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This pretty gal has of yet not exposed her deadly spines to me..... not yet!
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Nikon D700
50mm f/14 lens
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After almost 3 months of drought, a timid rain has come and is celebrated in Explore!
A widefield look at the Constellation Orion. I've been meaning to do this for awhile and I'm pretty happy with the results!
Equipment:
Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount
Noct-NIKKOR 58mm f/1.2 Ai-S
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
10 x 300" for 50 min and 20 sec of exposure time.
4 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bias frames
Software:
SharpCap
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I then mounted my a7RIII and adapted Noct-NIKKOR 58mm f/1.2 Ai-S lens at f/2/8 to the top rail of my scope. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 400, f/2.8 and 300" exposures. I stacked lights/darks/flats/bias frames in deepskystacker. I then processed the TIFF file in photoshop stretching the file, minimal cropping and I used Astronomy Tools Action Set to help bring back star color and to enhance the brighter star colors. Topaz Labs Sharpen and Denoise used as well.
From a meadow near Heart Lake on the White River Plateau, at 10,000 feet, I set up the tripod and camera and let the intervalometer do its work. In slightly over two hours it collected 452 star shots, each 15 sec long and from those I picked the 10 best shots containing meteor trails. I used four shots stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker to set the sky. Then layer masks in Photoshop dropped the 10 meteor trails onto the image of the night sky.
The Andromeda Galaxy is visible near the top of the photo, and if Andromeda is the center of a clock, a smaller galaxy is visible nearby at 4 o'clock. The Pleiades is the bright cluster just above the trees on the right. The meteors radiate from the constellation, in the Milky Way at the center of the photo.
At higher resolution one can see that most meteors start glowing green and then change to white, yellow or red.
After so long, I managed to create a self portrait that I'm genuinely proud of. I've spent a few months with this concept in my head and I'm glad I finally got a moment to shoot it. It's also the start of a new self portrait series I am starting.
I go back to school tomorrow, so I may be rather absent from flickr for a while. I'm also hoping to take a couple of weeks away from photography, but I'll be back soon. I just need to re-evaluate my concepts and ideas, as well as give my school work a bit more attention.
p.s. I finally dyed my hair red.
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This is a long-time exposure of Ursa Major (Big Dipper) rising over the antenna farm at Sandia Peak, New Mexico. I took this shot from the Kiwanis Cabin overlook at an altitude of 10,500 feet. I love the combination of natural and man-made "stars". The tower lights even look like the Big Dipper.. Well they kinda do when you've got hypoxia. :)
The complete set from this trip can be seen here.
DESCRIPTION: Wide field image of whole Cygnus (Swan) Constellation, sometimes called Northern Cross, has been taken by 50 mm lens… If you have comment or tips I would very appreciate your advise…
OBJECT: Cygnus (Swan) Constellation. FOV 40 x 27 arcdeg, no cropped image.
GEAR: Nikon Z7 Kolari Full Spectrum + Nikkor Z 50/1,8, Kolari UV/IR/H+ filter, tracking mount iOptron CEM60EC - 3 star alignment, no auto guiding.
ACQUISITION: July 22, 2020, Struz, CZ, Exposure 60s, f 1,8, ISO 400, Light 22x, Dark 5x, Bias 5x, Flat 20x. Total exposure time 22 min. Taken during Astronomical twilight, clear sky, no wind, approx. 18 C.
STACKING AND POST PROCESSING: AstroPixelProcessor (stacking, background neutralization, light pollution removal, calibrate background and stars colors), Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 (stretching, black and white point settings, star reduction, enhance DSO, noise reduction, contrast setting and sharpening).
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for".
Grace Murray Hopper
The USS Constellation was built in 1854 and is the last remaining ship of the Civil War. Baltimore Harbor is now its home. This is a three image panorama of the ship as it sits in front of the World Trade Center building. This is not an HDR but I did use a circular polarizing filter.
It's tricky when
You feel someone
Has done something
On your behalf
It's slippery when
Your sense of justice
Murmurs underneath
And is asking you:
How am I going to make it right?
With a palm full of stars
I throw them like dice
Repeatedly
I shake them like dice
And throw them on the table
Repeatedly
Repeatedly
Until the desired constellation appears
And I ask myself:
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
And you hear
How am I going to make it right?
Björk, The desired constellation (album: Medulla)
First hour of february 7th 2007
This scene features a trio of interacting galaxies found in the constellation of Virgo, being some 70-90 million light years away from Earth. The largest galaxy in the group is NGC 5566, which is a barred spiral galaxy stretching nearly 150,000 light years in diameter. Having widely sweeping spiral arms, with dark dusty lanes, these arms are speckled with new star forming regions throughout. The elongated galaxy to the left of NGC 5566 is the heavily distorted NGC5560. You can just see faint dusty interconnections between NGC 5560 and NGC 5566, providing us some clues that these are in fact interacting. The lower blueish galaxy NGC5569 does not appear to be disturbed, and maybe placed slightly in the foreground.
In the darkness of the surrounding space, the speckled background indicates a sea of background objects, all being in the significant distance.
This image represents only 34% of the cameras full frame, composed of luminance, red, green, blue, and hydrogen alpha filtered colour channels. Thanks for having a look.
Hi res link:
live.staticflickr.com/65535/50577593972_849ecd82d2_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Center (RA, Dec):(215.064, 3.940)
Center (RA, hms):14h 20m 15.436s
Center (Dec, dms):+03° 56' 24.737"
Size:28.7 x 18.8 arcmin
Radius:0.286 deg
Pixel scale:0.733 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 126 degrees E of N
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum & Ha: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 22.75 hours | Lum: 47 x 900 sec [11.75hr], Ha: 15 x 1200 sec [5.0hr], RGB 16 x 450sec each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: June-July 2020
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr