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Unable to sleep following the disaster with my camera earlier in the evening (see previous upload), I kept looking out the window, watching the aurora dancing above Broadford Bay. At 4 am, Cassiopeia was due north in the sky, and remembered that the Milky Way runs through Cassiopeia. I found my old 6D camera and the 14mm lens I use for astrophotography and quietly crept out of the house to avoid disturbing my mammalian housemates, and went back to the seashore with my hated tripod. I thought I might try to capture the aurora and Milky Way together - my old 6D has a dodgy shutter but works fine with the long exposures I use for astrophotography. The big green arc that I had seen earlier was mostly gone at this point, but there were now strong pink and red colours. The aurora was so bright that it blew out the lower part of the Milky Way, but got a better capture higher up in the sky. The image was produced using nine shots combined in Sequator.
Went to Castle Hill last night looking for some Milky Way pics, I was particularly interested in doing a timelapse to record the star trails. And boom! This is what I was hoping for. Anything goes with night sky photography, hence this is a composite. First I took the foreground 240 sec exposure, f/5.0, ISO 3200. Next I took a timelapse of 240 images, 30 sec exposure,, f/2.8, ISO 1000. I only used the first hour worth of images as the full two hours became too busy. Denoised in DxO PhotoLab 6.5. Star trails stacked using Sequator. Finally composited with the foreground using Affinity Photo.
Another Shot in Explore.
This was taken Friday evening 17th July at 11.00pm. This was taken at Arundel in West Sussex on the south coast of England. It was taken on a path alongside the River Arun south of Arundel Castle. At this time and day the Comet is visible all night but is at its best and higher in the sky in the evening. Most of the Sky was clear after days of cloud. The final result was much brighter due to the camera settings and the stacking of images.
This was taken with a Minolta Tamron 18-200 lens at 35mm at F5 10 seconds and 1600 ISO. 10 pictures were taken and stacked together using Sequator software which aligns stars together. The picture was taken close to home about 10 miles away looking NNW.
After processing in Sequator the image was taken into Photoshop and then processed in Topaz Clarity and Topaz DeNoise.
The Comet is visible all of July and getting brighter until closest approach on 23 July.
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a7s et samyang 135 f2 400x2,5 secondes staking Sequator
La grande galaxie d'andromède (m31) au couché.
This shot has been in my photography bucket list for a long time and because of unreliable weather forecasts I've kept putting it off because of the fear of failure.
Last night I took the bold decision to drive to Beer beach in East Devon in spite of very varying weather forecasts and after some patience was rewarded with a spell of mostly clear sky.
This is a stack of 11x 8s exposures stacked in sequator and edited in lightroom.
Fear of failure conquered!
Milky way rising over the farm. Went into the cornfield to try to get away from the house lights in the distance. 5 tracked frames for the Milky Way, taken with the Move Shoot Move tracker, stacked in Sequator. 4 light painted foreground frames blended in Photoshop. The results were then blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
5 x (20mm @ f/5.6 120 sec, ISO 800)
Foreground:
4 x (20mm @ f/2.8, 10 sec, ISO 1600)
Another composite from Bodie Island Lighthouse. The lightkeepers house with the Milky Way rising above. 5 frames for the foreground, timed with the blinking of the lighthouse to illuminate. Sky was 10 frames stacked in Sequator. The resulting photos were blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6.
Lens: Nikkor Z 35mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
10 x (35mm @ f/2.5, 8 sec, ISO 5000)
Foreground:
5 x (35mm @ f/2.5, 8 sec, ISO 5000)
Sony a7s et sigma FD 135 f2.8
Empilage de 72 images de 6s avec Sequator.
Traitements lightroom, topaz denoise, et luminar 4.
Les Écrins sont à plus de 120 km d'ici.
