Here are some astrophotos I've taken lately

[scott mcleod jr]

Lets talk astrophotos. Anyone got some amazing shots or good advice

Here's my recent stuff
http://pearsonportraits.smugmug.com/Scotts-Stars/n-VGmHG/

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Really nice photos! I like the Milky Way and the aurora! What equipment are you using?

 

[scott mcleod jr]

Really nice photos! I like the Milky Way and the aurora! What equipment are you using?

Aurora was an accident lol. I was messing with star trails and i noticed i had about five shots like that.

Canon 5dmii on tripod for the aurora.
And the milky way was with my barndoor tracker with 5dmii 21 x 3 min shots at 6400 iso using 17mm f/4 lens edited in Lightroom and Photoshop stacked in starstax.

 

[scott mcleod jr]

Aurora was an accident lol. I was messing with star trails and i noticed i had about five shots like that.

Canon 5dmii on tripod for the aurora.
And the milky way was with my barndoor tracker with 5dmii 21 x 3 min shots at 6400 iso using 17mm f/4 lens edited in Lightroom and Photoshop stacked in starstax.

 

[scott mcleod jr]

Aurora was an accident lol. I was messing with star trails and i noticed i had about five shots like that.

Canon 5dmii on tripod for the aurora.

And the milky way was with my barndoor tracker with 5dmii 21 x 3 min shots at 6400 iso using 17mm f/4 lens edited in Lightroom and Photoshop stacked in starstax.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Lets talk astrophotos. Anyone got some amazing shots or good advice

My advice is to not live where it is extremely cold and cloudy for 4 months. Orion has been teasing me all winter...

 

[scott mcleod jr]

My advice is to not live where it is extremely cold and cloudy for 4 months. Orion has been teasing me all winter...

I moved to the desert of eastern wa from Bellingham on the coast (cloudiest city in the continental us) I feel your pain ☺

 

[davenn]

great collection of pix there, Scott. You are off to a fine start :)
looking forward to seeing more from you as time goes bycheers
Dave

 

[Andy Resnick]

Tonight the clouds parted and I bundled up to get some pics of Orion and the nebula- I'll stack them tomorrow, while I'm cleaning all the condensate off of my lenses and sensor. Here's some single-frame images- not the best, but whatevs...

with the 85mm, near full-frame:

at 400mm, zoomed in about 80%:

the moon, shining brightly (800mm, 100%)

and Jupiter, nearby (also 800mm)

 

[davenn]

good stuff, Andy :)

I did a moon shot a few nights ago, the moon is too bright to photo anything else LOL ...
800mm (100-400mm with x2 teleconverter), f11, 2500 ISO, 1/320 sec

cheers
Dave

 

[scott mcleod jr]

Very nice

 

[Andy Resnick]

Here's the results after stacking... much improvement.

 

[scott mcleod jr]

simply awesome. I want to try to get m42 but my tracker has been acting crazy lately

 

[davenn]

That's nice Andy, well done :)

 

[Andy Resnick]

Last night was a bit warmer, so I could stay out longer- here's two crops of the same object (M42), about 12 minutes total integration time at 800/5.6, ISO 1250:

and at 100%:

M42 reminds me of a Shadow battle crab...

 

[Glenstr]

Nice pics - astrophotos are something I want to start doing, particularly time exposures, time lapse & a combo of both. I've got some passable moon shots with my Pentax K10D with a 250mm lens and my NEX-5N with a 200mm - but that's about it.

I purchased a Tempus/Astrus time lapse trigger that will take a predetermined # of long exposure images, but haven't been able to figure out how to best use the manual focus on the NEX-5. I've also got the time lapse app for the A5100 my wife uses, but have yet to try it.

 

[Chronos]

Some might find APT of interest - http://www.ideiki.com/astro/Default.aspx

 

[davenn]

Thanks Chronos

Looks interesting, haven't seen that one before

Dave