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First light for my new scope and new used camera. Still working out a few bugs and only got 30 usable minutes before the clouds rolled in.
20.9 million light years from Earth! Amazing!
Technical Info:
Optics: GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian @ 610mm FL
Explore Scientific 2" HR Coma Corrector
Camera : Canon t3i (Astro Modified)
Filters: 2" IDAS Light Pollution Suppression D2 Filter
Mount: Losmandy GM8 (Used)
Guiding: QHY Mini Guide Scope + PHD 2
Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Exposure: Light (ISO 1600) - 20 subs @ 1.5 Minutes
Calibration: Bias, Flats, Darks
Processing : Sequator, Photoshop, PS Astrotools
This is the first record I make of the "Helm of Thor" nebula (NGC 2359). The stacked frames, captured in four nights, totaled 10 hours and 30 minutes of exposure.
"NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center inflates a region within the surrounding molecular cloud. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major". Source: NASA (science.nasa.gov/ngc-2359-thors-helmet)
Sky-Watcher Reflector Telescope 203mm F/5 EQ5 with Onstep and ZWO EAF electronic focuser, modified Canon T6 (primary focus), Optolong L-eNhance Filter (part of the frames). Angeleyes 50mm guidescope with ASI 290MC. 126 light frames (33x300" ISO 800 + L-eNhance: 93x300" ISO 1600), 80 dark frames. Processing: Sequator, PixInsight and Camera Raw.
@LopesCosmos
Osoyoos BC
Nikon d850
24-105 lens shot at f 4.5
ioptron starguider pro
5-star shots 15 th sec
3 foreground shots 25 seconds 1/2 moon
shots processed in sequator then into photoshop to blend
Pleiades with comet c/2016 r2 panstarrs
Took better flats and darks, Used Gradient Xterminator and only edit in PS/LR. Still have the stacking artifact up top, cropped the side one out.
Imaging telescope or lens: Nikon 300mm f/4 AF-s nikon 300mm AF-S f4
Imaging camera: Nikon D5300
Mount: Celestron CG5
Software: Adobe Lightroom CC, ProDigital Software Astronomy Tools Actions Set, Sequator global Sequator 1.4a, Photoshop CC 2017
Resolution: 5867x3911
Dates: Feb. 5, 2018
Frames: 158x45" ISO400
Integration: 2.0 hours
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~20
Avg. Moon age: 20.08 days
Avg. Moon phase: 71.34%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Astrometry.net job: 1918935
Locations: Home, Limington, Maine, United States
Comet 2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) and Venus Dedham, Maine.
20, 6-second exposures pre-processed in Lightroom, stacked in Sequator, and finished in Lightroom, with Venus added back in Photoshop.
Pentax K-1 • Crop Mode • 1600 ISO • Irix Blackstone 15mm F2.4
Haida 150mm Filter Holder • NanoPro Series glass Clear-Night filter
Topaz Labs Studio
4 photos stacked with Sequator 1.4e
Astrotracer 4x150 sec Total exposure: 600 sec
Beidweiler • Luxembourg
My first record of the Eagle Nebula (the Pillars of Creation are located in its central region). The stacked frames, captured on two consecutive nights, totaled 8 hours of exposure. Gradually, I'm looking to catch up on processing that was delayed due to lack of time.
"The Eagle Nebula (Messier 16, NGC 6611) is a young open star cluster located in the Serpent constellation. It is located approximately 7000 light years from Earth and its apparent magnitude is equal to 6.4. It is a system relatively young, in astronomical terms, only 5.5 million years old ". Source: Wikipedia
"The pillars of creation are clusters of dust and gas of interstellar size in the Eagle nebula. In the name,"pillars" is suggestive of the shape of the place, and the "Creation" part originated due to the location being a huge birthplace of stars ". Source: Wikipedia
Sky-Watcher 203mm F/5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, Canon T6 (primary focus) modified, Optolong L-eNhance filter (in half of the frames). 50mm guidescope with ASI 290MC. 96 light frames (48x300" ISO 800 + L-eNhance: 48x300" ISO 1600), 40 dark frames. Processing: Sequator and PixInsight.
