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This is another shot of the old grain elevator (same one that I posted yesterday), but for this version I wanted to give the feeling of just how small we are in the galaxy. I used my fisheye lens (corrected distortions in post) to capture as much of this scene as I could with the Milky Way towering above the structure. The light pollution on the right is from a small nearby (about 10 miles) city and on the left is from a farm.
Shot with a Fuji X-T2 and Samyang 8mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. (5) 15 second shots + (2) dark frames @ f/2.8, ISO 6400, 3800K WB. One LED panel used for LLL of the scene. Stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop using a few Topaz plugins.
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Some photographers are reporting that the brightness of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas has peaked and started declining, as it recedes from both the sun and from its closest pass to earth. But Saturday and Sunday are key times to shoot the comet because the moon is just past full, and it rises later each night, giving us darker skies to shoot the comet against in the twilight and early night hours.
While on a June, 5-day, river trip with some friends, we camped at one of the spots near the Wire Fence rapid. Of course, going on trips like this means I will bring all my photo toys with me, too!
The night was clear, and the moon was not out, so I decided to try to capture some Milky Way images in an area behind the camp that was not obstructed by trees.
I used a D750 with a 14-24mm Nikor lens (love this lens! Its the one that stay on my Nikon bodies the most!). I wanted to catch the MW arch over the rock formation in the distance. To do this, I did a panoramic at 9 positions (left to right). To reduce noise and have a sharper star image, I captured 4 frames at each position (all RAW). Then took a longer exposure for the foreground - not too much, because I wanted the foreground to be dark as I saw it, but still show some detail.
When I got home, I stacked each image in Sequator, and then take the produced Tiff files and stitched these using Photoshop.
A little adjustments in Photoshop to bring out the tones that I wanted, and the result is this image! A bonus for that night is the nice, greenish, air glow, too!
Anyway, there you go!
Early morning hunt for 2020 Perseid Meteor. As I was driving to my location about 1.5 hours west of Houston, Texas I started to see signs of fog developing. My heart dropped, thinking this would be a failed trip. I was rewarded with this specimen that was one of the brightest I've seen. I was shooting 8 second exposures with 1 second gap and the smoke from this could be seen in the next two frames.
I stacked the 10 preceding images using Sequator in order to reduce noise, blended the meteor and light painting in Photo Shop.
Llyn Alwen Dam with the Summer Milky Way. The Moon has just risen over the hilltop behind me
Notes: panorama made with Sony A7III, Voigtlander 35mm APO, 6x panels of 16 shots at f2.8, iso3200, 8 seconds
This is a stack and blend.
Sky 10 x 15", iso8000, 14mm, f2.8,
Foreground 1 x 240", iso800, 14mm, f2.8,
Stacked in Sequator and blended in Photoshop CC, then applied star minimization. Final edits in Lightroom CC.
Two photos blend of an milky way over a dusty path to the local forest and a tree nearby.
Sky - 7x90 sec, f/4, ISO 1600
Ground - 1x20 sec, f/4, ISO 1600
Photostack in Sequator, Blending in PS and final retouch in Lightroom. Photographed with Canon R10, Tamron 11-16mm F/2.8, and tracked with Nomad StarTracker.
The Milky Way rising behind the otherworldly landscape of White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument of Northern Arizona.
7 shots stacked for the sky in Sequator at ISO 12800, F2.8, 15 seconds. Blended with 4 shots focus stacked for the foreground at ISO 3200, F2.8, 125 seconds. Low level lighting used for lighting up the foreground.
This composition was created based on 7 long exposure photos. One of them illuminates the left side of the ruins and another one the right side. The process followed was:
Step 1: Alignment and stacking (aling_image_stack) of the Ground & Monastery (7 photos) to create a mask of only the Ground & Monastery, having darkened the sky --> Mask 1.
Step 2: Merging of the 7 photos to align the stars in the sky and eliminate part of the light pollution (with the Sequator program), having darkened the part of the Ground & Monastery --> Mask 2
Step 3: Stacking with function MAX mask 1 + mask 2 (Darktable plugin "Image Stack"). No GIMP/Photoshop was needed.
