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Hey Folks I am still alive and took the time beside preparing for the next L´Homme Issue which will come to you next week to work on a totally not planned picture I really fell in love with while editing.
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Sagittarius is the ninth astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Sagittarius and spans 240–270th degrees of the zodiac. Under the tropical zodiac, sun transits this sign between November 23 and December 21. The symbol of the archer is based on the centaur Chiron, who mentored Achilles in archery.
On my after work walk today, this was the reward for my effort! The colours left by the setting sun and that glorious crescent new moon made the usual commercial view much more beautiful.
Canon5d2+samyang 24mm f2,8 iso 2000 30s - 14 shots pano. All the shots done with tracking using SW Star Adventurer.
Canon5d2+samyang 24mm f4 iso 1250 -90s - 11 shots pano. All the shots done with tracking using SW Star Adventurer.
Located at a distance of 5200 LY from Earth in the direction of the constellation Saggitarius, the Lagoon Nebula is one of the many star forming regions in that part of the sky. The giant stars within the nebula produce radiate trmendous amounts of UV radiation which ionizes the gas and causes it to glow. It's visible to the naked eye as a bright spot standing out of the Milky Way, but looks very distinct in binoculars.
This is once again older data that I've decided to reprocess to HUGE improvement over my last attempt when originally shot in 2019!
Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Celestron CGX
ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
40 x 2min exposures
Shot at the Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario
March, 2016,
Hyderabad, India
This has been one of the most rewarding images that I've taken over the years. This is my first attempt at capturing the central plane (The galactic core) of our galaxy, Milky Way. I have been waiting for this particular window of opportunity for the last 6 months and finally it has come.
In northern hemisphere of the earth, one would be able to view it from March to October and for us India, the window of opportunity is even shortened to until June, because the monsoon cloud build up over most parts of India after June. You will be able to photograph it during 4,5 days of window around the New Moon day (No Moon day), when the sky is at its darkest and light pollution by moon is at the lowest. Just a day before shooting this image, I planned to do a practise shoot and unfortunately that plan was foiled because of a sudden build up of the cloud cover. I was worried a bit that I will be loosing the 'opportunity window' of March because of cloud cover and might have to wait for another month (for the next new moon day). But the Gods were on my side and heavens have cleared the way for this shot. Clouds were all cleared and it was a crystal clear sky at its darkest best. Finally I could take ‘the’ shot that I have been dying to take for ages.
I hope to make many more interesting images of the Milky Way Galactic Core, in the days and years to come.
Located at a distance of 5200 LY from Earth in the direction of the constellation Saggitarius, the Lagoon Nebula is one of the many star forming regions in that part of the sky. The giant stars within the nebula produce radiate trmendous amounts of UV radiation which ionizes the gas and causes it to glow. It's visible to the naked eye as a bright spot standing out of the Milky Way, but looks very distinct in binoculars.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: Baader UV/IR cut
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
70 x 3 min exposures
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, Ontario.
Canon5d2+samyang 24mm f2,8 iso 1600 30s - 8 shots pano. All the shots done with tracking using SW Star Adventurer.
The Trifid Nebula is an active star formation region in Saggitarius. It's trifurcated and features multiple objects of interest. The magenta areas are an emission nebula, the blue areas are reflection nebula, and the dark areas are dark nebula. And an open cluster lives within its gassy clouds. This is one telescopic target that has it all!
The data acquired for this new version of this image is a lot cleaner due to clearer skies and less tracking issues, resulting in more fine detail, and after a month of using PixInsight, my skills have improved drastically. And this is the result.
- TECH DATA -
Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Mount: Celestron CGX
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Autoguider: Orion Mini Guide Scope + SSAG
46 x 2 min exposures
Stack: Astro Pixel Processor
Process: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC 2019
Shot at the L&A County Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario, Canada.
canon5d2+samyang24mm f2,8 20s iso5000 - 22 shots stitched
You can see faint pink aurora shining on the horizon.
The pano was shot at about 02-30 the darkest time of shortening spring nights. In about a month nights will be too short over here to see any milky way at all, so this is one of the last opportunities to go out shooting until it is dark again in august. Was checking out Lyrids activity for about an hour and was only able to see a couple of sporadic meteors.
Hopefully the night of the maximum will be clear to hunt down for lyrids running continious shooting. Good luck for everyone planning to do the same!
Sagittarius A-Star is the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy.
This concept art was created by turning a photo of the moon in clouds to a negative. Our black hole feeds on clouds of gas and dust as well as stars that are captured gravitationally and ripped apart as they are drawn in.