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85mm / F1.8 / 15x20sec / iso 3200 /Jul 20 2020
Tracked with ioptron SkyGuide pro
Stacked with Sequator
Blended
A little hazy that night but took Some images anyway, Cherry Springs Nightscape. This is a layer stack of 11 images, 10sec exposures at f3.5 ISO3200 WB4550K, Processed in Capture NX-D Nikon 1.5.2 before stacking then stacked for noise reduction in Sequator 1.5.3, more processing in RawTherapee 5.8 and GIMP 2.10.32 after stacking.
The superbly named Towers of Silence comprise one of the most elegant and breathtaking scenes in the American West.
Also known by the less inspired name of "Wahweap Hoodoos," this is one of the few iconic landscape photography locations that rarely receives visitors...probably because of the 10-mile (roundtrip) hike required to reach them!
I used two Lume Cube 2.0s to illuminate the foreground. I shot my Nikon Z7II at ISO 800 for 326 seconds at f/8.
The Milky Way is ten, 10-second exposures at ISO 3200 at f/2.8 stacked in Sequator. Post production in Photoshop, Topaz DeNoise and AstroPanel.
I had some serious angst processing this shot. My first efforts illuminated the scene well but failed to capture the 'moody' ambiance. This new effort de-emphasizes the foreground as well as the cliffs in the background while spotlighting the superb tower.
Cheers!
Jeff
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One of the most magical things about photographing ancient places is being able to capture the passage of time—not just in stone, but in the sky above. This photo was taken at the same Byzantine church ruins in Ancient Nitzana (Nessana), Israel, where the silence of the desert night is broken only by the slow dance of the stars overhead.
For this image, I set out to reveal the rotation of the Earth itself. Using my trusty Sony Alpha 6400 (unmodified) and the Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C ultra-wide-angle prime lens, I took 121 photos, each with a 30-second exposure. Stacking them in Sequator brought out these incredible star trails—concentric circles that show hours passing in a single frame. The editing magic happened in Lightroom to bring balance and warmth to the ancient columns and highlight the crisp patterns in the sky. 🌀
Standing among these columns, under a sky turning slowly above the ruins, really puts time into perspective. These stones have stood for centuries, watching countless nights just like this one. Now, with the help of modern technology, we can see the movement of the cosmos in a way the ancients never could—star trails spinning around the North Celestial Pole, telling the story of Earth’s rotation with every streak of light.
It’s moments like these that make me fall in love with astrophotography all over again. Capturing not just the beauty of the night, but also the deep connection between earth, history, and sky. 🌍⏳
Gear & Process:
📷 Sony Alpha 6400 (unmodified)
🔭 Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C Ultra-wide-angle Prime Lens
🌀 121 images × 30 sec each, stacked in Sequator
️ Edited in Lightroom
If you ever get the chance to spend a night at a site like Ancient Nitzana, I can’t recommend it enough—the combination of history and the cosmos is truly unforgettable. 🌙✨
When I planned this shot, I thought that it would be my last time out for the 2019 Milky Way season; I actually managed to get out two more times after this and made it to a second location this night after this spot. Shot on Saturday 10,19/2019. This old house is quite a way off the beaten path and I'm fairly certain that I was the first person to drive down the dusty dirt road leading to this in a very long time. Although the stone exterior is in remarkably good condition, the rest of the structure has not fared so well.
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. Single LED panel used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop using a few plugins and actions.
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Saw at the last minute that we were going to have clear skies at Pettigrew State Park, so I took a drive to the park and made it just in time. I only had an hour till the moon would rise. I set up and captured 10 tracked sky images using the iOptron Skyguider Pro. Those were stacked in Sequator, and then blended with 7 light painted foreground frames in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6 II
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
10 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 60 sec, ISO 1600)
Foreground:
7 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 10 sec, ISO 1600)
Another go with the O-GPS1 module on the K3 coupled to the DA*300mm f4. I seem to have awoken the module because boy it's performing. This was 65 images between 30-60 seconds ISO800 f5.6 300mm 20 darks and 20 flats thrown into Sequator then the outcome quickly processed in Lightroom and boosted in Topaz Studio. M81 Bode's galaxy and M82 Cigar galaxy. I'm super impressed. No mount was used in the making of this image.
At the Thistle Dew Lavender Farm in Afton, TX. A big thanks to Danny and Laurie Davis for letting a few of us come out to photograph their farm.
Sony FE 100-400mm GM -- Taken in Rockville, Md.
Another attempt at the Orion Nebula. This time I did 100 images, plus 30 dark exposures and 30 light exposures.
