bwana
Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
Shot one target; shutdown by an Aurora (and my stupidity)...
Captured with a Sony A7R V camera and David Levy 152 telescope (730mm, f/4.8), on an iOptron CEM26 mount.
All subs were 30 seconds @ ISO800 with 125 subs captured with 85 usable.
I did my normal processing with HDR processing added in. Normal processing is:
- preprocessing in Lightroom
- align, stack, masked stretch and automatic background extraction in PixInsight
- noise reduction in Topaz Photo AI
- star reduction/color in Photoshop's Astro-Panel extension
- final tweaks to taste in Lightroom
- used Aurora HDR for the high dynamic range processing
This was meant to be another multi target night but after shooting my first session of M33 I found I had left the Bahtinov Mask on the scope; scrub that batch. Shot another hour of subs only to find about 40 of them were seriously impacted by an Aurora.
Enjoy!
bwa
Triangulum Galaxy (M33)(DL152,A7R V,85x30s,ISO800)_MStretch_ABE_LR_PI_PS(A-P)_LR_HDR
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Beautiful shot! Let's see the Aurora!
bwana
Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
Retired CPO wrote:
Beautiful shot! Let's see the Aurora!
Auroras happen so often over our place they become more of an annoyance to imaging rather than an 'event' to shoot... Sad to say.
However, if an Aurora has the possibility of being phenomenal, I'll haul out a camera and lens to shoot it.
bwa
bwana wrote:
Auroras happen so often over our place they become more of an annoyance to imaging rather than an 'event' to shoot... Sad to say.
However, if an Aurora has the possibility of being phenomenal, I'll haul out a camera and lens to shoot it.
bwa
Looking forward to it! We saw some amazing Aurora in Alaska several years ago when we spent the winter in Anchorage!
bwana
Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
Incredible!! It's a good thing we have an atmosphere/magnetic field that protects us from the high energy particles!!
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
bwana wrote:
Shot one target; shutdown by an Aurora (and my stupidity)...
Captured with a Sony A7R V camera and David Levy 152 telescope (730mm, f/4.8), on an iOptron CEM26 mount.
All subs were 30 seconds @ ISO800 with 125 subs captured with 85 usable.
I did my normal processing with HDR processing added in. Normal processing is:
- preprocessing in Lightroom
- align, stack, masked stretch and automatic background extraction in PixInsight
- noise reduction in Topaz Photo AI
- star reduction/color in Photoshop's Astro-Panel extension
- final tweaks to taste in Lightroom
- used Aurora HDR for the high dynamic range processing
This was meant to be another multi target night but after shooting my first session of M33 I found I had left the Bahtinov Mask on the scope; scrub that batch. Shot another hour of subs only to find about 40 of them were seriously impacted by an Aurora.
Enjoy!
bwa
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Great shot bwa. You can easily make out PGC 5899 at magnitude 15.49 in the lower left of the image very close to M33 and PGC 5694 at magnitude 16.51 on the upper middle just slightly right above M33.
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