M20 - The Trifid Nebula
The Trifid Nebula is an active star formation region in Saggitarius always an incredible sight. It's clearly divided into 3 lobes (which is what "trifid" means) and features multiple objects of interest. The reddish / magenta areas are an emission nebula, the blue areas are reflection nebula, and the dark areas that trifurcate the nebula are dark nebula. These dark nebulae give the Trifid its distinct look. On top of that, an open cluster lives within its gassy form.
This is also my first processing job using PixInsight, which has been a very steep learning curve. However, I seem to have gotten over the initial hump of a basic processing workflow.
Acquisition data:
Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Celestron CGX (guided)
ZWO ASI 1600MC Pro camera
62 x 2 min exposures.
Shot at the L&A County Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, ON..
Canon6d+samyang 24mm f2,0 iso 2000 20s
The sky is still lit by the setting Moon. Pano shot during our last camping night on the bank of iIssuk-Kul lake n Kyrgyzstan 2017 trip
This was just a test of the Astrotracer function of the Pentax K3ii. It worked amazingly good. I tested with 1 minute exposures and got round stars. So 90 one minute exposures with a 50 mm macro lens at F/2.8 WITHOUT any mount. I just pointed to Saturn (low in the skies between 15° and 20° inclination) and found a lot of DSOs inkluding Trifid Nebula, Lagoon Nebula, Eagle Nebula and Omega Nebula.
Saturn is the brightest object in the left part of the image.
This pair of nebulae in the constellation Saggitarius is a favourite of astronomers everywhere.
Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula, is a large gas cloud 4100 LY away. This active star forming region is easily visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes on clear nights. It appears as a bright spot in the Milky Way. Open cluster NGC 6530 lies within the nebula.
The Trifid Nebula is an odd nebula. It's a combination of an open star cluster, emission nebula (redish regions), reflection nebula (blueish regions), and dark nebula (the dark lines that divide it into apparent lobes). This nebula is located 5200 LY away.
Tech Data:
Explore Scientific ED80
Celestron CGX, guided
ZWO ASI1600MC Pro camera cooled to -20ºC
20 x 3min exposures
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D3300.
77 lights x 30 s @ ISO 1600, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
El secretari (sagittarius serpentarius) és una au de presa africana molt especialitzada: menja serps (tot i que també altres animals), i el metode de caça son els cops de peu. Aquí l'estaven provocant amb una serp de plastic, i deu ni do, quins cops l'hi donava!
Fotografiat al "Donjon des Aigles", centre de rapinyaires al castell de Beucens.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretari_(ocell)
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The secretarybird (saggitarius serpentarius) is a quite unusal bird of prey. They live in the great plains of Africa, so they prefer to walk than to fly, and have a specialized hunting method against snakes: they stomp them to the ground.
This one was provoced by a plastic snake, and really he tried to crush it to the ground.
Picture taken in the Donjon des Aigles bird center, in Beaucens.
My daughter (6) and I were able to spend an entire night camped out on top of Blackrock Summit in Shenandoah National Park, VA on July 11th / July 12th, 2020.
It was an exceptionally clear night with 360 degree views so I was able to photograph a wide variety of targets from wide-angle Milky Way / Landscapes, starfields, the Andromed Galaxy and even Comet NEOWISE before sunrise.
Of all the shots I was able to take, this is by far my favorite. In this composite 135mm photo, you can see my daughter and I in the foreground on our "observation platform" trying to take in the vastness of our galaxy. In front of us is the core of the Milky Way, the area containing Saggitarius A, with other objects such as the Lagoon and Trifid nebulae visible.
This image was created by capturing a single 30 second, ISO 1600 F2.8 foreground shot merged with a stack of tracked 14x60" ISO800 F2.8 sky shots using my iOptron Skyguider. The sky shots were stacked in Sequator, gradients wiped in Startools, and finished in Lightroom CC. I hope you enjoy a shot from a night I'll never forget!
This is a very bright and very busy part of the milky way located in the constellation Sagittarius. Had a some nice dark skies last month and was able to get a good run at this target.
This was one of my first targets when I got my telescope and it was real fun giving it a second attempt.
Nikon D5300
480mm F/6 scope
16x420" ISO 400
Skywatcher AZ-EQ5 mount
Thanks for viewing!
'The Emu' rising above the Pavilion, Ben Lomond National Park, Tasmania. The landscape is lit entirely by starlight. There was no moon, and light pollution is very minimal in this location.
This is a vertical stitch of five frames, shot at f 2.8, 30 seconds, ISO 5000 at 16 mm. I'm slowly learning some slightly more advanced techniques for processing images like this.
In this case, stitching was done using photomerge in lightroom CC. After stitching I pulled the shadows as far as they would go and did some basic white balance adjustments in lightroom, then exported the file to photoshop as a .dng and applied some selective curves adjustments to the foreground and sky using layers and masks to bring out a bit more detail, while hopefully retaining a 'night time' feel.
