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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #255 on: March 12, 2019, 11:48:32 »
Akira, this is what it looks like, and how it works
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #256 on: April 07, 2019, 21:11:44 »
A night out with the x-t3

47 light exposures, 20 darks, 20 offset
1 min iso 1600 f/5.6
70-300 nikon zoom @70mm
Deepsky stacker with a touch of curves in ps
Ambient temp about 2°C at 6am

Center of the milky way, Jupiter is brightest object, lagoon nebula in pink to the left of the frame, and slightly above in blue/pink the trifid nebula

I'm sure many more objects can be named among the staggering amount of stars visible in this region of the sky
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #257 on: April 07, 2019, 23:50:41 »

Well done getting that much of the dust and hydrogen alpha in the nebulae showing up with that exposure, Armando. It must have been a pretty dark site? That part of the Milky Way is below the horizon here now.
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #258 on: April 08, 2019, 00:17:50 »
Øivind
hmm, fairly dark, it is certainly at a higher altitude, about 2200m above sea level, but there is small town about 5km down the road, the electric lights are visibile from this site, then the light pollution from Gdl is very evident towards the north, so, it is darker than near Gdl, and only about 1 hr away.

I was interested to try the fuji sensor, I read it is more sensitive to the h-alpha channel, and it certainly seems to be, easily more than D800

here is the lagoon nebula at 300mm
20x 1 min exposures, iso 1600, f5.6
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #259 on: February 15, 2021, 12:10:09 »
Time to revive this thread - nice capture of the Lagoon Nebua Armando!

Now for something different: the colors of Sirius helped by atmospheric disturbance. It is the brightest star in the sky and is actually a binary star. Handheld defocused captures in continuous mode with D500 and my 300mm /f4 PF wide open, VR on, 1/6 second ISO 1600:




Last time I tried this, I mistook an aircraft for Sirius.  ;D

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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #260 on: February 16, 2021, 23:13:45 »
here is the lagoon nebula at 300mm
20x 1 min exposures, iso 1600, f5.6

Beautiful  Armando.
I've only just seen this - thank you for sharing

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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #261 on: February 17, 2021, 07:49:07 »
Armando and Oivid very nice inspiring photos :)

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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #262 on: March 07, 2021, 09:22:46 »
Thanks for the kind words, Nasos.

Mars and the Pleiades made a pretty conjunction this week - luckily it cleared up on March 4, however it was mostly hiding behind trees at my location, so I only got in a stack of 11 one minute exposures at ISO 400. Several of the stacked exposures contained branches, but I managed to mostly hide the resulting artifacts by bringing down the background.



D500 with 300mm f/4 PF @ f/4.5 front aperture ISO 400, 11 x 63 second.
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #263 on: March 07, 2021, 10:57:50 »
Thanks for the kind words, Nasos.

Mars and the Pleiades made a pretty conjunction this week - luckily it cleared up on March 4, however it was mostly hiding behind trees at my location, so I only got in a stack of 11 one minute exposures at ISO 400. Several of the stacked exposures contained branches, but I managed to mostly hide the resulting artifacts by bringing down the background.

D500 with 300mm f/4 PF @ f/4.5 front aperture ISO 400, 11 x 63 second.

Beautiful image, as always.  Thank you for sharing!
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #264 on: March 07, 2021, 21:41:39 »

Thanks for the kind words, Akira.
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #265 on: March 08, 2021, 13:28:29 »
Armando, Armando, Armando!
Øivind, Øivind, Øivind!

i wish i were able to make such images!
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #266 on: March 08, 2021, 18:23:03 »
Awesome colorful images of sirius
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #267 on: March 08, 2021, 18:24:55 »
Armando, Armando, Armando!
Øivind, Øivind, Øivind!

i wish i were able to make such images!
The simplest way to start is with a wide angle, all you need is a tripod and point it to the night sky for a few seconds
Cheers!
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #268 on: November 06, 2021, 11:19:22 »
I was lucky to catch a couple of Persid meteors in mid August at a dark location in the Norwegian high mountains. All captured with 10.5mm fisheye on D500, ISO 1600.


Meteor cut of in mid flight by the 12sec exposure of the shutter.
#1



A near horizontal satellite almost crossed the path of a meteor.
#2



Jupiter and Saturn (also see https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=1867.msg177425#msg177425) at the lower edge made a nice addition to the Milky Way. This one is a stack of about 75 frames.
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Re: [Theme] Night sky shots
« Reply #269 on: November 09, 2021, 10:34:38 »
Great pictures, Armando and Øivind.

I see exposures of 1 minutes in the stacks you shared earlier in the thread. What tracker do you use for that? I'm considering buing one in anticipation of comet Leonard in a few weeks.

Thanks.
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