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Vancouver Island coastline. 2:30am. Bortle 2 skies, with the distant lights of Ucluelet on the horizon. Some faint airglow blends with the Blue phosphorescence glowing in the waves and the Milky Way's galactic core is spectacularly splattered across the night sky. That's Jupiter big, bright and bold at the centre of the core. Looking forward to the coming Milky Way season. If I can make just one really nice night sky shot this year I will be pleased. Still working on the final processing of images and trying to overcome a few hurdles managing colours, the horizon line in this frame is a good example.
Made from 12 stacked frames with Starry Landscape Stacker 1.8.0. to reduce noise. Edited in Capture One.
A last look at it (and Jupiter and Saturn) for the year. This is a stack of 53 1-minute images with a Canon 800D at ISO 800, Samyang 16mm f2 lens at f2.8, tracked with Omegon Minitrack LX2. 50 darks, 120 biases, processed in PixInsight (details at www.astrobin.com/ffb7h1/)
Here is the most detailed view of the galactic core I have ever captured.
🔹 The center of the Milky Way is the brightest region of the starry sky. Also called the galactic bulge, it can be observed every year at best around summer.
🔸Its intense brightness comes from the fact that it is the densest area of the sky where a realm of different deep sky objects are gathered: from emission nebulae, dark nebulae, molecular clouds, open star clusters or globular star clusters.
🔹 Through binocular, a telescope or even with the naked eye, the galactic center is a fantastic target to observe since it contains itself almost all types of celestial objects you have ever heard of in astronomy books, except galaxies -- the milky way luminosity prevents from observing faint neighbor galaxies in the background, that is why most galaxies of the sky are discovered outside of the milky plane.
☄️ Do you see this small greenish/bluish dot at the bottom of the image? It is actually comet C/2016 M1 which was located in the field of view while I took this picture!
What else do you see? Are there other objects familiar to you?
Are you interested if I share an annotated version on which we can better see and know the names of the nebulae and cluster present here?
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TECHNICAL DETAILS
📷 Canon 700D (unmodified sensor) + Sigma Art 18-35 mm F/1.8 lens + Star Adventurer Mini tracking mount
→ Stack of 23 x 2 minutes exposures
→ 46 minutes total exposure time
→ ISO 3200
→ 35 mm
→ f/2.2
Date: June 2018
Location: Elqui Valley, Coquimbo region, Cordillera de los Andes, Chile.
Softwares: Siril for stacking process, Dxo Optics pro 9 for noise reduction / Lightroom & Photoshop for all the edits.
Durdle door on a moonless night with the centre of the Milky Way above. Also a satelite zipping past. Single exposure.
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Milky Way rising over Mt. Rundle while a very active geomagnetic storm rages around the sky. The aurora was so strong last night it reached towards the southern parts of the sky and we consistently had coronas forming overhead. I was actually getting concerned that the Milky Way would be too washed out by the aurora but ended up with this stunning shot of the two together.
Four shot panorama.
Been Kinda unmotivated lately.. Still got about 30 gigs of unedited photos from my last vacation lol.. But sitting down for a min to edit some shots turns into hours easy.. So I've been turning to my phone for a quick fix.. Shot with iPhone, edited with SnapSeed and Alien Sky.
This past weekend my wife and I spent several days in Palm Springs / LA. Having grown up on a state park I have an affinity for nature and the outdoors and take any opportunity I get to visit state/national parks and support the organizations that help preserve the natural beauty that our country has to offer. Since we were heading to the desert we spent an entire day at Joshua Tree hiking and exploring.