Step 4: Applying my typical post-processing with Darktable.
Milky Way core. Polar alignment was way off so don't look too close otherwise you'll see the trailing :P
Nikon D750 + 24-70 f/2.8 @ 50mm, f/4, ISO 1000, 4m
iOptron Skyguider Pro
Lightroom 6
Sequator (3 stacked images)
Sometimes to get the shot that you want, you have to have patience, and this may mean waiting months (or more) to get exactly what you want.
I came across this wonderful old abandoned grain elevator earlier this summer on my travels to another (potential) location and knew that I'd have to come back later to photograph it when the stars would be in alignment with my vision.
Shot with a Fuji X-H1 and Samyang 12mm f/2.0; (5) 15 second shots + (2) dark frames @ f/2.0, ISO 3200, 3800K WB. A single LED panel was used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop using a few Topaz plugins.
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Enfin une sortie de nuit :D
Canon 80D, Tokina 11-16mm
22 photos pour le ciel, 22 darks. 5 photos pour l'avant plan et l'éclairage
Logiciel : Sequator, StarNet++, Photoshop et Lightroom
It was fun seeing a familiar place in Outdoor Photographer Magazine's Guide to Night Photography issue, August 2021, page 32! Just received our copy in the mail last night, check it out!
Full disclosure: single shutter release activation, adjusted in Lightroom, no Photoshop, nothing was faked (like mirroring the sky into the puddle, or copying the sky or foreground from another time or sky captured in a different shot taken at a different focal length).
Sad that this disclosure seems necessary these days, given the high incidence of graphics arts creations being passed off as photographic images!
I'm NOT saying that everything needs to be straight out of camera, but come on... so much CAN be captured in camera, there's as little need as ever to fake things.
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On the last night of my first Lubec workshop of the year we were treated to a night of clear skies, with just a bit of clouds low on the horizon. With everyone doing pretty well, I was able to take out my camera for some shots. For fun, I waited until Jupiter (the bright orb on the right) was positioned above the pine tree below it before taking my star stacking shots. It actually started before Jupiter was over the tree, but by using Starry Landscape Stacker’s “Align With” feature, I was able to pick the image from the 10 where Jupiter was over the tree, and have the rest of the shots align with that one.
Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm, f/2.8. The sky is from 10 shots star stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker (macOS, you can use Sequator on Windows, or Photoshop but it doesn’t work as well), each shot at ISO 6400 for 9 seconds (usually I do 10 seconds but due to an intervalometer goof they were only 9 seconds). The foreground is a blend of 2 exposures, one without clouds covering Mars so I could get a nice reflection in the water. One foreground shot was at ISO 1600 for 8 minutes, and another was at ISO 1600 for 4 minutes. The star stacked sky and the two foreground shots were blended in Photoshop, and then creative effects were applied.
During the workshop a couple students mentioned to me that they really like Topaz DeNoise, a noise reduction tool available as a plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom. I had used Nik Dfine in the past (haven’t used it much lately), and I use Lightroom/ACR’s noise reduction a lot, but I had yet to try Topaz DeNoise, but I’d heard of it for years. So I finally decided to give it a whirl. I also discovered that Topaz has a new noise reduction tool called AI Clear, which is only available in their Topaz Studio, which is also available as a Photoshop plug-in. DeNoise is your standard noise reduction tool with lots of controls, and AI Clear uses artificial intelligence to analyze the image and apply noise reduction with very few controls. I worked with DeNoise for quite a while to get something I liked, but with AI Clear I was able to get an amazing looking result quite quickly. However, there seems to be an issue with AI Clear, the preview inside Topaz Studio looks great, but when I go back to Photoshop the result has over-sharpened noise that I didn’t see in the AI Clear preview in Studio. I’ve contacted Topaz about this issue, they suggested using Studio stand-alone (outside of Photoshop) but that had the same issue, so I’m awaiting more information from Topaz. In the end, I used a combination of 4 different noise reduction layers. One layer was with AI Clear, the over-sharpened noise issue is only in the sky but the foreground looks great, so I used the foreground from AI Clear. Then I used DeNoise with 3 different results, one for the water and sky, and 2 more passes for more aggressive noise reduction of the cloudy area of the sky and around Mars. I masked in the results from the 4 noise reduction layers to use only the parts I wanted.
