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A shot of the Milky Way taken back in 2019 from a location close to the famous “Navagio” (meaning shipwreck, there is really a sunken boat very close to the coast) in Epanomi, a very popular beach in summer. The foreground was illuminated by the rotating lighthouse beam a few hundred meters away, thus providing a means of light painting of the scene. The bright beacon on the right is planet Jupiter.
My deepest thanks and warmest wishes to everyone - stay healthy and keep looking up!
Photo details:
Date: July 1st , 2019
Location: Lighthouse, Epanomi, Greece
Camera: CANON EOS 550D
Lens: Tokina AT-X 116 Pro DX II@14mm
Light frames: 5 exposures, 10 seconds each, ISO 3200, f/2.8
Support frames: Darks
Software: Sequator, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Photoshop
Depuis la petite Moucherolle.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Moucherolle
a7s défiltré et Samyang 85 f1,4
SKY:
115 Shots
Each shot, (once every 10 seconds - manually with a simple wired remote)
f/4.5 l Iso:1250 l ⏰:20sec
all shots edited in photoshop RAW , then stacked in SEQUATOR software in trail mode.
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FOREGROUND :(mountain)
Single Shot
f/4.5 l iso:80 l ⏰:25sec
Edited in photoshop RAW.
All shots manually focused.
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evatually two shots blended together in photoshop.
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camera : Nikon D750 l 50mm f/1.8G swm
Nikon D810
Samyang 20 f-1.8 ED AS UMC
iOptron Sky Guider Pro
Cielo:
5X125 seg. a f-2.5, iso 1250
Tierra:
1X103 seg a f-2.5, iso-1250
Apilado imágenes del cielo con Sequator 1.60
Procesado con Photoshop
Blending suelo-cielo con Photoshop.
Composed of 10 seperate exposures in same settings,
Nikon D5600 with 18-55mm AF-P
Aperture :-F 3.5
Shutter :- 13 seconds
Iso :- 3200
Focal length :-18mm(Cropped for ccomposition)
Stacked by Sequator
Noice reduced by Topaz denoise AI,
Final adjustments by adobe lightroom.
My first attempt to use the minitrack LX2 after the curfew, finally could go out the whole night. Spent the whole day editing and re-editing, maybe tomorrow as well. 32 lightframes of 1 minute, 17 darkframes, ISO 800, Nikon D3100, 50mm. Processed in Sequator and PS CC.
I had another go at processing my star trails from Castle Hill the other day by using fewer shots. When stacking the 60 shots using Sequator I forgot to set it to stack for star trails. Instead Sequator tried to align all the stars. The result I got was totally unexpected and literally out of this world!
First I took the foreground 240 sec exposure, f/5.0, ISO 3200. Next I took a timelapse of 120 images, 30 sec exposure,, f/2.8, ISO 1000, but I only used 30 images for this. Denoised in DxO PhotoLab 6.5. Star trails stacked using Sequator (using aligment). Finally composited with the foreground using Affinity Photo.
07/09/2025 at 20:52: Due to haze and clouds, my lunar eclipse is briefly visible just before exiting the umbra (85mm focal length)
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This is a photo of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) taken on October 14th, 2024 (details below). Despite thin clouds, the nucleus was visible about 45 minutes after sunset, about halfway between Venus (bright star at lower left) and Arcturus. Then after about 30 minutes, it was clearly visible with the unaided eye and magnificent through binoculars.
Discovered in early 2023, Comet A3 made a fine appearance in Earth’s skies in October 2024. Dubbed as “the comet of the century”, I think it should instead be called the most photographed comet of all times.
Originating in the distant Oort cloud, where billions of small, icy bodies, relics of the solar system's formation abound, it travelled towards the Sun and the Earth, starting its journey towards the inner solar system thousands of years ago.
As the Sun's heat slowly but steadily warmed its icy surface, mixed with rocks and dust, the icy crust began to sublimate and gases and dust particles started to form an atmosphere around its nucleus. The steady flow of the solar wind shaped the dust and gas into a long tail, extending for millions of miles into space, opposite to the direction of the Sun. But at the time this photo was taken, an anti-tail pointing to the sun also formed, an optical illusion from dust left to drift in the comet’s orbit, reflecting sunlight towards us.
At its maximum brightness, the comet was relatively easy to spot with unaided eye and fabulous with binoculars. It remained visible for some time but it is now below naked-eye visibility limit. Recent calculations suggest it might have an open (hyperbolic orbit) that will eventually send it away from our solar system and that it will never return. Let’s hope another bright one is on course to the inner solar system.
Wishing everyone health and clear skies!
Photo Details:
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Camera: Canon EOS 6D, mounted on tripod, unguided.
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II@f2.5
Light Frames: 20 x 5 secs each, ISO 640.
Processing: Developed in Lightroom Classic, stacked with Sequator and final processing in Adobe Photoshop
Au smartphone Huawei p40 pro
App Deepskycamera
Traitement : Sequator, lightroom, topaz denoise ai
490 secondes en poses de 14 secondes à 1250 iso en raw dng, sur trépied, pas de suivi .
The Milkyway rising up from the sea at the Daymark Tower near Kingswear, South Devon. Jupiter and Saturn are also captured to the left of the core. I created the image using 6 20 second shots and stacked in Sequator and finished off in Lightroom.
Thank you for looking today.
07.19.2020. Off Old Julian Highway. 18 Images stacked in Sequator and finished in PSCC using AstroPanel plugin.
4 compañeros y aficionados disfrutando de la noche y las estrellas.
Torre y ruinas de las viejas minas de plata.
Hiendelaencina se encuentra en la falda sur del Alto Rey. A medio camino entre Atienza y Cogolludo es puerta de entrada al Parque Natural Sierra Norte de Guadalajara. Su historia está ligada a las minas de plata de nombres tan evocadores como la Fuerza, la Malanoche, la Verdad de los Artistas, Los Tres Amigos… que le dieron fama y riqueza en el siglo XIX.
Foto tomada con un Tokina 11-16mm APSC montura Nikón con adaptador para Sony y 11 fotos apiladas en Sequator.
A long dead native pine underneath the Milky Way at Kanyaka, south of Hawker, SA. A complicated picture, a focus blend all shot with the same camera position with a Sigma 85mm lens, 9 shots of the sky stacked in Sequator, 4 shots of the foreground with the flaas moved in between each shot, all put together as layers in Photoshop
A shot from last nights trip to the Daymark to shoot the milkway with Start Point lighthouse in the background. this is a stack of 16 frames stacked in Sequator. I'm always in awe of what the camera can see that the eye cannot.
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Panorama de trois photos sous la lune le 16/04/2019.
Sony a7s et Samyang 24 f1.4
trois x 3 images de 8 secondes.
traitements:
Sequator, lightroom, image composite editor, et topaz sharpen AI
It felt really spooky at Ladram Bay Holiday Resort with the entire complex closed down in mid summer. However, with a low tide it is always a good spot for viewing the Milky Way without too much light pollution. Got there just in time before the core went round the headland and before some clouds rolled in. So pretty lucky to get the shot really.
Stacked/Blended f/g and sky exposures.
Light painted with torch.
Sequator>Lr>Ps
It was a clear night, so I ventured down to the lighthouse. I quickly set up and started shooting. My plan was to take my normal 15 shots to stack in Sequator. Once I got the photos into Sequator, the stacking didn’t look right, the rays from the lighthouse made a strange pattern. So this is a single shot processed in ACR and Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky/Foreground:
(20mm @ f/2.8, 13 sec, ISO 3200)
I felt like having a walk down to the beach to see if I could get some stars on a clearish night the other day, once I got to the coast though I found that they have been renovating the railway lines and they had a massive industrial light that was blindingly bright all the way up to the sea as they were working through the night, This was really frustrating and probably took a lot of the darkness from the sky as well as making it hard to compose a photo without overexposing the foreground !!
Keep in mind also that this is an extremely light polluted area ( bortle 5 ) as well as having the whole right side of the photo blown out from a nearby nuclear power plant lol
I just wanted to see what was possibly in this area and I'm actually really really happy with the result, I have really limited experience shooting astro and have a lot to learn, first attempt of something like this really, I cant believe how many stars I could capture and how much structure of the Milky way I could get from this photo
Technically, this photo is made up of 6 photos stitched as a pano and each of those photos were made from 6 photos too, stacked then in Sequator and merged as the pano in Lightroom
@ f/3.5 / ISO 5000/ 8 sec / 10mm on my A7Rii
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last night I went to Saint Werburgh's Church Wembury, to shoot the Milky Way. I visited here a couple of weeks ago but my efforts where thwarted by the ferry departing so desperately wanted to return and see if I could get a better shot.
For anyone interested this is a 2 shot vertical panorama of 15 shots stacked per row.
Note the St George's cross flag is at half mast out of respect for her majesty the Queen who's funeral was today.
EXPLORE 16th September.
This was taken Monday evening 14th July at 10.00pm when it was also high tide. This was taken from Pagham Harbour Wall looking out across the harbor This is about 2 miles from home. Pagham Harbour is a nature reserve so there is a reduction in the near continuous coastal light pollution. That night the moon did not rise to 2.00am and it was a perfect clear sky so ideal conditions. The picture was looking due south. The bright star in the centre to the left of the Milky Way is Jupiter and to the left of that and up a bit is Saturn.
This was taken with a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens at 20mm at F5 and 25 seconds and 2000 ISO. 15 pictures were taken and stacked together using Sequator software which aligns stars together.
After processing in Sequator the image was processed in Capture One Raw and then taken into Photoshop and processed in Topaz Clarity and Topaz DeNoise. A single image was RAW processed and brought in as a layer with a mask for the foreground
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Extrait d'un time lapse
A different edit of the Milkyway captured when visiting the Daymark Tower near Kingswear, Devon a couple of weeks ago. I even got a passing satellite in this one.
(If interested in shooting details, please see info at the end).
My warmest thanks and wishes to everyone for visiting my photos - stay healthy and keep looking up!
EYE OF THE DRAGON: The water beyond the trees belongs to a beautiful, secluded bay on the Kassandra “first leg” in Chalkidiki, Greece. Many times, while swimming there, I saw the curving body of a sleeping dragon half submerged, a tail formed by the undulating hills covered with trees, a head at the end of the promontory, just above the bay, and then a small opening in the trees exactly where the eye of the beast should be (quite an imagination!). There is a small chapel just at the eye opening, at the end of a sinuous downward road among the trees, just a few meters above the small bay. So, I decided to visit this place a hot summer night last year, hoping for clear skies and a nice foreground to the backdrop of the Milky Way Galaxy at the south.
My main concern was the lights beyond the bay at the south and that there might be people driving their cars at night with for night swimming and camping, and that therefore I would not be able to get a long enough exposure for the Milky Way, without being interrupted by car lights. I knew that many boats go to that bay at daytime all summer long, since it’s a very popular place. Well, it turned out that there was another more annoying factor, that I had not expected.
A DUSTY ROAD: This could of course refer to the fine dust particles that are part of the interstellar space between the stars and that in many places obscure the continuity of the gases (mostly hydrogen) that comprise the Milky Way, giving it the characteristic dark lanes. If you look carefully at the photo, you will spot the Dark Horse feature in the Milky Way, just above the center of the photo.
But in this case, I am talking about the dust on the road that leading from the top of the hill down to the small chapel, a narrow sinuous soil road among tall trees. In every step, I felt that I was going to sink below the dust, and I had to wear a face mask to protect my lungs from swallowing all the fine dust particles. I did leave my car at the top, since the road is also very rough and difficult, unless you had an SUV or similar vehicle. I kept thinking that if indeed some cars did come up or down the road while I had set up my camera to take the shots, my main concern would not be the lights, but how on earth I was going to clean my gear later.
Well, as it turned out, over the whole period I spend taking the shots, only one car did pass by, just as was setting up my tripod, bur the driver was very careful and going slowly. There were certainly more people down at the beach that night, but I managed to finish the session without any other interruption.
Apart from the insane amount of dust and the distant lights that distract from the beauty of the sky, the night sky was close to excellent, especially near the zenith, and I could not resist spending more time after the shots, to marvel at the wonderful summer constellations and the Milky Way above, with the sound of the water breaking on the rocks below and the soft whisper of the trees around me, as the sea breeze caressed their leaves.
While going up the road on my return, I was wondering whether any of the hundreds of people coming to that bay every day, enjoying the beautiful sea all summer long, had ever seen such a glorious night sky, filled with thousands of sparkling lights and invisible, infinitesimal dust grains, ancient heroes and wild beasts, among which most certainly lies a huge sleeping dragon.
Technical info:
Date: August 7th, 2023
Location: Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Greece
Camera: CANON EOS 6D
Lens: Tokina AT-X 11-16 F2.8 Pro DX II@16mm
SKY: 10 exposures x 12 seconds each, ISO 4000, f/3.2, calibrated with darks and stacked in Sequator.
FOREGROUND: 5 exposures x 1 min each, ISO 2500, f/4.5, stacked in Photoshop.
All images were taken from the same place without moving the tripod and in quick succession.
30 photos de 10 secondes, 10 darks, empilés avec sequator, (freeze backgroud, et correction distortion)
Sali con la intención de captar mi primera VL de la temporada, tras varias semanas de lluvia por fin parecía que la noche estaría despejada, no fue exactamente así..
Después de dos horas de carretera y media hora de aproximación con el equipo, las brumas no se terminaban de ir, una noche tremendamete oscura, menos mal que el faro de las Sirenas alumbraba el Cabo y algo de luz se reflejaba, mientras montaba equipo la noche abrió un poco y aproveché para empezar a disparar. Tenía la montura ecuatorial preparada pero olvidé cambiar pilas así que no funcionó.
