first stack of milky way

[Atreta]

Hi guys,

this is my first attempt to capture and stack the milky way.

i took 25x - 20s pictures based on the 500 rule.

and used 10x - 20s darks too.

Any comments are greatly welcomed.

it was taken with a t5i placed on the virtuoso mount and not attached to a telescope.

ps: i had to resize the image so it could fit the 1mb restriction.

[Leveye]

Well done! Right after you finish stacking and the first post stacking thing to do with your image is to crop off those edges here that you can see the stacking remnants from.That will mess up your stretching of the image later. Then use a green eliminator and a gradient exterminator and then stretch it and sweeten to taste. You'll be amazed at the results.

[Atreta]

thank you for the reply,

gonna crop it and try your suggestions.

i'm using gimp for my tweaking, and did a quick research for gradient removing and looks like it doesn't have a good way to achieve it.

btw, what is green extermination?

[Atreta]

Leveye,

i tried doing what you said.

here is the result.

i think it looks much better.

thanks for the insights.

[Yoddha]

Looks very good! I would make the background a bit darker. Somewhere in the middle between the first and the second version

[tingting44]

thats excellent for such a short ammount of data! you must have some nice dark skies there

[Atreta]

Thanks for the answers,

yes there's not much LP here in my city, just a small town

another day i'm gonna try going to a rural site nearby, there is really dark.

[Pete Presland]

i think that is a brilliant image for only 20 second subs, very very good you must be delighted with the outcome!

[Atreta]

Thank you all,

i'm very pleased with the results.

My next goal is to try a few shots of M31 when the skies clear out.

[Astrosurf]

Cracking image! I really must try this sometime, but skies here are pretty awful.

Alexxx

[The BFJ]

Beautiful pic Atreta, truly a glorious effort!

And you're right Alexxx, skies round here suck sooooo bad.... I've started heading into rural Oxfordshire for darker skies. Not perfect but MUCH better than around here!

Jon

[Giray Gencaslan]

Hi guys,

this is my first attempt to capture and stack the milky way.

i took 25x - 20s pictures based on the 500 rule.

and used 10x - 20s darks too.

Any comments are greatly welcomed.

it was taken with a t5i placed on the virtuoso mount and not attached to a telescope.

ps: i had to resize the image so it could fit the 1mb restriction.

Great work!

Which iso you use?

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[Atreta]

Hi,

i used iso 800.

that night the sky was really dark, but after it it's been very cloudy

[purdo]

Lovely image, well done.

[cockney]

wow amazing image well done. love looking at peoples works of art.

[David_Pickles]

Really nice photo - well done!