One of my longest journey to witness Milky Way by looking to the direction of Saggitarius of the constellation. We had the most clearest sky on that night at Mersing . #milkyway #johor #batupahat #sonya7ii #malaysia #thataintmycar #sonyalpha
11 frames sumed using DSS, iso5000; f2,8; 30s each one
Canon5d2 + samyang 24mm
The result doesnt look like i think it should, so i will definitely rework it soon.
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula
Located at a distance of 5200 LY from Earth in the direction of the constellation Saggitarius, the Lagoon Nebula is one of the many star forming regions in that part of the sky. The giant stars within the nebula produce radiate trmendous amounts of UV radiation which ionizes the gas and causes it to glow. It's visible to the naked eye as a bright spot standing out of the Milky Way, but looks very distinct in binoculars.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Celestron CGX, guided
ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
55 x 2min exposures
Shot at the Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario
This is a view of the core of our galaxy, roughly in the constellation Sagittarius.
This image was constructed from multiple 30 second exposures shot with a Nikkor 105 mm f2.8 lens at f 5.0, ISO 5000, on a D610.
Tracking was with an Ioptron star tracker.
Roughly 10 frames per field of view were stacked to reduce noise, then stitched to cover a wider field. This image is a small section of a larger project that I'm working on to create a large high resolution panorama of the central part of the milky way.
I've learnt a lot about processing astro images, but I think I still have a great deal to learn.
Milky Way from Aquila to Saggittarius. Nikon Z6 - Nikkor 50 mm S @ f/5.6, ISO 800, 21x2 min exposures on Star Adventurer mount. Taken from IDA Dark Sky Park, Petrova gora, Croatia.
This is a reshoot of an image I had already done over a month ago. In the original, I had some optical aberrations due to improper spacing of my camera and coma corrector in my optical train, as well as fighting a mix of thin cloud which also caused me some guiding issues. This time, my optics were perfect, skies clear, and tracking was spot on!
Located at a distance of 5200 LY from Earth in the direction of the constellation Saggitarius, the Lagoon Nebula is one of the many star forming regions in that part of the sky. The giant stars within the nebula produce radiate trmendous amounts of UV radiation which ionizes the gas and causes it to glow. It's visible to the naked eye as a bright spot standing out of the Milky Way, but looks very distinct in binoculars.
- TECH DATA -
Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Mount: Celestron CGX
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Autoguider: Orion Mini Guide Scope + SSAG
60 x 2 min exposures
Stack: Astro Pixel Processor
Process: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC 2019
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, Ontario
Learning more about the stacking process...DeepSkyStacker: 40 mm, f/2.8, 4 min 12 sec, 42 frames, 12800 ISO
I just realized that I don't have to travel to Himalayas to capture Milkyway. Long planned shot finally executed.
This image is a 2 frame panoramic view of M24. M24 is a star cloud in the constellation Saggitarius, in the direction of the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. This region is approximately 600 light years across and to a depth of up to 16000 light years. It's the most dense concentration of stars that can be seen from Earth with the highest concentration of individual stars of all types with some scattered dark, emission and reflection nebulae. This image contains a mind-bending 42000+ stars!
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: Baader UV/IR
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
70 x mins (210 mins total) exposures / panorama frame
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Lennox and Addington County Dark Sky Viewing Area
Many Australian Aboriginal groups recognise a celestial emu based on the arrangement of dark areas within the Milky Way. The Emu is becoming prominent in southern hemisphere skies now (April/May), stretching from its head (the Coal Sack Nebula in the Southern Cross, all the way along the Milky Way to Scorpio and Saggitarius. Some Aboriginal groups took this to be a female emu chasing males to mate - a sign from the night sky that the season for gathering emu eggs had arrived.(aboriginalastronomy.blogspot.com.au/). The extra bright orange spot in Scorpio is Mars.
Canon 5DSR Sigma 500 f4
1/400 f4 ISO 640
Scatto dalla jeep con appoggio crop, mattina alle 8
Tarangire National Park.
Here is the end of "Anywhere Is" first adventure. Fasten seatbelts, we are preparing to touch down.
The pano was not intended. Anything of what I have captured during those 45 minutes under dark Canary skies 2200 meters above sea level was not planned.
During the processing I have noticed that all three segments of Milky Way have some degree of overlap. So the it was tempting to try and stich them. I'm happy with this attempt. Obviously I need yet another panel to cover the area between Cygnus and Saggitarius.
Aquisition and processing: see here and here.
Pano stiching was made in Photoshop. I have used gradient visibility masks to avoid "magnetic catastrophes" :) in the areas affected by lens distortion.
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