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"The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, M 27, or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light-years."
Sony A7S
Tamron 150-600
EQ2 motorised
600mm
F6.3
3.2s
ISO 12800
120 photos stacked with SEQUATOR v1.1a
Center crop of the photo
(M27SEQ-1600-Full)
"Sweetness follows"
A farm paddock gets transformed into the Milky Way Emu stretching out above an old Jarrah tree as night falls.
The 3rd, and final pic from the weekend....did I mention I hate tracking/stacking and editing together with trees?
Canon M50 (sky)
Gopro hero 9 (foreground)
Stacked in Sequator, edited in GIMP.
Morangup, Western Australia
When I was driving home in october, I saw the Pleiades rising just above the hill near to my home village Magyaregres in Hungary. I had an idea to take a picture with the Pleiades and myself on top of the hill, so I started a timelapse with one of my camera, and walk to the top of the hill with the other, and with the tripod. I waited a few minutes there and hoped that everything is in frame that I wanted (me and the Pleiades), and there are a few pictures where I stand still without any motion blur.
When a I went back and checked, I find a few nice pictures, so I went home, set up the gear and the tracker in the garden and make more light frames for the original picture. After a half-hour clouds come, so I had to stop. In the next weeks and months there wasn't any really clear sky here, so I didn't have any chance to collect light but I tried, of course without any success. In the middle of december there were a few clear nights so I collected totally more than 6 hours for the integration, did the the post processing after Christmas and this is the result. I don't really satisfied with the post processing but generally I think it's not bad. It shows everything that I wanted to show: a tiny human with his gear, and the huge universe above, that looks dark and almost empty, but his camera can show that, It isn't dark, nor empty.
EXIF: Fujifilm X-A5 astro mod, Fujifilm 90mm F2, Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Sky: ISO400, F/2, 2 min (20.620 sec of integration totally)
Foreground: ISO3200, F2, 5 sec
Softwares: Sequator, Starnet++, Lightroom, Photoshop
Mt. Hood with the core of the milky way rising behind it. If I can't currently go out and make new memories in nature I'll enjoy reminiscing the times I was able to in the past :)
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Nikon D850
Tamron 45mm F1.8
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Exposure(s): Land and Mt. Hood: 8 shot vertical panorama ISO 400, F9, 30s
Sky: ISO 6400, F2, 6s (9 stacked for noise)
Blue Hour Blend, Mirrored Lake Reflection made in post. Lineup of the milky way and Mt. Hood is true to the night I shot it.
Processed in Sequator, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
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The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, and NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula (nebulosity surrounding a white dwarf) in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1360 light-years . 15 x 55 sec subs stacked in Sequator, no cal frames . Canon 60d with Svbony UHC CLIP FILTER on a SKYWATCHER QUATTRO 250 f/4 scope and tracked with a SW NEQ6 PRO .
First attempt at hydrogen-alpha 12nm narrowband using an DIY astro-modified second-hand Canon 450D and the superb nifty-fifty lens for astro. Had to remove a number of frames due to northern lights flooding the light frames, and struggled to stack and stretch the files in PixInsight and DeepSkyStacker, producing a lot of noise and banding patterns. Sequator let through some hot pixels, but can live with that as the background noise was a lot lower than wiht PI and DSS. Final edit in Adobe Lightroom. The light frames were a sea of red though, so I wonder if longer exposures at lower ISO400 may be better? Read somewhere that ISO400 is the sweet spot for dynamic range versus gain on the 450D.
Canon EOS450D (low pass-filter 2/hot mirror removed)
Astronomik H-alpha clip-in filter
Canon 50mmf1.8@f4.0
Skywatcher Star Adventurer mini mount
Skywatcher 3/8 tripod
Stacked in Sequator: (Light 29x120sec, Dark 22x, Flat 19x, ISO800, f4.0)
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While out shooting the Perseids meteor shower, I set up a second camera to shoot this star trail. All total, 775 images. 10 second exposures with a 2 second interval. About 2.5 hours of the earths rotation. Stacked in Sequator to make the star trail. Shot with a Rokinon 14mm lens. f2.8. iSO 6400.
A view of the colorful region of Scorpius including the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex and the Blue Horsehead Nebula. Captured on 6/3/22 from Cherry Springs State Park in northern Pennsylvania. Shot with a Nikon D750 and Rokinon 135mm lens. 155 x 60" exposures at f/2 and ISO 3200. Processed with Rawtherapee, Sequator, RNC-Color-Stretch, and Photoshop.
Red spider lilies lit up by the moon light and the star trails in the northern sky. Blooming red spider lilies, or Higan-bana (literally、 Autumnal Equinox flower) is a sign of arrival of autumn. It's just a seasonal common sense here in Japan.
25sec X 148 shots, processed w/ Sequator
The weather wasn’t the greatest on my West Virginia Fall Road Trip, but the skies did clear up for a few hours. I took advantage of the weather and took a ride up to the highest point in West Virginia, Spruce Knob. Luckily, I was all alone up there, unluckily, I forgot a piece of my Move Shoot Move star tracker. So, I took fifteen 13 second frames of the Milky Way, stacked them in Sequator and then blended that with a blue hour shot of the foreground.
Camera: Nikon Z6 II
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
15 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 6400)
Foreground
1 x (20mm @ f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO 1600)
My first Milky Way core photos of 2023, taken from a local beach at around 03:10 on Saturday morning.
5 x 10-sec exposures at f/2.5 and ISO 6400, taken with a Canon EOS 5 MkIII and Sigma 35mm f/1.4 lens on a static tripod. The frames were stacked in Sequator to reduce noise and then post-processed to increase contrast and improve colour balance.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens: Sky-Watcher 200/1000 mm Newton
Imaging camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6
Mounts:Onstep, Sky-Watcher EQ5
Guiding telescope or lens: Guidescope 50mm
Guiding camera: Zwo ASI120MC
Software: Pixinsight 1.8, Adobe Phosotshop CC, Astrophotography Tool, Sequator 1.5.2, PHD Guiding
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance
Dates: May 17, 2020, May 18, 2020
Frames:
39x300" ISO800
Optolong L-eNhance: 42x290" ISO1600
Integration: 6.6 hours
Darks: ~79
Locations: Home observatory, Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Data source: Backyard
Meu primeiro registro da pequena (em tamanho aparente/angular) Galáxia do Sombreiro. O processamento foi bastante trabalhoso. Preciso estudar melhores formas de captação/processamento para essa galáxia. Neste registro estão somados frames captados em dois dias consecutivos, totalizando 6 horas e 38 minutos de exposição empilhados. Aproximadamente metade dos frames foram realizados sem filtro e a outra metade com o filtro Optolong L-eNhance.
"A galáxia do Sombreiro (Messier 104, NGC 4594), é uma galáxia espiral com núcleo brilhante rodeado por um disco achatado de material escuro, que fica a 28 milhões de anos-luz de distância. Essa brilhante galáxia é conhecida como sombreiro devido a sua aparência característica que se assemelha a um chapéu. A galáxia possui uma magnitude aparente de +8,3". Fonte: Wikipedia.org
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) modificada, Filtro Optolong L-eNhance (em metade dos frames). Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 81 light frames (39x300" ISO 800 + L-eNhance: 42x290" ISO 1600), 79 dark frames. Processamento: Sequator, Photoshop e PixInsight.
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23 separate images were processed to create this image. I first struggled mightily with Photoshop (and have an article in the works), and then switched to a new tool: Sequator. Even after struggling with Sequator (which was easy to use), I found that I had to clone out items to remove artifacts. One of the items cloned out is a wind turbine with a light on it - that's what is casting the reflection in the water.
Don't look at it too closely!
By the way, you may notice that it says it's 184 seconds of exposure. That's true... if you sum up each of the separate images times.
Also, this is a vertorama with a single shot providing the lower 1/3 of the image.
After all that, the left hand side of this landscape just didn't look like it was worth keeping, so I made a nearly square crop out of it. It's processed more "heavily" than most of my Milky Way images just to see how far the "aligned stacking" paradigm could go.
Because of the crop, unfortunately Mars and Jupiter were cropped out (to the left and right respectively)... But Saturn is still there!
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I was here at Walkers Flat , South Australia, last night working out a location for a milky way shot. At about 7.30 there was a blaze of high powered floodlights , from a vessel, slowly coming upstream towards me. It turned out to be the 'Proud Mary', a river cruise boat. ( I think )
The cliffs and the trees along the river looked just fantastic all lit up this way. I took several shots of this as the vessel approached and blended them together later.
I then crossed over the river on the ferry and drove to Forster Lookout, a short distance upstream..
There , I shot the milky way shots, when it appeared at roughly this angle to the river
I took 1 x 120 sec and 2 x 90 second tracked shots and stacked them in Sequator.
This night was also be the peak of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower with reports ranging from 50 to 30 meteors per hour.
I was at this location from just before sunset until dawn.
It was clear all night and not very cold
I saw 1 meteorite.
Opposition is when a planet (further out in orbit than Earth) is opposite us in its orbit around the sun.
So when the sun sets, a planet at opposition rises!. You can enjoy seeing Jupiter all night, but it is easiest to spot low in the eastern sky in the evening and low in the western sky at sunrise.
Oppositions often occur when a planet is at its closest approach to Earth. During an opposition, a planet's full daylight faces side to us. So Jupiter really is brighter and (just a bit) bigger right now!
Jupiter at opposition is an astronomical event everyone can enjoy easily enjoy with their eyes, and if you have binoculars or a telescope, look for Jupiter's larger moons.
[ a7rIII | Canon FD 85mm f/1.2 L ]
5 x 2.5" for 12.5 seconds of exposure time.
1 dark frame
Stacked with Sequator
Milky way core rising over an old shearing shed, Callington, South Australia. This is about 05:20hrs on 10/2/25 in the last moments before the Milky way faded. A bit of light pollution from the lights of Murray Bridge behind the shed.
The sky is 6 shots at 6 seconds, ISO 6400, f/2.0, 20mm, stacked with Sequator and processed with RC Astro.
The foreground is 2 shots at 6 seconds, same settings but in these shots there is some light from streetlights and passing traffic.
The sky was blended in with Photoshop Sky replacement.
All photos taken from exactly the same position, but the sky portion shots were taken, at a higher angle, with just the top of the shed showing in the bottom of the frame.
All these shots are with Astro H Alpha modified camera. .
It is hard to know how far to push these type of photos.
I am never sure if they are overcooked or not.
While leading a recent workshop here we had a thin layer of fog that still partially revealed the stars, but when the light blinked it would light up all the fog, making it impossible to see the stars in an exposure that included the full intensity of the light. That by itself is a cool shot because you can see the light beams very clearly, but I have some shots like that and wanted to try something different, fuzzy stars with a darker lighthouse. In order to get this shot I took 6 second exposures between blinks. I took a whole bunch and tried to time them so that the light was just dimming as I started the exposure, so I could get a little bit of light in the tower.
Nikon Z 7 and FTZ lens adapter with NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens, 13 exposures @ 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 6400, 6 seconds for 13 exposures. The exposures were stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker (for Mac, but you an do this with Sequator on Windows) for pinpoint stars and low noise. A single 6 second shot would have been very noisy, but by stacking 13 shots at 6 seconds each, the result is essentially the same as capturing 13 * 6 = 78 seconds of light, but broken up so I could get both pinpoint stars and avoid the bright fog. I had more shots but too many of them had too much light drowning out the stars. Normally I would blend in a separate foreground shot taken at a lower ISO and much longer shutter speed to get detail (and low noise) in the foreground, but in this case I just let the tower remain dark for a different effect than what I’ve done before at this lighthouse.
