20x25sec (composited in sequator - not Align Stars like previous one, but a Trails option), f1.8 ISO 400.

In photos like these with clear sky (feat. 41mpx sensor) you can easily notice the downsides of your lens.

I could have cropped the corners but I'll leave it as it is, just to see how distorted it can get.

Behind the logo, bottom right, is some kind of red trail. I don't know what it is, maybe I caught some satellite dunno.

All in all, I'm thrilled with this result, that I've been taking while enjoying the beautiful seashore wind in Krapanj.

This is last second and last timelapse I did as I was really tired.

Another Milky Way taken from a field at the Price Lake picnic area just off the Boone Fork Trail. Not sure what the stone object is, but it was the only foreground object I could find. It was windy, so there was some movement in the trees, but not too bad. 20 frames with some light thrown on the stone object for interest. Stacked for the sky in Sequator. I took 2 of the frames and stacked in Photoshop for the light painting and to reduce the noise.

Camera: Nikon Z6

Lens: Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S

20 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 5000)

I captured this panorama while a quarter Moon was setting. The fading moonlight was still bright enough to lighten the landscape, but also dim enough for the Milky Way to start showing some detail: The Dark Horse is clearly visible, the pink Lagoon Nebula is obvious, not only in the sky but also in the reflection and even the Rho Ophiuchi region has a hint of color. The two heavenly gems trailing the Milky Way band are Jupiter and Saturn.

Thanks to my buddy benjaminbarakat for joining me on another crazy last minute hike into unexplored terrain.

EXIF

Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L ll @ 24mm

5 panel panorama, each a stack of 9 x 10s @ ISO 6400, untracked

Stacked with Sequator

at Cachuma Lake, CA

157 star images , 30 sec @ f/4

1 camp image, 30 sec @ f/4

Canon 5DSr / EF 16-35mm

stacked with Sequator, composite with Photoshop

Milky Way over my house in the Ochil Hills Central Scotland. 10 images stacked in Sequator for noise reduction.

Using our latest exposure and post-processing techniques, even sensors from a few years back can produce excellent results. We'll be back out here with photographers in a few days!

Geminid meteors over Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California.

We only had about 3 hours until the rising moon started to wash out the night sky, but we saw and captured several nice meteors as the shower's radiant point rose.

I think that it was about 40 degrees out, but I fell asleep in my chair testing out a nearby composition on the prior night.

Fortunately in 2023 we'll have ideal viewing and shooting conditions all nightlong on the peak night of the Geminid meteor shower. I'll be back in Death Valley shooting it with other photographers again, probably in a different location.

1929 Ford Model A sport coupe?

We're heading back out to Bodie in our next small group workshops in June and July 2023!

25x10sec (composited in sequator - Align Stars), f1.8 ISO 1600.

In photos like these with clear sky (feat. 41mpx sensor) you can easily notice the downsides of your lens.

I could have cropped the corners but I'll leave it as it is, just for the reference.

Things like blurry stars in corners you can't fix. They do get less light than the center of a sensor, so maybe that's the reason for them being blurry in corners.

All in all, I'm thrilled with this result, that I've been taking while enjoying the beautiful seashore wind in Krapanj.

Fujifilm x-t30 & Viltrox 13/1.4

ISO 1250

ƒ/1.8

shutter 101" (7 photos processed in Sequator)

Oh, what a nigh! When I first envisioned this shot, I pictured taking it on a crystal clear night. Unfortunately, smoke from the fires burning in Northern California dulled the sky quite a bit. But deep in the middle of the night the skies cleared enough to see stars and meteors. I did not "light paint" the tufa formation, it was illuminated by car lights driving down the road to the lake. I took 280 shots using my Sony a9, Sony 14mm lens at f/2 and ISO 6400. I combined 18 of those shots in Sequator to reduce noise and then used 8 shots with meteors and combined them with my base image in Photoshop.

I recently returned from a starry skies photo workshop with Michael Frye - a true master. On our first night out our small group climbed up onto the granite slabs at Olmstead Point in Yosemite. We set up at a likely spot and waited for the stars to appear as the night sky darkened. There is nothing like standing under the vault of the night sky and gazing up at the heavens. So many stars!!! I can't help thinking about all the ancient peoples who looked up at those same skies and feeling connected to them. Time takes on a different dimension here. To create this image I stacked 9 shots in Sequator and made adjustments in Photoshop and Lightroom. Each shot was taken with a Sony 7r3, Laowa 15mm lens, 15 seconds, ISO 3200 at f/2.4. Michael set up constant low level lighting to illuminate the tree.

Pitch black, alone with just the forest noises. I've learned to operate my camera by touch, it really helps in these situations. I have two jackets on. It's chilly. I lasted 45 minutes with the intervalometer doing the hard work. 90 (30 second) exposures.

Blended with Sequator.

Tryfan in the Ogwen Valley, Wales

Notes: 20mm, stack of 16x 13 second exposures, F2.2, ISO1600

Looking at the weather for the next two weeks, it looked like this night was the last clear night in the near future. I wanted to get out and photograph the Zodiacal Light, but Venus wanted nothing to do with it! This is what I ended up with. 25 sky frames stacked in Sequator blended with 7 light painted foreground frames in Photoshop.

Camera: Nikon Z6

Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S

Sky:

25 x (20mm @ f/2.8, 13 sec, ISO 3200)

Foreground:

7 x (20mm @ f/3.5, 15 sec, ISO 800)

11 exposures x 15 sec; stacked using Sequator.

Found this one on the way home from the Stone House.

17-02-2024

Nikon D5300

Sigma 10-20mm (10mm)

EXIF: f/4 ISO160

110x25s (45.8min)

10xdarks

Stacked/Apilado: Sequator

Edited/Editado: Lightroom

Pantà de Sau, Barcelona, España

I've been anticipating this shot in my mind for a number of years, but needed to navigate access challenges, weather, Milky Way position, and so on to arrive at just the right time.

This result is a sequence of 20 images stacked in Sequator, to test the program on a Milky Way shot with light pollution.

Another night under the stars on the South Plains of West Texas.... I love photographing these abandoned farm houses and old homesteads, especially at night. I spent a couple hours at this location moving my cameras around and adjusting the lighting try to get everything "just right". This is one of my favorite shots from the night.

Exif: Shot with my Fuji X-T2 and Samyang 12mm f/2.0; (5) 15 second shots + (1) dark frame @ f/2.0, ISO 3200, 3800K WB. Single LED panel used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator; final edits in Photoshop using a few plugins and actions.

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This is a stack of seven 20 second shots; stacked using Sequator, final editing in Photoshop with Topaz Plugins.

The Spring Milky Way rising over Mitchell's Fold stone circle, near the villages of White Grit and Black Marsh in the Shropshire hills

It's estimated the stones were placed here during the Bronze age around 3500 years ago. I like to imagine people stood on this exact spot so long ago and gazed at the same stars

16x 13 second exposures at F2.2, ISO3200, stacked with Sequator

In 218 20-second images I captured fewer meteors than the following night, but I was covering less of the sky (half of a 20mm frame instead of most of a 14mm one) and the images only covered a little over an hour before the lens fogged then frosted over.

Although I produced the sequences to make a composite image, I'll be able to produce time-lapse videos from each night.

Another shot from last year's trip to Montgomery Castle, Shropshire

This was a lovely warm Summer night and the rising Moon lit the Castle ruins beautifully

This image was made with the Sony 20F18G lens, 4 shots, 20 seconds each at F2, ISO1600, stacked in Sequator

I pointed my camera north for a while to see if we got a return of a more active sub storm.

From our night photography workshops in Bodie State Historic Park, 2020. We'll be back out there this year, twice in June, then in July and October.

The blue ion tail of Comet NEOWISE seems to go on forever, as a constellation of Starlink satellites passes through the main white coma of the Comet.

Tablate, Granada.

Nikon D810

Samyang 35 f-1.4 AS UMC

Sky: 5x5 shots, whit Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM)

50s. , f-4, iso-3200

Earth: 5 shots, 90 s. f-4, iso-2000

Software:

Sequator 1.60 to Stack shots.

