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Malgré les nuages et la pollution lumineuse de la vallée, une légère éclaircie le 1er Août à Saint-Luc, a permis de révéler la voie lactée.
Canon 550d + tokina 11-20mm @ 11mm
20x30'' @3200 iso
10 darks
traitement sequator, darktable, starnet++ et gimp
I joined Friends of Photography Meetup for some evening fun shooting the sunset and Milky Way at Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero, CA. I was a little concerned about the clouds and marine layer as we were driving down, but things held out nicely and I was able to do my first Milky Way Shoot. I stacked my images using Sequator and I am glad I did. There was a big difference in quality between using the stacking software and just using the individual photo. I'm sure with practice I'll get a little better. I also used my nisi reverse NDG filter for the sunset photo. This filter is quickly becoming my favorite.
Nikon Z5 undefined converted - Kolari Vision UV/IR Cut Filter - Sigma 24/1.8 - DIY Astro Tracker
Stars: Stack of 16 x 60 seconds, f1.8, ISO 800
Aurora Borealis: 10 Seconds, f1.8, ISO 1600
Foreground: 20 Seconds, F8, ISO 800 during twilight, lit with Wurkkos HD01 PRO
Post processing: Sequator, GraXpert, StarNet, Darktable, Gimp
Tracked with Sky Watcher Star Adventurer.
11 light frames
3 dark frames
Stacked in Sequator
Processed in Lightroom
Nikon D750
Nikkor 20mm f/2.8D
We're being treated to a nice show in the night sky right now! From left to right, Mars, the the Galactic Center of the Milky Way, and Jupiter are all in alignment earlier in the night. Pluto and Saturn are in there too, but Pluto is too small to see, and Saturn is to the left and up from the Lagoon Nebula in the Galactic Center. It was dumb luck that I caught this scene, I was vaguely aware of the planetary alignment happening but I've been so busy with projects and preparing for teaching workshops that I had no idea I was going to capture such a beautiful sight until I was out shooting, so needless to say I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to get this composition of Mars and Jupiter flanking the Galactic Center!
Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm lens @ 14mm, f/2.8. The sky is a star stacked blend of 7 shots for low noise and pinpoint stars, stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker for macOS, but you can do this in Sequator for Windows (or other programs but those are the easiest for star stacking landscape astro images). The 7 shots were each at ISO 6400, 10 seconds. The foreground is from a 20 second shot taken less than 2 minutes before I took the exposures for the sky. The tide was going out and on the mudflats it goes out really fast, so the 20 second shot had more water in the foreground on the mudflats, so the reflection of the stars was better, and it was also a sharp reflection since the star stacking was just for the sky, so the star reflections in the water were not aligned with each other and thus blurred in the stacking. I could have done a separate stack for the water in Starry Landscape Stacker to line up the reflections and get low noise, but the 20 second shot had more water and a better reflection. I aligned the foreground star reflections with the reflections of the star stacked image in Photoshop, and masked in the foreground. Noise reduction in Lightroom (before sending the foreground to Photoshop) and Adobe Camera Raw (in Photoshop, which is the same underlying raw editor as Lightroom) was used to reduce the noise on the water.
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Decided on doing a stack to reduce on digital noise....This was a stack of 10 light frames and 4 dark frames..Stacked in Sequator and then edited in Lightroom...No additional noise reduction added...
On the last summer night and the first night of fall, me and my friend got out of the city to try and catch a potential outburst of the Aurigids meteor shower. I've set up one of my cameras to look to the celestial north pole, as it was a good positioning for hunting the meteors and because I've wanted for a long time to collect a timelapse with Polaris centered. Both goals were reached and here is the first result - a colorful star trails image with circling around Polaris, an old dream of mine!
Shot using Nikon D610 (ISO1600) and Irix 15mm @ f/2.4. Exposure was set to 30 seconds, thanks to pointing to the celestial north pole!
Processing done using Sequator (stacking 29 frames in timelapse mode), RawTherapee (initial post-processing), StarStaX (creating the star trails, in gap filling mode) and RawTherapee (final post-processing)
Pride of Castile
There are many castles, monasteries, and hermitages you can find in Castile.
With just enough time, I captured the first galactic center of the season that's just starting. Happy start to the season.
Sky
Sony FE 35mm f/1.8
2.8. 20 sec. ISO 2000 x 10. Sequator.
Ground.
Viltrox 20mm FE 2.8
5.6. 15 sec. ISO 200
Blue hour.
