Mate that is an incredible photo! Really stunning work!
I had a go at capturing star trails this evening. I took 32 x 15sec images over ten minutes with my Fujifilm S7000. Back home I ran these through a stacking program from http://www.startrails.de and got the following composite pic.
It was feckin' freezing but good fun
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How the hell do u get them to work
Everyone think its just a case of point it at the sky job done but its so hard
I want to get my own but not sure what to go for.
I've been meaning to do a set of loads of 30 second exposures.
Do theses stacking programmes eliminate noise?
Is it best to use Mirror lock up too?
lol is this the lense you have
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sigma-300-800m...item230ddb7150
looks fecking massive haha
I'm loving the pictures on this thread. On the one hand it reminds me how crap my photography is, but then on the other it just inspires me to try and do (and learn) much more
At 800 it's nearly as long as my scope
Some really amazing pictures in here. I want to have a little look into the sky but I don't want to spend too much, would something like this be a good buy? Would I see much with it?
http://www.scopesnskies.com/prod/sky.../visiomar.html
Love the star trail and plough pics
Stacking is the best way but as always it’s time consuming. To get rid of noise you have to take “darks” These are done with the lens cap on. The dark frames must be created with the same exposure time, temperature and ISO speed of the target object. The software then has a reference of the noise that the camera is producing. It then subtracts the noise from the main picture.
There are also other reference pics you can take (Bias & flat frames) but it starts to get a bit complicated - as does multiple exposures to get the whole object correctly exposed. The nebula pic is layered from 2 exposures, one for the outer region and the other for the core. With more exposures it could be improved on.
Rather than the Sky-Watcher Visiomar 60mm, I would go for a Skywatcher Startravel 80. I have one and they are great – a bit more compact and portable too. You can also stick the camera onto it to get a big cheap lens!
Have a look here
http://www.firstlightoptics.com/products.php?cat=51
I would go for one without a tripod (called an OTA) here
http://www.firstlightoptics.com/prod...p?prod=st80ota
Then buy a cheap tripod off Ebay
It's worth mentioning that even with a pair of bino's, you can see a lot more than with the naked eye
Pete
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I remember stoating back to my stand from the toilets whilst absolutely wrecked at JAE last year and noticing how bright the stars were, pretty awesome sight. But it was 6am and i was freezing, so i took more interest in viewing my pillow
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Pete, sounds good, which software are you using?
We had another clear night in Winchester on Saturday I had another go at a star trails image. This time I took 184 pics over an hour. Here is the result.
The trails are much longer but i should have checked the ISO. I took these at ISO200 when 400 would have been better. Never mind, it's good fun, just waiting for the next clear night
Deep sky stacker and nebulosity. It takes ages to get a decent image though. Spent a few hours last night and got nothing I am taking pics at the moment but don't expect to get much as it's a bit hazy - Astro types call it poor transparency
Grazor, them pics are great What's the lights on the bottom right of the pic though
Pete
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heh, Chinese lantern at a guess...