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As it would be probably the last night of the milkyway season in 2020 I couldn't resist to take the chance to shoot the stars. And so I did; this is, just like my previous picture, in the German Eifel area, at the Rursee.
Foreground: iso 1000, 220sec.
Sky: 10x 15 sec. @ iso6400, stacked with sequator. Finetuning with photoshop.
The Milky way over the Currency creek viaduct. South Australia.
6 shots at 15 seconds each. ISO 1600, f/2;8, 20mm.
stacked with Sequator processed with RC Astro.
Taken at 20:30 hrs 30/07/2024
This is the abandoned but picturesque Locust Grove Church in rural Sherman County, Oregon. It was built in 1895 and was last used in 1914, for a funeral, according to a sign on the property. Early on this morning from about 1:30 to 3 I set about shooting it with the Milky Way as a backdrop. I had to wait 5 hours from the time of sunset for the Milky Way to be positioned where I wanted it. Then I snapped off twelve 11-second exposures in succession (30mm, f/2.8, ISO 10000 for those keeping score), combining them later in Sequator to increase the signal to noise ratio. During the exposures I held up a palm-sized light panel to dimly illuminate the structure.
The roof and spire definitely have "had some work done", as they're made of aluminum. So I don't believe they are original. But that spire sure looks good!
Comet Leonard 31-12-21 Canon 5Dsr 70-200mmL @200mm. 22 x 30 sec shots stacked in sequator . Piggy backed on skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 on a NEQ6 PRO Mount.
Gateway to eternity (Durdle Door)
Category: Tracked/Stacked/Composite
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First day of the new season has arrived. As we are slowly heading into Autumn, we have to say goodbye to the Milky Way for a while. This picture is the result of a perfect camping at Durdle Door on 1st of September. The Milky Way was fantastic that night. After I have finished to capture the foreground, me and my girlfriend were heading back to the top of the cliff, and slowly walk along the edge of it to find a good spot to set up my tracker and start shooting the Milky Way. There were another 2-3 person aswell, nightowls like us, enjoying the night sky. Bortle 4 sky.
Exifs:
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24mm f/1.8G ED
Sky watcher sky adventurer
Light 10 x f/2.8 ISO 1600 , 120 sec
Dark 15 x f/2.8 ISO 1600 , 120 sec
FG: 1 x f/4 ISO 1200 , 250 sec
Stacked in Sequator
Edit in LR / PS
Foto obtida durante o XI Encontro Paraibano
de Astrofotografia (XI EPA) à partir da praça
dos telescópios.
Data - 31/08 ~ 01/09 de 2024
Hora - 23:28 ~ 00:09 local (-3 UTC)
Local - Matureia, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 3
Câmera - Sony A99V
Lente 500 mm F8
Tripe Fixo
ISO - 4000
Ligths 85 de 30s
Darks
Softwares Processamento - Sequator/PixInsigth/PhotoShop
The foreground is lit by the waning gibbous Moon; the red light on the fence and vegetation at right is from the red signal on a single track railway.
7 x 8-sec exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 6400; EOS 7D and Leica Summicron 50mm f/2 lens. Frames stacked in Sequator software; digital noise reduced using CyberLink PhotoDirector software.
Panorama de 5x3 photos de 8s
Sony a7s samyang 24 f1.4
traitements:
Sequator, lightroom, topaz sharpen ai, image composite editor
sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/samples
www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-ph...
Geminid Meteor shower composite. Orono, Maine.
Base image 11, 8-sec exposures edited in Lightroom and stacked in Sequator. Meteor traces added back in Photoshop.
Meu primeiro e humilde registro conjunto da Nebulosa de Órion (M 42) com a Nebulosa do Homem Correndo (NGC 1977). Neste registro, foram empilhados 64 frames de 2 minutos, totalizando 2 horas e 8 minutos de exposição. Ainda tenho que avançar bastante no processamento.
Refletor Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 com Onstep, Canon T6 (foco primário) não modificada. Guidescope 50mm com ASI 120MC-S. 64 light frames de 120 segundos, 10 dark frames, 20 bias frames. ISO 400. Processamento: Sequator, DeepSkyStacker, PhotoScape e PS Express.
