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Hello everyone, I'm Jonny and I live in Farnborough in Hampshire, UK. My friend and I are taking our first baby-steps into night sky photography so I'm here for all the help I can get. We're just starting out so our equipment is very basic, but I'm sure the more we get into this the more we will upgrade over time. Currently our set up consists of: Home-made Motorised Barn Door Tracker (my friend is an engineer) Canon 1100D with an 18-55mm Lens Laptop with BackyardEOS We took everything out for it's first test-drive last week and the tracker
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Hi all, Newbie to the forum but I just wanted to share some shots with you that I managed to get over the weekend. Got the Milky Way and even a few of NEOWISE which was amazing to witness Milky Way - 5 x 20 seconds stacked (not tracked), 11mm, F/2.8, ISO 800 NEOWISE Landscape shot - Single exposure, 8 seconds, 16mm, F/2.8, ISO 800 NEOWISE Stack 1 - 2 x 10 seconds, 16mm, F/2.8, ISO 800 NEOWISE Stack 2 - 2 x 13 seconds, 55mm, F/5.6, ISO 1600 For a first real attempt, I'm pretty pleased with them but obviously, I have a lot more to learn! Frankie -
Last night and tonight I have been out with binoculars shortly after 11pm, the sun finally seems to be low enough not to wash out the milky way, helped by some cloud banks in just the right places, too. I was able to see the main bands of the milky way with the naked eye from my door step, though there are security lights so hiding around the corner of the garage or somewhere in the garden is best to avoid setting them off. I fancied tonight that I could just make out the faint fuzzy patch that is the Andromeda galaxy, sure enough a quick glance with binoculars confirmed this, still got it! V
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From the album: Imaging Challenge #15 - The Milky Way - Now Closed
A 25 second exposure from a time-lapse taken over the cloud filled Caldera de Taburiente in La Palma in the Canary Islands. Mars is the red object to the left of the Milky Way. Saturn is in there too but is lost amongst the milky way. The bright lights hidden under the clouds are from the towns of Los Llanos and Tazacorte only about 7-8 miles away as the crow flies but about 90 minutes away by car! 25 sec at f/1.8, 14mm Sigma lens, ISO 3200, Canon 6D. The scene was illuminated by a crescent moon beyond the right of the image.© James Mackay
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From the album: Imaging Challenge #15 - The Milky Way - Now Closed
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From the album: Imaging Challenge #15 - The Milky Way - Now Closed
The Milky Way rising over the ancient Anazazi ruins of Pueblo Pintado, an outlier of the Chaco Canyon complex. Shot in June 2018 on a moonlit night© Matt Schulze 2018
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From the album: Deep Sky Imaging
This was imaged using a astro modded Canon 40D through a 50mm prime lens for the wide coverage, piggy backed on my SCT, so tracked and guided using my 80mm frac as a guide scope. Total Exposure was 2 hours, consisting of 30 x 120s, 15 x 60s and 30 x 30s subs at ISO800 With in we can see part of the stars making up the Scorpius constellation, Milky way, Rho Ophiuchus, Antares, M80 and M4 among the gas, dust and nebulosity.© Mariusz Goralski
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Stargazing Session 001 - Saturn, Jupiter & the Milky Way
AbeSapien posted a blog entry in "We are made of star stuff..."
21 of June 2017 / 22h30 UTC+01:00 / Stargazing Conditions: 88% So, I crammed all of my new acquired stuff together and went to the darkest place I could find near my town. It's a mere 5 minute drive from my home. As I set everything up, I tried to wait for 20-30 minutes to give the 'scope a chance to acclimatize but I really couldn't! Jupiter I looked west south west to find Jupiter, pointed my finderscope at it and I was amazed by how clear the image from the 'scope was!! I had a 5 minute stare through my 25mm BST eyepiece where I could distinctly see -
Milky way in Cygnus. 10 min at ISO 100. Nikon D3200 - kit lens at 18mm, f/5.6
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From the album: Kevin Hurleys Deep Space Objects
Wide angle shot of Milky Way in Cygnus. 10 min total (4 subs of 2.5 min each) at ISO 100. Nikon D3200 with kit lens at 18mm (f/5.6). Tracking on a skywatcher 150p EQ3-2 mount - no guiding.- 2 comments
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From the album: Marci’s Astropix
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From the album: Exploring the Universe From Peruvian Skies
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From the album: My (very amateurish) attempts at astrophotography!
