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It's quite an illusive beast, I think I missed the display by about 20mins on Sunday. Anyone looking north out to sea has a better chance. It's nearly two hours to a north facing coast from here, I just tried very local area. The humidity and mist was blooming village lights up, despite being north of town.

There's several photos from Northern England, and Scotland on the Glendale app now Also the Norfolk coast Only mist and LP here 👍

Hi I don't know if this is any help, I'm a beginner with regards to stacking. There are several tutorials about combining HA and RGB on YouTube that might help. This one is how to get colour in DSS. It says convert the RAW files to tiff before stacking.

I've been in the garden for an hour or, and had a go with my pixel 4a. I got similar shots to yours, I think it's about bortle 5+ here in town. I'd like to try this from a bortle 1 location! I was also keeping an eye on Aurora strength, no luck but tomorrow is cloudy, so I bet it arrives then 🤬

August 6th 04.40 Pixel 4a in astro mode on tripod pointing overhead with a totem pole and milky way. Edited in phone with polish photo editor.

From an aesthetic view the first image would be great if it were desaturated particularly the stars. As I don't know have a benchmark of how M31 is actually supposed to look. Any of these versions is good to my eyes. I don't have the knowledge, or experience of the folks doing these DSO. As mentioned above AP can be more of an artist's interpretation, rather than an accurate account of the target.

Perhaps the distances needed to travel to discover other lifeforms are too great. It may take many generations of people to travel such huge distances. I think it's going to take thousands of years, to get to the stage ware we able to travel so far. Even if we can discover new ways of propulsion and technology. Not sure humans will be around long enough to find out.

I found this on wikipedia about Samyang. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samyang_Optics#:~:text=Samyang products are also sold,%2C Vivitar%2C Phoenix and Quantaray. It says their lenses are sold under these brands. Rokinon, Bower, Opteka, Vivitar, Phoenix and Quantaray.

I use my Pentax DSLR and camera lenses for basic wide field astrophotography, and occasionally to photograph comets. I use a a standard tripod without any tracking, although I can use the astrotracer GPS on my camera for longer exposures. This is one of the lightest and simplest setups for astrophotography. I think you will either use a DSLR and camera lenses. Or a telescope and astro camera. You can find good used lenses that fit straight onto your Nikon D5300. This is simpler than using lens adapters. A fairly heavy sturdy tripod is essential also, as a lightweight tripod will not hold the equipment sill enough.

Winter constellations rising August 31st 03.20 Pixel 4a in astro mode on Slik mini dq tripod. Edited on phone using inbuilt editor.

I was pleased with my cup that arrived today. The photo was reproduced nicely. Thanks

On the way home from photographing the Persieds on August 13th, pockets of shallow mist forming in the fields with Venus rising. Pixel 4a on tripod, on the car roof with nightsight setting. Edited on pixel 4a with the inbuilt standard photo editor. On the same morning In the west on the other side of the road, the moon was setting, also Jupiter is upper left. Pixel 4a in nightsight setting on Slik mini tripod

01.20 on the 19th of August a bright Persied tracked from the Cygnus area. I had gone out to check for Aurora, and took a few shots with my phone just before heading home as it was clouding up. A lucky capture while taking a few shots in astro mode, i used my pixel 4a on a mini tripod.

I tried to pickup the Aurora last night, but no luck. Before I headed home I set my pixel 4a on a small tripod to take shots of the moon and Jupiter. Then just before it clouded up I pointed the phone towards the milky way. Luckily a bright Persied fell from the Cygnus area. I saw two other meteors not as bright as this one. This was from early today 19th August 01.20

I've installed that Aurora App, will see how it goes. Alot of photos from Scotland and far north of England. Someone on the Glendale app reported the Aurora on camera from Northamptonshire?🤔 My camera didn't pickup any Aurora, but it was ideal weather for astronomy. As I walked home after parking the car, there was a young chap in the next street with 10 inches of Celestron dob in the middle of the road (it's a fairly quiet street especially at 4am). He let me take a peek and I saw Saturns rings, and two bands on Jupiter, it's the first time I've seen these details through a scope, it's the first time I've actually had the opportunity to look through a decent scope, I was impressed.

Partly cloudy and the aurora site was on orange. I've taken some shots but there's nowt showing hereabouts. Seen a couple of Persieds, and moon rising.

A few more Persieds This one on the 10th of August 02.25 From the 13th about 01.30 And the 14th about 02.30

Between 1-4am on the 13th I saw ten meteors, the moonlight didn't help. The brightest meteor I didn't witness as it was behind trees, but I'd set my camera up facing WNW and it captured it. A couple of years ago with a quarter moon I counted about 20 per hour. I read the Persieds are declining since the 90s, but should increase again after the next visit of the parent comet in about 100 years. On the way home a six mile drive, the full moon was setting over a misty field on my right. On the left Venus was rising over misty fields. This morning the 14th,I had another look from the garden 03.15-04.00. Another four bright meteors in the NW, and NE, one looking pale turquoise. This one was with my phone about 2am on the 13th PXL_20220813_012028177.NIGHT~3.mp4

Thank you MartinB Thanks to everyone running the challenges, and the other participants. Well done Paul, and Clarkpm

02.30 -03.45 I observed six moderately bright meteors, five of those seemed to be Persieds. One in the north east, and the others were between West and Northwest.

About 02.30 a bright satellite overhead travelled towards the South East, slightly faster than the ISS. Around 03.00 I was facing North West and saw a flash like distant lightning, it was yellow, and I didn't see any meteor in that direction at the time, or any sounds later.

Sky is becoming mucky now from the N.E. with cirrus rotating around the High pressure. Must of jinxed it by charging the camera batteries.

August 7th 03.30am pixel 4a on SLIK mini DQ tripod. Processed in phone with Snapseed.

On 7th August I only observed three meteors over two hours. I captured one just before 4am, a Persied below Taurus, this was the brightest one of the night. 11mm wide angle lens on APSC

The cirrus clouds stayed to my south, so I couldn't get a photo of the milky way core. Overhead was quite clear after 1am, I took a few wide field shots of the milky way overhead. Jupiter was bright, Taurus and M45, Mars. Six Persieds were seen, I hoped to get one on photo, there were likely more I missed while setting up phone and camera. Also had a Barn Owl flying parallel with me for about 10 seconds, and crossing over from one side of the vehicle to the other. I was on a country lane doing 20mph, the barn owl was about 4 metres from the ground.