La única alternativa era realizar disparos simples, menos mal que al menos llevaba mi 20mm f-1.8, al poco tiempo se volvió a nublar tapando por completo la VL, así que después de todo puedo considerarme afortunado. la magia de la noche y el disfrute del lugar están siempre garantizados.
Zona terrestre:
2 tomas de 2.5 minutos a f-3.5
iso-3200
Cielo
2X10X 15 segundos a f-1.8
iso 6400
Apilado con Sequator 1.60
Procesado y blending con Photoshop
Le lac Blanchet Supérieur et la Tête des Toillies.
Dix ans après, nouveau matériel, montée au crépuscule, retour de nuit.
Quel endroit incroyable !
7x 8s x3, 3200 iso a7s3 viltrox 16mm f1.8 lightroom Sequator
Una localización que suelo frecuentar, en esta ocasión quise plasmar la zona mas levante de este paraje de La Rijana, en la costa granadina.
Panorámica de 6 imágenes para el suelo y 6 para el cielo, tomas sobre trípode, sin tracker.
Suelo: 6 X 107seg a f-2.8, iso-2500
Cielo: 6X7X20seg a f-2.4, iso-5000
Apilado imágenes del cielo con Sequator 1.60
Procesado con Capture One
Blending con Photoshop
Una noche que al principio no prometía mucho por la calima y la nubosidad, pero que poco a poco se fue despejando para dejar contemplar la magia de las noches de la luna nueva de agosto y sus Perseidas, toda una experiencia en un lugar privilegiado: una cala al fondo de un barranco, aquí no se llega fácilmente.
Datos técnicos:
Cielo:
5X5 tomas a 45segundos, f-2.4, iso -3200
Con montura ecuatorial Star Adventurer mini
Apilado con Sequator 1.60 para obtener 5 imágenes finales.
Cosido de panorámica del cielo con PTgui.
Tierra:
5 tomas a 120 segundos, f-4, iso-2500
Cosido de panorámica del suelo con PTgui.
Blending final tierra-cielo con Photshop.
Equipo empleado:
Nikon D810
Rokinon 14 f-2.4 XP
Skywatcher Star Advneturer Mini
Cuña Ecuatorial
Trípode Manfrotto 055 pro
Rótula 3 vías Mafrotto 804 RC2 (sobre montura ecuatorial para nivelar)
Rótula bola Leofoto LH-40
Placa en L
Raíl nodal 140mm
Disparador Pixel TW-283 wireless
Botellín Alhambra 1925 bien fresquita 👌👌
Are two consecutive images enough to reduce noise? Yes, but I like the processing of a single file, so there may be a trade-off there.
One of several starry night image sequences I've processed in Sequator this week.
Our small group night photography workshops in Bodie are full in June, but we have room for now in July, August and September.
Foreground:
1X60 s f-2.4, iso-1250
Sky:
iOptron Sky Guider Pro
6X73s f-2.4, iso-1250
Software:
Stack sky images : Sequator 1.60
Process : Capture One 21 Pro
Blending: Photoshop 21.0.3
A clear example that the difference between using a star tracker or not using it when the focal lengths are very short is hardly noticeable.
however, sky image stacking is always highly recommended.
A different version of the Horsehead and Flame Nebula taken in Hawker. I used 9 frames for the stack, and tried out Sequator for stacking the shots. I really don't know if it did a better job, but certainly worked. I edited the file a bit differently in Photoshop. Nikon D810A on a Celestron CGEM2 mount, Nikkor 600mm F4 VR lens, Astrophotography Tool controlling the camera, PHD2 guiding with a ZWO ASI120MM camera. 20 minute frames @ ISO400, no cooling!
The skies cleared up for a bit so I decided to go down the driveway and see if I could get a composition with the Milky Way rising over the break in the trees. I used my 50mm and took 25 8 second photos for the sky. The foreground is a single 3 minute exposure. Sky was staked in Sequator and the sky and foreground were then blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6.
Lens: Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
25 x (50mm @ f/2.2, 8 sec, ISO 4000)
Foreground:
1 x (50mm @ f/4 188 sec, ISO 4000)
This is an older image I captured on Trail Ridge Road in the Rocky Mountain National Park. There are many opportunities to capture the Night Sky at over 10K feet.
For the Sky I captured a four image vertical Pano with each image stacked for 16 images. I used Sequator to stack the images and Lightroom to stich the Pano (Sky). The Foreground is one image.