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Nokhu Crags, at the northern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park, seemed so high above me. But then the matter of scale occurred to me. I was at 10,000 feet, and the apex of the Crags was 2,500 feet higher. But then, that glowing trail in the night sky was an entirely different scale. The full Milky Way is not shown here, but if we could see its full extent, we would see that our galaxy is a hundred thousand light years across, glowing with the light of more than a hundred billion stars. I can recite the figures, but I'm not sure that I could comprehend the full range of scales above me in the night sky.
A stack of 20 photos, each 8 seconds at ISO 2,500, put together by StarryLandscapeStacker, then combined with a long exposure (136 sec, f 4, ISO 2,000) of the landscape.
Six images of 24mm, iso 800, f:3.2 and 240 seconds for the sky, stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker and processed with PixInsight. A single photo for the ground taken before sunset and put together in Photoshop.
Seis imágenes de 24mm, iso 800, f:3.2 y 240 segundos para el cielo, apiladas con StarryLandscapeStacker y procesadas con el PixInsight. una solo foto para el suelo realizada antes del ocaso y juntado en Photoshop.
Sis imatges de 24mm, iso 800, f:3.2 i 240 segons per al cel, apilades amb StarryLandscapeStacker i processades amb el PixInsight. una sola foto per al terra realitzada abans de l'ocàs i ajuntat a Photoshop
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sky:
12 photos with 120 sec at 45 mm, f:3.5 and iso 2000, stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker and processed with Photoshop and PixInsight.
Ground:
Single shot in broad daylight on a mountain hike.
Airborne moisture and a hazy horizon made it difficult to get a sharp and clear image of the Milky Way rising when I visited Cuttagee Beach, Australia, in late April this year.
Despite those challenges, I caught some of the majesty of our home galaxy’s core region as it climbed the sky. A prominent feature of this region of the sky is the Lagoon Nebula, aka M8, an interstellar cloud that shows in my photo as a distinctly pink blob about one-third of the way up from the bottom of the shot. At the bottom right, you can see a reflection of the yellowed glow of the Milky Way’s core area.
Due to how much the hazy conditions dimmed the sky, I pushed my camera’s sensitivity setting, the ISO, up beyond what I normally use for nightscape photos. I shot nine images in succession using my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.4 lens @ f2.2, with an exposure time of 8.0 seconds @ ISO 12800. The nine single shots were then edited in Adobe Lightroom and stacked using Starry Landscape Stacker.
The center of the Milky Way rises above the eastern horizon, with a hint of sunrise illumination starting 90 minutes before the sun's actual appearance. This part of the Colorado Plateau in the White Rims of Canyonlands has some of the darkest skies in the US. The potential for mineral and energy development nearby could change that very quickly, a threat made real by the shrinking of the Bears Ears National Monument.
Thanks to Royce Bair for reminding us of the reappearance of the core of the MW at this time of year.
Dedicated to the spirit of Stephen Hawking, who made this planet a better place!
A five shot stack blended using StarryLandscapeStacker.
And Berry Mountain.
Last one from Seven Mile Beach on Sat'dy night - FInally got my head around using 'Starry Landscape Stacker' with this one ... getting rid of the hot pixels was the hard bit (it was quite a warm night which didn't help - don't get them in winter so much).
12 raw frames developed in DxO PhotoLab 6 exported as .dng files again, stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac) brief stop over in Color Efex Pro 5 for well ... colour, stop over in Topaz Photo AI for some pixel smoothing and Edge enhancing and a final stop back in PhotoLab.
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
ISO6400 f/2 2s x 12 frames.
Seven Mile Beach, Gerroa, NSW, 2023
I had camped in Rabbit Valley primarily to photograph cottonwoods in fall colors, but this night was one night after the new moon, so the timing also permitted night shots beneath a dark, starry sky.
Kokopelli's Trail climbs up onto this mesa and continues winding among the canyons and mesas near Westwater Canyon to Cisco Landing in Utah, one of the landings used by river rafters. The Colorado River is out of the frame to the left, in Ruby Canyon, and Westwater Canyon begins 4 miles downstream.
The bright point in the sky is Jupiter, and if Jupiter were a clock, Saturn is visible at 4:30, about 40% of the distance to the mesa. Earlier in the evening, Venus was visible as well, but at this time of night it had set behind the mesa.
The light in the sky (to the left of the mesa) is a bit of a mystery. I know that the railroad has a siding in that direction, just several miles away. Perhaps they were rearranging freight cars. Another possibility is that the fracking/drilling sites in the general area of Thomson Springs, (45 miles) is polluting the night sky needlessly. The drilling rigs and sites are lit up all night whether people are working or not. Finally, Green River is 65 miles in that direction (population 935) with gas stations, motels and restaurants for the travelers on Interstate 70.
This photograph is a composite of 7 shots of the landscape (f 2.8, ISO 5000, 225 sec) and 34 star shots (f 2.5, ISO 6400, 13 sec). The landscape shots were blended in Photoshop, the star shots were rotated in StarryLandscapeStacker to produce finely resolved, bright stars, and the land and sky photos were joined to a single image with Photoshop.
Made from 19 light frames with 6 dark frames by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.8.0. Algorithm: Min Horizon Star Dupe
It's been a long time since I last photographed Milkyway. Starry nightsky is always beautiful, but milkyway makes it so much interesting and even more beautiful. 6 pics stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker.
A quick attempt at the Milky Way looking south down the newly renamed Saugeen (formerly Sauble) Beach.
I attempted this as an afterthought and really did not have a location determined. I chose the beach for the low horizon and the least amount of light when facing south although there is light from Southampton, Port Elgin, and Kincardine very much present on the horizon.
This particular location came from a walk in the dark and being spooked by the dead wood sticking up in the water. I set up here and shot low.
Canon SL3
Tokina 11-16 at 11mm
ISO 1600
15s
f2.8
StarryLandscapeStacker - 20 images to get the core.
The original foreground was about 10 images with hasty light painting. f11 - ISO400 - 3-5 sec.
This foreground is one light painted shot at the settings above, masked into the StarryLandscapeStacker photo. It is better in that you can see footprints in the sand with great clarity.
This is a quick edit - I might redo this and upload a better version.
Autumnal Milkyway at Lake Schaalsee.
Unfortunately there was a little bit of wind.
Sky: 20 frames, stacked with StarrySkyStacker
Foreground: 20 frames, stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker
Trees were "light painted" by people walking by with red flashlights.
Fifteen images stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker, then combined with one of the foreground images.
I camped on the eastern edge of the San Rafael Swell and during the afternoon I picked a stunning set of rocks to shoot with the Milky Way. I emerged from my tent at midnight and drove 4 miles on a rough road to the selected spot, but clouds obscured too much of the view. Deflated, I returned to my camp, where the rocks were less scenic, but the sky was clearer (but note the cloud in the lower left).
The bright lights are planets--Saturn on the left, Jupiter on the right. The dark areas within the Milky Way are dust clouds.
This is a composite of a starlit landscape shot (225 seconds) joined with 21 shots of the sky (each 8 seconds, f 2.0) rotated and stacked by StarryLandscapeStacker.
During a blue sky afternoon I picked out a spot where the Milky Way would seem to arise from the San Rafael Swell at 1 AM. I returned with appropriate time to set up, but as I walked to the spot that I had scouted, I noticed clouds moving in from the south. Those clouds were not predicted and were not welcome.
Annoyed, I hurriedly took the 25 shots needed to put this photo together. Under clear skies I would have walked a half mile closer to the Swell so that its size would appear to rival the size of the Milky Way.
I will return next year. The clouds admittedly add some drama, but my plans required clarity.
The two bright objects to the left of the Milky Way are Saturn and Jupiter. The red object to the right of the Milky Way is Antares.
The nigh sky was 24 photos, 8 s each, rotated by StarryLandscapeStacker, then joined with a 225 s landscape shot illuminated by starlight.
Unplugged for a couple of days over Easter .. did get to have a play in the dark last night thou.
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
ISO6400 f/2 8s x 24 frames = Sky
ISO800 f/4 30s half a dozen frames (see running around in the dark with LED brick like a mad man).
Sky stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker for mac = tiff
foreground frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6 = tiff
Stacked, masked blended in Affinity Photo 2
Colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5
Light polish in Topaz Photo AI
Finished off in PhotoLab.
Outside of Grafton NSW
A composite of 13 frames, combined in Starry Landscape Stacker. A small light was used to illuminate the inside of the bridge.
This view is from Ohio Pass, looking toward the southwest. The ridge to the west retains several inches of fresh snow that fell two nights before.
This photo is a composite of 45 star shots (ISO 6400, f 2.5, 13 sec) and 7 land shots (ISO 5000, F 2.5, 13 sec). The land shots were blended in Photoshop, while the star shots were rotated with StarryLandscapeStacker so that stars were resolved to focused points of light. The land and star shots were then joined in Photoshop.
The eastern shoulder of Ohio Peak is in the foreground, while the snowy ridge to the southwest is the West Elk Mountains, with the Castles near Castle Pass visible at higher resolution.
Factory Butte rises 1,380 feet above the surrounding mesa. For a convenient scale, the Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter and contains a 100 billion stars. If you don't believe me, count them.
This frame is a composite of two composites. Five land shots (ISO 6400, f/2.8, 180 sec) were stacked or blended in Photoshop for a land composite, and 29 star shots (ISO 6400, f/2.8, 13 sec) were rotated in StarryLandscapeStacker to resolve stars to points of light in a sky composite. The two composites were joined in Photoshop.
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This image consists of 10 individual exposures all at 20 seconds with an Æ’/2.8 aperture and a high ISO of 12,800 which were captured using a Canon 6D with a Samyang 14mm Æ’/2.8 lens which were processed in Adobe Lightroom and then stacked together using Starry Landscape Stacker for noise reduction and alignment.
I opted for dark silhouettes of the mighty sea stacks on this particular occasion but will go back for a future shoot whenever the opportunity presents itself and capture a different take with more detail revealed in the stacks.
Captured down at Ballydowane which is located within the Copper Coast Geopark in County Waterford on the south coast of Ireland.
There is simply nothing like being under a starry sky and admiring the handywork of creation!
Out and about last night .. the sky was clear and fresh and I just happened to be near blackhead at Gerroa with the gear in the car...
Shot this same composition a few times before .. this one works kinda nicely I reckon.
Little bit of core light reflected in the water with some glow on the horizon - that sea was pretty big throwing a lot of salt mist into the area to boot.
Did see some other photogs down at the bottom of the cliff doing the same (plus a couple I passed with their gear setup way back at the cars) .. on a night like this one you can't blame anyone for being out :-)
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO6400 f/2.8 7mm 15s x 20 frames.
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 8.5, stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac), colour graded in Nik 7 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Blackhead Point, Gerroa, NSW
I have seen so many images of the Milky way over Durdle door & have always wanted to try it for myself ... On Friday night I was lucky enough to be standing on the beach with clear skies shooting this amazing combination. Hopefully I can head back later in the season & capture a bit more of the MW core detail.
STACKED :-
Sony A7s & Samyang 14mmXp2.4 lens - 12 images & 6 dark frame images taken at f2.4 - iso 10,000 - 13 seconds - 14mm .. all stacked together in Starry Landscape stacker.
The core of the Milky Way galaxy hovers over the Indian Peaks, illuminated by the glow of urban lights of the Denver-Boulder megalopolis to the east (left, also responsible for the orange light). The central core of the MW, most visible during the summer, contains a bulge of star clusters and gas clouds that give it a particularly bright appearance. There are around 200+ billion stars and probably more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. While this number is mind-bogglingly large, and begs the question of life on other plants, our Sun and Earth ought to be our priority these days, given our ability to influence its environment and harm our own well being (here endeth the sermon).
In addition to the gazillion stars in this image, three prominent planets are also visible, with Mars as the bright blob on the left (a bit distorted by the wide angle lens), Saturn on the left side of the MW about the same height as Mars, and Jupiter is on the right a bit lower than the other two planets.
The mountains make up the core of the Indian Peaks, and include (left to right) Caribou Ridge, South and North Arapaho Peaks (13,500 ft / 4115 m) bridging the Arapaho Glacier, Mount Albion (12,615 ft / 3845 m), Kiowa Peak (13,276 ft/ 4046 m), Navajo Peak (13,409 ft/ 4087 m), and Apache Peak (13441 ft / 4097 m).
This is a repeat of a photo I took a year ago, with the same view, but this year I used a combination of 15 shots for the sky (15 sec, iso 6400) stacked and combined in StarryLandscapeStacker) to reduce noise and sharpen the stars, and a longer exposure for the peaks and foreground (300 sec at iso 800). I’ve also reduced the appearance of the airglow considerably (greenish light near the horizon, the result emission of light by charged particles in the atmosphere).
Jupiter is upper left in this frame, while Venus seems to be floating in the Milky Way and coming to rest on the mesa. If you imagine a line between Jupiter and Venus, Saturn is just above the line about 1/3 of the way from Jupiter to Venus. This is not the optimal season for Milky Way Shots, for the center of our galaxy has already set by the time astronomical twilight ends -- that is, when it is truly dark. But the new moon and clear night air and the scenery were inviting, so I took a walk with the camera.
The Colorado River is not visible but is in Ruby Canyon, on the left side of the frame.
This image is a composite of 12 shots of the sky (ISO 4000, f 2.8 13 sec) rotated with StarryLandscapeStacker and 6 shots of the land (ISO 4000, f 2.8, 225 sec) blended in photoshop. The resulting star and land shots were joined with a layer mask in Photoshop.
The Milky Way fills the Little Grand Canyon with light, showing the meandering San Rafael River that cut this amazing slash through the San Rafael Swell.
The air was relatively clear this night, yet still, at the horizon the smoke obscured the stars.
This composite photo joins 36 shots of the sky (14 mm, f 1.8, 13 sec, ISO 6400) with 5 shots of the land (14 mm, f 1.8, 225 sec, ISO 6400). The 36 star shots were rotated with StarryLandscapeStacker to focus the stars. Five landscape shots were blended in Photoshop, and the star composite was joined with the land composite in photoshop.
The Milky Way is shown over the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area, Colorado. The large canyon in the foreground is Ruby Canyon, with Knowles Canyon entering from the southern side of the Colorado River. Wrigley Mesa is on the right. The large dark cloud slicing across the scene is a wave or wind cloud that parked there for hours.
This was shot with a Sigma 14mm F1.8 DG HSM Art Lens. Three landscape shots (f 2.8 ISO 5000, 225 sec) were blended or stacked in Photoshop and 28 star shots (f2.5, ISO 6400, 13 sec) were rotated with StarryLandscapeStacker. The composite land and star shots were joined in Photoshop.
The San Rafael Reef is the abrupt rise of the eastern edge of the San Rafael Swell. Uplifted sandstone slabs called flatirons soar hundreds of feet above the desert, and narrow but deep slot canyons through the reef invite exploration.
July 9 was a new moon, and weather predictions indicated clear skies, so I went to camp and get some shots of the Milky Way above eye-catching scenery.
No one predicted, in any formal way, the silent arrival of smoke season. Here the first of the smoky pall is creeping from the
south.
This frame is a composite of one long exposure (226 s, f1.8, ISO 4000) and 9 exposures of stars (13 s, f2.5, ISO 6400) rotated by StarryLandscapeStacker to transform stars into precise points. Landscape and sky frames were joined in Photoshop.
The Middle Fork of the Cimarron River flows between Pinnacle Ridge and Turret Ridge and below Precipice Peak (13,144 feet) and Dunsinane Mountain (12,742) on its way to confluences with the West and East Forks in Cimarron Valley. On this day and time the Milky Way appeared to rise from the area between Precipice Peak on the left and Dunsinane Mountain on the right.
This photo is a composite of one landscape photo (f2.8, 200 sec, 14 mm, ISO 6400) and 15 photos of the stars (f2.8, 13 sec, 14 mm, ISO 6400) rotated to a single photo by StarryLandscapeStacker. The two photos were assembled in Photoshop.
The emptiness of space does not transmit the sounds of solar flares, sunspots, a black hole swallowing anything that comes near, the births and deaths of stars and meteors slamming into planets and moons. This maelstrom, visible occasionally, is our galaxy, the Milky Way, composed of one hundred billion stars forming about four arms spiraling outward. When viewed from another galaxy, the arms are all in the same plane, a thin disk with the diameter of one hundred thousand light years. A super massive black hole is at the rotational center of the Milky Way.
The Flatirons in Boulder are in the foreground.
This photo is a composite of 19 star shots (6 sec, f2.8, ISO 6400) and one shot of the landscape (20 sec, f2.8, ISO 6400). StarryLandscapeStacker rotated the 19 star images to a single, precisely focused image. The image of the stars and image of the landscape were combined into a single image in Photoshop.
Photo taken in the greenbelt adjacent to Boulder, whose lights helped by illuminating the foreground, but making it trickier to get a decent shot of the Milky Way--that is the light in the sky to the left. In addition, forest fire smoke may have contributed to this photo as well.
For those who travel to Mount Crested Butte for skiing or to Crested Butte for the Wildflower Festival, bicycling, hiking or photography, the mountain's shape and lines are familiar and distinctive.
I intended that the mountain only be lit by starlight, but the ski area keeps lights on all night--note the facilities at the base and also high on the mountain. The western side of the top of the mountain is lit by the lights of town.
Crested Butte is at 8,909 feet in elevation, but the peak of the mountain is at 12,162 feet. Nevertheless, the mountain is dwarfed by our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is a hundred thousand light years across and is composed by one hundred billion stars, all rotating around a black hole at the very center.
Without moving the tripod, 6 shots were taken of the landscape (f 2.8, ISO 5000, 205 sec) and 26 shots were taken of the stars (f 2.8, ISO 5000, 13 sec). Landscape shots were stacked or blended in Photoshop to a single composite. Star shots were rotated in StarryLandscapeStacker so that the stars resolved into points of light in a second composite. Composites were joined to a single image in Photoshop.
A bit of a conceptual piece, playing with time as a narrative. If you look at my previously published image alongside this one, you can see the galactic core of the Milky Way fairly clearly here. All told, this is an hourlong section of time under the spinning night skies.
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