[Theme] Night sky shots

[Bent Hjarbo]

Akira, this is what it looks like, and how it works
https://barn-door-tracker.co.uk

[armando_m]

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

[Øivind Tøien]

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.

[armando_m]

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

[Øivind Tøien]

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. 

[ColinM]

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

[Nasos Kosmas]

Armando and Oivid very nice inspiring photos

[Øivind Tøien]

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.

[Akira]

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!

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks for the kind words, Akira.

[Jakov Minić]

Armando, Armando, Armando!
Øivind, Øivind, Øivind!

i wish i were able to make such images!

[armando_m]

Awesome colorful images of sirius

[armando_m]

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!

[Øivind Tøien]

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.
#3

[Bruno Schroder]

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.