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Still on the learning curve capturing and processing Deep Sky images. This was taken in July this year but only now happy with the end result of processing.
Capture Details:
Standard EOS-R and FRA400 telescope on CEM40 mount with no guiding.
1 hour 27 minutes of data from 29 of 30 frames stacked.
DSS to check quality, Sequator to stack, then Starnet, Photoshop and Topaz to finish.
The field of view is 5 degrees x 3 degrees, so the area of sky covered by this photo is wide enough that 10 full moons could be stacked in a line across the width of this photo.
Carina Nebula (NGC3372) is a large star forming region visible in the southern night sky. The red clouds show one of the largest Hydrogen gas regions in the Milky Way.
Carina nebula is four times larger than the better known Orion Nebula that many know how to find in the night sky. But how many can find the Carina Nebula? If you are in the Southern hemisphere head outside and find the Southern Cross. Now find the two pointers. Imagine flipping the pointers to the other side of the Southern Cross and look for a bright spot in the Milky Way in this area. It may not be visible if you are in the city, but can be seen from rural skies.
This nebula was discovered by Nicholas Louis de Lacaille during a two year journey from France including one year based at the Cape of Good Hope in 1751 and 1752 where he charted positions of 9,800 stars in the night sky. Amazing considering he was using a 0.5 inch diameter refractor telescope with 26 inch focal length (660 mm). making the scope a very dim f52.
Honoured to be chosen by Flickr for Explore on 17 September 2022
The Milky Way shines bright over Lassen Peak as seen from the shores of Manzanita Lake. Jupiter and Saturn can be seen flanking the left and right sides, respectively, of the Milky Way's central core. A 5-day old moon provided just enough illumination for the lake, the forest, and the peak itself. Snow persists on the peak year round, and when I went at the time of this photo, many of the attractions in the southern portion of the park remained closed due to snow!
The colors of the sky are natural but enhanced to show details invisible to the unaided eye.
Image is a composite, consisting of:
* 5 tracked shots of the sky, exposed at 60" f/2.0 ISO 1600. A Star-Adventurer Mini was used for the tracking.
* 5 untracked shots of the landscape, same exposure settings.
* Dark and flat frames, to correct for vignetting and sensor noise.
All exposures were preprocessed in RawTherapee. I used Sequator to stack the tracked shots of the sky, and GIMP G'MIC plugin to stack the untracked shots. The resulting frames were then blended, processed, and finished entirely in GIMP. Overall, processing took about 14 hours of effort.
Captured via Sony a6500 and Sigma 16mm f/1.4 lens.
Thank you all for explore! This photograph was truly a labor of love and my most challenging edit to date.
Cap du Dramont - Var France
Disclaimer: this is a highly digitally manipulated picture... Nothing has been invented only things removed!
Sony A7riii + 16-25 f2.8 G @ 18mm
Foreground: iso 100 f8 30s taken at dusk, processed first in lightroom
Sky: 16 shots @ iso 3200 f2.8 15s, averaged in sequator to reduce the noise and processed into lightroom (heavy push of dehaze and clarity)
Exposure blended in photoshop. Then, heavy cleaning of the picture:
- Removing of 4 boats that were blurry and unpleasing IMO mostly with the stamp tool and a bit of AI
- Dodge and burn with the radial mask and exposure/light cursors. First step is to balance the light.
- Edges curating where the blending was not perfect.
- Final editing back in Lightroom. Again some dodge and burn but this time the goal is to make the image pop.
Just for kicks I thought I would try using my Sigma 85mm lens at f/1.4 for landscape astro. I used a short 4 second exposure to keep trailing under control, and stacked 9 shots in Sequator. To bring out the MW core (which is a bit washed out this low to the horizon) I used Starnet++ and some deep sky editing techniques in Photoshop. All in all it worked better than I expected. This is the Milky Way over Lake Bumbunga at Lochiel, South Australia.
Coupole du Chiran au huawei p30 pro (3x 20secondes mode pro), empilage avec Sequator, traitements Topaz sharpen ai et lightroom 6.1.
téléphone posé contre une pierre...
Nikon D610.
Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4 a 22mm
Sky
ISO 3200 f/3.2 15seg x10. Darks 2.
Foreground
ISO 3200. 15seg x 6 f/3.2
D810 + Samyang 20 f-1.8 ED AS UMC
iOpotron Skyguider pro
Suelo:
Pano de dos tomas , 3minutos a f-5.6, iso 1250
Cielo:
10X90 seg a f-2.0, iso-640 ( por algún motivo que desconozco, en los exif salen 60 seg, pero el intervalómetro Píxel TW283 estaba a 1: 30" por disparo)
Apilado de tomas de cielo con Sequator 1.60
Cosido de panos con PTgui 10.07
Blending final con Photoshop
After finally being released from our 5th Lockdown in Victoria Australia, I ventured out again for a fix of astro photography. On the way to my destination, I stumbled across this awesome outcrop of huge granite boulders. I eventually found the farmer and got his permission to come back later that night to capture this image.
This is actually the back and less photographic side of the boulders but that is where the Milky Way was. I figured it was too hard to move the boulders so this is it. I'll just have to come back later in the year when the MW is in the west.
Foreground single image shot with Zeiss 18mm Batis, ISO 800, F3.5, 8 secs.
Sky image - 9 images plus 2 dark frames with same Zeiss 18mm Batis, ISO 2500, F2.2, 8 secs and assembled in Sequator.
Images then blended in ON1.
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) Canon 5DSr on a Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4 Telescope. 1st night with Optolong L Enhance filter. 5 subs @ 300 sec's each stacked in Sequator software.
I was fortunate enough to spend an entire night camping with my daughter Ayen, sitting atop Blackrock Summit in Shenandoah National Park last night. To make the experience even more amazing... it was the rare perfectly clear Virginia night. I honestly lost count of the number of shooting stars and satellites we saw. There's just something cool and special about laying on your back on the literal top of a mountain watching the universe in a dark sky location.
Targets captured were wide angle milky way @24mm, Rho Ophuichi / Sagittarius @50mm, Sagittarius at 135mm, Andromeda @135mm, and Comet NEOWISE at 135mm to cap things off before sunrise, not to mention some sunrise and sunset shots.
The downside is unlike Ayen, I didn't a single minute of sleep... so I'm off to nap. Here's the first teaser shot with a lot more to come if I can find the time to process all of this great data. I hope everyone is having a great weekend and staying safe! 😊😊✨ 🔭
Specs: Canon 6D, Rokinon 24mm @F2.8, 12x90" second tracked sky shots on iOptron Skyguider, merged with non-tracked 160 second foreground shot (both ISO 800). stacked in Sequator, processed in Photoshop and Lightroom CC.
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The Large megallanic cloud. Visible in the southern hemisphere very close to the celestial south pole. This cloud is in fact a is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. You need to be in a fairly dark area well away from city lights to see this nebula, even then it will appear as a barely visible faint smudge. It was so clear that night and the brilliance of the stars were absolutely out of this world!
I took 9 shots at ~61 secs each, totaling 559 secs of exposure using my home built star tracker. Unfortunately my focus was ever so slightly off. So I will have to go back to redo them some time. I stacked in Sequator, denoised in DxO and refined in Affinity Photo.
1929 Ford Model A sport coupe?
Smaller workshop groups over the past 2 years have enabled us to shoot subjects that have little room for larger groups. Bodie State Historic Park, California.
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St.Patricks Day 2021 (March 17th for those who are not familiar) saw a return to shooting the night sky for me. Between Covid and lockdowns, 2020 was not exactly fruitful for image making.
I was starting to crack up with these lockdowns..so when clear skies presented themselves, I grabbed my gear and headed out to the nearby coast so that I could spend the night under the stars and the splendor of the universe.
Hopefully 2021 will see these lockdowns being set aside sooner rather than later...as I have photos to take 😁.
*** EXIF ***
9 light frames stacked within Sequator and then processed within Adobe Lightroom CC. A single frame with the same exposure settings was then blended using Photoshop featuring myself standing in silhouette.
Each exposure consisted of the following settings:
22MM
ƒ/3.2
20 seconds
ISO 8000
*** GEAR USED ***
Canon 5D Mark IV
Sigma ART 14-24mm ƒ/2.8
Benro TMA48CXL Tripod
Benfrotto Geared Head
3 Legged Thing L Bracket
Milky Way over Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia.
This is a different composition than the previous one I posted recently. It was a portrait format.
This one is a Vertical Panorama, shot in landscape mode. The top part (sky and Milky Way) is made from 9 exposures shot at ISO 16,000 f/4 15s and a dark frame, all of them stacked with Sequator, which does an amazing job removing the noise an enhancing the details.
The bottom part (landscape) is a single exposure shot at ISO 3200 f/4 146s.
