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This was taken Friday evening with a 10mm wide angle lens. Taken about a mile from home next to the beach and a small lagoon on the beach at Pagham. This part of the South Coast of England is far from ideal for taking the Milky Way. Pagham Harbour is a nature reserve a mile from home and a small gap in the coastal sprawl of light pollution. Light glow from Bognor Regis is just a few miles to the east behind me while to the West and straight ahead in the picture is the town of Selsey on the far side of the harbour The Milky Way is the brightest central part of our Galaxy. The best parts can only be seen in the summer because the sun is in that area in the winter. The best times are April through to September. The bright star bottom centre reflected in the Lagoon is the Planet Jupiter.
I checked on suitable settings for the image. I used my widest aperture of f4, 30 seconds and ISO of 1600. The moon had set earlier at 20.22 and this was about 9.40 making for a dark sky. The foreground was lit by surrounding skyglow from light pollution. For this shot I used a stack of 10 shots combined in a free program called Sequator. With a normal stacking program the movement of the stars from the earth rotatating would create star trails. With this one the stacking is based on the stars keeping them stationary and automatically using one image for the foreground. I used a remote trigger device. .I used a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens at 10m. Taken with a Tripod looking SW towards the Harbour Mouth
A lot of steps were taken in the processing to bring out the milky way starting with Raw adjustments. This was followed by Topaz DeNoise which removed quite a large amount of Noise. Then Topaz Clarity to bring up more detail. I used various Brightness contrast adjustment layers with masks to brighten and darken various parts of the image including brightening the Milky Way and foreground.
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Taken from a high camp (4,950m) in the remote Mukot Khola valley on the way from Dolpo to Mustang through Mu La pass, Nepal.
The night was incredibly dark, the closest village of Mukot being one day of walk away and without electricity.
16 frames with astrotracer for the sky stacked with Sequator, 9 frames without astrotracer for the ground stacked with Sirl (30 sec. each at ISO 500, 24mm f/2.8)
Milky Way over Phillips Lake, Dedham, Maine.
10-image stack in Sequator. Processed in Lightroom, Cleaned up in Topaz DeNoise AI, then finalized in Lightroom.
Ubicación:
El Pozo de los Frailes, San José-Níjar , Almería
Datos de captura y procesado:
Suelo:
D810 + AFS Nikkor 50 f-1.8 G
3" a f-5.6
iso-400
Cielo:
D810 + Samyang 20 f-1.8 ED AS UMC sobre iOptron Skyguider Pro
6X133" a f-1.8
iso-1000
Apilado de tomas del cielo con Sequator 1.60
Procesado con Capture One 21
Blending con Photoshop 21.0.3
Milky Way over the west end of Chang Himal (Wedge Peak) from Lhonak; Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, eastern Nepal.
10-image stack in Sequator, finished in Lightroom.
This is one of the telescope domes at Pine Mountain Observatory in Central Oregon. The dome and building were illuminated by red lights that line the observatory's walkways.
This is a stack of 11 15s exposures at 20mm, f/2.8, ISO 6400, combined in Sequator. The foreground was not shot separately.
As the Milky Way season progresses, I just had to return to a favorite place on a new moon. The core is nearly vertical this time of year!
St. John Catholic Church, Bomarton, Baylor County, Texas
Canon 6D MkII
Rokinon 14mm prime @f/2.8
50 light/25 dark images @90-sec stacked in Sequator
Star Adventurer Pro 2i
At 10k feet in the Rocky Mountain National Park the skies open up for this months opportunity for the Milkyway.
I was high on Trail Ridge Road last night @ 10 pm to capture this . It was a bit difficult because the winds we gusting 50 -60 miles per hour. I had to use my truck to block the winds and it was cold @ 30 degrees.