Blending Photoshop.
Orgullo de Castilla
No son pocos los castillos, Monasterios y Ermitas con los que te puedes encontrar en Castilla.
Con el tiempo justo y menos he capturado el primer centro galáctico de la temporada que inicia. Feliz comienzo de Temporada
Cielo
Sony FE 35mm f/1.8
2.8. 20seg. ISO 2000 x 10. Sequator.
Suelo.
Viltrox 20mm FE 2.8
5.6. 15seg. ISO 200
Hora azúl.
Blending Photoshop.
10 x 25", 3200 ISO, F2.8 @ 14mm
Stacked in Sequator with the "freeze ground" option - easy !
This was shot a few minutes after moonset, at 0245. As you can see there is very little detail in the foreground yet the sky isn't fully dark as the moon and sun aren't far enough below the horizon. At Irish latitudes we have a window of April/May and September /October where the Milky Way is high enough and the nights are dark enough to hope for good weather.
Shot at Ballydowane Beach on the Copper Coast, one of the more accessible dark sites from Dublin.
The lens is a samyang 14mm 2.8 on full frame. The shot a bit soft and I'm not sure if that's inherent in the lens fully open or because the manual focus is slightly off. Or maybe because of the exposure length, its using a 300 rule, which with modern sensors is maybe a bit too long.
Next step gear wise would be a tracker or a wider (1.4) lens, for the use it would get I'm not sure it's worth it.
Anyhow its always nice to see the stars by the seaside it reminds ya how small we are in the big scheme of things.
Eglwys Cwyfan, aka The Little Church in the Sea, beneath the Northern Lights earlier this year in May 2024. A bucket list moment. The Northern Lights are rarely seen this far south and I was lucky to have the wonderful location to myself all night. Image made with 8x 5 second exposures stacked for noise reduction
Two comets and globular clusters NGC 5053 and M53.
Canon EOS 60D (on the tripod), 87mm, ISO-6400, f/5.6. Stack 200x8 sec in Sequator software.
I joined Friends of Photography Meetup for some evening fun shooting the sunset and Milky Way at Pigeon Point Lighthouse in Pescadero, CA. I was a little concerned about the clouds and marine layer as we were driving down, but things held out nicely and I was able to do my first Milky Way Shoot. I stacked my images using Sequator and I am glad I did. There was a big difference in quality between using the stacking software and just using the individual photo. I'm sure with practice I'll get a little better. I also used my nisi reverse NDG filter for the sunset photo. This filter is quickly becoming my favorite.
Beautiful Milky Way taken from remote croatian island of Lastovo. 15x20s exposures stacked in Sequator and processed in PS.
After various attempts I finally took this shot as I wanted to! Milky way on one of my favourite places in Sardinia, my homeland.
This is a blend of 16 shot.
A 30 seconds one was taken during the blue hour for the foreground @ iso 100 f/11. The others are 13 seconds each @iso 6400 f/2.8 and then stacked with Sequator.
충북 보은군 몽에목성지 은하수
That night, the sky was supposed to be completely clear, but unfortunately thin clouds were constantly blocking the view, until a small 30min window after 3 AM during which I had a partially clear view of the milky way. Fortunately, that was enough data to have the clouds disappear after stacking.
The place is a catholic shrine for pilgrimage in the mountains, designed in a very unique fashion, a bit reminding of teepee tents.
I used a Nikon Z 14-24mm F2.8 lens for the foreground, while the sky was taken with a Sigma 40mm F1.4 lens (with an EF->Z adapter).
Sky : 32*60" @ F2.8 iso500
Foreground : 60" @ 24mm F2.8 iso1600
Tracker : MSM
Post processing : Sequator, PixInsight, Photoshop
Nearing the end of August, the Milkyway is quite splendid over the North Yorkshire, UK skies. I had been planing a night-time trip to Aysgarth falls in the Yorkshire Dales for some time and was fortunate to be met with perfect conditions.
The foreground was taken at the end of the blue hour, ISO 1600, 30 second exposure at 10mm and F2.8. I didn't want too long an exposure time to prevent the water in the falls becoming too creamy without any detail.
Half an hour later the skies were proper dark and I began taking images. ISO 6400, 10mm, 20 seconds at F2.8.
Processing consisted of stacking 25 night images in Sequator, The light polution gradient was removed using the excellent Graxpert software which also performed streching to reveal star detail. The foregoround image was added and final edits performed in Capture One.
