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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
Zodiacal light after sunset over the dams and bush.
Grafton NSW, August 2022
Pentax K1 w DFA 15-30/2.8
SKY
16 frames at ISO3200 f/4.5 13s raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 5 - Stacked in Sequator
Foreground
single frame ISO100 f/11 150s @-4ev (manual) raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 5 - Sharpened in Topaz Sharpen
Stacked in Affinity Photo with a final touch up in Color Efex Pro 5 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
A few weeks ago Neal Grosskopf messaged me and druuuuuuug me out to shoot....ok, more like I have been telling him for like 6 months I wanted to go back out to Cana Island and shoot and he let me know it was clear so I made the journey up. ;) And for good reason as you can see. This is a 6 image stack (though I'm not entirely sure I would have needed to stack it)
I stacked this in Sequator, then edited in LR/PS to produce this. If anyone would like to download the image try stacking I put the files in a Dropbox folder that is available to download. Feel free to post your edit in the comments. :)
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Canon R6
Irix 21mm
f/1.4
ISO 6400
78 sec
This is perhaps one of the more well preserved abandoned farm houses that I've come across on my Texas backroads travels. I actually found this one late in the season last year (2019) and knew that I'd need to come back in the Spring to get the shot that I knew I wanted (shot in April 2020). The lighting on the house is solely from a security light from a farm that was probably a mile away; horizon glow is light pollution from a bigger city. Another night on the South Plains of West Texas...
Shot with my Fuji X-H1 and Rokinon 16mm f/2.0 (@ f/2.0); (5) 15 second shots + (1) dark frame @ ISO 3200, 3800K WB, stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop utilizing a few plugins and actions.
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Sky - 10 images ISO4000 f/3.5 18mm 13 seconds - stacked with sequator
Foreground - 3 images ISO800 f/5.0 18mm 13 seconds
combined and processed in Photoshop
Milky Way rises over Pinecrest Lake, California. Kicking off milky way season 2023 with Miguel.
Would you believe I forgot my quick release plate and was unable to connect my camera to my tripod?
At the end of the night, Miguel let me borrow his tripod to capture this shot, otherwise I would've come up empty.
Lens is the DFA 25mm f/4 on the 645Z. Some lightpainting using my headlamp. Processed in Sequator.
The Aurigid meteor shower is active from August 28 to September 5. In 2025, it will reach its peak on September 1.
I was lucky enought to capture few.
Tracked with Skywatcher HEQ5 pro, guiding with 30F4 Mini Guide Scope and ASIAIR Plus.
Images captured with stock Canon R8 with Sigma 14mm f/1.8 art lens.
Stacked with Sequator, edited in Pixinsight, Photoshop and Lightroom.
12 exposures for the sky and 1 exposure for the foreground.
Hailuoto, Marjaniemi beach, Finland
On the second best night of the 2021 Perseid meteor shower, one night before peak, we had some luck in this location in Nevada, despite some wildfire smoke. This is a composite of a dozen of the brighter meteors.
It is typical and expected to see and capture non-Perseid meteors in these types of shots. In addition to the Perseids, there were also meteors coming from the North delta Aquarids, South delta Aquarids, South Iota Aquarids, Piscis Austrinids, alpha Capricornids and sigma Capricornids, kappa Cygnids, all active on the same night. And those are just the active pre-identified showers with radiant points named and located on the Starwalk app; there are also sporadic meteors, with no named radiant.
I'll have some time-lapse footage available shortly.
Composites from nights and years of many major and minor meteor showers: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/albums/721576974898...
More of my astrophotography: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/albums/721576319588...
A gig under the stars. The sky is 9 shots at 20 seconds each stacked in Sequator. The foreground is an exposure blend of 2 shots lit be Richard Tatti. Sigma lens, processed in Lightroom, blended in Photoshop.
Hallo zusammen
Hier habe ich wiedermal versucht, die Milchstrasse aufzunehmen. Ich habe nun auch erstmals meinen Polaire Star Tracker eingesetzt, war schon ein wenig ein Kampf....
Dieses Aufnahme ist eine Stacking von 15 Aufnahmen und dieses Stacking wurde mit Sequator erstellt......
Ich hoffe das Bild gefällt euch.
Gruss Martin
Chapel of the Archangel Michael on the bank of the Akkem River, under the night sky. Built in memory of the fallen climbers. Beluha mount region, Gorny Altai, July 2022
Sony A7Sa, Samyang 24mm, f/1.4,
sky 60x5s iso6400 f/2.
ground 60x5s iso6400 f/2.
Panorama of two vertical frames. Sequator, Photoshop.
The life of a lost Wellington boot...
This is the shore near the Giants of Vyrnwy trail, looking South-East towards the rising Milky Way core
16x 13 second exposures stacked with Sequator
Here are the very very famous Tre Cime Di Lavaredo in Italy, Dolomites.
Olympus E-M1 mk ii + Pana-leica 12mm f1.4
The foreground was taken at blue hour at 12mm f4 10s 200 iso. Then, there were 3 (very) long hours to wait for the moon to set !
