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Bodie's 1937 gets lit up in out night photography workshop last weekend in Bodie State Historic Park, California.
For the most part the Milky Way is likely to be too high overhead to capture more of these types of Milky Way panorama shots this year, but I'm looking forward to next year!
We should have a good couple of hours of shooting before the galactic center sets during our Bodie workshops on August 15, October 11, and 12, then with earlier sunsets, we'll have a lot of additional time for light painting as well.
During my August vacation, I visited one of the most scenic fortresses in Italy. My planning showed that the Milky Way would be past its prime position, but still within reach of a wide angle image. What I did not plan with, was the strong illumination of the fortress.
During my visit in the afternoon, I was worried to see many spotlights, but a local guide told me, that to his knowledge, the lights were normally not switched on, which was in line with many apparent night images I knew from the place. It was not to be... I may have been visiting at the wrong time, or maybe I was fooled by time blends and composites. Whatever, the lights were incredibly bright and caused a tremendous amount of light pollution.
When I was done lamenting, I decided to capture the scene anyway. The sky was the easy part. Now, the fact that the Milky Way core was to the far right, was an advantage, as it helped to avoid the worst light pollution around the fortress. The foreground required 10 steps of exposure bracketing to capture the full dynamic range. Processing the image was a nightmare and the result is not what I was hoping for, but at least I did not have to leave empty handed.
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EXIF
Canon EOS 6D astro modified
Tamron 15-30mm f2.8
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
Stack of 11 x 15s @ ISO1600, tracked
Foreground:
Stack and exposure bracketing of 21 images from 0.5s @ ISO100 to 15s @ ISO1600
Night has fallen and it's absolutely frigid near Fall River, Wisconsin, as Amtrak 8, the eastbound 'Empire Builder', flies through the snow enroute to Milwaukee and Chicago. The skyglow marks the spot of its next station stop of Columbus, Wisconsin.
Four hours and twenty-one minutes of exposure time.
87 x 180s @ISO400
Olympus Pen-F Digital
Sky Watcher EvoGuide 50DX with Starizona flattener and Baader Moon & Skyglow filter
Star Adventurer 2i
Guide scope: Askar FMA180
Autoguider: 1st Gen Celestron NexGuide
From my balcony in the Plateau
#deepskyfromdowntown
Broad : 45x240s
ASI533MC-Pro, Skywatcher ED120, 0.8 reducer, Skyglow filter, CGX.
Narrow : 14x300s
ASI071MC-Cool, Optolong L-Extreme, WO SpaceCat, CGX.
Perseid meteors and satellites brighten up the sky over the Bodie Hills after the 2013 Friends of Bodie Day event in Bodie State Historic Park, California.
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!
Sometimes it's good to just stop & watch.
Nikon D700 w/ 35mm AF-D. 13 sec at f/2.8 & ISO1000
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There are several meteor showers active in October: Orionids, Southern Taurids, October Arietids, delta Aurigids. We caught a bright meteor over the 1940 green Ford truck on Friday night in Bodie!
13 of us photographed this ghost town on Friday the 13th. When I got back to Virginia Creek Settlement, I couldn't help but notice that my room number was 13!
My Bodie workshop season is over for the year, but that just means that I'll be switching over to Death Valley and Yosemite for the next few months!
Normally photographers separate out the meteors from the background to create a composite image. I decided to try a few composites where I left the stars in. They trace their path through our sky nicely, like a star trails image, without fully eclipsing our view of the meteors.
This image contains a real reflection, as in all of my images (I consider undisclosed faked reflections to be unethical).
This was taken Friday evening with a 10mm wide angle lens. Taken about a mile from home next to the beach and a small lagoon on the beach at Pagham. This part of the South Coast of England is far from ideal for taking the Milky Way. Pagham Harbour is a nature reserve a mile from home and a small gap in the coastal sprawl of light pollution. Light glow from Bognor Regis is just a few miles to the east behind me while to the West and straight ahead in the picture is the town of Selsey on the far side of the harbour The Milky Way is the brightest central part of our Galaxy. The best parts can only be seen in the summer because the sun is in that area in the winter. The best times are April through to September. The bright star bottom centre reflected in the Lagoon is the Planet Jupiter.
I checked on suitable settings for the image. I used my widest aperture of f4, 30 seconds and ISO of 1600. The moon had set earlier at 20.22 and this was about 9.40 making for a dark sky. The foreground was lit by surrounding skyglow from light pollution. For this shot I used a stack of 10 shots combined in a free program called Sequator. With a normal stacking program the movement of the stars from the earth rotatating would create star trails. With this one the stacking is based on the stars keeping them stationary and automatically using one image for the foreground. I used a remote trigger device. .I used a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens at 10m. Taken with a Tripod looking SW towards the Harbour Mouth
A lot of steps were taken in the processing to bring out the milky way starting with Raw adjustments. This was followed by Topaz DeNoise which removed quite a large amount of Noise. Then Topaz Clarity to bring up more detail. I used various Brightness contrast adjustment layers with masks to brighten and darken various parts of the image including brightening the Milky Way and foreground.
