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Jul 27, 2022 09:52:16 #

Triplets Loc: Reading, MA

Taken at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, MA (Cape Cod)

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Jul 27, 2022 10:01:35 #

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

You did pretty good but it looks like your location wasn't dark enough. When you get a darker location have you tried a higher ISO up to 8000?

Jul 27, 2022 10:06:00 #

Triplets Loc: Reading, MA

Fotoartist wrote:

You did pretty good but it looks like your location wasn't dark enough. When you get a darker location have you tried a higher ISO up to 8000?

We still had some light pollution even at 10:00 pm. This is a single image from Nikon D750 using a Sigma 14-24mm at 14mm and f/2.8, ISO 3200, white balance 3800k and 25 seconds Obviously some post processing in LR.

Jul 27, 2022 10:15:30 #

littlebug Loc: woburn ma

Nice photos ,I'm trying with my telescope but can't quite achieve what you captured ,very good

Jul 27, 2022 10:16:53 #

Triplets Loc: Reading, MA

littlebug wrote:

Nice photos ,I'm trying with my telescope but can't quite achieve what you captured ,very good

Thanks

Jul 27, 2022 11:09:07 #

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

littlebug wrote:

Nice photos ,I'm trying with my telescope but can't quite achieve what you captured ,very good

I've tried that too. I think that a telescope shows such a small view of the sky that star movement is magnified and you can't expose properly. I don't have a tracking apparatus, so maybe that's the main problem.
I own a 4-inch Meade SCT.

George

Jul 27, 2022 11:09:44 #

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

I'd be happy with these.

George

Jul 27, 2022 11:39:50 #

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Triplets wrote:

Taken at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, MA (Cape Cod)

Nice images. Just a bit of star trailing only noticeable in double down load. You could try shorter exposures and up the ISO at the expense of noise. The only other way is to track the stars, mask off the foreground and then take a separate image of the foreground, mask off the sky and put the tracked stars back in (I can be a lot of work, but it also gives you the option of stacking multiple sets of star images to really improve the signal to noise). I've used this technique for comet images in the past.