I've never attempted to photograph the Milky Way so when we planned this trip I started doing research to get more well versed in how to achieve a solid photo of the Milky Way. I used the Photopills app on my phone to try to do as much pre-planning before the trip, and during the day, as possible. As the sun set, my wife and I were at the Lone Juniper and Balanced Rock in the Jumbo Rocks campground. Once the sun was completely down, I set up one of the shots that I had planned and fired away. To my surprise the shots were turning out, which was really exciting. I shot there for about an hour, with my wife hiking back and forth between where I was set up and the car to try to keep warm. After I got several shots that I liked there the last stop was to find a good Joshua Tree for a silhouette shot. We pulled over on our way out of the park to set up this shot. I was a little uneasy because as soon as I got off the road and started walking over to this tree I spotted some animal tracks and some very fresh....poop. I set up quickly and started shooting, constantly scanning the area with my flashlight to make sure no wildlife was trying to sneak up on me. I ended up getting this shot that I'm pretty pleased with, and once we were in the car headed out we spotted a coyote about 100 yards from where I had been shooting.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - It was a cold and moist night at Devil's Tower with a few too many clouds. But the milky way was visible for a short time.
This image captured the night sky and a full moon giving off the bright light streaking across the horizon.
Galactic Trees
Recently I held a Milky Way photography workshop at the end of the coast of Maine, we were hoping to shoot at the coast with dramatic cliffs and a lighthouse, and while we did get to do some of that we were a bit challenged by fog right on the coast each night, but usually just a couple miles north of the coast it would be crystal clear. So we explored some other areas and found some really nice spots that we would have never shot at if it was clear at the coast. It was a lot of fun to try shooting something very different than what I normally shoot, and in this case we had quite a bit of ambient light and light pollution from nearby buildings, but the glow on the trees and in the air ended up adding some very interesting atmosphere to the image.
This is a blend of 5 images for the sky and 1 image for the foreground. Normally I try to shoot 10 images for the sky but fog was rolling in as I was shooting my star images so I only got 5 clear ones. The sky images were shot at ISO 10,000, f/2.8, for 10 seconds each, and then stacked and averaged in Starry Landscape Stacker on Mac for pinpoint stars and lower noise (lower noise and shaper pinpoint stars than you could achieve with a single exposure). The foreground is from a single shot at 2 minutes and ISO 6400 at f/2.8. I would normally have done a lower ISO foreground shot for a longer exposure time but we were all getting pretty tired by this point in the night, so I cut the time down. All shots were taken with my Nikon D810A with Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens at 14mm. The final image is cropped in a bit to isolate the trees and sky better.
To learn more about my Milky Way photography editing techniques check out my written tutorials and videos on my website, www.adamwoodworth.com. Use offer code FLICKR5 to save $5 off any purchase!
The latest RogueBricks contest called for speedy spaceships: 'Space Police Tag-Team' required people to pair up in teams of two, one building for the good guys, and one for the baddies.
Naturally I teamed up with Marcel, and him being the sinister scoundrel he is, I was faced by a faction of rogue space orcs, ready to set the galaxy aflame.
Time for my Galactic Interceptor to shine and to put these outlaws behind bars!
You can find Marcel's fighter here.
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While visiting the Eastern Sierra Nevada, I realized that we were only an hour away from the ancient bristlecone pine forest. So I made plans to give the pine forest a sunset shoot. Unfortunately, the sunset was cloudless, and it didn’t pan out. We did have time to scout out the area and found a cool tree that I really wanted to shoot. After some checking with Star Walk App, it looks like the Milky Way will line up with the tree an hour after sunset. With that in mind, we decided to make some dinner and catch up on some TV shows while we waited for the stars to show.
For this shot, I used a high ISO and wide aperture so I could restrict the exposure time and prevent star drift. The light paint was done with our headlights, and the lights behind the mountains are from the near by town of Bishop. I do want to come back during the summer months though, it looked like I only got half of the galactic core.
Canon 5D Mark III
16-35mm F2.8
3x1 mosaic, taken with a 75mm Takumar 6x7 lens @f/5.6, and a canon 6D. One hour exposure on each pane, for a total of 3 hours.