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Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens: Sky-Watcher 200/1000 mm Newton
Imaging camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6
Mounts: Onstep, Sky-Watcher EQ5
Guiding telescope or lens: Guidescope 50mm
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Software: Pixinsight 1.8, Astrophotography Tool, Sequator 1.5.2, PHD Guiding
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance
Dates: May 27, 2020, May 28, 2020
Frames:
62x300" ISO800
Optolong L-eNhance: 42x300" ISO1600
Integration: 8.7 hours
Darks: ~80
Resolution: 2918x2067
Locations: Home observatory, Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Data source: Backyard
Meu primeiro registro da galáxia Centaurus A. No processamento dessa galáxia, utilizei muito o software PixInsight. Estou em fase inicial no aprendizado para o uso desse software, havendo ainda muito a aprender e a melhorar, inclusive para maior aproveitamento dos tempos totais de exposição realizados em cada alvo. No caso desse registro, os frames empilhados, captados em dois dias consecutivos, somam 8 horas e 40 minutos totais de exposição.
"Centaurus A é uma galáxia peculiar localizada na constelação Centaurus. É a quinta galáxia mais brilhante do céu noturno, a galáxia gigante mais próxima da Via Láctea e uma das rádio-galáxias mais próximas da Terra. Seu tipo exato é incerto, mas geralmente é classificada como uma galáxia elíptica gigante ou lenticular. A distância exata da galáxia à Terra também é incerta, mas as estimativas geralmente variam de 10 a 16 milhões de anos-luz". Fonte: constellation-guide.com
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) modificada, Filtro Optolong L-eNhance (em parte dos frames). Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 104 light frames (62x300" ISO 800 + L-eNhance: 42x300" ISO 1600), 80 dark frames. Processamento: Sequator e PixInsight.
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Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
26 sky images were stacked in Sequator 1.5.6, each was taken with Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art, f1.6, 15s, iso-640. And then stacked in Photoshop with a foreground image, which was taken at the same time but different exif (f4, 30s, iso-1250).
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Technical Card
Imaging telescope or lens: Sky-Watcher 200/1000 mm Newton
Imaging camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6
Mounts: Sky-Watcher EQ5, Onstep
Guiding telescope or lens: Guidescope 50mm
Guiding camera: Zwo ASI120MC
Software: Adobe Phosotshop CC, Astrophotography Tool, Sequator 1.5.2, PHD Guiding, PhotoScape
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance
Dates: April 24, 2020
Frames:
Optolong L-eNhance: 2x210" ISO800
Optolong L-eNhance: 15x300" ISO800
Integration: 1.4 hours
Darks: ~7
Flats: ~20
Resolution: 2601x1732
Locations: Home observatory, Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Data source: Backyard
Os frames foram captados na mesma noite em que registrei a Nebulosa da Lagoa, mas eu ainda não havia podido processá-los.
"A grande nebulosa de Carina (Eta Carinae) é catalogada como NGC 3372, que abrange cerca de três graus do céu a uma distância de 10 000 anos-luz, o que corresponde a um diâmetro de 300 anos-luz. Esta é a jóia do hemisfério sul, tornando-se uma das maiores regiões de formação estelar em nossa galáxia. É também a região HII (região de hidrogênio ionizado), o mais brilhante da Via Láctea". Fonte: astronoo.com
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) modificada, Filtro Optolong L-Enhance. Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 17 light frames (15x300" + 02x210"), 07 dark frames, 20 flat frames. ISO 800. Processamento: Sequator, Photoshop e PhotoScape.
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From our "Gobs of Ghost Towns" Bodie - Nevada (and Tioga Pass) workshop last week.
We're running very small groups of photographers this year. here we had sub-groups of 3 & 3.
Prise en Essonne au zoom, Canon 2000D avec filtre Astrodon monté sur Star Adventurer Mini. 33x 1 minute + darks et flats - Traitement Sequator puis Photoshop
View from Rawhead looking over Cheshire countryside towards Wrexham
28x 8 second exposures stacked in Sequator for noise reduction and edited in LR to make the constellation stand out a little more
Here on the South Plains of West Texas there are many of these old abandoned farm houses in varying states of decay. They happen to be one of my favorite subjects to shoot under the night sky and I've spent a lot of time tracking them down. Unfortunately, as flat as it is around here, lights on the horizon can been seen forever away. In most cases I prefer a cloudless night and a sky full of stars, but in this case, I think the wispy clouds add to the eeriness of the scene.