Exposure:
F-2.8 / ISO 6400 / 5 sec
16 images and 1 Dark Frame stacked in Sequator
Edited in Lightroom
Taking a shot with the milky way lining up perfectly over Cannon Beach has been a shot I have been after for the last few years. Being only a few days after the recent Perseid Meteor shower I managed to see a lot of shooting stars above me that night and I happened to capture some while waiting for the milky way to move into place. I had the pleasure of shooting with my buddy John, Lester Tsai Photography, and Melissa that night🌌
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Nikon D850
Tamron 45mm F1.8
Really Right Stuff TVC24L
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9 images stacked in Sequator with edits in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop where I blended in 5 more frames for shooting stars
ISO 6400, F1.8 5s
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Dank an Henning für die Feuerwehr.
Nikon Z5 full spectrum converted - 71 seconds @ ISO 200 & f5,6 for the fire eingine - 8 x 13 seconds @ ISO 1600 & f1,8 for the stars
Post processing: Sequator - Darktable - Gimp
I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally share this image—one of my favorite night sky shots ever, taken in the magical landscape of Timna Park. This isn’t just a single click: it’s 20 stacked exposures, each 15 seconds long, carefully aligned and blended to reveal every detail of the Milky Way stretching above the desert. The process was as much an adventure as the night itself.
Timna Park’s unique geology made the perfect foreground—this weathered, ancient boulder looking like it’s been waiting for a thousand years just to sit under the stars. The glow on the horizon? That’s the persistent light pollution from the Arava valley and a subtle touch from Jordan on the other side. Despite it, the sky here is a window to the universe.
Gear Talk:
I used my trusty (and non-modified!) Sony Alpha 6400 with the Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C Ultra-wide-angle Prime lens. The lens lets you scoop up so much sky, and the clarity surprised me even without any astro-mods.
Editing Journey:
The workflow was a labor of love—stacking the images with Sequator, pulling out delicate star details with PixInsight, and finishing everything in Lightroom for those final touches. Hours of work, but seeing the Milky Way pop out, with that wild desert landscape below, made it 100% worth it.
A little astronomy bonus:
If you look carefully, you’ll spot a faint cone of light rising from the horizon, aiming toward the Milky Way. That’s likely zodiacal light—sunlight reflecting off dust particles in our solar system. It’s a rare sight, and Timna’s dark skies made it possible to capture it.
No AI, no fakes—just patience, gear, software, and pure fascination with our universe. I hope you feel the same wonder I did under those ancient stars.
Taken in Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In the air there was some smog from interior forest fires.
Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 @f/2.8, 24mm, 20s, iso-640. Three images stacked in Sequator 1.6.0.
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* Location - Near Edna, Texas USA
* Gear - Canon EOS R EF16-35mm f/2.8L III USM @20mm
* Sky - 271 13second, f/3.5, ISO800 images combined in Sequator that represents 1 hour of the Earths rotation when looking towards the Northern Star Polaris.
* Foreground - 10 10second, f/5.0, ISO640 images lit using a flashlight and LED panel then layered in Photoshop with trail
Ich habe es etwas unterschätzt, wie viel es doch ausmacht, wenn die Nächte so kurz sind. Selbst zur dunkelsten Stunde ist der Himmel nicht tief schwarz, sondern strahlt noch dunkelblau.
Dazu kommt noch, dass die Lichtverschmutzung im Vergleich zu 2016 deutlich zugenommen hat. (Im unbearbeiteten Bild leuchtet 1/3 des Himmels orange!) Dennoch kann man Jupiter und Saturn ganz gut erkennen.
Panorama (ca. 180° Bildwinkel), bestehend aus 48 Einzelbildern: 8 Spalten je 6 Bilder, gestackt mit Sequator, Panorama mit Microsoft ICE
This photo is an experiment, I exported the same photo 11 times as a tif file and stuck in Sequator. Then I did some work in LR.
Once again I set up my camera's intervalometer and walked away. Approximately 260 (30 second) exposures.
Merging the star-trail exposure with the lighter foreground exposure is not coming easy to me. I'm masking out the sky using Lumenzia but I think I am missing a step. I would like to bring some green in the tops of those trees. I'll figure it out.
