Jupiter, Aldebaran, Pleiades

[Episkey]

This is my second attempt at wide field imaging. It's an orange on the bortle scale where I live so the sky doesn't get too dark. Nonetheless, here is a quick 15 sec., exposure. My setup was a Sony A300, 30mm on a tripod. Single shot, ISO 200, 15 sec. Crop and levels adjustment applied on Photoshop.

Thanks for looking and any advice is appreciated.

[stonemonkeylives]

Nice image, the Pleiades really steal the show

sent from Gherkin Muncher mk .III (commonly known as a Galaxy S2)

[Ouroboros]

Nice. It's good to have some trees in the shot. Puts the scene in context. I might suggest you moved a bit to get Taurus into shot from behind the tree, but that's my only criticism.

It's interesting to stack lots of wide field 10-15 second shots together in deep sky stacker. You might be surprised what you pull out of the image.

[Episkey]

Thanks guys. If I stacked a lot of 10-15 second exposures in DSS, would I get star trails, or a nice clean image?

[allcart]

If you take your pics in quick succession so there is no obvious star movement between shots, and your pics don't show star trailing then the result of stacking them should produce a better picture than a single shot.

Deepskystacker is free so give it a go.

[whooshbang]

Nice shot Episkey.

Does the software not do "star alignment" when stacking images? to compensate for the movement between shots?

[Fluke]

Very nice. I love wide field particularly with earthbound objects in the foreground.

[turbotim]

Good shot!