Exposure info:
Canon 80D, unmodified
Canon 70-200 f4L IS
iOptron Skyguider Pro
45 second exposures @ f4 ISO 1600
approx 125 lights
40 darks
Stacked in sequator
Edited in Photoshop CC with curves, some star reduction and dodge and burn
Taken in a bortle 3-4 zone in rural upstate NY.
The Milky Way rising high above the rocks in Mt Laguna, San Diego.
10 shots taken for the night sky at 15 seconds and stacked in Sequator blended with one longer exposure at 30 seconds.
is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star).... it extends over an area of about 10 full moons, but because it is very faint, it's not visible to the unaided eye.
photo notes: 20x30 sec exposure via Nikon D7200- modified ( Ha). stacked vis Sequator; edited with photoshop, NIk, Topaz Denoise
There are photographs that are born first in the heart and not in the mind. Those that, by the time they reach our retina, have challenged our technical limits but have always been what we originally dreamed of. From then on, the idea was unstoppable.
Hay fotografías que nacen primero en el corazón que en la mente. Aquellas que cuando llegan a la retina han desafiado nuestros límites técnicos pero que siempre han sido aquello que soñamos al principio. Desde entonces la idea fue indetenible.
Sony ILCE 7C
Sky
Viltrox 20mm f/2.8 FE
f/2.8. ISO 1250. 30sec. 3 x 12
Move Shoot Move. Sequator. Autopanogiga.
Ground.
Viltrox 20mm f/2.8 FE
f/2.8. ISO 1250. 30sec. x 15
Autopanogiga.
Blending
Photoshop.
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38 x 20s tracked with Pentax Astrotracer (O-GPS2) + 10 Darks, assembled by Sequator. Cokin Clearsky filter
The Night Sky of Saint Martin's Island…
It feels like a veil of endless mystery. The countless stars scattered across the sky resemble tiny diamonds. And if you go at the right time, the Milky Way appears in all its glory—something that words can hardly capture. Surrounded by the roar of the ocean, the faint lights of fishing boats, the chirping of crickets, and the cool breeze, the atmosphere creates a surreal feeling—as if time itself has come to a pause.
This photo was taken during our Star Party group tour to Saint Martin's in March 2024.
To create this panorama, I took six vertical shots, each consisting of 11 frames, with an exposure time of 15 seconds per frame. Each frame has different noise positions, which we later remove using software. For this image, I used Sequator, DSS, and Siril to process the stars.
For the foreground, six separate frames were taken from the same location and processed in Lightroom. Along with four dark frames, a total of 76 images were used to create the final photo. All the TIFF data were brought together and processed in Photoshop. It took me about five to six days to complete the full processing.
Mazhar Nibras | 2024
Camping in Akamas and Milky Way.
4 X 40 seconds for Foreground
31 X 120seconds For Milky Way
Camera: Canon 250D,
Lens Rokinon 16mm Prime
Move Shoot Mover for Tracking
ISO 800, F2.2, 16mm
Stacked in Sequator
Processed in Photoshop
A collection of perseid meteors above the ruins of St. Vid chapel on Cres island, Croatia. This is was intended as a timelapse video, so I made a photo, too. Stack of 21x15s exposures in Sequator, processed in PS. Meteors were taken from the sequence of 400 images in total, rotated so they align with the radiant. You can see some sporadic meteors (so, not perseids) as well!
Crisp sandstone ripples lead to the Citadel, one of the standout formations in an isolated area known as White Pocket in the Vermillion Cliffs Nat. Monument.
To get here, you need a good 4-wheel drive vehicle (and a driver who knows how to handle deep sand). Since that doesn't describe me, I booked a spot on a guided overnight tour.
The tour enjoyed a great afternoon at White Pocket and after sunset, we hiked the 15 minutes back to camp for dinner. Afterward, I was surprised that the guide and other tour participants were content to take Milky Way shots right from the camp which they planned to merge with the blue hour foreground photos they had taken earlier.
I don't mind blending a foreground image with a Milky Way photo taken a few minutes later from the same spot. But blending shots taken at different locations just seems wrong to me (I know a lot of wonderful folks who disagree with me on this topic and that's fine, but I have to be me.) So I hiked back into White Pocket alone.
It was a new moon, which made the short hike surprisingly challenging. However, I found that my real challenge was figuring out a way to properly illuminate the scene.