These are fun.
Hay bales under a star trail. 200 13 second star images stacked with Sequator, blended in Photo Shop with 6 light painted hay bale images
Constelación de Casiopea y diversos objetos de dicha zona, tales como NGC 7789, conocida como Rosa de Caroline (arriba a la derecha), el objeto NGC 281 conocido como Nebulosa Pacman, Messier 103 o NGC 457.
Para realizar la fotografía se tomaron 50 fotografías sin guiado con un tripode de 8 segundos de obturación a ISO 1600 con un objetivo Nikon 50mm f/1.8 a f/2.8 y 30 darks con la misma configuración, se procesaron en Sequator y más tarde en Pixinsight.
30 x 3 minute shots put together in sequator and edited in lightroom. The mountain was lit by a 30% moon at about 45 degrees off the western horizon.
Star Trail and Light painted foreground
258 - 13sec, f/4, ISO800, 24mm images for the star trail
5 - 13sec, f/5.6, ISO650, 24mm images for the foreground
Star Trail created in Sequator
Blended with light painted images in Photoshop
Millefonts lake / Lacs des Millefonts, Alpes Maritimes
Testing the new Sony 16-25mm f2.8 G, sharp!
Blending of 2 shots:
- Foreground at blue hour: 30s, f8, iso 100
- Sky at night: averaging of 64 shots of 15s, f2.8, iso 3200 using Sequator.
Foreground and sky merged in Photoshop
Single press of the shutter release, several adjacent images moderately post-processed (about a minute to capture and a couple of minutes to adjust). Done.
No compositing/time-shifting.
No tracking mount.
No noise images, no long exposure foreground images.
No special lighting, or added light.
No new camera or back-lit sensor.
No multiple focal lengths, no focus stacking.
No Photoshop, no layers, no sky or foreground substitution (just Lightroom and a shareware app or two).
Night photography doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming, or involve special gear beyond camera, lens, tripod. Many cameras produced in the last 13 years and probably all in the last 4-8 years can capture shots like this. I've re-processed images and produced great results from my 2009 Canon 5D Mark II and crop sensor 70D.
The Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, and the star Canopus over the Botswana side of the Chobe River.
2 Frame Pano. Each frame is 15, 6-sec exposures, pre-processed in Lr, stacked in Sequator, the stacked images were blended in Ps, then finished in Lr.
Pangolin Photo Safaris
Prise dans la nuit du 20 au 21 Juin. Avec Canon 1300D défiltré partiel et l'objectif de série 18-55.
10 Photos empilées avec Sequator et traitement final avec Lightroom.
Taken from Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
14 sky images were stacked in Sequator 1.6.0, each was taken with Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8, 24mm, f2.8, 14s, iso-1000. And then stacked in Photoshop with a forground image (f4, 135s, iso-400).
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Big Sky Edit of Minnamurra headland to Stack Island. 31 frames and a bit of processing in this one :-)
Nikon D610
Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4
Sky. 35mm. ISO 500. 60sec. f/4 x 10
MSM. Sequator.
Ground. 17mm. ISO 1000. 60sec. f/5.6
Selfie. 17mm. ISO 3200. 8sec. f/5.6
Bortle class: 6.
Lr + Ps
The Milky Way rises behind Joshua trees in the California desert. Joshua trees are an indicator species for the Mojave Desert ecosystem, stretching from Southern California into Nevada, Arizona and Utah.
The area with the most and largest Joshua trees is Joshua Tree National Park, but there are Joshua tree forests in Mojave National Preserve and Death Valley National Park as well.