M8 Lagoon Nebula shot with Canon 5Dsr on a Sky watcher Quattro 250 F4 . 71 x 30 second shots stacked in Sequator
During winter this year I did a four day long walk across Hinchinbrook Island which is located off the North Queensland coast between Townsville and Cairns. It's such a beautiful place where deserted stretches of beach meet looming mountain peaks. You often have to choose between one or the other, but this place is so majestic that you don't need to choose!
I took many daytime captures of the scenery but a Milky Way shot was at the top of my bucket list. The forecast predicted cloudless nights but unluckily moon set was around 2am.
So I had no option but to get into my tent and set my alarm for moon set. The headache causing buzz of my alarm pushed me to get out of my tent and I set up my gear half-asleep in the strong winter winds. Although, one thing I was very lucky with was the perfect positioning of the Milky Way just above the mountain ranges. For the sky, used my remote shutter release on my Canon 80D to take 10 exposures at f2.8, ISO3200 and 25 seconds with my Tokina 11-20mm f2.8. I stacked these images in Sequator to reduce noise. I then waited for astronomical daylight and shot the foreground at f4, ISO100, 20 seconds and edited a faint reflection of the stars in the water with Lightroom and Photoshop.
Please view in a dark room for the best experience.
This was the first of 2 locations that I scouted using Google Maps (satellite view) and PlanIt! Pro. Shot this Saturday night 8/3/20018. Didn't quite work out the way I had hoped, but I still got few decent shots.
In explore Aug. 20, 2020
Olympus E-M1 mk2 + 17mm F1.8
10 light images + 20 dark frames stacked with sequator
Quando cala la notte e il buio avanza, quello è il momento in cui tu puoi vedere realmente la cometa, ma se non darai ascolto alla tua voce interiore, allora non sarai in grado di distinguere la verità che affiora davanti a te.
(Sergio Bambarén)
Ho guardato per l'ultima volta questo visitatore interplanetario. Un blocco di ghiaccio e polveri che silenziosamente galleggia in invisibili traiettorie per migliaia di anni, attirato dalla luce della stella Sole come una falena dalla lampada accesa. Accelera, splende, poi rallenta, si spegne piano. La sua coda danza con l'anticoda, particelle ineffabili sospinte dal vento solare e disseminate lungo il solco dell'orbita come un binario invisibile di un treno di luce.
Ci vediamo fra 80.000 anni, cara cometa, quando forse sarò tornato ad essere frammenti di stelle anch'io.
Foto scattata ieri sera dalla cima del monte Pizzoc, obbiettivo Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8, Canon EOSR, astro-inseguitore Polarie. Somma di 12 pose con Sequator.
Buon pomeriggio
#cometa #poem #poesia #code #tail #anticoda #A3 #Tsuchinshan-ATLAS #astronomia #astronomy #pizzoc #monte #veneto #love #amore
My first attempt at capturing a deep space object. My camera was mounted piggyback on an alt-az scope, so I took a total of 100 4 second exposures and stacked them in Sequator. I think next time I'll use a longer telephoto on the camera.
Una cálida y tranquila noche de septiembre al pie de las Lagunas del Padul ( Granada), esperaba poder captar el reflejo de la Vía o al menos de las estrellas en el agua, pero la tremenda contaminación lumínica y las luces de los aerogeneradores rompieron cualquier posibilidad de ello.
CIELO:
Samyang 20 f-1.8 ED AS UMC a f-2.0
2X10X90 segundos a iso-800
SUELO:
Tamron 24-70 f-2.8 G1 a 34mm
5X150 segundos a iso-2000
Apilado imágenes de cielo con Sequator 1.60
Cosido imágenes de cielo y suelo con PTgui 10.07 Pro
Procesado con Capture One 21
Blending con Photoshop 21.03
Sometimes it's just you, and a few frogs singing the Milky Way higher into the night sky.
Since I often shoot two cameras at once at night, in June I decided to swap out my old Canon 5D Mark II for a Canon EOS 6D. What a nice sensor it has.
I see so many people looking for "the answer" on the Internet: the camera that will make their photography better, the exposure settings that will finally deliver great results, the post-processing software that will turn those dull RAW files into works of art. Companies take advantage of this, hawking their wares as the solution to your problem, the object of your quest, the magic pill you can take to fix your problems. But for the most part, a new camera will produce more or less the same images as your last one.
No camera will take great pictures for you, but if you really get to know what your camera can do, push it to its limits and carefully post-process the results, you can move your own limitations a little further down the road. Like the characters in The Wizard of Oz, you have all the brains, heart and courage that you need, you just have to take yourself on the right journey to discover and fully utilize them.