Milky way over the hills at Loch Earn. Even caught some faint aurora over the hill! (my intended target for the night!) -
From the album: Widefield Images
A section of the Milky Way centred roughly on Cassiopeia. 14x 3 minutes exposures using a modded Canon 650D, Sigma 24-105 lens at 24mm, f/4.5. The Perseus Double Cluster is visible at the bottom with a whole string of DSO's right up to the Elephants Trunk area in Cepheus.© James Mackay
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From the album: Widefield Images
A late night Milky Way shot from Woodlands Campsite in Devon. The picture is aimed west - the nearest LP is Plymouth about 20-25 miles away. The Summer triangle is the area above the trees - the field of view is very wide and goes up and slightly beyond the zenith. Taken through a Canon 6D, 14mm Samyang lens at f/4. 1x 30 second exposure at ISO6400.© James Mackay
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From the album: Slynxx Learning Curve
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From the album: Stars and Constellations
Taken using Canon 100D DSLR with 18mm lens on Skywatcher Star Adventurer Single 2 minute exposure processed in Photoshop Elements 11© Vicky050373
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This August I was lucky enough to go back to La Palma with the family for a couple of weeks. Perhaps more importantly I was able to take my cameras, and this time I hired a telescope over there rather than look at the skies wishing I had my scope with me. Same as last time we were unlucky with the weather, by La Palma standards, and several nights were lost to very thick Calima - dust laden winds blowing from the Sahara . These clog up the sky and raise the temperature quite drastically. It also severely hampered my ‘schedule’ of timelapses I wanted to get but living in the UK I can expect p- 23 replies
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Set up Star adventurer mini for a few 60 second runs with a rough polar align in a very dark area a way from our hotel, only had 12 minutes astro darkness so had to work quickly . It was spookily dark ... Could see the milky way faintly reflected on the ocean. As the moon started to clear the mountains a Polish chap appeared with his camera but no tripod so we managed to communicate and I let him put his camera on my Sam. Then again as packing up a German chap arrived so we did the same again for him. It was quite interesting trying to explain the Sam and how it worked. H
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Hello all, I have just joined and have been looking around, and putting in various searches to find the answer to my question(s). I have already found some valuable information, but i can't find a specific answer to a question i have relating to exposure times. I have shot the milky way several times before, from a tripod and a wide angle lens. I am aware of and understand the "500 rule" and that worked fine for me at first when i was shooting with my Canon 6D Mark II. When i moved over to the Sony A7III i noticed significant trailing using the same rule and that led me to the N
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Second attempt at astrophotography with my canon 1300D untracked (first was orion ). Shot under dark skies of himachal pradesh (India). Stacking done in DSS and processing in Gimp. Any suggestions would be appreciated. especially regarding the trees at the bottom. Total exposure time - 20*20 seconds Shot with - Canon EOS 1300D (untracked) (unmodded) Flats and Biased frames included
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Hi all, I'm new here and this is my first post. I just opened my account today although I have visited here occasionally over the last year and a half while searching for key information. SGL seems like a really good and helpful forum community so I figured it was time to join up. My astro-buddy and I kicked off the official Milky Way season last week at 3:30 am out at our usual location in rural west Ottawa, Ontario. Just being out there and seeing our old friend the Milky Way was worth getting up for at 2:00 am and driving for miles. We ended our outing with an artery-clogging truc -
It´s been a while and the season is soon over but last weekend I pulled myself together for some astroscaping After 4 hours in -12 degrees Celsius I couldn´t feel my toes Hurt like crazy when I got them warmed up again. This is a composite image, since I used tracking. Sky: 120 seconds at ISO 1600. Foreground: 60 seconds at ISO 3200. Samyang 24/1.4 @f/2.8 Canon EOS 6D AstroTrac TT320X-AG Hope you like it! -
My first ever full arch Milky Way... all previous attempts in the last two years have ended in failure. Regarding the foreground: I really lucked out with this one. My two astro-buddies and I were cramped together on a helipad to the left and our red night lights were getting in each other's shots. So I ventured out into the field on the right and walked towards the fence to try to find a more secluded position. Then, just before sun up I shot a few quick landscape pano shots and as it turned out, my footprints from an hour ealier were just perfect to add interest to the scene!