60 images au 8mm (16mm en ff), F2.8, 1600 iso, 20s, soit juste 30mn ce qui est trop peu, assemblées avec Sequator suivant les conseils de la photojam de Studio Jiminy : studio-jiminy.fr/photojam/photojam-ciel-etoiles-lecureuil
Finalisée avec LT
Au barrage du lac de Vassivière (Creuse)
This is my first landscape astrophotography. It was not easy at all this picture. The image is made up of 9 tiles of 4 photos each, a total of 36 photos. I stacked each mosaic with sequator, then created the panorama and fixed it with photoshop and finally finished the editing with lightroom. It is not the season for the Milky Way, so I will take this again during the spring. On the other hand, it can be observed Andromeda galaxy and the Pleiades. These two objects of the deep sky I have already shot with my telescope in the past. I hope you enjoy this picture!
The night sky near Callington South Australia
Half a dozen ilght painted shots for the foreground at ISO 400, f/5.0 and 30 seconds.
4 shots for the sky at ISO 3200, f/2.8 10 seconds each and stacked in Sequator.
Taken about 2200 hrs
All shots taken with out moving the camera and all at 20mm
2 series de 10 disparos a f-2.8, 16 segundos a iso-5000
Apilado del cielo con Sequator 1.60
Apilado del suelo con Photoshop, método mediana.
Cosido de imágenes con PTgui 10.07
7 x 3 minutes, 6 dark frames, Omegon Minitrack LX2, processed in Sequator, Photoshop and Starnet++, unfortunately clouds entered and dew started to appear on my lens, but with this few shots I am still quite content.
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
This was just me using my new camera when I first got it, testing how it does on my wide angle lens so I thought I'd see if I could catch some stars, mind the crappy light pollution : (
8 x 3 photo pano done in Sequator and stitched in Lightroom
Also I use to come to this area to do a lot of my focus stack macros but when I arrived this time I see they put up a fence around where I use to go, I didn't expect this and it made the compo bad !!
I stacked in Sequator 20 images from one of my Bodie star trails sequences, and picked up this nice airglow over the Bodie Methodist Church.
It was forecast to be a clear night and the moon didn’t rise till 11 PM, so I took a trip to Bodie Island to photograph the Milky Way near vertical net to the lighthouse. 13 photos of the sky stacked in Sequator and 10 photos of the foreground blended in Photoshop. The resulting images were then blended in Photoshop. I waited for the moon to rise to help light the lighthouse, but there wasn’t much illumination.
Camera: Nikon Z6.
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
10 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 15 sec, ISO 5000)
Foreground:
10 x (20mm @ f/3.5, 20 sec, ISO 3200)
Assemblage de 511 photos selon paramètres suivants :
- objectif : 60 mm
- ouverture : 2.8
- ISO : 1600
- vitesse : 2 sec
Traitement de l'image :
- Sequator
- Camera Raw
- Photoshop
Mon avis personnel :
L'objectif de 60 mm ne convient pas, il faut impérativement un UGA ;
La vitesse de 2 sec est bonne dans ce cas-ci car il s'agit de pdv en ville avec forte pollution lumineuse.
Le logiciel SEQUATOR est excellent dans le traitement des données mais il est impératif de compléter les pdv du ciel par des
- fichiers darks (bruit)
- fichiers flats (vignettage)
Bref, cela n'a rien d'exceptionnel en soi mais pour moi qui n'avais jamais pris de photos nocturnes de cet ordre, ça me semble pas mal (surtout en raison de la pollution lumineuse).
This alternative version is created by merging 9 photos with the Sequator program. Of the 9 photos, one has the ruins illuminated. With the Sequator tool, It is able to align the stars in the sky and remove light pollution as well as other distortions detected in the sky. Having, on one hand, the optimized photo of the stars and, on the other hand, the photo with the illuminated ruins, I merged them conveniently. Finally, the resulting canvas is processed with Darktable following my traditional pipeline,
A few weeks ago I had the privilege to meet up with three somewhat local people, two of them fantastic at night and astrophotography.
After introductions and a stop for a quick lunch, we headed out west and north for the California coast.
We ended up at Salt Point State Park, not far north of Jenner. After a small trek across a narrow bay, up hills through a tunnel of thick vegetation, we emerged on some fairly flat land some 15-20 meters above the sea.