The 6D will open up some new opportunities compared to the 5D Mark II I bought in early 2009, but no small part of the new opportunity will come from the experience I gained since 2009, tracking down reasonable exposure settings and post-processing techniques. I still have some homework to do, putting the 6D through tests in various lighting environments, but I can already tell that I may have to take a new approach to many situations.
Update May 2020: Replaced the original with a new image resulting form seven adjacent RAW images combined using Sequator, then adjusted in Adobe Lightroom.
From last night's secret ops outing with Miguel. We kept under cover of darkness so as not to be spotted, then waited for the milky way to drift into position, and finally blasted the night with our earthly photons using my LED panel-on-a-stick to light paint the bridge. The sky is a Bortle-4.
The covered bridge in Knight's Ferry, CA is the longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi. I also contend that those giant ants under the bridge are the largest ants west of the Mississippi. Crouching in complete darkness, knowing an army of these creatures is climbing all over me, requires a little extra intestinal fortitude.
Lens is the DFA 25mm on the 645Z. I have switched to Sequator for processing my milky way images and it is much easier than photoshop. I fed my 8sec star exposures into the program, checked a few boxes and out popped a decently processed image. No extra hour spent stretching frames to mitigate distortion issues.
Another view of Comet Neowise over an old church in Texas.
This is such a rare event I did not want to miss it, so I had 3 different cameras working that night.
Here is a shot where I had been using an intervalometer running a series of 15 shots at a time. This allowed me to stack frames to reduce noise. Here I got lucky and was able to get the shot with some light from another photographer.
A stack of ten frames to reduce noise.
See the longer story and other images on my blog:
wildernessphotographer.blogspot.com/2020/07/comet-neowise...
!2 shots at ISO 3200 including one at ISO6400, all 13 seconds.
Stacked in Sequator. I used a D800 Astro Modified camera.
Edits with StarXterminator.
The bright light, bottom right, is possibly from a large Almond Orchard/Packing/production shed, Pike River about 6 km distant.
Aquí comparto mi última foto nocturna, se trata de una foto compuesta por 8 tomas apiladas con Sequator para reducir ruido. Los EXIF son: Sony A7R full spectrum, con un Samyang 14mm f2.8 a f3,5, ISO 6400, 15 segundos cada toma.
Espero que os guste.
Saludos.
Here I share my last picture. It is a 8 photos staked with Sequator to reduce noise.
EXIF: A7R full spectrum, Samyang 14mm f2.8 at 3.5, ISO 6400, 15 seconds eposure.
Hope you like it.
Day 2 of enforced detention due to a Covid result. Still feel OK and it is giving me time to process some images. From a recent trip to the Lakes at a wonderfully dark sky area, Devoke Water. In the image you can see a part of the milky way, the Orion constellation, including the Orion, Flame and horsehead nebulas.
The image was taken using a Move Shoot Move star tracker, my first real play with it, The sky is a stack of 8 images stacked using sequator
Here's an image from yesterday's pre-dawn Milky Way shoot at a nearby pond. Some geese got all bent out of shape when I showed up and they stirred up the water a bit. But once they got over it ("Guys, I'm not having goose for dinner tonight, okay?"), they settled down and so did the the water, which allowed a mirror-like reflection of the trees and sky.
This is a stack of five 15-second exposures combined in Sequator for noise control. The lens was a Tamron 15-30mm.
This is a bird hide at Llyn Brenig, North Wales, with the Milky Way Great Rift shining through an almost-too-cloudy night sky
Image made with 34x 15 second exposures at F1.8, ISO 1600, stacked in Sequator. A couple more light painted frames then layered on top in Photoshop for some foreground detail
еще один кадр млечного пути в поле.
второй тестовый астроснимок на fujifilm x-t30 18-5 2.8-4
всего сделано 30 кадров и объединено в sequator . ИСО 6400, 15с - 1 кадр. Ф2.8
another shot of the milky way in the field.
the second test astronomar the fujifilm x-t30 18-5 2.8-4
only done 30 frames, and combined in sequator . ISO 6400, 15C - 1 frame. F2.8
The heart of M8 Lagoon Nebula ,maybe I am tired as I have been up all night taking photos of this and quickly processing , but all I see here is a black Lizard running on his back legs in the centre and winged Faerie at the top . Canon 5Dsr on a Sky watcher Quattro 250 F4 . 71 x 30 second shots stacked in Sequator and this is a crop of the centre region.