Milky Way over granite outcrops in Orland, Maine.
Ten, 6-sec exposures stacked in Sequator and processed with Lightroom.
Day 5 of waking up at 4am to watch this cosmic spectacle. I enjoyed viewing it through my telescope while taking the exposures for this shot.
I wanted to try a new technique/software I've heard of but haven't used yet. I shot a lot of "quick" exposure frames each at 3.2 seconds. I wound up stacking 45 of those using Sequator to keep the landscape static but align and stack the moving parts of the sky. It allows for low noise photos of the moving night sky against a landscape with no tracking mount. I chose my 85mm f/1.4 it's my fastest telephoto lens to allow me to do as short of exposures as possible. Every time I use that 85 I remember why I can't ever sell it...it's just a killer lens.
Wide curves of star trails over some badlands seen from my campsite in the southern part of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park on the night of January 4, 2020. Shot with a Canon EOS R and Canon 17-40mm f/4L lens at 124 minutes (stacked exposures) f/4 ISO 3200. foreground illuminated by the moon.
I had hoped to capture the much hyped Quadrantids meteor shower, but it turned out to be a dud. I shot around 2000 frames and only managed to capture one teeny tiny baby meteor (doo doo doo doo). Still, a never feel like a camping trip in the desert is ever a "waste of time" just because I didn't get the shots I had originally hoped for. The experience of camping in peace, quiet, and solitude under the stars is always nice regardless of what I successfully photograph.
Kicking off Milky Way season with Miguel at Tioga Lake, CA, that peak is Mt. Dana. The pale yellow glow on the right horizon is light pollution from Fresno, 90 miles southwest. EXIF shows 9,684 ft elevation at this spot.
Lens is the DFA 55mm f/2.8 on the 645Z. This is a 2 frame pano/stacked median blend using 15, 8-sec star exposures at ISO 5,000, fed into Sequator and StarXTerminator. The exposure is cranked because the only light on the mountain is coming from the stars. To the naked eye, Mt Dana was merely a black void in the starfield. To be clear, this is not a composite; that is, the milky way was in that precise position over the mountain and neither it's position nor size have been changed. The stacking was incorporated to achieve noise reduction.
Thanks Miguel for the outing! My son Parker also made his first photo trip with dad, so that was exciting. We spent much more time driving(social distancing in separate vehicles no less) than actually shooting, but it was well worth it! Though Dad loved it, Parker reports he will think twice before agreeing to any future journeys of this nature.
Hope you like this one!
It was a beautifully clear night last night to I went out with a few other photographers from the Liskeard Camera Club and we headed to Whitsand Bay, first stop was Rame Head which I’ve visited before but then we headed to Portwrinkle. This is one of my favourite beaches along Whitsand Bay as there’s a huge choice of compositions available, but inspired by a shot by Matt Stansfield I decided to take the Milky Way at the end of the old harbour wall… this is a shot I’ve taken many times during the day, but it was very special last night being on the rocks with the water flowing all around as the tide reseeded.
I’ve also been testing Sequator to stack the stars which really has improved the time it takes to merge multiple exposures, I wasn’t entire happy with the colour (though I don’t think that’s Sequator’s fault) so I decided to convert to monochrome and add a blue tint which gives it a bit of an “other worldly” feel.
Milky way near Monato, South Australia. 4 shots of sky at 20mm, ISO 3200, f/2.5, 10 seconds. stacked with Sequator
3 shots on tree, 20mm, lightpainted with torch, ISO 400
The bright light bottom right is probably the town of Murray bridge. I did not notice it at the time.
A portion of the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and the star Canopus above Grosse Spitzkoppe, Namibia.
Spitzkoppen Lodge, Namibia.
9, 8-sec frames pre-processed in Lr, stacked in Sequator, and finished in Lr.
CATEGORY: PANO
TITLE: "Oltretutto"
TECHNIQUE:
two panel merged with PS:
top -> 57 shoots tracked with iOptron Sky Guider Pro (stacked with Sequator)
bottom - > single shoot for the ground
each shoot has the same setting: 30s, ISO800, f/5
EXIF: Nikon D750 (modded), AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED, iOptron Skyguider Pro.
