andy fearn

lovely images. the widefield is stunning .congratulations on efforts.

Thanks for info mike. will give it a go.

clear skys.

Lovely image mike, what sort of time was that ?  I had a second try last night, much better than my first attempt. will have to try with star adventurer.

22 hours ago, Ken Mitchell said:

First attempt and first clear morning after 2 weeks of bad astrophotography weather.

Taken about 2 hrs before sunrise on 07/13/2020

The image still has some startrails from the comet stacking mode in DSS. I've used the comet stacking mode and normal stacking mode and blended both together in Photoshop to get the comet with its starfield rather than startrails. 

Difficult process to do this manually. 

If someone knows a method/software that does comet stacking with its starfield, please let me know. DSS failed me on several occasions  using comet+star stacking method.

Ken

 

Equipment and image detail: 

Nikon d610
TS72 APO + TS72flat 
settings: 432mm, f6, iso400, 40min. Different exposures ranging from 30 sec to 5 sec.

Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
software: 
Stacking: Deepskystacker 4.2.2
Processing: Adobe Photoshop

Fantastic image. congratulations. thanks for sharing.

Hi. thanks for sharing. i don't have equipment to view the sun in such detail, so it's always nice to see others images.😀

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Amazing. thanks for posting. don't have equipment for such images so always a great pleasure to look at .😀

very nice . I  like the last three particularly.

very good capture.👏

Amazing shot.🙂

Very nice image.

Hi. I was thinking of putting my 150-600 sigma and Nikon 7500 on mine. What do you think  ???

I had a star-adventurer for Christmas and haven't had chance to use it yet. will be pleased if I get something of that quality. very nice.

WOW, just looked on you'r  flickr page, amazing images.

Hi Barry and welcome. I see you have visited Gibraltar. When my wife and I did the tour up the rock she also had a visit to her person by an ape, but it sat on her head. She screamed at me to do something so I took a photo of her. glad to hear your enjoying your self in this frustrating hobby.

regards.

Wow . stunning video. lovely part of the country, have been over and under the viaduct. need to get back up there soon. Thanks for sharing.😀

Amazing image.not seen it like this before. Fantastic.

Fantastic image.

Fantastic images , love the colouring.

I like that very much. would look nice in a frame on a wall.

Impressive.i like it. Good luck with the new scope.

Lovely image.👍

I don't think you will have any regrets what so ever. Time saved setting up is a bonus and if weather come's in quick just roll it back. good luck.👍