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It started out as a great, if not brief night to capture the Milky way alongside the Bodie Island Lighthouse. I got there just as Astro dark was setting in. I unpacked my star tracker, polar aligned it, and went to mount my camera. This is when the night took a turn for the worst. I couldn’t find my declination bracket. I had no way to mount my camera. So I packed everything up and decided to just shoot static frames to stack together. I set up on the observation platform, got everything dialed in and took 11 frames in between the beacon flashing and the cars sitting in the parking lot with their headlights on. These were stacked in Sequator and finished in Photoshop. I only had to wait about an hour for the moon to rise enough to give me some light on the foreground. I took five frames and blended them in Photoshop, along with one at a drastically reduced shutter speed for the beacon. I also tried out a Viltrox 24mm f1.8 lens. I am surprised how well it did considering the short exposure times.
Camera: Nikon Z6 II
Lens: Viltrox Z 24mm f/1.8
Sky:
11 x (24mm @ f/2.8, 10 sec, ISO 6400)
Foreground:
5 x (24mm @ f/3.5, 15 sec, ISO 1600)
Beacon:
(24mm @ f3.5, 5 sec, ISO 1600)
Taken during a landscape-astrophotography workshop in Tenerife.
Canon EOS 7D and Samyang 14mm f/2.8. Sky is 6 x 25-second exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 6400 stacked in Sequator software; 1 x 6-minute exposure at ISO 3200 for the foreground. Paint Shop Pro used to merge the different exposures and make minor adjustments to the curves and colour balance.
A quick practice shot on the night of December 12-13 while waiting for it to get dark enough to see Geminid meteors. I wnet back out to try again, and my results were much less successful. On December 12 I had my Canon intervalometer attached, so I could use that to trigger the shots. Tonight I went out in a hurry and didn't bring my camera bag, or my intervalometer.
The Church of St. Michael de Rupe stands atop of Brentor, Devon. Even if you are not a religious person it is a very spiritual place and all alone at night it offered me an opportunity to reflect on my good fortune to still be able to do something I love and be thankful for it.
It is a blend of three shots. With a long exposure of 3 mins for the foreground with some light painting and a second shorter exposure for the lights I had put in the church windows.
I did try stacking for the sky but I find Ps stacking difficult and Sequator didn't give any better results that Prime NR in DxO.
Next time I will just have to lug my star tracker up the hill.
This is a stack of 9 15 second exposures stacked in Sequator.
Death Valley National Park, California.
The Milky Way reflects in a cove on a calm night at high tide long the coast of Maine.
Nikon Z 6, FTZ lens adapter and Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm, f/2.8 for all exposures.
Sky: Star stacked result of 20 exposures at 10 seconds and ISO 6400 for pinpoint stars and low noise using Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac) but you can do this on Windows using Sequator.
Foreground: Focus stack of two exposures, each at ISO 1600 for 10 minutes.
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A starry mid Summer night sky reflected over the meandering Oxtongue River in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada.
Seen from Tubla, above Selva di Val Gardena. The Ciampinoi gondola top-station can be seen at left, and light from the recently-set crescent Moon is to the right. Some cloud was drifting across the top left.
Canon EOS 5D MkIII and Sigma 35mm f/1.4; 7 x 13-sec exposures at f/2.2 and ISO 1600. Frames were stacked using Sequator, before curves and colour-balance adjustment.