Shot with my Fuji X-H1 and Samyang 12mm f/2.0. (5) 15 second shots + (2) dark frames @ f/2.0, ISO 3200, 3800K WB. One LED panel used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop using a few Topaz plugins. (Shot April 9, 2019; finally catching up with editing.)
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This is from a private workshop that I was teaching the other night on the coast of Maine. I’ve tried verticals here before but this is the first one I’m really happy with. It’s probably hard to see on social media, but the smudgy blob thing in the upper left part of the sky is the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest neighbor galaxy to our own Milky Way. You can see it with the naked eye on a clear dark night. Fun fact, we are on a collision course with Andromeda, in a mere 4 billion years from now the two galaxies will become one. Leading up to that time, Andromeda will be absolutely huge in our night sky as it approaches. I only wish I could be alive to see that!
Nikon D5 with NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm. The sky is star stacked for pinpoint stars and low noise, made up of 14 shots at ISO 6400 for 10 seconds each (14 because I didn’t have my intervalometer out and was just firing away one by one manually while talking to my workshop student, so I only sort of counted). I always want at least 10 shots for the sky for star stacking. The sky shots were star stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac app, but you can do it in Sequator on Windows). The foreground is from a single ISO 1600 shot at f/4 and 4 minutes. This lighthouse blinks twice about every 8 seconds, which means it’s easy to get detail in the sky, if it was a constantly on light it would be a very different story!
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Leo Triplet
First time using guiding. Overall went well. Also first time using APT (AstroPhotography Tool imaging software). Also first time using SharpCap for polar alignment. That was super easy.
Not the best night, but was really trying out my new toys more than anything and Leo is heading west for the summer.
31 X120 seconds ISO 800
9 darks
no flats
Nikon D5300
AT65mm Quadruplet APO
OLD CG5 with Onstep and belt drives
Stacked in Sequator
Processed in Pixinsight
finishing touches in PS
Shot by camera Pentax K-70 with lens Pentax HD 55-300 mm F/4.0-5.8, in Astrotracer mode.
10 shots of 20 sec at f/5.8, 300 mm, ISO 2500, and 2 noise shots, stacked in Sequator.
Some wonderful clear dark skies along the Sussex Coast near the Cuckmere Haven. The imaged was stacked from 30 shots in Sequator with a 4min foreground exposure
Milky Way over the abandoned cottage in the fields I posted a few weeks ago. We're at the peak of the Perseids season, so I was lucky to see some too and even capture one during that night.
Can you spot the single meteor hitting the Milky Way? 😊
Some technical information for those interested in the making-of: Blend of two images (in PS):
- Foreground: 7mm, f/2.8, 125s, ISO 800.
- Sky: stack of 4 tracked images, 8mm, f/2.0, 120s, ISO 200.
For tracking I used MSM Nomad star tracker, for stacking the Windows free software Sequator.
40 picture tracked with Omegon Minitracker LX3 // 1min exposure per picture // Stacked with Sequator // Edit in LR/PS // no brush no radialmask // 5 darks
Sony Alpha 7iii // Tamron 17-28 at 17mm 2.8 // ISO 6400
Last night I was out looking for meteor pics, but I ended up photographing the Milky Way over our mountain cabin home.
14 shots 28mm, 10 sec, ISO 6400, F3.2 processed with Sequator star stacking software, then some photoshop tweaks.
I've been seeing this cat here for years. I can't believe that it has avoided the coyotes for so long.
This site requires a permit to photograph, perhaps because there is a working airport on the other side of this historic hangar. Liability insurance and a signed agreement are required.
We'll be returning to shoot historic Central Nevada after accessing Bodie, in our second June workshop June 10-15.
Shot whit Canon EOS 6D and Rokinon SP 14 MM f/2.8. 17 shots stacked whit Sequator and Adobe Lightroom
Première photo de voie lactée pour moi. Ainsi que premier test de d'assemblage et de traitement d'astrophoto.