SOCIAL: @andrystix www.instagram.com/andrystix on Instagram, AndryStix - Andrea Amici on Facebook and www.flickr.com/photos/andrystix Flickr.
"Marooned"
I imagine celestial smoke signals from the scrub fire across the estuary, as the setting Milky way aligned perfectly with its glow.
In the sky, millions of other stars burn brightly, reflecting in the water, along with the Large Magellanic Cloud & Carina Nebula.
How many of these stars have planets orbiting them with the elements for life?
The plan was to shoot from another spot around the corner - Lake Clifton, but a breeze was blowing which meant an end to any Star reflections in the water. A quick drive to Island Point where the estuary was glassed off.
Equipment used / Processing:
Canon M50, Samyang 8mm
5x30" ISO1600
Stacked in Sequator, edited in GIMP.
Another shot of the Milky Way. Another week closer to the Milky Way Core Season. Sky, 20 photos stacked on Sequator, foreground, 5 photos stacked on Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/4 S
20 x (24mm @ f/4, 15 sec, ISO 10000)
5 x (24mm @ f/5.6, 60 sec, ISO 1000)
Datos Exif:
Toma suelo: 58 seg.,iso 400, f/4 a 24mm
Toma cielo: 6 tomas de 182 seg., iso 400, f/4 a 24 mm montadas con sequator
Testing shorter exposures and longer focal lengths with sky stacking (15 seconds at 29mm here), also different workflows to preserve the aurora-like green airglow in the night sky.
If the light pollution is going to be directly under the Milky Way, might as well put it where it can draw attention to the subject.
Single press of the shutter release, several adjacent images moderately post-processed (about a minute to capture and a couple of minutes to adjust). Done.
No compositing/time-shifting.
No tracking mount.
No noise images, no long exposure foreground images.
No special lighting, or added light.
No new camera or back-lit sensor.
No multiple focal lengths, no focus stacking.
No Photoshop, no layers, no sky or foreground substitution (just Lightroom and a shareware app or two).
Night photography doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming, or involve special gear beyond camera, lens, tripod. Many cameras produced in the last 13 years and probably all in the last 4-8 years can capture shots like this. I've re-processed images and produced great results from my 2009 Canon 5D Mark II and crop sensor 70D. Join our workshops to find out how!
Lac de Graveirette - Mercantour - Alpes Maritimes, France
Sony A9 + 16-25mm f2.8 G
Foreground: iso 100 f11 25s 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
Exposure blended in photoshop.
Final fine tuning back in Lightroom
Passer la nuit en tente au Cinque Torri, dans les Dolomites. Sous les étoiles. Sous la comète Neowise (C/2020 F3). Inoubliable !
Summer 2020 in the Dolomites. A comet and thousands of stars in the sky. A night to remember!
Nikon D7500 and Sigma 17-50 f2.8
Several pictures stacked in Sequator for noise reduction.
Milky Way with Jupiter reflected in the water, Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, BC, Canada.
17 images were stacked in Sequator 1.5.6, each was taken with Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art, f1.4, 13s, iso-640. And then stacked in Photoshop with a forground image, which is a smart object stacked from the same images.
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Primera Vía Láctea de 2019. Panorámica de 5 tomas en vertical, con la OMD EM1.2, el Laowa 7,5mm a f2, ISO 5000, 15 segundos (apilando 8 tomas por cada disparo en vertical con Sequator para quitar el ruido).
First Milky of the season. Olympus OMD EM1.2, Laowa 7,5mm f2, ISO 5000, 5 shots in vertical (8 shots each stacked with Sequator to reduce noise).
I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally share this image—one of my favorite night sky shots ever, taken in the magical landscape of Timna Park. This isn’t just a single click: it’s 20 stacked exposures, each 15 seconds long, carefully aligned and blended to reveal every detail of the Milky Way stretching above the desert. The process was as much an adventure as the night itself.
Timna Park’s unique geology made the perfect foreground—this weathered, ancient boulder looking like it’s been waiting for a thousand years just to sit under the stars. The glow on the horizon? That’s the persistent light pollution from the Arava valley and a subtle touch from Jordan on the other side. Despite it, the sky here is a window to the universe.
