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First successful attempt of catching milkiway using crop sensor and kit lens. Been trying for it since 2017 and never thought I would catch milki on my camera just sitting on my roof.
Undoubtedly air pollution and light pollution have been reduced by a tremendous level because of the pandemic. Will keep trying for better milkiway photographs in the upcoming days!
600sec in total (20 shots of 30seconds exposure each)
18mm
F/3.5
ISO200
Color correction in Lightroom
Stacked by Sequator.
Device: Canon EOS 700D and 18-135mm.
The iconic curves at Rowena Crest, Oregon lit up by passing cars as the milky way paints the night sky.
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NikonUSA D750
Tokinausa 16-28mm F 2.8
3Leggedthing Albert Equinox Tripod
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Exposure(s)
Milky Way and Hillside: ISO 8000, F2.8, 15s, 16mm x 17 stacked for noise reduction in Sequator
Light trails: ISO 1250, F9, 30s, 16mm x 4
There are actually 3 galaxies in this picture. M31 is the Andromeda galaxy, as well as M32 and M110.
Canon 6D using a 75-300mm lens @ 300mm
51 images @ 75 Seconds, Stacked using Sequator
Hoya Intensifier / Light Pollution Reducer
iOptron SkyGuider Pro
Processed in Photoshop
#ioptronskyguiderpro #canon6D #astrophotography #astroeverywhere #messier31
Nikon D850 - AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
12 frames of the sky stacked in Sequator to remove noise
F/2.8
10sec
ISO 3200
8 frames of light paint added using the "Lighten" layer blending mode in Photoshop
F/5
10sec
ISO 500
Poulnabrone Portal Tomb The Burren Co Clare with the milky way overhead. 15 pictures stacked with Sequator 156. Darkened around the base of the tomb to hide horrible rope cordon
Per al cel 11 fotos de 6 segons, f/2,5, 800 ISO apilades amb Sequator. La masia, 20 segons, f/4,5, 800 ISO.
For the sky 11 photos of 6 seconds, f / 2.5, 800 ISO stacked with Sequator. The farmhouse, 20 seconds, f / 4.5, 800 ISO.
Few things excite me more than capturing the universe above sites where ancient civilizations once gazed up at the same night sky. This photo was taken at the ruins of a Byzantine church in Ancient Nitzana (Nessana), deep in the Negev desert of Israel. Standing among these weathered columns, surrounded by centuries of history and silence, is a surreal experience—especially under the glow of the Milky Way. 🌠
To create this image, I combined 121 exposures, each 15 seconds long, stacking them in Sequator to bring out both the majestic Milky Way and the delicate details of the ancient ruins. My camera setup was a Sony Alpha 6400 (unmodified for astrophotography) paired with the Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C ultra-wide-angle prime lens—a compact but powerful kit. Despite not using any specialized astro-modifications, I was amazed at the clarity and depth I could achieve, especially in a place with such minimal light pollution. ✨
The final touches were made in Photoshop ️, balancing the warm, earthy tones of the columns with the cool, infinite expanse of the night sky. Ancient Nitzana was once a vital stop on the Incense Route, bustling with traders, pilgrims, and monks. Now, it’s mostly ruins and desert wind, but under the stars, the site feels alive—almost as if time folds, letting past and present meet for a brief, magical moment. ⏳
Nights like this remind me why I love astrophotography: it’s not just about capturing stars, but about connecting with history, geography, and something much larger than ourselves. This image is a tribute both to the people who built this church centuries ago, and to the wonder of the universe that continues to inspire us all. ✨🌍
Gear & Process:
📷 Sony Alpha 6400 (unmodified)
🔭 Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C Ultra-wide-angle Prime Lens
🌌 121 images × 15 sec each, stacked in Sequator
️ Edited in Photoshop
If you ever get the chance to stand among ancient ruins under a sky like this, don’t miss it. The silence, the stars, and the stones together are unforgettable. 🌙
Gesamtaufnahmedauer 20 x 32 Sec
Nachführung: nano.tracker
Lumix G81 mit Sigma 400mm f5.6
Sequator, Lightroom, Bortle:Class5
I shot neowise in a park of Munich since there was bad weather the days before and after, having not much time.