Gesamtaufnahmedauer 10 x 32 Sec
Nachführung: nano.tracker
Lumix G81 mit Sigma 400mm f5.6
Sequator, Lightroom, Bortle:Class5
This is what a SpaceX launch at Vandenberg AFB in Lompoc, California looks like from 276 miles away! I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to see it through the smoke, so I didn't drive far to make the attempt.
This composite sequence shows is the launch, and the stage 1 rocket landing for re-use.
I already have some ideas on where I'd like to shoot a launch from in the future, a little closer.
A bit of experimental shot tonight. 5 shots for the sky @ISO1000/f2.8 stacked in sequator. and a single shot of the tree at ISO400/F5/6.
I got the idea from this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GynWrNxts0
I do like the pin sharp stars from the stacking but the clouds look a purple tinged. possibly down to the processing and stacking but i couldnt remove it.
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At the end of 2022 I was in the Harz Mountains for a few days. The weather was good and it got dark early so out to take photos.
North of the Harz there is a rock chain called the Teufelsmauer (devils wall). A rock massif there is the Hamburg coat of arms. With its towers, it is reminiscent of the coat of arms of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Right next to it is a rock passage, the Teufelsloch (devils hole).
The image consists of a total of 11 individual images. 10 images with an exposure time of 30 seconds were stacked with the Sequator tool to create the starry sky. In one of the exposures, the rock with the cave was illuminated with a flashlight.
For the eleventh picture I stood in the cave with a hurricane lantern and illuminated myself from the camera with my head torch.
In Luminar, in the stacked image, I darkened the rock around the cave, lightened the inside of the cave slightly, and inserted myself from the 11th image. The image was then optimized with various filters.
A view of the Milky Way on a clear night from my front yard. Class 4 Bortle. 10 shots stacked in Sequator and processed in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon D7500
Lens: Samyang 14mm
10 x (14mm @ f/2,8, 15 sec, ISO 6400)
Jupiter is also visible, in front of a dark nebula. The lights on the horizon are presumably ships out at sea.
5 x 25-sec. exposures with a Canon EOS 7D and Samyang 14mm f/2.8 lens; ISO 3200. The RAW files and dark frames were stacked in Sequator software, digital noise was reduced in Cyberlink PhotoDirector; colour balance and curves were adjusted in a very old version of Paint Shop Pro that I still like to use.
M81/M82 from Paris
Weather : Awful sky, a lot of mist (not a clear night) and light pollution
Conditions : late in the night (1h AM) so low over buildings
Settings : 120 photos of 20s, 25s and 30s at F6.3/600mm
Hardware : Sony A7S in EFCS mode and Tamron 150-600
PP : with SEQUATOR for the stacking (did not succeeded with DSS because of the sky pollution) and lightroom. The result is a miracle made by sequator.
Due to the conditions (mist+light pollution) , please with the result, even if it is not the best ever photo of these galaxies.
I can see 5 galaxies in the field :
- M81
- M82
- NGC 3077
- NGC 2976
- NGC 2959
(M81M82seq00cadre-1+1)
Took this from a campground in the Adirondacks. The lights from the facilities lit up my foreground, which was pretty rad!
This is a composite image. While my camera can see this, and this scene technically is real, your eyes could not perceive it.
Canon 80D + Tokina 11-16 f2.8
Sky: f2.8 ISO 1600 25" x 5
Foreground: f2.8 ISO 800 120" x 3
Sky and foreground separately stacked in Sequator
Exposures and white balance equalized in Lightroom
Blended in Photoshop CC
This is a single tracked sky shot at 90 seconds, ISO 800, f/2.8, 20mm, Nikon D800
and 6 light painted shots of the rocks at f/9.0 various shutter speeds, ISO 200 16mm., Nikon Z7II
blended with Sequator and RC Astro.
At the time of shooting this there were 2 occassions when the Aurora Australis was visible behind me but not brilliant colours..
These shots were taken between 1 am and 2.30 am
I did manage to get a couple of shots of the aurora but nothing outstanding.
The tracked sky shot was taken 20 metres to the right of these rocks and about 2 metres higher elevation.
