Daniel-K

i agree with Alan, orientation does'nt matter as long as it's framed nicely and which you have done. a fine WF image  

10 hours ago, Andy R said:

Oh fantastic I found this thread by chance. Shall cook dinner then book my ticket

Awesome Andy please do come and introduce yourself, so far the forecast is looking good. There is a hands on practical advice afterwards so please do bring any equipment you need. I will have a few pieces of equipment that will be used for public use. Also Celestron I believe are attending.

Hi every one my self and Vanguard will be giving a talk along side the Cambrian photography event at Lly Brenig this coming Saturday.  I will be talking about how i take my landscape astro images.  If you fancy listening to me waffle on then you can book here.  During the day there are stalls for camera & lenses to see so please do pop by and say hello. 

Danny 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/into-the-darkness-daniel-kenealy-tickets-68792533319?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

i like the 2nd but loose the added diffraction spike IMHO 

That is lovely!! you could always clone out the halo's shouldn't be too difficult. 

14 hours ago, clarkpm4242 said:

Smooth image.  Nice.

Is the horizon sloping or just an illusion?  I've some of my own that look 'wrong' no matter what I do and drive me to distraction.

Cheers

Paul

PS My cousin hoped to get that composition last week but the weather and tide didn't play ball.

It's an illusion for sure. It had me going mad in PS.  

10 hours ago, MarsG76 said:

That belongs on a wall.. very nice photo

 

Thanks dude.

17 hours ago, Scooot said:

That’s a smashing image Danny. 

Thanks Scoot 

17 hours ago, Andy R said:

Is this the little chapel on Anglesey?

great pic btw 

Yes it is Andy 

6 hours ago, wesdon1 said:

Thats a gorgeous pic ! Is that the moon or an over-exposed Jupiter in the lower right of sky in pic!? lol amazing pic. oh I've just noticed, it must be Jupiter because Saturn is following behind on other side of Milky Way!?? I regularly view these two planets so i know there movements almost off by heart! lol. The Milky Way is always in between them at the moment. Am i correct or have i just showed how much of a newbie i really am! haha

Thank you, you are correct.

The core is back woooop

Porth Cwyfan last night

SonyA7RII

20mm Tokina Firin F2

ISO 6400

20 frames stacked

cwyfan mwfb by Danny Kenealy, on Flickr

porth cwyfan  

SonyA7RII

tokina F2 FIRIN

cwyfan mwfb by Danny Kenealy, on Flickr

Keep a look out in August's sky@night mag 😀

NLC reflection made a lovely natural frame from the display on  21/6/19 

Sony A7RII

single frame

I got a heads up just before i finished work and didn't really want to head out until i saw some image's coming in from Berlin just before 22:30. I decided to go and try and capture a shot ive had planned for a while but due east there was  some murky cloud shrouding some of the display so i headed to a place i know well. 

NLC NEW BRIGHTON by Danny Kenealy, on Flickr 

4 hours ago, knobby said:

FLOIKI ... has a nice ring to it 🙂 good luck all !

Wasn't he in Vikings??

48 minutes ago, Paul73 said:

Nice one Dan. It’s got everything. You’ll be giving up the day job soon!

Must have taken a while to find that spot.

Paul

i cant take all the credit for this spot, a good friend of mine who's local pointed me to it.   theres a few spots around the lake for some other things i want to try later in the year.

15 hours ago, JonH said:

Nice one Dan, that’s one awesome pano 👍👍👍

Thanks mate, learnt from the best 

43 minutes ago, HunterHarling said:

Very nice. Why is it your last time to get the arch?

By the time August comes around it's too high and making a panoramic image of it is a real pita. This image was about 15 images. The last time I tried in August it took 51 images to fit. 

7 hours ago, Lenny147 said:

Lovely this mate, just getting a little more serious about astro stuff myself at the mo.

Thanks dude,  found my astro mojo again 

9 hours ago, mapstar said:

Superb Danny. Nice capture 

Thank you dude

7 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

Fabulous image.  Competition level definitely. I'm amazed  it's so good given the presence of the Moon.  I guess it helped that you were looking North and the Moon was in the south west.  

There was a big hill behind us, blocking most of the low moon

Hi Dave hope this helps. I've calculated you max exposure time for shooting with your kit. Lovely image by the way 

I think that's it for us northern folk now. Next session 2nd August for me 😭

last 

astro shot for a while now.  The conditions where epic and while i was waiting for the moon to set fully, i was stood in front of this tree and decided to try something new.  

A 200 shot stack and a 4 pane pano. thats 50 x 12" images for each pane at ISO 6400 f2.8 20mm. 

This is part of the Cygnus constellation home to the North America Nebula which you can see as a pink blotch towards the top of the image. This Nebula is approx 100 light years across and 1800 light years away. 

I love this section of the milky way as its so dense with stars when your at a dark sky location it glows wonderfully in the sky . 

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Tokina 20mm  F2 Firin lens
Vanguard Alta BH-300 Ballhead
Vanguard Alta Sky 49 Bag
Benro Mach3 TMA47AXL

2 minutes ago, johnfosteruk said:

Stunning, you need to enter that into as many competitions as possible.

Thanks John, its ok but i feel i can do better. if was a first visit and really didn't expect to capture much. i did'nt even make it the way around the lake to my intentional POI  which im slightly annoyed at because if i had, the shot i had planned would of had some more aurora in. but its a cracking spot for winter so you will see it later in the year.  

16 minutes ago, davew said:

Two bright planets, the Milky Way, Pipe Nebula and a view to die for.

You've done it again,

Dave.

thanks Dave it was a last minute trip. the plan was to go out on the saturday evening but looking at the weather and moon set times i decided to go after work on Friday. i begged work to let me out 2 hours early lol