Then, the milky way was taken at 12mm f1.4 20s 2000 iso. Two shots of the milky way were averaged using sequator (first time using this) to reduce the noise a little bit.
The foreground and sky have been merged in Photoshop.
This is my second attempt on this picture and I'm more satisfied with this one which looks cleaner.
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 55-200mm (160mm)
EXIF: f/5.3 ISO2500
179x10s (28.83min)
20xdarks
Tracked: MSM
Stacked/apilado: Sequator
Edited/editado: Lightroom & Photoshop
Pantà de Sau, Barcelona,
España
Milky Way core over Phillips Lake, Dedham, Maine.
12, 8-sec exposures stacked in Sequator, edited in Lightroom.
Another take on the Milky Way over Lake Phelps. This was a composition of 19 shots of the sky (Not sure how I got more than 15), blended in Sequator, and 6 light painted foreground shots blended in Photoshop. The resulting photos were then blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
15 x (20mm @ f/2.8, 13 sec, ISO 6400)
Foreground:
19 x (20mm @ f/5.6, 10 sec, ISO 500)
ISO 500)
Wanted to get out and use my star tracker. I saw a brief window between the Milky Way rise and the moon rise on a clear night. I ventured up to the end of the driveway and set up. I took two different versions of the Milky Way core, one at 85mm, and this one at 50mm. This version got cut off a little early by the rising moon. 8 tracked shots at 2 minutes stacked in Sequator and finished off in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.8 S
8 x (50mm @ f/2.8, 120 sec, ISO 800)
At the end of the summer the Milky Way core is very close to the horizon at nightfall. Thankfully I had one clear night during my holidays in Ariège (French Pyrénées) to capture it in its full glory. After a 45min hike at dusk, I arrived at a beautiful mountain lake - the perfect location to enjoy the night sky in wonderful surroundings and far away from light pollution.
This is the result after some post-processing work to reveal the subtle details of our Milky Way.
Let me know what you think, and if you like it! ✨
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Nikon Z6 astro-modified by Richard Galli (eos4astro) with Nikkor Z 50mm f1.8 S
50mm / f2.2 / ISO3200 / 30s
4-tiles panorama
Sky: 2 tiles of about 10 pictures stacked in Sequator
Ground: 2 untracked pictures
Just an impromptu run up the Sonoma coast late last night to catch the Milky Way at this lovely sea arch.
This is a composite with a bit more than my usual amount of "movie magic", so please don't hold me to a 100% factual rendering here. I light painted the arch with an LED panel. It was way too beamy so I bounced the light off the sheer wall behind me for softer illumination.
Lens is the DFA 25mm f/4. I combined 24, 12-sec star exposures into sequator for subtle noise reduction processing. The arch exposure combines two snaps at 111 seconds each.
Thanks for looking!
I'm not quite done yet, but these are the meteors that I've isolated so far in a 14mm generally northward view, roughly from 8:30pm through 6am.
We had a full workshop with eight clients in 2023, can't wait for the return of excellent dark sky shooting conditions this December!
(I didn't fully perspective-correct this, because I didn't want to push some of the meteors out of the upper corners.)
Когда бегущая комета
Улыбкой ласковой привета
Любила поменяться с ним*
* I tried to find a half- decent translation of Lermontov into English, but I doubt it exists..
We were finally blessed with clear skies, so I went out at night to watch Neowise. Seeing moon rising and sunrise was an additional bonus of pulling an all-nighter :)
I believe that the two very bright stars to the left of Neowise belong to Ursa Major (or the Great Bear) constellation: Iota Ursae Majoris (or Talitha) and Kappa Ursae Majoris - they basically represent two front paws of the Great Bear.
Takumar 50mm, f1.4, 8 photos @ 1.3sec each, stacked together in Sequator.
First time using Sequator, so still learning, but not too unhappy about the first result..
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
La Musara, Catalunya, España
Anoche, tras casi 3 horas de camino y no pocas vicisitudes, como numerosas picaduras de mosquitos y alguna dificultad con la nueva montura iOptron que estrenaba esa misma noche, por fin la sesión dio comienzo, ante mi mirada atónita de un cielo espectacular, en el que a simple vista se distinguían las constelaciones, algo absolutamente mágico.., sin duda estos cielos de Cabo de Gata tienen un encanto singular, 300km libres Mediterráneo adentro hasta las costas argelinas sin ningún obstáculo por medio, y con la orientación perfecta para la contemplación de la Vía Láctea , que se puede ver a simple vista.
Datos técnicos:
D810 + Samyang 20 f-1.8 ED AS UMC
iOptron Skyguider Pro
Cielo:
10X125 seg. a f-1.8 iso 1250
Tierra:
1X160 seg a f-4, iso-2500
Apilado imágenes del cielo con Sequator 1.60
Procesado y Blending con Photoshop
Through Yosemite National Park, California. We were really lucky that Tioga Pass Road through Yosemite was closed... for two hours we had no headlights to contend with in our night shots!
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A night spent chasing gaps in the clouds finished here at my favourite tree near Cynwyd, North Wales, around 3am as the Milky Way core was rising
16x 15 second exposures at F2, ISO1600, stacked with Sequator
The Austin goes no further under thin clouds. An exposure and focus blend with the sky 7 shots stacked in Sequator, 10 seconds each, the foreground is a blend of 4 shots light painted by Richard Tatti. Processing in Lightroom, blending in Photoshop, Sigma lens.
Nikon D610.
Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4
Sky. ISO 1000. f/4. 30seg 24mm x 6
MSM
Ground. ISO 1000. f/4. 60seg. 24mm
Sequator + Lr + Ps
2 shots blended in Photoshop:
- Foreground: 200 iso f5.6 63s @ blue hour
- Sky: 5 shots merged in sequator, each shot 6400 iso f2.8 15s @ 1:30 am
This picture shows the bright town Mittenwald in the Alps and the beautiful Milky Way above it. With this image I tried out a new processing procedure by utilizing a stacking software named Sequator. I merged two exposures two times, one time for the stars and one time for the foreground. I noticed that this software works better for longer focal lengths, where there isn't much lens distortion in the image. I think I will make use of this procedure more often in the future. At least for star images.
I was going through my library and found this series of photos that I had never processed. Maybe it was the foreground, not sure why I never processed them. This is a composite of 15 sky frames blended with 2 light painted foreground frames. Stacked the sky in Sequator and blended the result with the foreground in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6 II
Lens: Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
15 x (35mm @ f/1.8, 8 sec, ISO 4000)
Foreground:
2 x (35mm @ f/1.8, 8 sec, ISO 4000)
This was a fun one. I am starting to understand night sky photography takes practice and forethought. Just showing up to a strange location at 3am thinking you’re going to nail an amazing keeper is not really reality. I'm still learning, making mistakes on this Milky Way stuff, was happy to pull this one off.
This is twenty-three (10 second) exposures stacked in Sequator.
A shot from last nights trip to Thatcher rock , Torquay to capture the Milky Way. I've seen shots from here before so was keen to give this a go though the light pollution was a challenge.
This is a stack of 7 exposures stacked in sequator to reduce noise.
A Lyrid and some space junk are crossing tracks high in the sky, while the spring Milky Way is arching over a foggy pond in Switzerland.
This was my third night out with Benjamin Barakat. I started the drive to this pond in the middle of a downpour, as the weather report predicted that it would by clear by 11 p.m. The forecast was spot on, but soon after we arrived, fog started to form. The fog was not completely solid, but in combination with the light pollution from nearby towns, it almost drowned the Milky Way. Despite rather low hopes, I am quite happy with image I was able to capture.
While photographing the middle section, two bright spots appeared high in the sky. They moved on parallel tracks, quickly reached extreme brightness and then slowly faded, until we lost sight of them after about a minute. During this eerie sighting, a much faster Lyrid crossed the tracks of what most probably was space junk dying a firey death while plunging back into our atmosphere.
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EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro modified
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
5 panels, each a stack of 6 x 45s @ ISO1600, tracked
Foreground and reflection:
5 panels, each a stack of 6 x 45s @ ISO1600, untracked
The reflection was stacked with Sequator.
Spent the morning under the stars at Lake Phelps. I rented a Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S lens, it surely beats hands down my 14mm Rokinon and my 24-70 kit lens. Sky – 7 shots tracked and stacked in Sequator. Foreground – Single shot.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
7 x (20mm @ f/2.2, 210 sec, ISO 800)
Foreground:
(20mm @ f/5, 25 sec, ISO 1000)
Cielo:
24mm
10X90seg a f-2.8,iso-1600
iOptron Skyguider pro
Suelo:
48mm
120 s a f-5.6, iso-2500
Apilado de imágenes del cielo con Sequator 1.60
Procesado suelo y cielo con Capture One 21
Blending con Photoshop 21.0.3
Panorámica de tres imágenes verticales ( que no tres fotos, hay 63 tomas).
Zona terrestre: 3 tomas a dos minutos, f-4 e iso 4000
Cielo: 3X10 lights ( tomas de luz) + 3X10 darks (tomas de calibración y eliminación de ruido) a 20 segundos, f-2.4 e iso 6400, apiladas con Sequator 1.60. para obtener así las tres imágenes finales del cielo y poder montar la panorámica.
Montaje de dos panorámicas ( una para el cielo y otra para la tierra) con PTgui, guardadas ambas en formato TIFF de 16 bits
Carga de ambas panos (una realizada a iso 4000 y otra a iso 6400) , blending final y acoplado con Photoshop.
This is the view 180 degrees in the opposite direction to my last post. This is a stitched pano using 2 images for each of the 6 positions run through Sequator and two dark frames. Plus one extra frame for the foreground which was focus stacked. Not looking too bad for iso 2000 I suppose.
I think I need to have a go at this when there is far less moonlight and light pollution. Lots of faffing about and far from perfect but it's a start.