Messier 37 is the richest open cluster in the constellation Auriga. It is the brightest of three open clusters in Auriga and was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna before 1654. M37 was missed by French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil when he rediscovered M36 and M38 in 1749. French astronomer Charles Messier independently rediscovered M37 in September 1764 but all three clusters were recorded by Hodierna. M37 is located in the antipodal direction, opposite from the Galactic Center as seen from Earth. It contains over 500 identified stars and its estimated distance of around 4,500 light-years from Earth.
Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Optic: Canon lens 200mm f/2.8 L II
Mount: CEM60 HP
Frames: RGB: 4X180 sec each Bin1 -35°
Processing: Pixinsight, PS
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“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
― Tyler Kent White
I'm going to do an arm series. I also have been listening to music and coming up with ideas. I'm stuck inside for quarantine. I still go for a walk by myself. I'm going to be with myself so I have a lot of reflecting to do. Wondering what makes me burn brightly so I can keep myself alive. I had an obsession with galaxy print or design. I still have a galaxy purse which I have to mend every now and then to keep it. There are galaxies inside me and you. What makes you burn brightly?
My good judy Evil made this sick portrait of my avi. If you want a stunning illustration portrait of your own, make sure to hit her up.
"Cheskopokuta klees ka tlanko ... ya oska." ("I've been looking forward to this for a long time.")
('Greedo' by Hasbro / Star Wars - The Black Series / 6-inch)
Diorama by RK
Say hello to our next exclusive minifigure, Galactic Trainee! She is going to be available, along with the Galactic Master V2 through my resellers. (go to www.phoenixcustombricks.com/resellers for links). Featuring professionally pad printing on the front head, torso, back torso, and wrap around printing on the legs. A new feature for us is the complete flesh printing on the top of the arm, which goes all the way around! She will come with a special collector card, as well.
These figures are limited edition and once they sell out, they're gone for good. So, be sure to reserve yours now with my resellers. These will ship out hopefully by Sunday, Sept. 2nd.
Pics of Galactic Master are coming tomorrow (waiting for the hoods).
What do you guys think?
Hey everyone! I did a little “mashup” of all the Republic vehicles and ships I’ve made! It’s starting to look like a proper armada hey?
There’s a minifigure in there for scale.
Please note that some of these will probably never have instructions, while others will, like the juggernaut, the AT-OT and the Y-Wing.
Hope you like it! 😁
The arm of the Milky way stretches across the night sky above Lake Pukaki in Mount Cook National Park
Some tiny flowers in my back yard. Taken with a vintage Canon FD 100mm f4 macro lens strapped to a NEX-5.
This is my 2nd build for RebelLUG’s Vignweek contest. For day 2 the prompt was “Splash of Color”. This build was very Lego math heavy. Probably not the best choice for a 1 day competition, but I’m particularly happy with how the door turned out.
"Galactic look"
14mm, f2.8, ISO 1600, 30 segundos y 3200k
Iluminación lateral desde la izquierda con dos focos Yongnuo YN300II a 3200k, uno para el primer plano y otro para el faro.
This is a view of the core of our galaxy, roughly in the constellation Sagittarius.
This image was constructed from multiple 30 second exposures shot with a Nikkor 105 mm f2.8 lens at f 5.0, ISO 5000, on a D610.
Tracking was with an Ioptron star tracker.
Roughly 10 frames per field of view were stacked to reduce noise, then stitched to cover a wider field. This image is a small section of a larger project that I'm working on to create a large high resolution panorama of the central part of the milky way.
I've learnt a lot about processing astro images, but I think I still have a great deal to learn.
I had been planning this shot for a while, although I did not know if my final image would be a vertical or horizontal composition. In the end, neither worked on this occasion; however after sitting by the lake all night long, I wanted to preserve something that spoke of what I had envisioned. For this, I blended a shot of the pier pilings taken at sunset, with one shot of the night sky photographed at about 1:30 a.m. Originally, I wanted to include a foreground featuring a longer exposure, so I waited until just before sunrise to photograph the pier again. Unfortunately, both predawn and early morning light was very flat.
My friend and I were at this spot for the tree in the rock, but the rock we were standing on and the amazingly clear night sky will end up being what I remember.