In this video I show how I was able to take some interesting deep sky astrophotography images using my Drone Camera (a modified Hasselblad 20MP Camera onboard a Mavic 2 Pro) in which one can see, among other things, the Andromeda Galaxy.
This is made possible using coding I had been experimenting with in Python (available here:https://github.com/MuonRay/Python_DNG_Drone_Astrophotography) and the exposure stacking software Sequator (available here:https://sites.google.com/view/sequator/download)
This video is a showcase of ongoing experiments I am carrying out to test the limits of the "professional/consumer" grade of drones currently available and find out what exactly they are fully capable of doing in the context of using them for Earth Observation and Night Sky observation. So far I have been very impressed with the results so far and feel I've only scratched the surface.
The fact that the drone can take better astrophotography images while flying than stationary on the ground was a pleasant surprise to me and opens up the possibility of detailed night time stargazing using drones perhaps to accompany ground based observations of the sky.
August 13th update:
I tried some Meteor Tracking using my Drone Near-Infrared Moodified Camera and by taking a few hundred images and combining them into a video I managed to get some interesting results from the Perseid Meteor Shower:
