Eagle Eye Needed

[Arran townsend]

Hi all, I live in an area with a lot of light pollution so I'm unsure what the milky way looks like first hand, I have a caravan in Bewdley with is just on the edge of a orange zone bortal 4, so not too bad, I took my dslr there and took a 15" picture, I can't tell if the milky way is visible or if it's just my hopes leaking into my eyes. The camera was aimed right under Cassiopeia so the milky way should be in the middle of frame. Can anyone else see it? Thanks, Arran.

 

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[Knight of Clear Skies]

Hi, can you unzip the file and post it as a jpeg please?

[Arran townsend]

1 minute ago, Knight of Clear Skies said:

Hi, can you unzip the file and post it as a jpeg please?

Is it ok now?

[Anne S]

The Milky Way is there but rather faint. Here's one I took a few years ago at a Kelling Heath.

[carastro]

I can see it but as you say it is faint.  Can you do longer exposures next time, I did that from a Bortle 4 location and got this:

This is a stack of 7 stacked exposures of 1min each.  Of course you'll need some sort of tracker to do this.  I did this with an Ioptron Skytracker. 

 

[Arran townsend]

6 minutes ago, carastro said:

I can see it but as you say it is faint.  Can you do longer exposures next time, I did that from a Bortle 4 location and got this:

This is a stack of 7 stacked exposures of 1min each.  Of course you'll need some sort of tracker to do this.  I did this with an Ioptron Skytracker. 

 

Thanks for showing your results with me, I have build a barn door tracker which works well, I shall have to use it next time. Do you have any more examples of bottle 4 images?

[carastro]

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Do you have any more examples of bottle 4 images?

Yes on my website.  I do most imaging at a campsite in Bortle 4, and imaging from home when I can;t get there (mainly in the winter at Bortle 8).  Most of these are done using dedicated astro equipment. 

https://sites.google.com/site/caroleastroimaging/home

[Arran townsend]

10 minutes ago, carastro said:

Yes on my website.  I do most imaging at a campsite in Bortle 4, and imaging from home when I can;t get there (mainly in the winter at Bortle 8).  Most of these are done using dedicated astro equipment. 

https://sites.google.com/site/caroleastroimaging/home

I've just had a look at your website, the images you've taken in bortle 8 are simply amazing, the colours look brilliant. For some reason when I process my images in photoshop I can't get any colour in my images at all.

[Knight of Clear Skies]

1 hour ago, Arran townsend said:

Is it ok now?

That's better thanks. Fairly sure that's the Milky Way running from top to bottom but I'm surprised it's not brighter, what aperture and ISO settings did you use please?

[Davey-T]

Some tips on processing MW here and there are a few on Y'Tube.

Dave

https://photographingspace.com/milky-way-color-mask/

[carastro]

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I've just had a look at your website, the images you've taken in bortle 8 are simply amazing, the colours look brilliant. For some reason when I process my images in photoshop I can't get any colour in my images at all.

I have just been through helping another member who was having problems with colour.  It turned out in the end to be his method of stacking in DSS on a Mac in Windows Mode.  Took us a while to fathom this out.  When he installed DSS onto a Windows laptop, he managed to get colour.  Just in case it was a similar problem.

Carole