Gear Talk:
I used my trusty (and non-modified!) Sony Alpha 6400 with the Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C Ultra-wide-angle Prime lens. The lens lets you scoop up so much sky, and the clarity surprised me even without any astro-mods.
Editing Journey:
The workflow was a labor of love—stacking the images with Sequator, pulling out delicate star details with PixInsight, and finishing everything in Lightroom for those final touches. Hours of work, but seeing the Milky Way pop out, with that wild desert landscape below, made it 100% worth it.
A little astronomy bonus:
If you look carefully, you’ll spot a faint cone of light rising from the horizon, aiming toward the Milky Way. That’s likely zodiacal light—sunlight reflecting off dust particles in our solar system. It’s a rare sight, and Timna’s dark skies made it possible to capture it.
No AI, no fakes—just patience, gear, software, and pure fascination with our universe. I hope you feel the same wonder I did under those ancient stars.
The beautiful lake at Ellesmere beneath the Milky Way. A disposable barbeque has burned a rectangular hole into the jetty.
6x 13 second exposures at f2.2 iso1600, stacked with Sequator
Éruption La Palma (réalisé à partir de vidéos YouTube ).
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ruption_volcanique_de_La_Palm...
Traitements : Topaz video AI, Sequator, Lightroom
First attempt at shooting the Perseids, and most proud of it!
Shot is 10 min. exposure (20s. x 30) .
Post process :
- Basic settings with Lightroom
- Stacked with Sequator
- Mask reveal the meteors with Photoshop
---- Explore Aug. 14, 2021 -----
Technical Info:
Optics:
SGO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian @ 610mm FL
Explore Scientific 2" HR Coma Corrector
Camera : Canon t3i (Astro Moddified)
Astronomik H-Alpha 12nm CCD Filter - Canon EOS APS Clip
Mount: Losmandy GM8 (Used)
Guiding: QHY Mini Guide Scope + PHD 2
Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Exposure:
Ha (ISO 800) - 25 subs @ 1 Minute
Calibration: 10 Darks
Processing : Sequator, Adobe Camera Raw
Just gettin' my James Webb on, here is some detail of the milky way, shot at 55mm on the 645Z. I stacked 17, 8-second exposures as a median blend in Photoshop to achieve mathematical noise reduction. Processed with StarXTerminator to enhance dust lanes and nebulosity.
It's still a work in progress. Hope you like it.
The Milky Way over Tryfan in the Ogwen Valley, Wales
Notes: 35mm, vertical panorama, 2x stacks of 16x 10 second exposures, F2.2, ISO1600
Intentando plasmar la esencia del lugar y la aproximación del fotógrafo. Gracias a la furgoneta, se puede penetrar por caminos forestales y cargar con pesado y abundante equipo sin problema..
Datos de la imagen:
CIELO:
10x120 seg a f-1.8, 20mm, iso-560
Apilado con Sequator 1.60
Procesado con Capture One 21
SUELO:
1x240 seg a f-5.6. 29mm, iso-1600
Blending final con Photoshop y procesado último de cielo con StarXTerminator de RC Astro
Comet 2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) and Milky Way, Orland Maine.
30, 8-second exposures processed in Lightroom, stacked in Sequator, and finished in Lightroom.
"Maine Milky Way in the Morning". Shot at Moosehead Cottage Resort in Maine around 4:30 am on March, 18, 2018. The sky is made up of 5, 20 second exposures stacked using Sequator then processed in Lightroom. The foreground is made up of 5 shots HDR blended in Lightroom. The 2 pieces were layer blended in Photoshop.
Another shot of the Milky Way from a recent camping trip, processed using a program called Sequator.
Normally when taking photos of the milky way you have to ramp the ISO up and shoot with your aperture wide open to get a decent enough photo. And then you need to edit that photo to make the Milky Way "pop". You will end up with a noisy photo and maybe a few trailing stars depending on exposure time.
This is where Sequator comes in handy! From the website:
"Sequator is a free software which can track stars on multiple images, align stars and stack them."
I tried it on 9 photos(240 seconds) and the result was quite impressive for a first go.