Superior Skies
...This is a 3 shot image de-noise stack taken over Lake Superior from Split Rock SP, 6/10/18.
Canon 5dsr at 19mm; 25 sec, f/2.8, iso 6400.
Trying out Starry Landscape Stacker on my new Mac and I'm finding it to be way better than Sequator [had to leave Windows for processing because of the terrible Thundebolt 3 (T3) bug that crashes a pc like a switch and thus disallows rapid backup transfers. Mac has no such issues since Apple developed the T3 with Intel]. The T3 port transfers data at 32X the speed of USB 3.0, so a backup of 5 TB of photos takes a few hours rather than days. This makes backups so much easier and thus one does not continually put them off.
The Milky Way on the coast of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.
It might be hard to tell in a small online image, but the white dots in the largest pothole in the rocks closest to the lens are reflections of the stars.
This is one of those shots that had been a year in the making. The timing didn’t work out for me last year, but this year I got lucky with a clear night after some heavy rain and wind storms came through the Canadian Maritimes.
Nikon Z 7 with FTZ lens adapter and NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm and f/2.8 for all shots.
Sky: Star stack of 20 exposures at ISO 3200, 8 seconds each. The exposures were stacked for pinpoint stars and low noise in Starry Landscape Stacker for Mac (you can do this on Windows using Sequator). I processed the stack twice, once for the sky and another time using the foreground pool of water in the pothole for the star reflections. I used the pool as the “sky mask” so that Starry Landscape Stacker would align and average the stars in the pool. In both cases the results are pinpoint stars and low noise.
Foreground: Focus stack from three separate exposures, each at ISO 1600 for 10 minutes.
The resulting sky star stack, reflection star stack, and all three foreground exposures were blended in Photoshop for low noise and depth of field.
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Campo de las Pleyades abajo a la derecha, la nebulosa California en el centro y el cumulo abierto en Perseo entorno a la estrella Mirfak arriba a la izquierda, Capella se divisa abajo a la izquierda
Montura Omegon LX3
Canon 6d full range, objetivo 50 mm con filtro de CL, a F/4 ISO800
DO
Procesado Sequator, PIX y PS
Cielo Bortle 8 Sanse
Field of the Pleiades in the lower right, the California nebula in the center and the open cluster in Perseus around the star Mirfak in the upper left, Capella can be seen in the lower left Omegon LX3 mount Canon 6d full range, 50mm lens with CL filter, at F / 4 ISO800 DO Sequator, PIX and PS processing Sky Bortle 8 Sanse
Cassiopea area
Took this while I waited for Orion to clear the trees
24 X 120 seconds
ISO 800
20 darks
30 flats
55mm f5.6
Nikon d5300
IOptron SkyTracker V2
Stacked in Sequator
PP in Pixinsight
Star trails over Moreton Corbet Castle in Shropshire, UK
Notes: 120x 30 second exposures stacked with Sequator
Nikon D850 with a Nikon 24mm f1.4G ED @1.4 ISO200 15 second exposure. 68 exposures stacked in Sequator, Processed in PS. Shot with a MSM tracker.
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE. Nikon D750. Nikkor 70-300 AF-P VR ED. 60 x 3sec @ 300mm. Cloudy. Best I'm going to get! Stacked in Sequator.
5 images combined with Sequator ver.1.5.5
Post processing with LR Classic
Noise Reduction with NeatImage 8
DSC8466_sequator-Edit-2_filtered
I attempted the Milky Way last pm...just way too much light dome. Although it is barely visible, I used 15(30"/1250ISO)star images and 10 black in Sequator. It did get rid of several planes heading into Logan and kept the noise low. Next time I think I will up the ISO and try something like 10", it will greatly reduce star trails. Ummmm, now...shut the damn light off and go to bed up there...
I remember when you could look up and see this all the time without using wide lenses etc..
Almost above the house to the left you can see what I think is the Andromeda Galaxy. Checking each image it is clearly visible. and visible to the naked eye when looking up. It's a mere 2,480,000 par secs(light years) away...looking back into time!