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Misty milky way and Ribblehead Viaduct


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I was just browsing this site and felt I had to register to comment on these  grand photographs.

 My wife and I stayed in the station house at Ribblehead for a week a couple of years ago. (That's just beyond the station buildings in PeteC's  second picture). It's a grand area indeed.

The viaduct is a seriously impressive piece of engineering. I took  numerous photos of it, but it never entered my head to try a night shot. We did have a lot of rainy nights that week.

I'm just getting into night / astro photography- no telescope, just a camera- but I did  recently get a motorised tracking mount for the camera (a Skywatcher "Star Adventurer"- nicely built and easy for a beginner to use)  which  keeps sky objects stationary in the viewfinder, eliminating light trails - but now of course,  Earthbound foreground objects move, relative to the sky.

I see the viaduct picture is a single, 30 second exposure, but in a longer exposure with a tracking mount, is there a way to avoid  blurring of the foreground itself?

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Hi 4th and welcome, I am sure you can find all the answers to your questions on this forum.

I see the viaduct picture is a single, 30 second exposure, but in a longer exposure with a tracking mount, is there a way to avoid  blurring of the foreground itself?

think it's possible to delete the foreground in all the frames and paste just one of them back in, photoshop or something.  I think you will get better answers if you ask in one of the non astro photography  or the Image Processing, Help and Techniques areas.

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Very atmospheric image, the conditions would have probably put me off! You have got a great end result.

Thanks Pete  :smiley:  I got some clearer shots before the mist moved in but I thought this was a bit different.

I was just browsing this site and felt I had to register to comment on these  grand photographs.

 My wife and I stayed in the station house at Ribblehead for a week a couple of years ago. (That's just beyond the station buildings in PeteC's  second picture). It's a grand area indeed.

The viaduct is a seriously impressive piece of engineering. I took  numerous photos of it, but it never entered my head to try a night shot. We did have a lot of rainy nights that week.

I'm just getting into night / astro photography- no telescope, just a camera- but I did  recently get a motorised tracking mount for the camera (a Skywatcher "Star Adventurer"- nicely built and easy for a beginner to use)  which  keeps sky objects stationary in the viewfinder, eliminating light trails - but now of course,  Earthbound foreground objects move, relative to the sky.

I see the viaduct picture is a single, 30 second exposure, but in a longer exposure with a tracking mount, is there a way to avoid  blurring of the foreground itself?

Hi 4th, yes, great area by day and by night!

30 sec is the maximum exposure length I can do with a 14mm lens without noticable star trailing. An option is to use a driven mount like the Star Adventurer at half siderial rate to 'split the difference' between stars trailing and foreground blurring, so I can do 60 sec like this rather than 30 sec (that's if I need the extra exposure). The lazy way is to bump the iso up one stop. A trickier alternative I haven't got round to trying yet is to do a tracked exposure for the sky and an untracked exposure for the foreground, then combine each element as separate layers in photoshop.

Good luck!

Pete

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"An option is to use a driven mount like the Star Adventurer at half siderial rate to 'split the difference' between stars trailing and foreground blurring".

I wondered what the half speed setting was for.  First thread and I'm learning already.

I also just saw your ISS over Ribblehead shot- quite a coincidence, the three satellite tracks crossing just at the right moment.

I just tried  doing some star trails, despite blowing cloud, but a neighbour's cat jumped the fence, triggered a security floodlight and nearly blinded me.

I can see this night photography is going to be fun. :laugh:

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"An option is to use a driven mount like the Star Adventurer at half siderial rate to 'split the difference' between stars trailing and foreground blurring".

I wondered what the half speed setting was for.  First thread and I'm learning already.

I also just saw your ISS over Ribblehead shot- quite a coincidence, the three satellite tracks crossing just at the right moment.

I just tried  doing some star trails, despite blowing cloud, but a neighbour's cat jumped the fence, triggered a security floodlight and nearly blinded me.

I can see this night photography is going to be fun. :laugh:

Ah, the joys of astroimaging - practice, patience, perseverance needed by the bucketload!

And I've just heard that ITV have been filming their Sunday night replacement for Downton Abbey - it;s an 8-parter called Jericho, and is all about the goings on in one of the shanty towns the navvies lived in when they were building the Ribblehead Viaduct. Sort of western Yorkshire style. Aye oop, get tha's clogs on mi lad, trouble at't viaduct! Can't wait :grin:

Oh and it's not been filmed in the Dales, but around Huddersfield and Barnsley. Still flat cap and ferret country, so that's all righ tthen!

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