Utah Astrophotography
From Another World
Another from the pseudo-surreal collection....I wonder what the night sky might look like on another planet, one which has little or no atmosphere to obscure light, maybe something like this?
I went out to the Bonneville Salt Flats last night and got a little imaging done, I'll have more later. I'm actually super happy with how the sky turned out in this one, pretty good details considering I only took 15 minutes worth of exposures (2 sets, one for the upper half and one for the lower half of the Milky Way core region). Sky was shot with my Nikon D600 and Nikon 50mm f1.8g lens on my iOptron Skytracker mount, ISO 800 and f3.2 with exposures of 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute. The foreground was taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikon 24-120 f3.5 lens @65mm, 1 minute exposures at f5 and ISO 800. Edited in PixInsight, Photoshop, and Lightroom.
I'd like to promote a group I've started for sharing Milky Way photos (ya, another one of those groups). It's a group dedicated to displaying accurate images of the Milky Way in terms of color balance representation. One thing you may not realize is that the night sky is not blue despite the representation by most night sky images. I myself thought it was not long ago, but actually most photographers have improper white balance in their pictures, chosen so as to produce what they believe is a more "pleasing" image. So I felt like creating a page dedicated to providing the most accurate Milky Way, Night Sky, and other astrophotography images with discussions and examples of this topic:
From Another World
Another from the pseudo-surreal collection....I wonder what the night sky might look like on another planet, one which has little or no atmosphere to obscure light, maybe something like this?
I went out to the Bonneville Salt Flats last night and got a little imaging done, I'll have more later. I'm actually super happy with how the sky turned out in this one, pretty good details considering I only took 15 minutes worth of exposures (2 sets, one for the upper half and one for the lower half of the Milky Way core region). Sky was shot with my Nikon D600 and Nikon 50mm f1.8g lens on my iOptron Skytracker mount, ISO 800 and f3.2 with exposures of 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute. The foreground was taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikon 24-120 f3.5 lens @65mm, 1 minute exposures at f5 and ISO 800. Edited in PixInsight, Photoshop, and Lightroom.
I'd like to promote a group I've started for sharing Milky Way photos (ya, another one of those groups). It's a group dedicated to displaying accurate images of the Milky Way in terms of color balance representation. One thing you may not realize is that the night sky is not blue despite the representation by most night sky images. I myself thought it was not long ago, but actually most photographers have improper white balance in their pictures, chosen so as to produce what they believe is a more "pleasing" image. So I felt like creating a page dedicated to providing the most accurate Milky Way, Night Sky, and other astrophotography images with discussions and examples of this topic: