 11 or later, recent iOS.

Public TestFlight beta is open. One-person project, v1.0.1, definitely rough in places, and I am genuinely at the stage where real users finding the things I missed is more valuable than gold to me. So please be hard on it.

Honest caveat: for certain targets (deep sky, high magnification) you'll still want a tripod, a star tracker, or a dedicated iPhone telephoto — but I'm actively pushing to minimize the extra gear needed.

Best channel for detailed feedback is email at astrostackerpro@icloud.com, I reply individually.

🛰 https://testflight.apple.com/join/aYaV63UV

🌌 https://astrostackerpro.com

Clear skies.

Ran the DWARF 3 on NGC 6946 last night, timed for the 4th of July since the name fit the date.

NGC 6946 is about 25 million light years away and has produced ten observed supernovae since 1917, about ten times the rate seen in the Milky Way. For decades it held the record for most supernovae observed in any single galaxy.

Americas 250th is milestone, and this weekend is worth marking. What struck me while processing this image is the scale astrophotography reveals every time. The light on my sensor left NGC 6946 about 25.2 million years ago. Two timelines in the same frame. One measured in generations, one measured in geologic time.

Four hours is not enough integration for this target. NGC 6946 sits close to the galactic plane, and dust in our own galaxy dims it by roughly a full magnitude beyond its catalog value of 9.6. The moon also rose partway through my session, which cost contrast on a broadband target. I kept shooting anyway to hit the July 4 date. 4 hours 20 minutes captured, 4 hours 8 minutes made the final stack, 60 second subs at gain 50.

This is a first pass, not a finished result. A longer session under a moonless night would pull out more spiral structure than what I got here.

Whirlpool M51 galaxy

Dwarf mini. 999 multi shot. Ran through Stellar.

Aunque desde mi ubicación no acaba de levantar mucho, pero aún así se he podido sacar esta nebulosa que tenía ganas de fotografiar.

Son solo 77 tomas de 90s a GAIN 60 con un Dwarf Mini. Y luego un procesado básico con Siril

GraXpert + BlurXterminator + NoiseXTerminator + Veralux Alchemy + GHS