Calling all Astrophotographers, all skill levels. Post your work.

a reply to: ngchunter

Nice one ngchunter

Haven't loaded one in awhile.

a reply to: hillbilly4rent

That's a great shot. A lot of things going on there! Nice location!

Late night in the Cohutta wilderness

originally posted by: ngchunter
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Very nice! I also worked on M33 this past weekend but I didn't get anywhere near the result you did. I'll post here next. I only did 3 minute subs for an hour total exposure and you can see a huge difference. I don't even think I could push a 5 minute sub due to light pollution. Well done!

Vince

Just a coincidence that I captured the same galaxy as ngchunter this past weekend, but I think his end result is so much better than mine.






Vince

In addition to the Triangulum, I also snapped some frames of M45. The Pleiades is just one of those objects you never get tired of looking at. The narrow field of my telescope (an 8 inch newtonian) just can't capture the splendor of this cluster. I have a small pair of 7x25 binoculars and it looks awesome in those!



Vince

Finally, NGC-6960, the Western Veil. The Veil complex is huge and I would like to capture more of it.



Vince

Hi wide field shot taken using the 18-55mm kit lens on my camera a few shots stacked in DSS and then a little work with lightroom to bring out M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) a little better.

Full moon tonight so took advantage.

a reply to: router404

Wow some stunning images lately! Great shot of the moon last night router404, I saw it too but didn't get the time to myself but I might give it a go tonight.

But I call on you guys to offer some help in another thread This one LINK about an object in the milky way (it's not, it was a meteor as far as I can tell).
But what I'm after is if any of you have managed to capture a meteor whilst doing some timelapse star photography, would be very helpful as a comparison tool. Cheers guys

a reply to: wmd_2008

Nice, I use my kit lens for just about everything. I I use my 50mm f2 from time to time but its a lot of work stitching them together.



50mm f2 stitched vertically.

a reply to: Qumulys

Its hard to get a meteor or fireball in a night sky time lapse, due to the pause between frames. Its hard but nor impossible.

a reply to: hillbilly4rent

Very nice can you give some exposure info on that shot.

a reply to: wmd_2008

The photo is of 4 different stitched frames each frame is a stack of 7 @ iso 6400, 16" f2.8 50mm. The bottom one (old gin) is one frame at the same. Then some touch up in light room and PS CC.

1 get the frames. Just be sure to take one good frame of the foreground or subject for the last step.
2 then I stack the frames with registax to reduse noise
3 Adjust the frames in light room 5
4 Stitch the frames in Ps CC photo merge
5 Add the ground layer
6 Blend the ground layer with the background layer with a layer mask.
And boom your done.

a reply to: hillbilly4rent

Thanks