Rustang

32 minutes ago, clarkpm4242 said:

@Rustang  Hi, all on a static mount.  The pano mount can be set/indexed to give a specific number of degrees alt or az pan.  It is also set to rotate around the entrance pupil of the lens to avoid parallax issues with near objects.

Took 4 x 8s, move manually to next position and repeat.

Stack each set in Sequator with freeze ground option then throw into MS Image Composite Editor to create pano.

Tracked, stacked and stitched panoramas are tricky and you'll probably need to do a Sky Replacement with a static imaged foreground.   Paul.

I see, maybe one day Il play around with it all 👍

Nice to see Andromeda sneaking in on the right!.

Panning on a tracking mount sounds tricky, or were your short 8 sec subs on a fixed mount!? I guess you have to take all of the separate sections fairly quickly due to the sky rotation which probably lessons the details you can capture?.

A nice local one for me this time

Please remove this reply!

The Skies are dark and beautiful but yes some sky glow still about but not to bad. You can see the glow from the South above the rocks in the image but this was tammed when blending in the tracked sky.

You can see Andromeda and the milkway just in this single 20 sec exposure facing North

11 minutes ago, Zummerzet_Leveller said:

I know the feeling.  I've been shooting some deep sky over the last few nights, two rigs running.  Both on ASIAir but not got my head down until 3am.  Now I'm processing...  Might save some for the cloudy nights.

I get to excited to see what I've captured though! 😊

Thanks and thanks 😊

8 minutes ago, Zummerzet_Leveller said:

That's a cracker.  Nicely planned, executed and processed. The clouds played ball too, don't you just love it when a plan comes together...

It's been amazing recently with clear skies, I just need to catch up on sleep as I'm shattered with the long nights and all the driving. Worth it though 😊

I was on call this weekend and I had to go in today on my birthday so I thought sod it, before I go in, for an early birthday treat Il head to the coast to have one final attempt at capturing Cygnus rising before it ends up heading into the day time.

I captured an hour on Cygnus then hung around for the sun to rise for the foreground.

Thanks, it was a long drive, time and effort that's gone into it so I'm really pleased with the end result

Happisburgh Lighthouse, what amazing skies there are on the Norfolk coast. I took the risk of driving 3hrs to the coast on Tuesday after work with the prediction of it being clear and thankfully it was.

Foreground one single 20 sec exposure, the sky- tracked and stacked with approximately 1 hours worth of 90 sec subs at iso 1600 f2.8 at 16mm. I'm pretty impressed by the Fuji XT-2 considering its not modified!.

The reflection was created by a mirror I took with me.

13 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

This was the image i was thinking of

 

thats a cool image, I would happily have that as a print! I wonder it its a true but probably a little exaggerated representation of what they saw 

6 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Imagine a sky full of that many comets!

Yeah that would be cool 😊

4 hours ago, Ludd said:

Lovely images - and lovely mills too, I know them well and sometime do bike rides based on Quainton, Brill, Wheatley and Great Haseley mills. But in daylight and not with that wind!

Wheatley and Great Haseley look like nice windmills too, Haseley more so would make for a great star trail image or the Milkyway in the summer because of where and how its positioned

6 hours ago, Zummerzet_Leveller said:

The trail effect gives it an art aesthetic. I bet it would look good in print too.

It was nice to do something a little different to the standard lines and yeah I'm definitely going to see how they look in print 😊

18 minutes ago, Zummerzet_Leveller said:

Nicely done, they look great. What software did you use for the star trails they have an interesting look.

Just a bit of radial blur in PS 😊

Last night/this morning I braved the force of mother nature to create these two images. The two Windmills, Brill and Quainton are situated only 20 minuets away from each other in Buckinghamshire. I had planned these projects a short while back but didnt realise until I got to one of them that a sail had been broken.  It turns out it happened in November last year during strong winds. a real shame so I had to do my own repair job!

Lit by moon light, the seperate Windmill captures were blended with the Star trails taken separately on site at Brill to allow me to create the look I was going for.

233 x 30 sec subs for the star trails. 

9 hours ago, Hawksmoor said:

Have enjoyed fish and chips on that pier many times. I like the soft stars which indirectly have upped the colour rather nicely. The contrast with the sharp illuminated pier gives the whole image a rather other worldly atmosphere which I really find intriguing. Nice one!

George

I'm going to have to start saying I did it on purpose 😁

13 hours ago, ONIKKINEN said:

I kinda like the "dreamy" look when zoomed in with the sharp foreground and the distant slightly defocused stars. Gives the image a sense of grand scale IMO.

I know what you mean, a happy accident then 😊

What a numpty! 🤦‍♂️ I should really get to know my cameras and not leave things up to assumptions or hopeful thinking. After looking into it, the manual focus ring on my lens is actually useful and is combined with a focus range indicator on the LCD so I can test where infinity focus is on that indicator as use that when out imaging. We live and learn 😊

22 minutes ago, Debo said:

That's a beautiful image, I don't think the soft stars detract at all. 

Thanks 😊 They were at the limit of useable so focus was only a little out. 

..because the stars are not in focus properly!.

Bit gutted this happened because i checked the first few subs and they appeared 'ok' on the back of the camera screen, it wasnt until the files were uploaded on the computer that i noticed the issue. Its an auto focus lens, I focused on a distant light which it picked up but hasnt reached infinity. The lens only has a fly-by-wire focus ring which isant going to be much help and there's no other way to dial the focus in manually so I'm not sure what to do going forward, its a shame as its a lovely lens.

Anyway this is Cygnus rising at Southwold Pier, the foreground was taken around 5:30pm, then I headed to my parents in Gorleston for the night then hit the coast again around 4am for the sky. I wasnt going to post it but its good enough for now until i can get back to the coast to re capture the sky hopefully in focus..

Fuji XT-2, Fuji 16-55mm f2.8 lens.

Well done guys super images 👏👏

17 minutes ago, FenlandPaul said:

Oooh, that’s nice. 👍

Thanks Paul, the stars were a menace, as in so many and I need a stop down ring to remove their flares but it's still a better version. 

Now that I've calmed down from seeing all the lovely details coming through, I though I would have a better stab at processing the data again! 😊