May be time to start thinking about getting a tracker and one of my cameras (a7II or a7RII) converted for astrophotography...
It's not going to win any awards and it's pretty rough, but not too bad for an on a whim attempt (like LITERALLY on a whim... it came to me while I was taking the trash out.)
Around 45 or 50 images stacked in Sequator. Taken with FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM which Sequator stripped from the EXIF.
Not ready to take the plunge on a star tracker, yet, but I'm definitely interested in seeing where this goes in the future!
Taken in Rockville, Md.
Nikon D5300
Sigma 17-50 2.8
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10 Bilder á 15 Sekunden
ISO 8000
f/ 2.8
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Gestack mit Sequator
Bearbeitung in Photoshop
Not going to win awards with the photo but did capture it and it is green. I think a sharp, fast, f2.8 lens would help. This is 18, 6 second shots stacked using Sequator at iso 6400
I had a nice clear night at home, so I put the Astrotrac out at the back of the house and mounted my D500 and 300mm lens on it.
This shot is 63 x 30 second exposures , iso 1000, stacked in Sequator then cropped and edited in lightroom.
Comet NEOWISE and globular clusters.
Canon EOS 60D on the tripod.
87mm, ISO-6400, f/5.6. Stack about 50x8 sec in Sequator software.
70x10s iso 1600 29-08 2019
Canon 50 mm @f1.8 & Samyang 14 mm @f2
staradventurer mount
Sequator/CS6/LR/Pixinsight
Sony Nex 5 Astrodon
First light for my new scope and new used camera. Still working out a few bugs and only got 30 usable minutes before the clouds rolled in.
20.9 million light years from Earth! Amazing!
Technical Info:
Optics: GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian @ 610mm FL
Explore Scientific 2" HR Coma Corrector
Camera : Canon t3i (Astro Modified)
Filters: 2" IDAS Light Pollution Suppression D2 Filter
Mount: Losmandy GM8 (Used)
Guiding: QHY Mini Guide Scope + PHD 2
Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Exposure: Light (ISO 1600) - 20 subs @ 1.5 Minutes
Calibration: Bias, Flats, Darks
Processing : Sequator, Photoshop, PS Astrotools, Astroflat Pro
I've gone back and processed some Milky Way images I shot back in September using Sequator because I wanted to see how it coped with stacking images that Deep Sky Stacker was struggling with. It took me a few goes to make it work but it's looking really promising. The images were taken with a Canon 1100D with Canon 10-18mm lens. ISO-1600 for 30 seconds at f/4.5, 18 images stacked with 10 darks. The exposure time was actually a bit too long and the stars were slightly trailed in the single shots, so that's why DSS wasn't doing a good job of stacking them. After stacking the image was processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
This is our most ambitious Milky Way image we've ever attempted.
It was taken by my husband Mark and I from Durlston Country Park in Dorset, with an astronomy modded Canon 1100D with Canon fixed 50mm lens on a Star Adventurer Mini tracking mount. It's a stitch of 12 overlapping panes. Each pane was a stack of between 3 and 7 x 20 second shots at f/4.5 (I wish we'd done this at f/2 but Mark hadn't noticed the f stop was at the wrong setting).
Each pane was first stacked using Sequator, then the stacked panes were stitched using Microsoft ICE. Processing was done in Photoshop, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
The modded camera certainly picks up more detail than the non-modded, but we are still happy with the images we took with our standard cameras. The sky was so dark here that we had to change how we imaged the milky way compared to home, and the processing was completely different too! We went out for three nights running with several cameras and lenses to try to capture as much as possible under the beautiful dark skies. We worked together with the captures, then we did our own processing.
I found this amazing old tree near an abandoned farmhouse that I was scouting out for some nighttime photography on 7/20/2019. I love it when a location has more than one subject to shoot!
Photo created by merging 10 shots with the Sequator application. Each shot was 15 seconds long, with ISO 2500 and F 4. With the Sequator tool, it was able to align the stars and fix the ground. Before and after the Sequator stacking Darktable was used.
Sequator parameters were:
* Composition: Freeze Ground
* Sky Region: Partial
* Auto Brightness: on
* High Dynamic Range: on
* Remove Dynamic Noises: on
* Remove Distors. Effects: auto_complex
* Remove Light Pollution: deepsky 25%
* Enhance Star Light: on 25%
* Color Space: sRGB
It is clear that more time and ISO would improve the Milky Way texture and photo quality.
