#blueskyartshow

Hahahaha this is so accurate. I'm actually a little surprised he didn't prioritise this

More importantly, does he have two Ms and n H in his signature? "Trummph"

It'll be at 23% so you won't get much of the reflection nebula unless you remove gradients but it's still one of the coolest conjunctions that we get regularly. The weather looks horrible where I am but I'm hopeful we'll see some epic shots elsewhere. Love Rho Ophuichi

Final stack. Lost a lot of detail but I'm happy to get anything

Single frame 4s, f2, 12,800 iso

No need to edit, all good. Deepscapes are my favourite type of photography so I'm excited to see them! It's really challenging finding a landscape that works on the same tight focal range and aligns with setting or rising targets. I literally spend more time planning than processing now. Good luck!

Hey Des this are great but where's the scape? Deepsky landSCAPE astro=deepscape. I think these are just deepsky astro shots.
Love to see people get into the astro world and Orion's a fun target

Do you mean in the same way the sun does at the horizon?

It's much cheaper to bury our heads than the waste

My mother in law is a Christmas baby and so is her younger (not twin) sister. Poor kids must've felt pretty left out
But also going with your conspiracy theory...maybe their mum just hated birthdays?

Wasn't the original greek name for it Lucifer the morningstar? People have been missidentifying that planet for a long time

oh the iony

Interesting. Going to have to run some additional field tests on this. I wasn't on astro when I had my canon but all my shots were exposed to the left back then too. Alyn Wallace did one but I'm pretty sure he was on a Sony invariant at the time. I need to borrow a friend's mirrorless

This is a single from the stack above. It's much noisier but effectively the same photo. Also because the clouds weren't blended together as they move, they are more natural. In this way it's just a long exposure shot

Stacking is repeating the signal by layering additional frames of the same data. Because ISO noise is random but the signal is fixed, the signal to noise ratio increases. This means less static in photos. Only difference with astrophotography is the stacking software moves the frames with the stars

This is a 5second edit to shadows and exposure + add a touch of contrast. The colours here are exactly how I remember it which rare for raw. Underexposing and brightening in post means less overprocessing. I have better edits of this but this demonstrates the detail that's hiding in underexposure