Dustspeakers

Thanks Lucas😀 

See https://astrob.in/fxa5yh/0/ for acquisition details 

16 minutes ago, robbymain said:

That's a great result! I hope our UK councils can be so helpful. A lot of issues with annoying light trespass (unfortunately all too common these days with poorly designed, thoughtlessly installed, mega-bright LED floodlights) could be solved with a bit of cheap shielding.

I raised a complaint about a new led street light opposite our bedroom window. Not only did I get an email response in an hour, they had fitted a shield within 2 weeks!!!

Surrey Heath area thumbs up

16 minutes ago, robbymain said:

That's a great result! I hope our UK councils can be so helpful. A lot of issues with annoying light trespass (unfortunately all too common these days with poorly designed, thoughtlessly installed, mega-bright LED floodlights) could be solved with a bit of cheap shielding.

Bortle 6 skies, back garden unmodded Canon 550d, 50mm, F/5.6, ISO 1600

97 x 60s on Ioptron Skyguider Pro, stacked in DSS

Between 19-25 Aug 2019:
Redcat 51 with EFW and ASI1600MM-Pro. 30mm Guide scope using Ekos internal guiding with dither.
- 75 x 300s Ha
- 50 x 300s OIII
- 35 x 300s SII

This image is a crop of the wider field of 

On 19/08/2019 at 12:22, daz said:

That's nice!

Would be interested in the workflow....

With Kelling not too far away, and now having a wide-enough lens, this is something I want to try!!

Thanks Daz. It was processed in StarStax. Under blending preferences there's an option to save each cumulative image up to the final star trail, then import all of these "stills" into a video editing package (I'm on Mac so I used iMovie). In the same blending preferences window there is also an option to process images in reverse order, so I did this as well so that I had stars growing from single point up to the full star trail then added the reverse order to the video edit. Once happy with the video just save and export as an animated gif.

Thanks Mr niall

Thanks dave and oobydooby. Yes it is a scope which I'll try lighting up next time

Initial attempt at star trails timelapse shot on 15th July 2018 starting at 0015 hrs BST.

Canon 550D with 18-35mm lens @ 18mm

240 x 30s ISO 800 @ f3.5 + 20 x 30s darks, processed with StarStaX

I need to find a much more interesting foreground than my back garden bushes next time 😀

Wide field shot with DSLR and 300mm lens only on tracking mount with autoguiding.

45 x 4 minute exposures at ISO800

Processed with StarTools

Hi all from Surrey/Hants borders

I've been astroimaging for nearly 2 years totally self taught/Youtube (so probably doing a whole bunch of stuff incorrectly :-)). Just bought a ASI1600MM/EFW and waiting for clear skies to try out as what I can do currently is limited by DSLR and Bortle 7 back garden. Will post images when I have something new...

Steve

Images so far: https://www.astrobin.com/users/sjf/