I had about a half dozen LEDs and I needed all of them. I set up one set of lights a few inches above the ground at a 90-degree angle to magnify the incredible shadows created by the ripples in the foreground. Tall light stands set well off to the left managed to illuminate the 'mountain' in the background.
The Milky Way is a series of stacked 11-second exposures combined in Sequator. And, yes, I took the Milky Way shots from the same spot;)
By the way, a few groups were staying at the campsite overnight and I expected that some other folks would be taking advantage of the dark skies to get Milky Way shots here, but I didn't see another soul all night, so at least I didn't have to be concerned with my lights bothering other photographers.
Sorry for the long narrative, but I just hate it when I see a photo that interests me and there aren't details explaining how it was accomplished.
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Composite...
Sky: Taken pre-dawn on March 1, 2022 between 5:15-5:45 am. 147, 13 sec. images stacked in Sequator = just under 32 minutes of exposure. Nikon 28mm-300 @ 28mm, f3.5, ISO 8000, Nikon D810.
Foreground: Nikon 28mm-300 @ 28mm, 1/800th, f3.5, ISO 200, Nikon D810.
Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD
24 mm, ƒ/2.8, 10x20s, 30xdark, ISO-6400
24xPerseids
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6 years back I went to this place and took a same image and was very proud of that. But with passing time and with more gathering of knowledge as well as improvements in equipment; I started thinking that the same image I was proud of is not that special anymore.
This year when I went back to Namibia; I needed to recreate that wonder. So what changed?
1. Doesn't matter the camera, doesn't matter the lens; a single exposure none tracked image will always have some noise and the star will never be a perfect dot. This was dead clear to me after a lots of attempts, lens and camera. The only way to get noise free and dot star image is a tracker. So comes the Benro Polaris. Why Benro Polaris? I have a Move Shoot Move and that can do the same work. But the polar alignment in the southern hemisphere is not that simple. There is no bright Polaris star there to help and that is where the automated Go To star feature of Benro Polaris does the magic.
2. Again; doesn't matter the camera or lens; those purple Hydrogen Alpha colour just can't be recorded by a normal camera. Again after many reading and experiments it was very clear. So I made an astro mod of my old Nikon D850; which I stopped using for last few years in favor of the video feature of the R5 / R5C. So a perfect option of getting the right thing done. Now this is a big deal for someone living in a small Swiss town. Yes nature is great here; but uncommon technology is not really that much handy. So I needed to send my camera to Germany. The company I have send to don't ship to Switzerland as the import process is complex and no one want to pay tax on a used camera. But it is not so easy to explain to Swiss customs. Hence, sending it with a colleague and bringing it back with him while he was reallocating to Switzerland was a thing on itself to only find that none of my manual Samyang lenses would work as the focal plane of the camera shifted slightly and any lenses with hard infinity wouldn't work as the actual focus would only happen past that infinity point. To get it fixed I needed to send back the camera to Germany again. It was not possible as I only found that a week before my travel to Namibia. Yes, unfortunately people living in Switzerland are not so lucky with frequent dark skies (lots of rain and cloud) to test an astro setup. No I am not complaining; those cloud and rain are also fantastic for photography; just not so good for frequent astro photography. So I had no time to send it back and get it fixed. Luckily the auto focus lenses work perfectly as they have a bit of buffer after infinity and has no hard stop. So I got a Sigma Art 14 F1.8 and a Sigma Art 28 F1.4. Fantastic lenses. I am glad that I bought them.
3. Every fantastic landscape astro images you see are in one way or another composites. Because you can't track the star and have the foreground from the same image. If you are not tracking you would stack multiple images and if you are taking only one frame; honestly; it will never be that good due to not a perfect dot star and high iso noise. So if I need to composite; I will do it as I see it in my head. Important for me was that it should come from the same place and not the sky of Namibia with the beach of Honolulu!
The image processing started.
I have taking 3 * 8 minutes exposures of the rock arch with minimal light painting and a red light in the middle to replicate my old image and it was taking with a Canon R5 and Samyang 10 MM Lens. So that I have enough sky.
I have also taken one 1 minutes exposure with ISO 3200 with R5 and 10 MM Samyang to photography myself in the image to get a human element portraying scale. It was hard to catch my breath and not move for a minute. But after few attempts I did well.
But while I was capturing all these; just in front of the rock I had set the tracker with the astro modified Nikon D850 and Sigma 28 MM F1.8. It was set for 16 * 4 minutes exposures ISO 400 F4. And finally I have taken 4 dark frames after I was done with the foreground shot and the light frames were captured.
