Astrophotography

[guzziknight]

Here are some of my astrophotography photos. The star trails were all shot using Live Composite on my Olympus cameras.

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[John King]

Orion, hand held.

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[Petrochemist]

Shot at my brothers place where light pollution is considerable reduced (with the camera just resting on a garden table)

shooting star + lightning by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

 

[John King]

Shot at my brothers place where light pollution is considerable reduced (with the camera just resting on a garden table)
View attachment 286452shooting star + lightning by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

Mike, is that Andromeda in the centre right?

 

[Petrochemist]

Mike, is that Andromeda in the centre right?

No (unless you're seeing something I've missed) It was fairly transitory, just a shooting star. I've never managed to make out andromeda. My brothers place would be an excellent spot to try - I'll have to remember when Covid finally allows me to go off & visit him again (it's 9+ hours drive once I cross the channel, so not exactly local)

 

[John King]

No (unless you're seeing something I've missed) It was fairly transitory, just a shooting star. I've never managed to make out andromeda. My brothers place would be an excellent spot to try - I'll have to remember when Covid finally allows me to go off & visit him again (it's 9+ hours drive once I cross the channel, so not exactly local)

Thanks. That's a fair drive in Europe! My brother lives 1,700 kms away. When in my late twenties, I could do it in one go (about 19 hours, with rest and coffee stops). These days it's a minimum 2 days, and usually 2.5.

 

[will focus]

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The moon this morning as I left for work. The giant headlight in the sky made it an easy drive today.

 

[CatsAreGods]

This morning's planetary conjunction, as much as I was able to see:

Guide for the perplexed:

Bonus moon, since I was already there:

Fujfilm X-S10 / Viltrox 13mm / XF 70-300

 

[CatsAreGods]

First try at the Milky Way. Fujifilm X-S10 / Viltrox 13mm / 32 exposures 10 seconds @f/1.4 combined with Sequator

 

[MountainMan79]

First try at the Milky Way. Fujifilm X-S10 / Viltrox 13mm / 32 exposures 10 seconds @f/1.4 combined with Sequator

Excellent first try!

 

[CatsAreGods]

Excellent first try!

Thank you sir!

 

[MountainMan79]

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[John King]

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New constellation, Chris?

 

[MountainMan79]

New constellation, Chris?

Draco the dragon?

 

[CatsAreGods]

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That was no dragon, that was my wife!

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

I haven't done any astrophotography in years. Took my little fluffer last night for a walk (since it's a full moon) out to the fields and picked a few nice spots. There's not much stars in the pictures because of the moon but it did give me an advantage for foreground illumination:

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Good night Wellington (not New Zeeland's version )

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The pano version.

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Sweet dreams of hay. (I am quite disappointed by the graininess in the blue and yellow mix on the horizon, not sure what went wrong there, I did shot in Uncompressed RAW, mechanical shutter with no Electronic First Curtain on)

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The pano version (the graininess is less noticeable here)

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Yes, I do count my stars, and I was lucky enough to catch 3 meteorites in one frame despite being a full moon.

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Reaching for the stars but not quite there yet.

 

[John King]

Ovi, RAW should give you far better colour transitions than that.

Did you develop and process using a 16 bit, wide gamut colour space? ProPhotoRGB 16 would be best.

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

Ovi, RAW should give you far better colour transitions than that.

Did you develop and process using a 16 bit, wide gamut colour space? ProPhotoRGB 16 would be best.

The ARW get converted to DNG when I import the images in Lightroom (by choice. I don't want to deal with .XMP files). I use the sRGB colour space because I don't have a colour calibrator that can handle OLED screen properly. And AdobeRGB is far from being universal though it's a bit bette now with HDR supportbecoming more universal though with Rec. 907 colour space DCIP (I think) more common.

When I pass through (as the final edit step) Topaz DeNoise AI the files gets converted to .TIFF with 16-bit ProPhotoRGB colour space to retain as much as possible accuracy.