SGL 2024 Challenge 3 - Nightime Landscape

[MartinB]

Start date: 1st March 2024

End date: 31st May 2024

Very simple.  We are looking for images showing the night sky with a landscape foreground.  The image must be taken with the same camera and lens/scope combination but stacking is permitted as are star trails.

If you have any questions please feel free to PM me, this is much preferred to discussions within the thread.

RULES

All data must be captured and processed by you (no collaborative entries). 
Data must be captured during the challenge start & end dates.  Entries after the end date will not be included in the judging
Multiple entries are allowed.
Multiple submissions of the same image, processed differently, will not be accepted.

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To enter please post within this topic, do not start a new topic. Please post as much information as possible - when it was taken, how it was captured and processed, etc. The info won't necessarily be used for judging but will help fellow SGLers looking to learn and improve their knowledge and technique.

The thread is for image submissions only, please do not respond to entries other than by using emojies.  

[Nikolai De Silva]

This was taken last Sunday when we went to Colombo. This is the lotus tower in the evening night sky. Not a good cam, but satisfying I think.

Thanks,

Nikolai.

[Chewie65]

Start Bay Devon (start point on the right)

Taken with OM1 and 7-14 pro lens. 
june 2023. 9 vertical images stacked and stitched in Affinity 2 on iPad.
Iso 5000 12s f2.8

 

Edited March 7 by Chewie65

[Chewie65]

Wheal Owles National trust property in west Cornwall.

a shot I didn’t plan. 

12 image’s stacked, mine lit with headtorch. 
OM1 7-14 pro iso 4000 12s (from memory)  f2.8

Edited March 7 by Chewie65

[Chewie65]

Cape Cornwall (West Cornwall) 

14 images stacked OM1 7-14 pro 2.8 15s 

foreground was longer exposure and blended in PS

[Gerr]

The Winter Milky Way over Gogarth Bay on Anglesey.

Taken on the 6th March 2024 from South Stack Lighthouse Lookout on Holy Island  to encompass Gogarth bay and North Stack fog station to the right of the image.

Canon 6D astro-modded camera with a Samyang 24mm lens and Star Adventurer 2i.

The sky was tracked as a two row panorama (11 images in each) at ISO1600 f4 60secs.

The foreground consisted of 5 landscape orientation images at ISO800 f2 60secs with myself as a single shot at ISO3200 f1.4 10secs.

The images were stitched together in PTGui and processed using Photoshop Lightroom and CS.

The light pollution on the horizon is from the city of Dublin, Ireland.  The yellow light on the right side of the image is from the Skerries Lighthouse.

 

The Milky Way over Gogarth Bay;

 

 

[Crackabarrel]

Orion Rising over Classiebawn Castle in Co. Sligo, Ireland, Benbulben can be seen looming in the background.

Night of March 7th

Nikon Z7ii + Z50mm f1.8

Sky: 24x30sec @iso800 @f2.2 Tracked

Foreground: 2x1min, 2x2min, 2x4min, 1x8min @f5.6, HDR Merge

Calibration and Stacking in Pixinsight

Foreground HDR Merge in Lightroom

Sky & Foreground Merge and finishing touches in Photoshop

 

[Icesheet]

Comet 12p/ Pons Brooks, Andromeda, M33 and some Aurora in Samnanger, western Norway. I used the PlanItPro app to find a location where the comet would be near the horizon to the NW. On the night of 8th March I had clear skies so headed out. As I was capturing my foreground shots some Aurora appeared, which although exciting for my composition, made  it difficult to process. Very happy with the final outcome (after lots of revisions!) Final composition is a crop.

Canon EOS R and Sigma 40mm Art

Sky tracked with Bemro Polaris 62x30s f2 ISO1600

Foreground 1x30s f2 ISO1600

Stack processed in PixInsight and PhotoShop then blended/ merged with foreground shot. 

Edited March 15 by Icesheet

[Gerr]

Seems popular in wide field forum so I thought I’d post here too.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks over Quarry Park Lake, Holyhead Mountain.

Taken 15th March 8pm with Canon 6D and 50mm Sigma Art Lens.

The sky was Fifty 8sec subs at ISO800 f/2.2 which were stacked with calibration frames in Siril. Foreground was 1min exposure at f2 ISO800.

Images then blended and processed in Photoshop Lightroom and CS.

Also present are M31 and M33 with the star Mirach in the centre.

 

[Whistlin Bob]

The row of houses that can be seen from my back garden has probably never been called a landscape before, but here's the view I get when I look North whilst observing, and I've seen lots of the universe from here. This is 80*30 second shots using a 12-24mm Canon lens on a 100d and merged in GIMP, and tweaked for contrast and to try and get rid of some of the light pollution.

[Daniel-K]

Skittles puddles Penmon North wales 03-03-2024

Sony A7iv

Sigma ART 20MM lens

F1.8  8 Seconds 

Edited March 25 by Daniel-K

[clarkpm4242]

Swaledale view with 12/P Pons-Brooks.   Canon R8 and Sigma 50mm.  Sky and foreground separate exposures.  Each stack of 2 x 30s.  Processed in LR, Sequator and PS.

Paul

 

Edited April 7 by clarkpm4242

[clarkpm4242]

Bamburgh Castle under the Milky Way - Canon R8, Sigma 24mm.  Sky 6 x 10s, f2.5, iso3200, untracked.  Foreground 1 x 8s, f5.6, iso400, moonlit deep blue hour.  LR, Sequator and PS.  Cheers, Paul.  Much sharper when clicked.

Edited April 19 by clarkpm4242

[lukebl]

I'm not sure if this qualifies as it was technically taken during the day, but it IS an astronomical image of a landscape captured when the day had turned to night!

It's a simple grab of a single frame from a video I captured with my iPhone 11 Pro of the total eclipse, seen from Magog, Quebec Province, Canada on 8th April 2024. The lens was set at 'wide', 26mm @ f/1.8. Venus can be seen to the lower right. The lake in the foreground is the delightfully-named Lake Memphremagog which is partly in the US state of Vermont. I think the small triangular peak left of centre is Mont Nixon, and the high land near the left hand edge is Mont Éléphant. It was a beautiful setting to view the eclipse.

This frame was shortly before 3rd Contact when the diamond ring was just about to appear, and the rapidly-approaching daylight can be seen beyond the receding lunar shadow. I had set up the phone on a tripod to record the whole eclipse from a minute or so before 2nd contact to about a minute after 3rd, and set it to a fixed exposure so that it didn't automatically increase the exposure time during totality. No manipulation of the image at all.

 

Edited April 26 by lukebl

[AstroNebulee]

The Milky way arch panorama taken over a mist engulfed Delabole Slate Quarry, North Cornwall on 4th May 2024.

Taken with Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens

Sky is made up of 10 panels, each consisting of 15 x 13sec images 6400iso stitched together.

Panorama created with Microsoft ICE and processed in Photoshop cs4. 

Foreground is stitched together and taken during astronomical twilight 13secs 1600iso F4 lenr. Worth a click and turn. 

Cheers 

Lee 

Edited May 6 by AstroNebulee

[AstroNebulee]

My Dslr version of the Delabole Slate Quarry, North Cornwall engulfed in mist. The quarry is over 425ft deep and 1.5 miles around. Imaged just after a good milky-way photography session. You can just make out the teapot asterim and Scorpius, with the fading milky-way. Taken on 4th May 2024 at 4.15am. Taken with Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens, 1600iso 1/60. 2 images stitched together in Microsoft ICE and processed in Photoshop cs4. 

Clear skies 

Lee 

[emyliano2000]

Night-time at Portland Bill Lighthouse

Knowing that this weekend was going to be a Bank Holiday weekend, with 3 days off and no moon about to mess things up, I really hoped to have at least one clear night to go out and try my luck at some Milky-Way shots before the UK will be losing the astronomical darkness.

The forecast looked good for Friday night and because the last time I went to Portland Bill I didn't manage to get home with anything good, I thought of giving it another go. Even though it was a 4 hour drive from my house, I'm over the moon I went there because I haven't seen the sky so nice and clean in a very, very long time, it was just perfect.