I have also repeated the same sky shot with the Sigma 14 F1.8 with the exact setting. I will publish that image later.
Finally I have blended the sky image separated by stacking them with Sequator and processed the start and Milkyway separately using the StarXTerminator. And later adequate amount of stars were put back with basic photoshop technique of layers and selections.
The longer exposure foreground images were stacked and dust and scratch filter to remove the hot pixels. The shorter 1 minute exposure was used to blend myself (the human subject of the image) into the image and finally the sky was taken and added to the image from the 28MM tracked and stacked D850 image.
And here comes the result of it.
Now after 6 years; this is my new favorite. I am pretty sure that in another 6 years; I will find better way to make this image. But for now I am pretty happy with what I have got with this.
What do you think? Please let me know. This was my first attempt on many things (the tracker, the astro modified camera, the lens was also new); so I am happy that I could pull this out without messing up and the Namibian killer wind didn't disrupt this rather long process of capturing one image.
I must give a shout out to Vikas Chander. Who is an excellent astro photographer and honestly; a lot of my motivation to do some proper astro photography came back after watching some of his stunning images. Not that he really helped me with the process and the image capture or something. But if it was not his great images; I would have probably not gone through all those only for astro images; which is like 5% of my overall landscape photography portfolio. So thank you Vikas Sir for showing us those great images and motivating me to take the stares to the next level!
Right; could have probably written a book on this and I am not sure if anyone would read this. But I had to mention the process, story and massive preparation that went behind this final image; which will probably be seen by 50 people and that too a quick 15 milliseconds glance. But hey; I don't do this because I expect to be Leonardo da Vinci. I do it because I like it and that is what I will encourage to all the photographers. Don't do photography for likes and loves and favs. Do it because it is a fantastic art that will at the end give you utmost pleasure. Do it because you would love to see those moments of your life.
And yes; at least in this image one can't fight Canon vs Nikon. This image is as much Canon as it is Nikon. And it was done intentionally just to have fun. :)
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This spot is famous for three large rocks of which we only see two of them, due to the position of the milky way in late august. Next year, I'll come back in spring to get all three rocks in the field of view.
Sky : 30min @ 14mm f2.8 iso800
Ground : 3min @ 14mm f4.0 iso1600
PP : Sequator / Siril / Photoshop / Lightroom
As I'm sure many of you already know, one of my favorite things to photograph (day or night) is these old abandoned farmhouses here in West Texas. This one is rather close to a small town and was lit with only the light (pollution) from it (more or less behind me/the camera). The glow on the horizon is from other nearby towns.
Shot with my Fuji X-T2 and Laowa 9mm f/2.8 @ f/2.8, (5) 15 second shots + (1) dark frame, ISO 6400, 3800K WB on 4/2/2020. Stacked in Sequator, final edits in Photoshop using a few Topaz plugins, DxO Viewpoint 3, & Blake Rudis' 5 tone heat map.
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Here is my version of the "Neanderthal Comet" (technically C/2022 E3 ZTF). I must say that contrary to forecasts, the Comet is very faint and absolutely not visible to the naked eye... let's say that finding it gave me more satisfaction than photographing it. Surely the fact of being in the center with maximum light pollution didn't help me, but since these days around 9 pm it is still low in the sky, I tried to place it in a landscape context, obviously with my beloved Ancona. The photo is the result of 3 single shots (taken with a 200mm telephoto lens) side by side horizontally to create the classic vertical panorama effect. To process the comet instead I made about 240 shots of 10 seconds each, capturing about 40min of signal. To process it I used 2 software, with manual alignment of each single pose. By doing this I enhanced the classic emerald green color and the gas trails (although not very visible). Fortunately (or unfortunately given the weather these days) while I was photographing the middle part of the sky to carry out the merger, I managed to capture a beautiful bolt of lightning that was particularly slow in real life and lit up the whole sea behind the Duomo.
TECHNICAL DATA
Nikon D750 Astro modified, with AFS NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II @ 200mm
iOptron Sky Guider Pro
3 shots merged panorama with Photoshop:
City = Single 10 sec, ISO 100, f/9
Lightning = Single 10 sec, ISO 635, f/7.1
Sky = Single 10 sec, ISO 635, f/2.8, tracked with iOptron
Comet = 241 x 10 sec, ISO 635, f/2.8, tracked with iOptron and manually processed with DSS and Sequator
Equipo: Star Adventurer
15 lights de 120s - 25 darks - 32 flats
Procesado: Sequator - Photoshop - Lightroom
Las estrellas no están puntuales por las nubes que aparecieron altas, aún así, me agrada el resultado
A close up of the rising milky way at 2 am. 56 shots stacked plus all the noise shots to go with the shots. 200 shots in total, Still learning. the planet Jupiter is lower left corner.
