Starry Starry niiiiiight

BritishBean

Gammerz really like that video 😊

Jonbwfc

I once spent a larger cold but enjoyable evening taking photos of a super moon with a DSLR and telephoto lens. Mechanically quite tricky to get it to stay in place long enough to expose properly but it was rewarding. If I can find the photos I’ll upload later, it was quite a long time ago though.

Jogort

Jonbwfc i bought an equitorial tracker to do long exposures, set it up pointing at Polaris and it tracks the night sky movement pretty much spot on.

Jonbwfc

Brave It’s not quite as good a RAW processor that Lightwave is but Affinity Photo (https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/) is also so a good ‘non sub’ option IMO.

Jogort

Gammerz not as much as I used to and wanting to get back into it. I got a nice but distant picture of orions belt too though. Dunno about the oops messages as I see them too.

Jogort

Brave cheers, I look into it.

Jogort

Will just keep adding to this when I get a chance.
A few from tonight unedited, can just make out the milkyway in these. Very bright moon tonight.

Orions belt for @Gammerz

Jogort

Most are about 20 second exposures, couldn’t get a good line up with Polaris tonight (damn trees in the way) so wasn’t using the equatorial tracker for longer exposures

DrDamn

It’s the fuzzy bit which is part of Orion’s which is the interesting bit. Orion nebula M42. You can just see it in yours.

Jogort

So back off to work sometime this week and heading to Batam, Indonesia (hopefully avoid any Corona sickness 😝 ) taking my camera n tripod as this job is onshore so will do some more practicing and see what I can get over there. Bedtime reading bought also 😱😜

DrDamn

Need permission to view the picture … 🙂

Jogort

DrDamn thanks, should be fixed 🤪

Jogort

Had a wee play again last night as it was very clear (and pretty damn chilly)
Venus is passing Pleiades over the next week or so

Looking towards the east coast

Was taking a 50 stack of longer exposures, was pretty late but still someone passing by 🤣

Jogort

Not bad picture from my 300mm lens on a 10 year old camera

Gammerz

You can see improved crater definition by waiting for a crescent moon, as the shadow angle make the features more pronounced.

Jogort

Yeah I’ll give it a go soon, I wasn’t out for the moon so much but thought I’d get a few shots as it was giving me grief trying to get milkyway shots. Anytime I’m getting clear skies I’m getting closer to full moons too which isn’t useful 🤣☹️

Jogort

Here’s one of the Pinwheel Galaxy from a couple of nights ago from the garden. It’s taken with a 70-300mm lens at full zoom. Un-edited as yet just zoomed and cropped. I was quite surprised I could get it without a telescope to be honest.

Gammerz

That’s very clear. Only 22 million LYs away! I’ve never seen that one, even though it’s in Usra Major, so should be quite easy to find. The Whirlpool galaxy is in the same constellation..

I think I once found the Andromeda galaxy with a very small telescope, but it wasn’t as clear as this.

Did it look like this through the viewfinder or has this been made clearer with a long exposure?

Jogort

Yeah I was quite happy with it, I took a few shots at 2 minute exposures but haven’t gotten round to stacking them yet, that can help get rid of noise, will see how it looks after that. Unfortunately not gonna have a chance to do any snapping for a while, going to China for a 4 month job 😭😭😭

Gammerz

Jogort They have stars in China 😉 According to “figures”, it should be safer than UK!