first attempts at the milky way

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

i hope its ok to post these here.

 

taken on a fuji XT1 with Samyang lens F2 1600 ISO

[laudropb]

Nice images.

[John Baker]

They are really good, you just need to try to get some more light into the shots. So try upping the ISO to 3,200 or possibly higher

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

i i tried it on 3200, but i suffered from the most intense light pollution (blackpool with it s xmas illuminations.) im waiting for a red intensifier which should let me go with a higher iso without it just being a white screen hopefully

[John Baker]

1 hour ago, Trevor Does Not Exist said:

i i tried it on 3200, but i suffered from the most intense light pollution (blackpool with it s xmas illuminations.) im waiting for a red intensifier which should let me go with a higher iso without it just being a white screen hopefully

I know the problem, it is never simple but at least you tried. It is always worth trying to juggle stopping down & ISO to get the sweet spot.  Hopefully you can get to a dark spot with a clear sky at some stage  

 

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

yeah its odd but i found out my street is orange, but if i go to the next street down its in the yellow lol. but like i say hopefully the red intesifier (if it ever arrives been a week since i ordered it) will help me step up the iso a bit. the best sky is an hours walk from my house (no transport) and that is green on light pollution.  

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

also that was my first proper attempt at photographing the sky other than getting jupiter and its moons

[ultranova]

They have come out well, its actually harder than you think

to get a good wide angle picture of the night sky in built up

areas, they have come out much better than my first attempts

well done

Paul

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

5 hours ago, ultranova said:

They have come out well, its actually harder than you think

to get a good wide angle picture of the night sky in built up

areas, they have come out much better than my first attempts

well done

Paul

and in blackpool that has worse light pollution than london when its the illuminations 

[John Baker]

On 05/12/2016 at 22:52, Trevor Does Not Exist said:

i i tried it on 3200, but i suffered from the most intense light pollution (blackpool with it s xmas illuminations.) im waiting for a red intensifier which should let me go with a higher iso without it just being a white screen hopefully

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It will be interesting to see how you get on. The ideal solution is to try to get away from the pollution, but that is never easy...

 

[happy-kat]

There have come out well.

Perhaps you'll take a stack of images and try combining that to build the image up further. Some flats thrown in should sort the vignetting.

That's a nice lens looking at the first image.

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

how do i make a flat and how many flatas should i make

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[happy-kat]

A flat is just a completely light picture, same focus distance on lens, same iso, but the exsposure is so that the histogram is in the middle. I use my android tablet with app lightbox and balance my tablet on top of the lens, it works for me. About 40 images or so. When used in a processed stack of images it sorts out any dust bunnies and lens vignetting.

Bias frames are same focus, same iso just fastest possible shutter your camera can do with lens cap on. About 40 frames I take.

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

purely light?

[happy-kat]

I've also used notepad on desktop pc with a white envelope over the flat screen as my background for taking flats.

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

12 hours ago, happy-kat said:

I've also used notepad on desktop pc with a white envelope over the flat screen as my background for taking flats.

might be a bit difficult for me. oi have a ultrawide asus monitor  it would have to be 6 large envelopes cellotaped together

[happy-kat]

Not the case the camera and lens can be very close to the screen. The only reason I used the evelope was because without it the flats were picking up the flat screen screen refresh bars.

[Trevor Does Not Exist]

ahh i see. well its been raining every night here for the past week. and a bit. my red intesifier filter was in washington but its been bouncing around san fransico for days now, im hoping it will be shipped to the uk soon1