Stacked in Sequator Using nikon raw files + 50 Darks/Bias/Lights
Nikon 70-200mm F4
Sky watcher Star Adventurer 5kg Tracker
Light room.
Southern Hemisphere
Memories of a warm night in August 2018 with the Milky Way rising above the mountains of Valnontey.
I took my first hike in this valley when I was about 20 years old. That day I reached the Money bivouac, a truly exceptional vantage point.
Seeing the glaciers suffering so much after more than forty years is something that really hurts and makes you think of the damage, perhaps irreparable, that we are doing to our planet.
Shot planned with PhotoPills
Canon EOS 5d Mark III
Samyang 14mm
Manfrotto tripod
sky: seven 10 sec shots f/2.8 ISO 5000 stacked in Sequator
Beautiful view from a panorama point on Pelješac peninsula, looking at Lumbarda town on nearby Korčula island. Moon was already rising, so this is just a quick 21x10s exposures stacked in Sequator, processed with BlurX, NoiseX and PS.
Telescope: Astrotech 72mm ED/ Star Adventurer mount
Camera: Sony A7
Settings: F/8.3, ISO 100, 1/125 Sec exposure
Image source: 6 images
Processing: Sequator, Photoshop
Date:7/02/2022
An old tank under the Milky Way. The sky is a stack of 11 shots, 10 seconds each, in Sequator. The foreground is a focus and exposure blend of 4 shots lit by Richard Tatti. Blending in Photoshop, processing in Lightroom, Sigma lens.
Portal to the stars at Bombay Beach. This art installation is named "The Open House". It's appropriately named.
Looking north towards the town of Bombay Beach. Star trails in the sky above.
This is about 104 minutes total exposure time. Shot with a Canon EOS R and Canon RF 15-35mm lens at f/5 ISO 400 15mm on January 1, 2022. I used the Star Trails intervalometer function on a Pluto Trigger to automate the shooting. Next, I fed the frames into Sequator to stack the images and then Photoshop to remove several light trails created by airplanes.
Bombay Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, United States. It is located on the Salton Sea, 4 miles (6.4 km) west-southwest of Frink and is the lowest community in the United States, located 223 feet (68 m) below sea level.
The population declined for years and the buildings were rotting away, but by 2018, a number of people had moved into the settlement. An article in The Guardian stated that it was "enjoying a rebirth of sorts with an influx of artists, intellectuals and hipsters who have turned it into a bohemian playground". The Bombay Beach Biennale (pronounced like "be an ollie"), an annual art festival, is held here.
This is my first proper attempt at astrophotography. I found out that while on vacation in Morocco there was going to be almost a new moon the night I was supposed to be out in the desert; I checked out on an app the right timeframe to shoot the Milky Way (at about 4am until 5:30am) and studied a little bit the correct settings to use. During the right timeframe I wasted a lot of time with wrong settings and I ended up fixing them the best I could after 5:30am, when the sun was already starting to spread some light.
The picture comes from stacking 12 raw photos and processing them in Sequator. Settings are: 12mm, ISO 3200, f2.8, 15 seconds of exposure.
Orion constellation from bortle class 8. I stacked 20x6" light frame in sequator and for the shining stars i used StarSpikesPro.
Taken at 1am overnight on 12th/13th June 2021 from Oxfordshire UK. It was taken with a Canon 1100D with Canon 10-18mm wide angle lens, ISO-1600 for 20 seconds at f/4.5, This is a stack of 9 images + 30 darks, stacked using Sequator (I froze the foreground to prevent blurring). Stacked image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
16.05.2020
Mosaic from 6 panels (3 background, 3 foreground)
Background exposure (each): 20 x 120s, ISO 1600
Foreground exposure (each): 40 x 15s, ISO 1600
Camera: Canon EOS 6Da (modified)
Lens: Canon EF-L 16-35mm (16mm, f/4)
Mount (background): Skywatcher NEQ5 Synscan
Mount (foreground): Skywatcher Staradvernturer
Autoguider: Lacerta MGEN with 9x50 Skywatcher
Imageprocessing: Pixinsight 1.8, Sequator, Photoshop cc