After some exploration, we arrived at some gnarly and remarkable rocky shore. We then scouted for interesting scenery, sometimes together and other times on our own.
Here is one of the more successful images I produced. It was a single focus at infinity with f/2.8 aperture with 15 second exposure time. The foreground is therefore soft. I can't do focus stacking yet. However, I was able to stack 3 exposures for reduced noise using the free Windows application Sequator. I'm very delighted with the nearly perfect alignment of the two Milky Way bands with the two sharp points of the crown-like rock rise.
Sony alpha 7s et samyang 24 f1.4
traitements lightroom, luminar4, sequator, microsoft ice.
panoramique vertical 3x3 images, poses 13s 4000iso, pas de Lune.
Ashford Bobbin Mill after dark.
I went for a walk here with the family many years ago and made a mental note to return. My mental notes fall out of my head as soon as I make them but after seeing this place online Chris T and I decided to head here for some after dark photography.
It was forecast cloud but thankfully the met office fluffed their lines and it was clear as a bell. Happy days.
Once happy with my composition I fired the camera from afar then walked back to it using the LACE back light scanner, illuminating the scene as I went.
Next I re-focussed for the stars, opened up the aperture and took 12 x 8 second exposures at iso 2000 and 8 exposures with the lens cap on.
Once home I used Sequator to stack the star images and reduce the noise created from using such a high iso Next I exported them into Photoshop to layer the base image and the sky stack into one final image.
Pretty happy with how this one came out and as always it was great to catch up with Chris and I hope you've dried out from your cold water therapy :)
Nikon D5300
Sigma 10-20mm (10mm)
EXIF: f/5 ISO640
8x25s (3.3min)
4xdarks
Stacked/apilado: Sequator
Edited/editado: Lightroom
Pantà de Sau, Barcelona, España
Richard Tatti generously provided some NEF files to download nd follow along with his edit in a recent YouTube video: www.nightscapeimages.com.au/workshops---online.html
With travel restrictions in place (and thunderstorms anyway) I thought I would have a go. I set out with the intention of creating a different shot to Richard rather than trying to re-create it, which is not to say I don't like his original! In fact I probably would not normally edit this shot in the same way if it were mine! Richard used a Nikon Z6 and 20mm f/1.8 S lens, 9 sky shots and 3 light painted foreground shots. I used Sequator to stack the sky images (as per the video) and Photoshop to combine the result with 2 of the 3 foreground light painted shots.
The start of the new moon provided an opportunity to photograph the Milky Way from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park
I can't remember the last time I was at Glacier Point, it's been that long. This was my first attempt at Milky Way photography from this location and first attempt at a MW pano.
Like any new location, you encounter something unexpected, in this case the bright lights from the gift shop turned on at around 10:00PM (which seems like an odd time). This had the effect of lighting up the tops of the foreground trees. I had photographed my foreground shots prior the the lights turning on and combined it with sky images taken later in the evening.
This was a 4 shot pano with the sky stacked images (5 images) with Sequator.
I apologize for my absence from Flickr for the past few months. I was finally able to get out and use my astrotracer. It really comes in handy to reduce the noise in these high ISO long exposures. I didn't use any noise reduction for this shot. The foreground is light painted with low ISO and blended in with a multi sky shot blended in the software called Sequator.
It basically takes multiple sky exposures and blends them together reducing noise. That along with my astrotracer which moves the sensor in my camera along with the rotation of the stars allows for up to 5 minute shots. I find much over 1 minute has some star trailing in the corners so I keep mine to about 60 seconds each.
A big shout out to the father and his kids who stopped and chatted with me. It really helped to pass the time as I'm standing in the dead of night by myself waiting for the Milky Way to show itself.
A bit about the barn per the AG Week article published online... A stone barn that rises out of the far western Minnesota prairie like a cathedral was built by Frank Schott and his sons, William and Anthony, starting in 1923. The construction began with the foundation and the family worked on the barn for 20 years. The foundation is 2 feet wide and 5 feet deep.