This picture is a stack of 9 shots of 15s and of 3 darks which was done by Sequator.
When I tried to find Neowise it was so faint in the city sky, that I was not able to see it with the naked eye.
At the moment Neowise is located in ursus major..
Its official name is C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) . Neowise is the near earth object project of the WISE space telescope, which did find some more comets.
Isle of Palms beach in South Carolina. Very windy and hazy night. This is a composite of 10 shots for the sky and foreground. Stacked for the sky in Sequator, and then separately again in Photoshop for the foreground. The resulting two images were then blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
10 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 4000)
Foreground:
5 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 4000)
It was quite a treat to travel to the Davis Mountains and catch a glimpse of the Milky Way's core. My son and I set our equipment beneath the Sawtooth Mountains (a feature in the the Davis Mountain range) and enjoyed the Class 1 Bortle sky. (The meteorite's trail was a bonus!) This image is an eight shot stack (15 sec. per shot) imported into Sequator.
Thanks so much for your visits and comments.
Saint John's of Trogir chapel at Punta Planka peninsula
Shot with Nikon d750 and Tamron 15-30 mm lens, stacked in Sequator
And finally clear sky...
11 vertical shots, stiched in LR, processed in Sequator, LR and PS.
Shot with Nikon d750 and Tamron 15-30 lens.
Juniper Point, Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, BC, Canada.
23 sky images were stacked in Sequator 1.5.5, each was taken with Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art, f1.4, 15s, iso-500. And then stacked in Photoshop with the forground image (f4，122s, iso-400).
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This is the north part of Milky Way. Taken from a pond near Pitt Lake, Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada.
48 sky images were stacked in Sequator 1.5.6, each was taken with Rokinon 14mm f/2.8, f2.8, 36s, iso-2000. And then stacked in Photoshop with a forground HDR image, which is a smart object stacked from 21 images (same images as the sky images).
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Dopo tanti anni ho avuto la possibilità di rivedere una cometa visibile chiaramente ad occhio nudo.
Anche se pubblicizzata come la cometa del secolo (ricordo che ancora mancano 76 anni al 2100) i giorni propizi per osservarla non sono stati poi tanti; inoltre la sua luminosità è stata disturbata dalla Luna piena. Comunque è stata una bella esperienza e poterla osservare ad occhio nudo è stato molto emozionante. Sono riuscito a fotografarla soltanto per 2 sere mentre dopo le condizioni meteo non lo hanno più permesso.
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After many years I had the chance to see a comet clearly visible to the naked eye.
Even though it was advertised as the "comet of the century" (I remember that there are still 76 years to go until 2100) the favorable days to observe it were not that many; furthermore its brightness was disturbed by the full Moon. However it was a beautiful experience and being able to observe it with the naked eye was very exciting. I managed to photograph it only for 2 evenings while after that the weather conditions did not allow it anymore.
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Lens: Yashica ML 50mmf/2 @ f/4
Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) mod. Baader BCF
Mount: tripod
24x7s 1600iso /15dark
date 13/10/2014
Location: Etna (Sicily) – Piano Vetore – 1750 m. s.l.m.
Processing: Sequator 1.6 + PS.
Published as the front cover image for Exmoor National Park's Dark Skies Festival Brochure 2023 and poster image.
About the location: This image is of an engine house for a Cornish pumping engine at Burrow Farm on Exmoor. It is the last remaining example of a 'Cornish' type engine house in Somerset. Burrow Farm Mine was one of a number of mines built in the Brendon Hills iron field, and first sunk about 1860. The engine house was probably built in 1880 and housed a rotary beam engine serving the dual purpose of pumping and winding. A short branch railway joined it to the West Somerset Mineral Railway. The engine house was only operational for a short time as the mine finally closed in 1883.