Each of the two species of Joshua tree has its own unique species of Yucca moth. Neither the tree nor the moth can survive without the other. Artificial light contributes to the insect decline that many scientists have dubbed the "insect apocalypse." As the relationship between yucca moths and Joshua tree illustrates, the decline of many insects we may not be particularly aware of will have a serious cascading affect on many larger species that we weren't aware were in danger. As the trees go, bird, rodents and many other species will be impacted as the web of life in the Mojave ecosystem unravels. Light pollution isn't the moth's only threat, but we should do what we can to reduce the odds of ecosystem collapse.
Update May 2020: I replaced the original singe exposure with the result of 20 images stacked.
Single press of the shutter release, several adjacent images moderately post-processed (about 10 minutes from a time-lapse sequence).
No compositing/time-shifting.
No tracking mount.
No noise images, no long exposure foreground images.
No special lighting, or added light.
No new camera or back-lit sensor.
No multiple focal lengths, no focus stacking.
No Photoshop, no layers, no sky or foreground substitution (just Lightroom and a shareware app or two).
Night photography doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming, or involve special gear beyond camera, lens, tripod. Many cameras produced in the last 13 years and probably all in the last 4-8 years can capture shots like this. I've re-processed images and produced great results from my 2009 Canon 5D Mark II and crop sensor 70D. Join our workshops to find out how!
We'll be returning to shoot historic Central Nevada after accessing Bodie, in our second June workshop June 10-15.
Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, BC, Canada.
19 sky images were stacked in Sequator 1.6.0, each was taken with 21mm, f2.8, 20s, iso-1000. And then stacked in Photoshop with the forground image (f5.6, 183s, iso-500).
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Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
15 images taken by Rokinon 14mm f2.8 @f2.8, 36s, iso-800.
The sky was stacked in Sequator, and the forground landscape was stacked in Photoshop.
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7 x 10-sec exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 12800; Canon EOS 5D MkIII and Leica Summicron 50mm f/2 lens; frames stacked in Sequator software; curves and colour balance adjusted and noise reduced in Cyberlink PhotoDirector.
The site of an old horse racing course on the outskirts of Oswestry. The skies to the west are dark enough for the Winter Milky Way to be visible, even with the bright lights of the town just behind to the east. Image made with 8x 20 second exposures stacked in Sequator
Hallo zusammen
ich war wieder mal in der Nacht draussen um die Milchstrasse aufzunehmen. Gleichzeitig habe ich noch einen Timelapse gemacht. Meine Idee ist, ich bin hier noch nicht fertig, unser Dorf mit der Milchstrasse aufzunehmen, obwohl wir eine recht grosse Lichtverschmutzung bei uns haben (Region südlich von Basel).
Nun ist es so, das in unserem Dorf um 0030 Uhr die Strassenbeleuchtung ausgemacht wird und wir somit bei uns wieder etwas Nacht haben.
Für dieses Bild habe ich 16 NEF mit Sequator gestackt und dann in DxO bearbeitet. Jedes Bild wurde bei ISO 1600, f 1.8 und 13 sek belichtet.
Hoffe das Bild gefällt euch.
Gruss Martin
Star trail composed of 299 15 second images stacked with Sequator
Foreground composed of 12 light painted images blended along with the star trail images in PhotoShop
Once the Milky Way had moved from it's position behind the lighthouse I turned my attention to the cross we had been stood next to all night. We had taken up residence here to shelter from the wind but it would have been rude not to get a shot of it.
This is about 10 shots for the sky and 4 dark frames run through Sequator and then Lightroom.
Made a trip to Lake Mattamuskeet to take advantage of a clear dark night. Foreground: 5 photos with a little light painting, stacked and blended in photoshop. Sky: 15 photos stacked in Sequator. Final image blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Foreground:
5 x (25mm @ f/5.6, 180 sec, ISO 500)
Sky:
15 x (25mm @ f/4.5, 13 sec, ISO 6400)
The Moon was between Venus and Mars the day before, but moved closer to Mars on this next night
I photographed the moon above this massive fireplace chimney, Mars is below and to the right of the chimney.
(A permit is required to photograph this abandoned military base, so I won't be promoting its identity / location.)