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Instrumedley
Aug 13, 2009

RangerScum posted:



Shots like these are wonderful, wish I could go somewhere dark enough to do that.

It's not possible to take a shot of a city and the Milky Way, is it? That'd look amazing.



Tried taking advantage of the illuminated fog tonight. Missed the focus though, looks a bit odd.

I tried shooting in this exact location last year and was able to capture this (which focused correctly!):

Instrumedley fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Aug 2, 2010

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Instrumedley
Aug 13, 2009

TheAngryDrunk posted:



Eventually I'm going to go somewhere I can get this shot without the light pollution on the horizon.

I actually like the light pollution in this shot, it looks almost as if the Milky Way was painted onto the sky. It's photos like these that remind us of what's up there.

Instrumedley
Aug 13, 2009
Set my camera on the ground and gave night photography a shot. Very happy with the results!



You can spot the Andromeda Galaxy in this one:


How do you eliminate heavy vignetting? I'm using DeepSkyStacker.

Instrumedley
Aug 13, 2009
Gave nighttime photography a go:



Does the white balance look too cold?

Instrumedley fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Apr 28, 2012

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