Nebula, Constellation and Pine III
[Note - this is not a new photo. It is a down-rez'd version of another that has been spreading widely on tumblr without my explicit consent. Beware, fellow photo buddies...]
The constellation Cygnus, the North America Nebula, the Milky Way, and the tops of my neighbor's ponderosa pine trees.
This is 2 images combined by DeepSkyStacker, and postprocessed in Gimp to accentuate the region around the NAN at the expense of the rest of the image. This is my first image with DSS, and I am very encouraged by the result. You can even faintly see the Pelican Nebula next to the NAN.
The stars were tracked with my hand-operated barn door tracker, and the exposure was somewhere between 15 seconds and 2 minutes. I was using a hand tape recorder to note the exposure data, but alas nothing is on the tape. I'm guessing 1 minute.
My Barn Door Tracker:
www.flickr.com/photos/41577645@N07/sets/72157624698263492
Nebula, Constellation and Pine III
[Note - this is not a new photo. It is a down-rez'd version of another that has been spreading widely on tumblr without my explicit consent. Beware, fellow photo buddies...]
The constellation Cygnus, the North America Nebula, the Milky Way, and the tops of my neighbor's ponderosa pine trees.
This is 2 images combined by DeepSkyStacker, and postprocessed in Gimp to accentuate the region around the NAN at the expense of the rest of the image. This is my first image with DSS, and I am very encouraged by the result. You can even faintly see the Pelican Nebula next to the NAN.
The stars were tracked with my hand-operated barn door tracker, and the exposure was somewhere between 15 seconds and 2 minutes. I was using a hand tape recorder to note the exposure data, but alas nothing is on the tape. I'm guessing 1 minute.
My Barn Door Tracker:
www.flickr.com/photos/41577645@N07/sets/72157624698263492