FenlandPaul

That’s stunning Paul. You are simply the light painting don!! I love the stars between the cut. Very effective.

I love using the easternmost dish of the One Mile Telescope at the Mullard Radio Observatory near Cambridge as a foreground subject - I really like the silhouette it creates. Last Sunday evening I captured Orion over it, between rain showers. It was my first time out for near a month, so it was incredibly cathartic! 📷 Canon EOS 6D (astro-modified) with Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens at f/2.8 🔧 12x 10s exposures at IS)3200 with Kase / Alyn Wallace Starglow filter for sky (1x30s without filter for foreground) 🎞 Stacked in Sequator; edited in Lightroom & Photoshop Really enjoying the way the Starglow filter accentuates the colours and gives the scene a really dreamy feel. Hope you enjoy!

Lovely images and great location. 👍

Stunning, Paul. Very evocative.

Paul, your light painting is absolutely 💯. Such a gentle light and so, so effective.

Absolutely love that. The moon gives a really nice horizon focal point, and a lovely colour. 👌

A lovely image of a fantastic part of the sky. 👍

I hadn't really expected any interest in these pictures given they're not sensational, eyecatching aurora pics from the arctic! But our local rag picked up my images from last week's aurora display, which was nice. https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/northern-lights-over-cambridgeshire-lifetime-first-for-astr-9224631/

Superb, Jody. Loads of detail, there. Can’t wait to get a shot at this with the very same setup (almost) sometime soon.

Lovely! Must have been a pretty decent display because you’ve got some good structure there!

Still waiting for the “Big Dipper Blood Moon” alignment. 🤣

But it's ok that I like though, right? Or do I now get banned from SGL?! 🤣 I have no problem with composite images for their artistic merit. However the old-skool visual astronomer in me definitely prefers that the composite reflects accurately the alignment etc. I'm not a fan of focal length blends typically, but I do love, for example, a blue-hour foreground blended with a tracked night sky. So long as the photographer / artist isn't pretending it to be anything that it isn't. I really don't mind either way. My recent foray into deepscapes has made me think a lot harder about all this. I struggled with it for a while, but my compromise is that I have to capture the actual alignment in camera (which obviously will be subject to all the technical limitations that make the scene impossible in a single shot) and then I assemble the blend later. That way I'm able to verify that the alignment is genuine. On the other hand, maybe I think about all this too much. But long story short, I like your fake!!

I’ve not added to this thread for a long time. But I still love this lens. Here’s an image from last Thursday night - the California Nebula and Pleiades and all the glorious muck in between! 📷 Canon 6D (astro-modded) with Samyang 135mm at f/2.8 on a Star Adventurer 🔧 164 x 2min exposures at ISO800 with flats and darks 🎞 Stacked in Sequator. Edited in PS and LR. Hope you enjoy! I don’t do much proper deep sky, but this is the deepest image I’ve ever taken.

Live the colours of the belt of Venus.

I’m still on 4+ so maybe it’s time to take the plunge!! 🤣

Ooh, lovely. I’m looking forward to doing my first widefield tracked shot with the modded camera this year. Can’t wait! Love the colours in the cloudy shot. 👌

Very natural great rift, there. Careful, I found wide field addictive once I started!!

Lovely as usual Paul - what a great season of nightscapes! ”Topography got in the way” sounds like you’re about to take action with earth-moving equipment!

I think you’ve just about caught it there! A slight red tinge that stands proud of the light pollution. I was shooting at f/2.8 and 14mm, ISO3200 and 13s exposures. The non-selfie one is a stack of 4 exposures to clean up the sky a bit.

Alas looks like it’s died back this afternoon, John. But there seemed to be around 14 hours of intense magnetic disturbance since yesterday evening. Remarkable. Looking forward to how this solar cycle pans out, and planning a northern Norway trip next year! Enjoy your trip up here! I suspect the starlings are still murmurating (right word?) at RSPB Fen Drayton at dusk.

Well, this won’t be as impressive as the Galloway pictures or the absolutely phenomenal real-time aurora videos from Canada that have been shared today. But the red and green stuff came here to the Cambridgeshire Fens again last night, and I was so happy I was in tears! Not visible by eye, but the red arc was very visible on camera, sometimes with a fainter green arc too.

Awesome! 🙌

Managed to get it on camera (just!) here in Cambridgeshire and I’ve seen several images from north Norfolk too.

Lovely timelapse! Must have been superb from up there.

Hopefully by now everyone’s seen some of the stunning images from further north of last night’s aurora. We had friends for dinner so my plan (a) of heading to the north Norfolk coast was scuppered. But it was kicking off past 11pm so I headed down to my local NLC spot and managed, for the first time, to capture the aurora from here in Cambridgeshire. The faint red arc persisted in nearly all my images, and I believe there’s some faint green mixed with the light domes too. Miles from being the most spectacular aurora image you’ll ever see, but the thrill is in the chase, and capturing this from so far south and inland has left me buzzing!!