Assemblage de 20 photos + 3 dark
Pré traitement Lightroom, assemblage Sequator, post traitement Photoshop.
Canon 50D + irix 15mm f2.5
trépied + rotule Manfrotto
20 photos 13s 2500 iso
The stunning stainless steel sun dial at Roadford Lake, West Devon was a wonderful dark location for capturing my first Milky Way Core of the year.
Sky stack of 8x images processed in Sequator. Samyang 14mm 10 sec @ f2.8 ISO6400
Foreground 30secs @ f4 ISO 3200.
Altough my telescope is not suitable for DeepSky due to its very dark aperture (Maksutov-Cassegrain), I did attempt to use the Skymax 102 on M42 (Orion Nebula) . :)
Despite its specifications, I'm proud to show you my most detailed picture I've ever taken of the nebula. :D
Gear:
- Canon 200D (stock)
- Sky-watcher Skymax 102
- Star Adventurer Pro
- Orion 50mm Deluxe Guide Scope
- ZWO ASI 120MC-S (Guidecam)
Software:
- PHD2 (guiding and Polar Alignment)
- Sequator
- Photoshop 2020
EXIF: 60s, f/12.74, ISO-1600, 1300mm FL
Stack of 50 Lights, 30 Darks and 30 Flats
On Wednesday night I recieved a message from my mate Danny asking if I fancied a 200 mile mission to a location I've never been before, Bamburgh, Northumberland. Without a second thought I told the missus (I asked her really 😂) and started getting all my gear together.
I arrived there around 10:30pm a few hours before Danny, the skies were cloudy but due to clear up and there was a possible chance of Lady Aurora making an appearance (which sadly didn't happen). I found my compassion next to another photographer Nick, who was already set up and waiting for the clouds to break.
The clouds disappeared after a short time and the sky was beautiful and clear.
I was really hoping to catch the Milkyway Core as it was rising but unfortunately it was rising behind Bamburgh Castle and the light pollution was just too bad.
This is a 35 image stack and pano of the MilkyWay arching over Bamburgh lighthouse.
Nikon D3300
Tokina 116 AT-X Pro F2.8 DX II
12mm / 25 sec / F2.8 / ISO 3200
Stacked in Sequator
Post processing and merged in Lightroom.
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 55-200mm (200mm)
EXIF: f/5.6 ISO2540
137x8s (18.3min)
23xdarks
Stacked/Apilado: Sequator
Edited/Editado: Lightroom
Sant Mateu de Bages, Catalunya, España
Long Mynd milky way
Magical night at the bog pools by Pole Cottage. I tried this image 2 years ago, but was never satisfied with it. The weather forecast had come together...clear skies and calm windless night to get those star reflections.
Nikon D750 / Tokina 16-28mm
ISO 6400 / 20 sec / f/2.8 / starglow filter
9 panels / 2 rows / 4 images each panel
stacked in sequator / stitched in PTGui
edited in Ps and Lr
The Milky Way rising up above Lake Henshaw in San Diego's "Backcountry".
Sky 12 images stacked in Sequator
ISO 3200, 24mm, f/1.4, 13 seconds exposure
Blended with one blue hour image of the foreground
ISO 1000, 24mm, f/2.0, 15 seconds
Sometimes even the most simple descriptive titles sound like a Dr. Seuss poem.
This shot is from mid-February during the very early part of the “superbloom” that is taking over many of the desert areas out west. Bluebonnets are a type of lupine. Compared to the lupines we have here in Maine and New Hampshire they are quite a bit smaller, but just as beautiful when they cover an otherwise barren desert. This was my first time seeing flowers in the desert, and it was quite a sight.
The Milky Way didn’t really get up above the hill here until just after astronomical twilight started before sunrise, so the sky is very blue from the scattered sunlight (like daytime) since it was not full darkness.
