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Misc Astrophotography (Shoot the ISS, etc) besides moon shots...

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Alexander.Of.Oz

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A spot of stargazing for me last night. This is a 13 landscape frame (5 @ bottom, 4 @ middle & 4 @ top row) stitch, edited in very basic ways in Lightroom Classic, I've just commenced a course in astrophotography editing in Photoshop, which I am having to translate across to Affinity Photo as I progress. I will of course, be revisiting these images as I go through the course and learn how to do this with more control and finesse.

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Sony a7III, Samyang 24mm f/2.8 AF, Syrp Genie Mini Pan & Tilt device, Daylight WB
ISO 3200, 24mm, f/2.8, 10 seconds
 
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Alexander.Of.Oz said:
A spot of stargazing for me last night. This is a 13 landscape frame (5 @ bottom, 4 @ middle & 4 @ top row) stitch, edited in very basic ways in Lightroom Classic, I've just commenced a course in astrophotography editing in Photoshop, which I am having to translate across to Affinity Photo as I progress. I will of course, be revisiting these images as I go through the course and learn how to do this with more control and finesse.

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Sony a7III, Samyang 24mm f/2.8 AF, Syrp Genie Mini Pan & Tilt device, Daylight WB
ISO 3200, 24mm, f/2.8, 10 seconds
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Dark skies to die for!
 
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Alexander.Of.Oz

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anotherscotsman said:
Dark skies to die for!
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mtbdudex said:
Nicely done Alexander.Of.Oz, looks like you did some "light painting" right?

Envious dark-dark skies.
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Thanks to you both!

The light painting was a bit brutal here, in the image I shared over on the POTD thread the illumination of reflected light from old Luna was much nicer but the focus was a couple of million miles off!

I'm very lucky actually, within an hour of here and it's about a 3.5 to 3 on the Bortle Scale. I'm off again for my last night of astro-captures tonight for a few weeks! I've got lots of ruins pinned and planned out for captures as the Milky Way changes its location in the night sky here over the season.
 
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A glorious old place at a site I am documenting for the builders at Nairne, South Australia as it undergoes massive change from an old abattoir site to a shopping and residential precinct.

Still bumbling my way through the editing, I will get to following along with the astro-editing workshop series I purchased one day!

 
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Close conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Dec-20-2020.
Glad went out yesterday, as cloudy tonight.
Ok - even at 560mm it's small, but live we could see the rings of Saturn, above and slightly to the right of Jupiter.
The picture below was level with the horizon but possible in the equatorial plane sense "Saturn was aligned on top", as the equatorial plan arcs downward here.
Was cool for all us together.
My camera should have been taken outside 30 minutes earlier to acclimate to the cold, as optics move.

Not the sharpest, seeing conditions were so so
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Live view was neat, 6 of us took turns viewing
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560mm via this combo
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I use a simple app to plan viewing after sunset before these objects are below tree line horizon
6pm was best
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mtbdudex said:
Close conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Dec-20-2020.
Glad went out yesterday, as cloudy tonight.
Ok - even at 560mm it's small, but live we could see the rings of Saturn, above and slightly to the right of Jupiter.
The picture below was level with the horizon but possible in the equatorial plane sense "Saturn was aligned on top", as the equatorial plan arcs downward here.
Was cool for all us together.
My camera should have been taken outside 30 minutes earlier to acclimate to the cold, as optics move.

Not the sharpest, seeing conditions were so so
3e13988ff49cb735c825d77dfb6a6849.jpg


Live view was neat, 6 of us took turns viewing
9db69044ff41b1758540170b194c26ad.jpg


560mm via this combo
bb46921cda7a367d7bb7b6df19b6a8c6.jpg


I use a simple app to plan viewing after sunset before these objects are below tree line horizon
6pm was best
8e60a48e403cf1fe3c6cbe16c79983f1.jpg

07b8cf95b3c263cf9f5803f29e150b55.jpg
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The second one-in-a-lifetime astronomical event this year I missed thanks to clouds for days... ?
 
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Alexander.Of.Oz said:
A spot of stargazing for me last night. This is a 13 landscape frame (5 @ bottom, 4 @ middle & 4 @ top row) stitch, edited in very basic ways in Lightroom Classic, I've just commenced a course in astrophotography editing in Photoshop, which I am having to translate across to Affinity Photo as I progress. I will of course, be revisiting these images as I go through the course and learn how to do this with more control and finesse.

View attachment 937601
Sony a7III, Samyang 24mm f/2.8 AF, Syrp Genie Mini Pan & Tilt device, Daylight WB
ISO 3200, 24mm, f/2.8, 10 seconds
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Beautiful!

By the way, in relation to Adobe CS5 and CS6, I will soon be learning and transitioning to Affinity Photo with the DXO's NIK plugins.
 
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Doctor Q said:
I absolutely agree!

How far north were you when you took these photos?
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Fairbanks, Alaska ( Alaska's interior, approximately 120 miles for Denali Park). But since solar activity has not been a strong as previous years, I haven't been going out there in the middle of the night to take photos of the Auroras. I will probably give it a try toward the end of February through March.
 
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AlaskaMoose said:
Fairbanks, Alaska ( Alaska's interior, approximately 120 miles for Denali Park). But since solar activity has not been a strong as previous years, I haven't been going out there in the middle of the night to take photos of the Auroras. I will probably give it a try toward the end of February through March.
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I was in Fairbanks in August. I went out to check the sky in the middle of each night, but of course the sky wasn't dark for very long. Luck wasn't with me, so I didn't get to see the sky put on a show.
 
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AlaskaMoose

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Doctor Q said:
I was in Fairbanks in August. I went out to check the sky in the middle of each night, but of course the sky wasn't dark for very long. Luck wasn't with me, so I didn't get to see the sky put on a show.
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You have a better chance to see the lights from Mid September through mid April. But since it's cloudy most times, it takes a lot of waiting outdoors. Some visitors stay around here for two weeks and longer waiting for the lights to show. I talked to a Korean photographer about 4 years ago (met him on the hills around Fairbanks), and he told me that he spends a month in this area every 2 or 3 years. He was using two Canon 1Dx cameras :)
Sometimes he stays at one of several businesses that specialize on "housing and busing" the tourists to a few places where one can watch the Auroras.
 
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