Astrophotography - The Solar System and Beyond
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This was the final process of one of my star trail photos - previous one had some headlights on one side. A friend I had at the time referred to the photo with reference to the lights so it sparked in my head to remove it and remember about eyes are attracted to the light. Also simplifies the composition by removing an unneeded element. I received a commendation for Astrofest 2014 (Perth) for this image - referring that if the stars were a little less blue would have been a winner ;). I haven't actually been around flickr all that much so I thought I'd catch up on the uploads.
Panorama of 21 images Canon 6d ISO 6000 25s F2.8. Lake Dumbleyung in South West Western Australia with the Zodiacal light.
Just for fun, I've managed to collect all my images, made during several years, around the area of Orion's belt/Orion's sword.
I've worked a lot to make a big collage of all my best data to be included in one single image.
The result is this huge (the original one is about 12000 pixels wide) field of view that contains many objects including M42/43, horsehead nebula, flame nebula, keyhole nebula and many more.
Several different telescopes and optics was used and the same is true for CCD cameras and even emulsion film at different scales that has been matched for to be correctly composed in one canvas.
So there it is: Orion belt/sword collage!
Have fun and thanks for watching.
Astrophotography trip over to Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia. Got a bit cloudier than expected, but I like the framing effect that cloud has. I'd been hoping for some more stars reflected in the lake, but the clouds made that difficult. More details on my blog astrophotobear.com/?p=99423
Panorama photo of 15 photos (8 top 7 bottom) at the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park in Western Australia. Moon luminosity of 13% and being about 25 to 30 degrees right of frame (moon is visible in the top right due to the panorama). I've been testing different moon luminosities over the last few shoots and I think this area of luminosity is my preferred. Noting that the light diminishes as the moon sets as well so that increases the scope for shooting. I played around a lot more with the panorama software this time - so have decided to use distortions differently with the sides rather than creating an archway.
doing some more astrophotography tests - this time the panorama included use of the Akira Fujii technique to partially enlarge the bright stars. During the sky exposure I used a fog filter in front of the lens for 10s of the exposure. I also used a gary fong lightsphere.
My blog about the shoot astrophotobear.com/?p=99312
did some testing the other day for wide field astrophotography. Always important to do a normal shot so you've got something at the end of a session, especially since it's often a lot of effort to get somewhere to shoot in the first place. Did about 6 x 28 image panoramas on the night. This is the first normal sort of one.
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 25 300-second light frames and 19 300-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 35 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
This is my second attempt at a guided shot of the Pleiades. I doubled the exposure time and took bias frames for the first time.
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 42 240-second light frames and 30 240-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 15 flat and 30 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 35 120-second light frames and 31 120-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 35 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
My 1st dark sky experience in Sutherland, South Africa, 2013. I took the opportunity to send a little message to Cory.
20 Sec light paining @ ISO 800
Canon 5D Mark iii, 24-70mm F/2.8 L2 USM
L 300s x2 + 120s x2 + 30s x2
RGB 300s x2 (binned 2x2) + 120s x2 + 30s x2 (each)
LRGB
SBIG STL-11000M
Takahashi FSQ-ED 106mm
Paramount PME
DSS > PixInsight (HDR technique as per Kayron Mercieca) > PS
This is my first time imaging a comet through a telescope. What a beautiful comet! Besides imaging and observing it with a telescope, I also viewed it with binoculars. I could detect it naked eye as a smudge to the right of the Pleiades.
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 23 90-second light frames and 23 90-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 23 flat and 53 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
This picture was taken in June 2014 on a lookout point named King Kong Hill, overlooking the volcanoes in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The nearest mountain in the centre is Mount Batok, the steaming crater on the left is Mount Bromo, and on the far is the erupting Mount Semeru. Mount Bromo sits inside the Tengger caldera of fine volcanic sand, with a diameter of approximately 10 km . The bright streaks of light at the caldera below a layer of fog were jeeps carrying tourists to lookout points to view sunrise. This star trails above the volcanoes were a combination of 270 images with a total exposure time of 2 hours and 15 minutes. All the stars rotate around the south celestial pole except of one that “did not behave” (a meteor near the centre right of the picture). The rising Moon brightened the landscape and made the sky bluish.
My first attempt at astrophotography. 20s exposure at ISO 1000 using a nikon f2.8 10.5mm fisheye. LED Lenser P4 shining up. I don't get much opportunity to see skies like this in the city so i thought i would give it a go and admire the beauty.
reprocessed
L 4x300s
Ha 4x300s
R 3x180s
GB 2x180s (each)
(L)(R+20%Ha)(G)(B+50%Ha)
DSS > PI > PS
SBIG STL-11000M
Takahashi FSQ 106ED
Paramount PME
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 25 360-second light frames and 21 360-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 35 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
L=Ha
R=SII+80%Ha
G=OIII+7.5%Ha
B=OIII
L 4x600s
OIII 4x300s
SII 4x300s
DSS > PixInsight (Kayron Mercieca technique) > PS
SBIG STL-11000M
Takahashi FSQ Fluorite
Paramount GT-1100S
The central region of the Milky Way. Many showpiece objects are visible in this widefield image. Sony A55, Sony-Zeiss 2.8/24-70 at 24mm, f4, ISO1600, 20 x 90 sec exposures, Pixinsight. May, 2012.
This one was born just for fun but, while I'm working on, it becomes quite a nightmare! I had the insane idea of putting together about all of my previous attempt on that subject.
I had many kind of exposures made with very different telescopes and CCD cameras, letting so many different scales and sizes work in harmony to improve the image was been an hard work indeed. Anyway I'm quite happy, since the base image was my previous attempt already published on my Flickr. I've managed to enlarge the base image a bit using also other images at an increasing resolutions. The result is about 32Hours of exposure + about 2 more for just the H-Alpha component. Hope You like it!
LRGB
L=300s x 4
RGB=300s x 1 (binned x2)
SBIG STL-11000M
Takahashi FSQ-ED 106mm
Paramount PME
DSS > PixInsight > PS
My second attempt at astrophotography. Different night, different lens, different exposure, but same subject as the earlier example in my photostream. Some clouds moved in during the exposure, which I don't mind. I also prefer the wider focal length. While the one-stop change in exposure made for less blown-out windows, there was a cost in the number of star trails captured -- which after all was the point. Pluses, minuses.
This is maybe an usual image but I've tried to make it unusual in some way. I've noticed, using the Microsoft virtual telescope, a certain amount of Ha presence in that area. The image itself it's nothing fancy, just 10min RGB frames of the double cluster in Perseus, acquired two years ago during an astrocamp in Italy. So I've managed to add about 4 hours of Ha data acquired from the city and in bin 2x2 using 40 minutes subframes. This is the result, a well known subject with a very unknown extent of Ha nebulosity.
Hope You like it.
Ciao da JOE