Andromeda...with a "birding" lens
Oct 24, 2017 15:52:47 #
Spent a couple of nights camping on the Astronomy field at Cherry Springs State Park (an IDA location) in north central Pennsylvania. Accuweather predicted a "9" for Wednesday, 18 October, and they were right. This is a stack of 8 images processed in Photoshop CS3. Nikon D700, Nikkor 300mm f4, ISO6400 for 90 seconds mounted on an Ioptron Skytracker Pro.
Dean
Dean
Oct 24, 2017 19:13:02 #
Very nicely captured and your stacking went very well.
Very nice.
Jim
Very nice.
Jim
Oct 24, 2017 19:14:44 #
7awol wrote:
Spent a couple of nights camping on the Astronomy field at Cherry Springs State Park (an IDA location) in north central Pennsylvania. Accuweather predicted a "9" for Wednesday, 18 October, and they were right. This is a stack of 8 images processed in Photoshop CS3. Nikon D700, Nikkor 300mm f4, ISO6400 for 90 seconds mounted on an Ioptron Skytracker Pro.
Dean
Dean
Great job Dean.
The Gas Lanes turned out sweet.
Craig
Oct 24, 2017 19:22:08 #
Thanks...gotta love a dark sky. Wish that I could capture a bit of detail in the center. My choice of exposure blew the highlights. I tried to use selective processing on the center...it turned an ugly gray.
Dean
Dean
Oct 25, 2017 10:04:38 #
Oct 25, 2017 12:03:32 #
7awol wrote:
Spent a couple of nights camping on the Astronomy field at Cherry Springs State Park (an IDA location) in north central Pennsylvania. Accuweather predicted a "9" for Wednesday, 18 October, and they were right. This is a stack of 8 images processed in Photoshop CS3. Nikon D700, Nikkor 300mm f4, ISO6400 for 90 seconds mounted on an Ioptron Skytracker Pro.
Dean
Dean
Very nice!
You could eliminate the star stretch and fringing in Photoshop but nice the way it is.
bwa
Oct 25, 2017 18:46:56 #
Oct 25, 2017 19:06:14 #
Hot stuff!!! Now I know what my lenses can do! Sigma 150-600 and a Tamaron 70-300 mm. I have a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer that I am just ichin' to set up and use.
Bill
Bill
Oct 25, 2017 19:22:28 #
Railfan_Bill wrote:
Hot stuff!!! Now I know what my lenses can do! Sigma 150-600 and a Tamaron 70-300 mm. I have a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer that I am just ichin' to set up and use.
Bill
Bill
Can't wait to see your work, Bill.
Craig
Oct 26, 2017 23:12:02 #
CraigFair wrote:
Can't wait to see your work, Bill.
Craig
Craig
It's going to be a while. I need to wait for the new moon and the moon now is approaching a time when star photos are just not very good. Give me about a month. Bill
Nov 10, 2017 10:51:36 #
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