Nikon Z 6 with FTZ adapter and NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm. Blend of 12 total images. The sky is from 10 exposures at ISO 3200 @ f/2.8 and 10 seconds each, star stacked with Starry Landscape (Mac only) for pinpoint stars and low noise. On Windows you can use Sequator for star stacking with landscapes. Photoshop can do it but it’s a manual pain in the butt and doesn’t always work. The foreground is from 2 exposures, both at f/11 and 30 seconds, but one was at ISO 800 and the other was at ISO 100. I pulled in focus to get the very close bluebonnets in focus in one of the shots. The scene was getting bright quickly as the sun was approaching the horizon, and in the 6 minutes that passed between the foreground shots that I ended up using (I was taking another foreground shot in between and checking out previous shots, etc) there was enough light that I could do ISO 100 at 30 seconds instead of 800 at 30 seconds. I kept the foreground exposures to 30 seconds to minimize any movement in the flowers from the wind, but I was lucky and it was just about dead calm, which was almost eerie in a very dark place in the middle of nowhere without any noise other than my own movements.
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NGC 2170 o también llamada Nebulosa Ángel, se encuentra situada en la constelación de Monoceros a 2,700 años luz de distancia.
Es una nebulosa de reflexión rodeada de corrientes de gas interestelar ionizado, causante del tono rojizo perceptible en la parte superior de la imagen, así como de nebulosas de absorción y estrellas calientes.
Para capturar esta imagen se utilizaron filtros LRGB y una exposición total de 1h 20min:
2x600 Luminance
2x600 Red
2x600 Green
2x600 Blue
Registrado y apilado con Siril, procesado no lineal con PS.
Las líneas verticales son rastros de satélites que no pude eliminar del todo.
Hace un poco más de un año que inicié en el mundo de la astrofotografía y el procesado de datos con Telescope Live, estoy muy, muy feliz. Le he perdido el miedo a los parámetros manuales de las cámaras fotográficas, aprendí a utilizar diferentes herramientas para procesado de astrofoto como DSS, Sequator, Siril, FITS Liberator, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, también los maravillosos PS y LR.
Aprendí a reconocer las condiciones meteorológicas adecuadas para lograr una buena astrofotografía, a ubicar las constelaciones en el cielo y diferenciar ciertas regiones. A tomar fotografías con un simple celular y reconocer algunos de los equipos más avanzados para este trabajo.
Y es que no solo se trata de saber ubicarse en el cielo y tener el mejor equipo para realizar una buena foto, también se debe entrenar la paciencia y la perseverancia.
Sin duda he obtenido muchas satisfacciones de esto, es la mejor distracción cuando “estoy mal”, he conocido gente genial y muy experta en este ámbito, algunos que me han dado consejos para mejorar en tomas y procesado y otras que se han convertido en buenos compañeros.
La astrofotografía me acerca cada vez más al cielo, que es lo que más, más me gusta en esta vida y lo que más quiero conocer. 🌌
Compilation annuelle de time lapses (2022-2023).
Musique : Tiphaine Sson
Reprise du morceau The Enchantment de Sheila Chandra
Basically a simple single image taken around midnight using a 14mm AF Samyang lens on a Canon R6 @15s f2.8 ISO3200. OK It were 5 images stacked with Sequator, Stars separated using Starnet++, the starless part processed using Cameraraw, merged with PS. Just a simple image...
Creek near Brenham, Texas star trail. Roughly 2 hours of 20 second exposures stacked using Sequator to form the trail. Photoshop used to stack 3 layers of foreground lighting
Approx. 22 minute star trail shot Monday night between 11:30 & Midnight (100 - 13 second shots). I had to edit out dozens of aeroplanes - probably all but a handful of the shots had multiple planes flying by. Beautiful evening! I took a similar shot 3 years ago in late August, different camera & lens. This shot is wider and shows more of the surroundings... also the star trail is about 10 minutes longer than the previous shot. The foreground is made of 45 images median stacked equaling about a 9 minute exposure.
- Nikon D850
- Tamron 15-30mm @ 15mm f 2.8
- Post done in Sequator, StarTrails.exe, Lightroom & Photoshop