Frank Schott emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1907. He learned the art of stone masonry from his father and grandfather.
The rocks were raised by block and tackle using horses or a tractor to pull the rocks into the desired location. The rocks were dropped into a fresh cement mixture.
The roof of the barn constructed of wooden shingles was burned by vandals, according to a story in The Land magazine.
My first deep sky shot, 6x30sec ISO3200 at 600mm with my Sigma Contemporary and Star Adventurer Mini including M32 and NGC205, very faint - I think - we can see also NGC206. Stacked with Sequator using 10 noise images and cropped to approx. 1/3 of the image.
Davis Mountains, Texas
Canon 6D
Samyang 14mm f/2.8
8 shots @ 15 sec. each
ISO 3200
Images stacked using Sequator
Images processed using Topaz Denoise and Adobe Lightroom
Thanks so much for your visits and comments.
Retraitement avec lightroom sur 20 RAW.
Empilage avec Sequator 1.54
Traitement du Tiff avec lightroom, puis accentuation des détails avec Topaz Sharpen AI.
ré échantillonnage avec Topaz Gigapixel AI (X6 soit 194mp).
dernières corrections cosmétique et redimensionnement à 33/100 par Bsplines avec Faststone .
image originale ici:
www.flickr.com/photos/basses-lumieres/28783551184/in/date...
fait au Canon 1100d et Sigma 18/35 f1.8 à 18mm f1.8
Got to Lake Phelps as the moon was setting, I did 4 compositions before moving around to the other side of the lake. This is the last composition before the move. This was a composition of 15 shots of the sky, blended in Sequator, and 19 light painted foreground shots (It was a long pier) blended in Photoshop. The resulting photos were then blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
15 x (20mm @ f/2.8, 13 sec, ISO 6400)
Foreground:
19 x (20mm @ f/5.6, 10 sec, ISO 500)
A good size gum tree under the Milky Way! This shot is a stack of 8 frames at 20 seconds each in Sequator blended with a light painted foreground shot of the tree, light painting by Craig Murphy. Blending in Photoshop, processing in Lightroom, Sigma lens.
Last year just before the Nightscaper Conference Wayne Pinkston and I met Peter Ensrud at the wave lottery. Wayne and Peter were both lucky enough to draw for South Coyote Butte. We spent from midnight to dawn hiking around and taking different compositions. Most of what we did was LLL except for this one that I took. Wayne was still shooting the control tower when I went over the ridge and took this image.
Night sky is 4 images stacked in Sequator. D750, 13 sec, ISO 6400, f/2.8, 17 mm
Ground is 4 images stacked in Photoshop, D750, 30 sec, ISO12800, f/2.8, 17mm
The lens was Wayne's 14-24mm Sigma Art lens that he let me borrow. Wayne promised me the lens would not disappoint. I liked it so much that I bought it from him.
60 stacked images 37 second exposures, 33 black images, processed in sequator - camera mounted on sky adventurer 2. Many thanks to Ian for enlightening me and confirming what exactly i had and where in the sky i was pointing. So i have reluctantly withdrawn my name (Keith's Nebula) as the new name for the Nebula since it has apparently already been discovered.
Penmon Point
As mentioned in the previous photos this was my first visit to the lighthouse. The sky was pretty clear but the wind and high tide made it difficult to take photos.
14mm/f2.8/ISO4000 20 seconds x5 stacked in Sequator.
Simple Milky Way. I was set to take a ride to a Bortle 2 area, but with all the rain yesterday and snow last night, I didn’t feel like dealing with the icy roads this morning, since it was 18 Fahrenheit. So I went to the end of the driveway and captured a shot of the Milky Way rising over the mail boxes. 15 shots stacked in Sequator and three light painted foreground shots blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
15 x (20mm @ f/2.8, 13 sec, ISO 6400)
Foreground:
3 x (20mm @ f/5.6, 15 sec, ISO 500)
Bodie State Historic Park, California.
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!