About the image: This is a blended image of separate photos taken of the foreground and sky using an astro modified Sony A7IV. The foreground photo was taken with a 24mm lens at f/4.0 ISO640 for 3'26". Two Z96 LED lights were used for illumination - one inside the engine house with the other used for 15" to light paint the front while the long exposure photo was being taken. 20 x 2' photos of the sky were taken with a 35mm lens at f/2.8 ISO800 mounted on an Ioptron Sky Guider Pro star tracker. The 20 sky photos were then stacked in Sequator to create a single image of the sky. The sky and foreground images were then blended in PS with final adjustments in LR and Topaz.
Six stack image of the LMC above a treeline just outside of Dowerin, a small town 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. Taken with a Samyang 85mm f/1.4 lens on an iOptron SkyTracker mount. Stacked in Sequator, 5 shots tracked, one untracked for the foreground.
Trying the new Sony 16-25mm f2.8 G for astrophotography, looks promising ! Only the vignetting is not very good, I hope that a proper profile will fix it soon.
This is a blending of 2 images:
- Ground and moon taken at late blue hour with a smaller aperture to get more DOF
- Night sky taken in the midle of the night. Several pictures were averaged in sequator to lower the noise leading to an equivalent 195 seconds of exposure. Unfortunately, the moon was still in the sky (but not where we see it in the shot), not allowing the milky-way to show more...
An early experiment in astrophotography from July 5th 2019 back when I was where there was a Milky Way you could see by just going outside and looking south. (In LA, you're lucky to get a clear shot of a full moon) This was a stack of 32 images, 26 10-sec exposures at ISO 6400 with my Rokinon f1.4 24 mm AS IF UMC and 6 noise reduction images. I used some astro software (Sequator) to re-align the stars and calculate the noise reduction. I then post processed the resulting TIF in Capture One. I just revisited that edit and tuned it up (or down) a bit. Anyhow, I was sort of happy with it as a first go and thought I'd share.
The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum-Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764 Its name means 'three-lobe'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (a relatively dense, red-yellow portion), a reflection nebula (the mainly NNE blue portion), and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' in the former that cause the trifurcated appearance also designated Barnard 85) Shot with Canon 60D on a SW Quattro 250 /f4 on a SW NEQ6 Pro. 7 x 30 sec frames and 5 x 55sec frames blended together in Sequator.
The arch is known as the Queen's Shoe, Zapato de La Reina.
Canon EOS 7D and Samyang 24mm f/1.4 lens. 5 x 13-second exposures at f/2 and ISO 6400, stacked in Sequator software; curves and colour balance adjusted in Paint Shop Pro.
The weather has not cooperated this month, lots of clouds and wind so far. I saw a break and took the day off from work so I could take the short ride down to the Bodie Island Lighthouse for a quick Milky Way shoot. Conditions were pretty good, but I had a short window to photograph, the sun was just under the horizon and Venus was rising. I managed to take 15 sky shots in between the light flashing, but I could only use 12 due to a car in the parking lot with their foot on the brake. Red light is intrusive. Stacked the sky in Sequator and brought that together in photoshop with the foreground.
Camera: Nikon Z6 II
Lens: Viltrox AF 24mm f/1.8 Z
Sky:
12 x (24mm @ f/2.8, 10 sec, ISO 6400) (120 Seconds)
Foreground
4 x (24mm @ f/2.8, 20 sec, ISO 6400)
Only had a short time before all the clouds rolled in. 6 shots of the sky each at 20mm, 10 seconds, f/1.8, ISO 1250. Stacked in Sequator
This is a stack of 35 images of the night sky over Tannenkirch in the Elsass. It was stitched together with Sequator.
30 mm, f/2.2, 35 x 4 s, ISO 2500
Re-edited version of an earlier post.
10-exposure stack in Sequator, fire fly trail added back in Ps, and finalized in Lr.
Last night was the perfect night for Milkyway. The crisp, clear skies at 3:00 am made for an awesome Milkyway visual.
