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What's the focal length on those? Is the horse head nebula really visible without a telescope given a long enough exposure? Or were you using a telescope?
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So good! Awesome shots! I'd like to get into doing some astrophoto stuff, but I'm scared I'll just go over the top and burn through a fortune..
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BANME.sh posted:What's the focal length on those? Is the horse head nebula really visible without a telescope given a long enough exposure? Or were you using a telescope? Those were taken through a StellarVue 80mm refractor, so I think 480mm focal length @f/6. You can do ap stuff without a telescope, but you really need a way to track to get usable results. Looking at this stuff with naked eye looks nothing like a photo. I remember when I got my first telescope, an Orion etx90, and looked at Andromeda. It was really cool and amazing, but at the same time a let down cause it was just a faint white smudge. I've been considering something called an astrotrac: http://astrotrac.com I've sen some incredible results uaing one of those and a camera. Especially wide angle where they take multiple exposure stacks and stitch them together to make incredible sky maps. toggle posted:So good! Awesome shots! I had around 4500 in all my stuff and thanks! It was a very frustrating but rewarding experience. I started having kids and sold all my gear because it wasn't getting used. I plan to dive back in someday. Choicecut fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Doing the Perseids this year, off in northern New Mexico. I've done some star time lapse in the past so I'm not going into it completely green.. I'm more curious about rules of thumb for getting good results out of a meteor shower or fun things to try. I only have one body so am thinking that a single composition with long star trails is not in the cards, I am gonna want to move around a bit more and play around with composition with mountain ranges.
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So there was a storm last night... Lightning June 22nd 2016 (1 of 4) by John Linford, on Flickr
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johnli posted:So there was a storm last night... I've seen that dog posted before (possibly by you?) but I love that it looks like s/he's scared by the lightning.
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johnli posted:So there was a storm last night... 
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Jun 27, 2016 07:56
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Anarkii posted:
Do you really have a 50mm/f1.0 or is the metadata crazy?
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It was the Samyang 12mm f/2. It's a full manual lens, so the exif doesn't record the focal length and aperture correctly
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I don't think I put these here. So here they are. Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr  Untitled by Jason Martin, on Flickr
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This photo made it to Explore today. First time that's happened to me. Crazy. Westward Ho (Explored!) by Alex C., on Flickr
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had some nice weather roll through tonight 20160708-DSC_2678 by revbleech, on Flickr
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 Like glass by Spookygonk, on Flickr Laying down in front of some illuminated low pressure fountains on my town seafront, trying to find focus, while all sorts of people were wandering around me playing Pokémon Go.
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I'm not sure 1/800 is considered long exposure 
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Wafflecopper posted:I'm not sure 1/800 is considered long exposure It was night time though.
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Testing out a pretty slow 15mm at night. Moonlit Mt. Gillen by DirtyFalcon, on Flickr
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Do you have PhotoPills? Presuming you have an iPhone it's a must have. There's a star trails section on there that'll help with your timings.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Do you have PhotoPills? Presuming you have an iPhone it's a must have. There's a star trails section on there that'll help with your timings. I do now! Assuming it stays clear, this will probably be the last night this week that I can get decent attempts here. Thanks!
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 Mt Stromlo Observatory. Canon 550D w/Magic Lantern, EFS18-55mm 5x 18mm 25s f/3.5 ISO5000 and maybe a trespassing charge.
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Managed to get one last good night while on vacation. Untitled by Ryan Sees What, on Flickr
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Decent for using a super slow f/4.5 Milky Way Center by DirtyFalcon, on Flickr MilkyWayMtGillen by DirtyFalcon, on Flickr
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 20s f3.5 ISO3200 Taken at a star party in the northern suburbs of Canberra. Pushed the saturation for Facebook.
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 Milky Way from Minaret Vista by Business Ferrets, on Flickr I really wish I were better at PS.
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Business of Ferrets posted:
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For those that are unaware. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-how-to-watch/
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huhu posted:For those that are unaware. Rain and Clouds for the next 10 days where I am  . Had the 20x80s out over weekend and did some gazing though. 
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It might deserve a new thread, but I don't have time to do it - who's checking out tonight's meteor shower? From everything I'm reading it should be a hell of a show. http://gizmodo.com/how-to-watch-the-exceptional-perseid-meteor-shower-toni-1785145218 http://www.space.com/32868-perseid-meteor-shower-guide.html http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/10/489491194/this-years-perseid-meteor-shower-is-going-to-be-quite-a-show-heres-how-to-watch
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jackpot posted:It might deserve a new thread, but I don't have time to do it - who's checking out tonight's meteor shower? From everything I'm reading it should be a hell of a show. I'm charging up my gear now. Just bought myself a 6 pack as well.
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I had the six pack, charged batteries, bug spray ... in the end, though, I have to say I was just a little disappointed. "200 per hour in ideal conditions" became "50, maybe, across four hours." Which don't get me wrong, that's a loving lot of meteors, and 50 more than I'm used to seeing on any given night, but it just wasn't the apocalyptic show I'd built it up to be. It's funny, too, how little of the sky you can actually cover, even at 11mm. Meteors I thought were dead center in my field of view didn't make it in at all. jackpot fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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I used spray and pray, got some garbage pictures of clouds and a half decent shot. I miss living in the middle of nowhere Panama if only for the star photography.  DSC08657 by Esa Foto, on Flickr
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jackpot posted:I had the six pack, charged batteries, bug spray ... in the end, though, I have to say I was just a little disappointed. "200 per hour in ideal conditions" became "50, maybe, across four hours." Which don't get me wrong, that's a loving lot of meteors, and 50 more than I'm used to seeing on any given night, but it just wasn't the apocalyptic show I'd built it up to be. Yeah, same. There were a ton of people out in a local park, and then at 2am the sprinklers started.
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Not sure I have the patience to do it too often, but it was fun:   
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This was pretty cool though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdm4JEb3iY
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Spent about an hour watching the show. Saw tons in directions I wasn't pointing the camera but managed to get a few. This was the brightest.
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