As always, I used my Astro-modified Canon 6d that never disappoints, but this time I used it with the Sigma Art 24-35mm f2 lens at 24mm f2.8 and the Optolong L-Pro clip-in filter for Canon full frame.

The foreground is a single image, 5sec, ISO 1600, 24mm f2.8 and the sky is a stack of 13 x 120sec, ISO 1600, 24mm f2.8 tracked images using my iOptron Sky-Guider Pro star tacker.

The editing was done in Lightroom Classic, Pixinsight and Photoshop and the blending with the final touches in Photoshop.

I hope you like it!

Emil

[emyliano2000]

The second photo I took on he same night is shot from the cliffs, not far away from the lighthouse.

I always wanted a selfie with the Milky-Way in the background and what better place to do that than the Dorset's Jurassic Coast.

Same as the previous photo, the equipment used was the modified canon 6d, Sigma Art 24-35mm f2 lens and the iOptron Sky-Guider Pro tracker.

The foreground is a single 30sec ISO1600 @24mm f2.8 and the sky is a stack of 10x120sec shot with the same settings.

The editing was done in Lightroom Classic, Pixinsight and Photoshop and the blending with the final touches in Photoshop.

Emil

 

 

 

[emyliano2000]

And finally, my 3rd and last photo is with the same Portland Bill Lighthouse but shot from a different angle.

While scouting for a good composition, I noticed the little flowers growing on the edge of the cliff and I immediately stopped for a few photos.

Even though there are lights everywhere around Portland Bill lighthouse, this particular place was quite dark. To brighten up the foreground I used my head torch for a fraction of a second which turned out to be just enough to make the flowers pop.

Again, the equipment used is similar to my other 2 photos.

The foreground is a single 30sec and the sky is a stack of 13x120sec photos blended in position with the help of photoshop.

Even though the details in the Milky-Way are not as great as in my other 2 photos because the Milky-Way core was only coming up from behind the horizon, I am still very pleased with thee photo.

I hope you like it too!

Emil

 

[WolfieGlos]

A spectacular night that will be remembered by everyone who witnessed it, here is a shot of part of the Aurora display over rural Gloucestershire, morning of 11th May.

Looking north towards the Malverns, the field behind our garden provides a lovely view to the horizon with the various trees and hedges silhouetted against the purple pillars display. This was captured at about 3am.

Canon 77D with EFS 10-18mm at 10mm, f/4.5, 13s exposure at iso1600. No post processing, other than saving as a JPG.

[AstroNebulee]

The Milky way over the village display called Slate henge, near Delabole Slate Quarry, North Cornwall. 

Taken on 4th May 2024. 

Taken with Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens. 

Sky is 15x13secs at 3200iso f2. 8

Foreground is 1x60secs 1600iso F4 Long exposure noise reduction. 

Processed in Photoshop and starnett 2.

Cheers 

Lee 

Edited May 12 by AstroNebulee

[AstroNebulee]

This is a still single frame image of the Aurora display on Friday 10th May 2024 from Delabole, North Cornwall. There was over 1000 images to look through and I could post a lot of them but this is my favourite especially with the moon setting on the horizon. Taken with Canon 600D and Samyang 14mm f2.8 1600iso 8 secs.

Processed in Photoshop. No saturation added! 

Clear skies 

Lee 

[trailer]

The aurora from the night of the 10th of May and looking south east over Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A single shot with the foreground lightened. There's even a shooting star (I think) in the top left corner.....

Sony A7III + Viltrox f1.8 16mm. 5 seconds at f2.8, ISO 400. 

Edited May 12 by trailer

[emyliano2000]

 

And here is my take on the aurora shot on Friday the 10th of May at Cuckmere Heaven, Seaford

For this photo I used a Canon RP camera with my Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 

ISO 1600, 15mm, f2.8, 2.9sec

Emil

Edited May 13 by emyliano2000

[emyliano2000]

My second aurora photo was shot with the exact same gear and using the exact same settings but the camera was pointing North rather than NE like my previous one.

Emil