Image Details:
16 RAW files Stacked in Sequator
3 Dark RAW files to reduce hot pixels
ISO 4000
F-2.8
5 sec
Sigma 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art Lens
Edited the TIF Output file from Sequator in Lightroom
Finished edit in Paintshop Pro
Reprocessed in PixInsight using original stack from Seqautor. Finished in PS/LR
114 lights @ 45 seconds f5.6
40 darks
20 flats
Nikon D5300
Nikon 300mm AF-S f4 @ f5.6 ISO 400
Skies: Bortle 5
Temp 23f
Humidity: 50%
Mount: CG5 with belt upgrade and OnStep GOTO
No guiding, no polar scope (DSLR method)
Stacked in Sequator
PP in PS/LR
Nice thing about data is that is does not go bad so I will revisit this when I get PixInsight back
Pretty happy with this, wanted more integration time but my mount lost its mind doing a meridian flip, think my motor are under powered. Have some fixes on the way.
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 55-200mm (200mm)
EXIF: f/5.6 ISO800
11x6s (66s)
2xdarks
Tracked: MSM
Stacked/apilado: Sequator
Edited/editado: Lightroom
Santa Perpètua de Gaià, Catalunya, España
Happy Valentine's day 👫✨
Initialement je ne comptais pas poster, puis je suis retombé sur cette photo prise au Lac de Settons l'été dernier
Nikon D7500 astrodon + Tokina 11-20 f2.8
20mm / f2.8 / ISO1600
Few 30s tracked and stacked shots for the sky - one 30s untracked for the ground. Processed with Sequator and PS.
This is a recreation of another shot I took in the same place, but this time I wanted to see how much I could improve it with stacking.
Canon 80D + Tokina 11-16 f2.8
f2.8, 11mm, ISO 3200, Six 20" exposures
Foreground stacked in Sequator
Sky stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Composited and edited in Lightroom and Photoshop
5 x 15-second exposures with a Canon EOS 5D MkIII and Samyang 24mm at f/2 and ISO 6400; Frames stacked in Sequator and post-processed in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
Nikon D5300
Sigma 10-20mm (10mm)
Sky/cielo:
EXIF: f/4 ISO800
42x25s (17.5min)
10xdarks
Ground/suelo:
EXIF: f/4 ISO500
1x300s (5min)
Tracked: MSM
Stacked/apilado: Sequator
Edited/editado: Photoshop + Lightroom
Original WB/balance de blacos original
La Musara, Catalunya, España
Milky way near Krbava field, Lika county, Croatia
Shot with Nikon d750 and Tamron 15-30 2.8 lens, stacked in Sequator
The Milkyway galactic core rising on a crisp Winter night over the stunning Scenic Rim Region, SE Qld Australia.
This is the north part of Milky Way. Taken from Pitt Lake, Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada. The mountain on the right hand side is Golden Ears Mountain. You can see two
meteors and Andromeda Galaxy from this image.
75 sky images were stacked in Sequator 1.5.6, each was taken with Rokinon 14mm f/2.8, f2.8, 36s, iso-2500. And then stacked in Photoshop with a forground HDR image, which is a smart object stacked from 21 images (same images as the sky images).
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Light from the hamlet of Polkerris can be seen beyond the headland at left; the fishing village of Mevagissey is in the distance at right.
7 x 25-sec ISO 3200 exposures with a Canon EOS 5D MkIII and Samyang 14mm f/2.8 lens at f/4, stacked in Sequator software.
Another reworking of the Great Orion and Running Man Nebulas. I am getting better at post! This time I used the OrionX photoshop extension to bring out the gas clouds that were missing in a previous post. I really like this one. Taken with the Nikon D850 and Nikkor 500mm pf lens on a modified Celestron alt-azimuth tripod with an iOptron Sky Guider Pro and green laser finder. 10 30 second frames with 5 dark frames and stacked in Sequator. Processed in Photoshop, On1 PhotoRaw and OrionX. I think it came out great!