Another from my fall road trip. Since the night was so clear, I decided to try a milky way composition. What a better spot than overlooking Price Lake just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. This is a composite of 25 frames for the sky, stacked in Sequator, 10 frames for the lake, and 5 frames to light paint the rocks. Everything was blended in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
25 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 20 sec, ISO 4000)
Lake:
10 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 20 sec, ISO 4000)
Rocks:
5 x (20mm @ f/4, 10 sec, ISO 800)
2023-01-21
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 55-200mm (135mm)
EXIF: f/5 ISO1200
29x8s (3.8min)
10xdarks
Stacked/Apilado: Sequator
Edited/Editado: Lightroom
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long period comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 2 March 2022. The comet has a bright green glow due to the presence of diatomic carbon and cyanogen.
The comet reached its perihelion on 12 January 2023, at a distance of 1.11 AU, and the closest approach to Earth was on 1 February 2023, at a distance of 0.28.
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) es un cometa de período largo proveniente de la nube de Oort que fue descubierto por el proyecto Zwicky Transient Facility el 2 de marzo de 2022. Este cometa tiene un brillo de color verde debido a la presencia de carbono diatómico y cianógeno.G
El cometa alcanzó su perihelio el 12 de enero de 2023, a una distancia de 1.11UA y su aproximación más cercana a la Tierra fué el 1 de febrero de 2023, a una distancia de 0.28UA.
Sant Mateu de Bages,
Catalunya, España
Image Details:
Scope: AT72ED
Mount: Celestron CG5
Camera:
Nikon D750
Frames:
27x60'' ISO3200
Software: Sequator, Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC
Santa Susana, Portugal,
05/10/2018
The Messenger , Agridia, Troodos, Cyprus
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Sequator Composition 5 frames | PS
f/2.8 | 98 sec | ISO 1600 | 17 mm
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Theme : AstroPhotography
Series : Dark Skies
Location: Agridia, Troodos, Cyprus
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A portion of the Milky Way core over the peaks south of Lhonak, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, eastern, Nepal.
10-image stack in Sequator, finished in Lightroom.
Melchnau calling...
this is a composed image of 90mins containing 30 photos (each with a 3min long exposure) that have been combined with the Software Sequator
Primera prueba con el 15-35mm y rótula ecuatorial. Se trata de un apilado de 15 fotos con Sequator y postprocesado en DXO Lab.
Milky Way outside of Eagle Lake, TX
Canon EOS-R EF16-35 @ 20mm
Sky - 12 13sec ISO3200 f/3.5 stacked in Sequator
Foreground - 9 images ISO640 f/5.6, lit by flashlight, layered and blended in Photoshop
Like the rest of the world even we in India are under lock-down since the 22nd of March. Life has been put under standstill with no respite in sight at least for the near future. Though we are doing well in terms of containment I cannot say the same about some other countries and my heart goes out to everyone out there and I pray that we all come through this pandemic that has confined our lives and living.
This lock-down has however also come with it's benefits for the earth. Less vehicular and industrial pollution has meant that earth is getting a chance at cleaning itself and the skies are evident of that. We literally have crystal clear nights when it's not cloudy and a lot more stars visible than it was during usual nights. I live in a Bortle 5 city.
Apart from the clear skies owing to no pollution another thing that most people usually dread but has come to us as a blessing, power cuts. We have regular power cuts at nights that lasts anywhere from an hour to three hours and that has been happening even before the lockdown was imposed.
So taking advantage of all of that I have been practicing getting better with my photogaphy and post-processing during this period. Now there's not much of a FG from my terrace so have been using small statues and my son's toys as subjects and FG interest. This small horse is one from his collection.
For this image I used the power cut to my advantage as well as the new moon phase. I had calculated the direction in which the MW would rise using PhotoPills and taking the shot from as low an angle as possible so as to hide the houses and building below and also avoid some light pollution from their emergency lights. I'm also including the frame showing the houses below and also the image of the FG exposure.
Also had a chance to use a very old soviet Helios 58mm lens and though it's not the sharpest lens around but it sure is a pleasure to use.
EXIF:
SKY: 58mm, f2.8, ISO-800 , 90secs 6 Vertical shots. 3 top 3 below tacked on Move Shoot Move Rotator and then pano stiched using LR.
FG: Single shot ISO 800, f4, 300 secs 35mm
Processed with Sequator, LR and Nik.