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The night sky is very colourful. Not that most realise this as we are subjected to blue milky way shots almost on a daily basis it would seem. This is because, on seeing the orange colour in processing many photographers change White Balance to tungsten in order to reduce the orange. In doing so, they kill star colours and details, because to remove sky glow we need to subtract if from each RGB channel. The true and correct colours of the milky way confirmed by science are around 4700-5000 Kelvin. In short, the night sky is orangey brown were the milky way is concerned. If you are viewing this on a desktop I have put an overlay that will appear when you mouse over the image to give further details on the objects I can make out.
My Teacher - clarkvision.com/articles/nightsky-natural-color-vs-bad-po...
This is a 12 panel mosaic shot at 50mm giving about a 20mm horizon equivalent. It took all my planning brain cells to make it happen, and 3 nights sitting in cloudy, foggy conditions before it cleared. Shot from right to left, top to bottom to mediate some of the light pollution as the core was rising. I had to start early as I wanted 15 subs of 120sec exposures for each panel (30min pr panel). One extra sub for each panel with the Alyn Wallace Starglow filter applied for 60sec (to get some bloated stars. Took about 4-5 hours collecting all the frames. So after a somewhat challenging sticking process (due to some frames/panels affected by light pollution, and some from changing atmospheric conditions and skyglow), this is the result. Final stitched image ended up 18000pixels tall 😅 Hope you like it :)
Finally what I thought was a break in the pants weather we've had. To the eye there were many bright stars visible, but the cirrus are still lurking when the sensor strikes. Lots of skyglow too. Had I set up to deep sky image this is the kind of frustrating sky PHD2 would have thrown a tantrum at.
Another version using Ha for Red.
L:22x200s
Ha:10x200s
GB:12x200s
CGX, ASI1600mm-cool, AT10RC, Skyglow filter
A 3 panel mosaic panorama with 18 hours of exposure, reworked for better HDR of the Great Nebula. Cinematic 21:9 aspect ratio.
Bright stars on the left are Alnitak and Alnilam of Orion's Belt. Nearby the Flame (NGC 2024) and Horsehead (IC434) nebulae. To the right are the Running Man (NGC1977) and the Great Nebula of Orion (M42). The bright star at the right is Nar al Saif at the tip of Orion's sword.
Taken 2024-12-05 to 09 under Bortle 5 skies in Tucson, Arizona. WO RedCat 250/51mm, Baader Skyglow UV/IR cut filter, ASI533 MC camera, ASIAIR Plus controller, AM5N mount. 212 5' exposures stacked and processed in PixInsight with RC-Astro and SetiAstro tools. Final exp and crop in Affinity Photo.
The moon doesn't rise until 4:41 am tonight... Milky Photography is back!
I can't wait to return to Bodie Saturday, August 30. This was taken there last Friday, August 15.
A few nights ago, before the moon started interfering with Milky Way shooting.
I'll be leading a lot of landscape and night photography workshops in the Mono Lake / Tioga Pass area this summer:
www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/eastern-sierra-fall-...
First light for the ASI533MC-Pro
40x120s
Rokinon 135mm/F2.9, ASI533MC-Pro, Skywatcher Star Adventurer, ASIAir Pro, Orion Skyglow filter
A farewell to one of the most imaged objects in the night sky. A project I started in February on the Esprit 100ED telescope at the complex, but didn’t manage to get round to edit it until now. I used it to practice some new scripts in PixInsight for image blending. I am happy with the details in this image, the Esprit 100ED really is a great telescope for wide field imaging. The focal length of this image is 564mm after using the Skywatcher field flattener.
A much higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/ev6jv9/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 9 Nights in February 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 26h 54m
Filters: Baader Moon & Skyglow, Optolong L-Ultimate
Pixel Scale: 1.4 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
Image Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ 6R Pro
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
This is the first of my images from our Bodie night photography workshop Saturday night.
The "Wild West" was epitomized by rough, lawless towns. Many of them were mining towns, and the best surviving example may be Bodie. Preserved as a Bodie State Historic Park, a lot of money and effort goes into maintaining it in a state of "suspended decay".
I've been chasing every meteor shower that I could see with my camera since 2009. This year's Perseid meteor shower was one of the best I've experienced so far.
This north-facing composite with 56 meteors covers 1:53 am - 4:26 am on the peak morning of August 12, as captured at 16 mm ultra-wide 16-35mm lens on a Canon EOS 5DMarkIII DSLR (no sky tracking mount).
A six image panorama of the Milky Way over the Standard Mill in Bodie State historic Park, California.
No, it wasn't following a chicken. The Milky Way moves from southeast to southwest over the course of the summer, so as you shoot in the same location over that time period, your compositions and foreground subjects change from week to week. The dark new moon week only occurs for about a week per month, but that week shifts from year to year, so it can take a lot of visits and time to experience every combination of Milky Way position and foreground.
We schedule several workshops each year in Bodie, but each time we find new compositions and techniques, and further develop prior ones.