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Milky Way over Stonehaven
Blackbrazen replied to Blackbrazen's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
I hadn't thought of doing that, but I will now! It's a bit noisy now that I look at it again, but I was quite happy with the result given the level of LP on the outskirts of the town. -
Hi all, I've been trying to learn how to take better photos of the Milky Way, and this is my latest attempt. A late August view of the Milky Way over the War Memorial outside Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.
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Exactly. So long as someone is showing interest, it's good news! Nice choice of landing site too!
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M11 widefield
Blackbrazen replied to laser_jock99's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Gorgeous! Powis skies are fantastic, eh? What kind of mount did you use? -
Does anyone know how the Baader Neo compares to the Antares ALP filter? I picked an Antares up for £19 and it seems quite good...
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One more Stonehaven Widefield
Blackbrazen replied to Blackbrazen's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
You're absolutely right, with a LP filter and an Astrotracker/Polarie or something like that, it would be much better. Gotta work on that! This isn't Japan though. It's Stonehaven War Memorial south of Aberdeen taken when I was home at New Year. -
One more Stonehaven Widefield
Blackbrazen replied to Blackbrazen's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Thanks! I used a Canon 50D with 17-55 IS USM. Background frame was a single 25 second exposure at 6400 ISO stacked in DSS with darks and bias frames. The foreground was cropped from a similar frame at 1600 ISO. All of this is still very much trial and error though! -
Still working on photos I took at New Year...and learning a lot as I muddle my way through! The LP from the town was pretty awful, but I'm quite happy with the amount of detail that I managed to tease out. The memorial itself was horribly affected by the processing, so I layered in an image of it from another frame captured at the same time. All feedback gratefully received and thanks for looking!
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Aurora Returns
Blackbrazen replied to saturn5's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Gorgeous! Can I ask what ISO and shutter speed you used? -
First image taken through scope - m42
Blackbrazen replied to jambo's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
That's a great shot. Have you seen this guy's video? Very interesting... -
Aberdeenshire Widefield
Blackbrazen replied to Blackbrazen's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
I'm just a beginner like you, so it's basically just a lot of trial and error! Yes, it was just a single exposure, but I stacked it with about 15 dark frames and then experimented with some of the tweaks I found in the Sky at Night Guide to Astrophotography to get the star colours and the luminosity in the Milky Way. Lots of work with curves and a bit of unsharp mask too. It's been my bible since the summer, and it's just absolutely fabulous! So easy to read. -
Aberdeenshire Widefield
Blackbrazen replied to Blackbrazen's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Reprocessing of the above image. -
Aberdeenshire Widefield
Blackbrazen replied to Blackbrazen's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Yes, it was certainly very good seeing. I took this looking SW, to avoid most of the LP leaching over from the town. Excellent dark skies looking eastwards over the sea too. -
Aberdeenshire Widefield
Blackbrazen posted a topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
My first attempt at a seriuous widefield was this shot of the Milky Way over the War Memorial in Stonehaven. No darks or bias frames used for this, although I think it might have helped... I have reduced the file size in order to attach it. Canon 50D 17-55 lens ISO-6400 f4.0 30Sec -
Yes, Looking at it again, it's clearly very uniform along its length and not tapered in any way. Nevermind, I'm quite pleased with it, and looking forward to what I can get from more frames and a variety of exposures. I also need to take darks and bias frames too. Rizzi, I just bunged the two frames that I took into DSS, checked them and hit Go. Then I took the resulting tiff file and worked on curves, sharpness and saturation in Photoshop.