PTgui 10.7 to sew pictures sky and earht.

Photoshop 2020 to blending final picture.

Le luci cittadine nascondono tutte le stelle eccetto le più brillanti. Fotografare nebulose ad emissione fra la nebbia, l'umidità, i lampioni è una impresa alle volte disperata...

ma qualcosa viene fuori ogni tanto.

80 minuti di esposizione equivalente a 600mm con Canon 800D e filtro Astronomik CLS su montatura i-Optron Pro, elaborazione in Sequator e Photoshop.

#horsehead #bortle #sky #cielo #sky #orion #nebulae #alnitak #belt #stars #stelle #padova #lightpollution #luci #lampioni #astronomy

Gesamtaufnahmedauer 27 sec

Nachführung: nano.tracker

Lumix G81 mit Sigma 400mm f5.6

Sequator, Lightroom, Bortle:Class5

12 light frames + 20 darks

Stacked using Sequator

Unfortunately Southern Scotland doesn’t afford the best views of the Milky Way.

Images stacked in Sequator.

Comet NEOWISE captured over Waukesha, WI on Jul 19, 2020. This image is a stack of 37 images taken with a Nikon D850 and Sigma 70-200mm lens. Each image was captured at 200mm with aperture f/2.8 for 8 seconds with ISO of 320. The 37 images were then stacked (processed) in Sequator and then processing was finished in Adobe Lightroom.

Samyang 12mm f2.

10 sec, ISO 640 for the sky, 10 shots stacked in Sequator

20 sec, ISO 1000 for the foreground

From our "Gobs of Ghost Towns" Bodie - Nevada (and Tioga Pass) workshop last week.

Stack of 15 x 150sec., ISO 1600.

StarWatcher Star Adventurer.

Software used: Sequator, Photoshop & Lightroom

Tried to catch some perseids this season, but the early rising moon in addition to some dust and clouds gave me a hard time. The so called "Radom" is the highest building of the state Hesse in Germany. It is a remnant of the cold war and was used to watch the GDR with RADAR equipment. Today it is a mueum.

On the right side you can see the rising moon (not the sun!).

I used approx 400 pictures with 8sec exposure + a software called sequator to improve SNR AND get rid of all the plane- and satellite traces etc. Of course, also the perseides are removed by this program, so I had to find them manually in the stack and put them back to the picture. Unfortunately, only 2 of them were observable for my camera this night.

Ejercicio de apilado de imagenes usando Sequator

Apilado de 12 fotos

Probando con apilamiento de fotos y unidas con Sequator.

Llyn Bran

Kind of taking advantage of Rebecca's new interest in taking night/astro photos i suggested a drive up to Denbigh Moors. We didn't really have much of a plan apart from "it will be dark, we might be able to capture the milky way". We ended up at this small lake just as the light was fading and noticed the boat stuck in the mud, perfect!

14mm/f2.8 ISO4000/30s x 8(forgot to do a foreground exposure at a lower ISO/F/longer exposure) stacked in Sequator.

Voilier en cale sèche au port de Porquerolles.

A7s et samynag 14mm f2,8

Sequator

It felt good to get out early in the morning to capture the Milky Way core. I even brought along the star tracker, the iOptron SkyGuider Pro. Sky: 10 frames stacked in Sequator and processed in Photoshop. Foreground: 3 light painted frames blended in Photoshop. The results were blended in Photoshop.

Camera: Nikon Z6

Lens: Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.8 S

Sky:

10 x (35mm @ f/4, 75 sec, ISO 1600)

Foreground:

3 x (35mm @ f/5.6, 8 sec, ISO 1600)

Toma de 6 imagenes apiladas en sequator

Clear night skies after a heavy downpour in Bodie that cleared much of the wildfire smoke that was in the air. This year for our workshops we've modified our recommended shooting technique, post-processing workflow, and on this night I was introducing new lighting setups.

While added light does reduce noise where the light strikes (there is a higher signal to noise ratio), it produces a "light polluted" look; the lighting itself risks starting to distract from the subject and composition.

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Milky Way at the Harmony-Borax mine in Death Valley National Park, six (7 sec shots) blended with sequator