Album Night Shots and Star Trails

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Taken from a campsite in Red Canyon, just outside Bryce. The tint from campfire kinda ruined it, but still my best effort yet at capturing Milkyway.
 
I need tips on low light pics. I have a Canon T6... But I have really good day time pics and portraits but not low light or night.


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Milky Way across the vent in Volcanoes NP

I wanted to take this shot for quite a while but it was either cloudy or I had the wrong moon phase.
On my last minute lava trip I finally got my chance and set up the camera. The only difficulties were extremely strong wind gusts and to figure out a way to lit up the entire scene properly. I'm not 100% satisfied, but I'm getting there.

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Totally going to break this thread and post a non-backcountry star shot. It's harvest season here in the plains, and there's lots of equipment posing for good pictures.

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It's been nearly 5 months since I last had a night sky clear enough to take a photo, so I took advantage of last nights clear skies, even though I could barely see any stars with my eyes. This is ~ 2 hours of 55 -70" subs , using just an 85mm lens at f4, ISO 400, from my backyard where I can almost read a newspaper at midnight on my back porch.

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It's been nearly 5 months since I last had a night sky clear enough to take a photo, so I took advantage of last nights clear skies, even though I could barely see any stars with my eyes. This is ~ 2 hours of 55 -70" subs , using just an 85mm lens at f4, ISO 400, from my backyard where I can almost read a newspaper at midnight on my back porch.

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Nice! Looks like Orion. What do you mean by ~2 hours of 55 -70 " subs? Was it taken with your star tracking mount?
 
Nice! Looks like Orion. What do you mean by ~2 hours of 55 -70 " subs? Was it taken with your star tracking mount?


That is the "Heart of Cygnus", the nice collection of nebula near Deneb and Sadr. And yes, it was shot with my little camera tracker, not my big telescope /mount. It's 1 1/2 hours of 55 sec shots and 30 min of 70 sec shots.
 
That is the "Heart of Cygnus", the nice collection of nebula near Deneb and Sadr. And yes, it was shot with my little camera tracker, not my big telescope /mount. It's 1 1/2 hours of 55 sec shots and 30 min of 70 sec shots.
Interesting. I will have to scope The Heart. Curious why you had two different exposure lengths. What tool did you use to stack all the shots? StarStaX? Great work.
 
Interesting. I will have to scope The Heart. Curious why you had two different exposure lengths. What tool did you use to stack all the shots? StarStaX? Great work.

I use DSS (Deep Sky Stacker) for stacking. The reason I almost always have two different exposures is how drastically "darker" the sky becomes after midnight when a lot of automated lighting shuts off in town. After midnight , on a very good night, I slip down into the bright end of a "Red Zone" in the light pollution scale. Before midnight, I'm in a sold "White Zone" the worst level of light pollution there is.

The first image was a very hasty PP. Here's the final version.

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A sculpture at a local state park. It's called the "Towers in Time" but when I worked there, we called it the "Towers of Torture" because of all the maintenance issues they had. Finally invested in a nice tripod, one that really does a good job holding the D750 solid, and I'm already impressed with the results.

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Caught a few night shots really early on Sunday morning. Even caught a stray shooting star on a shot where I was just playing with settings- there were some much brighter ones during the Orionids that we watched earlier in the week, but I was just enjoying those sans-camera.
Still noisy as heck, but I haven't had time to really do any good PP.
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and Orion, among others.
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Caught a few night shots really early on Sunday morning. Even caught a stray shooting star on a shot where I was just playing with settings- there were some much brighter ones during the Orionids that we watched earlier in the week, but I was just enjoying those sans-camera.
Still noisy as heck, but I haven't had time to really do any good PP.
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and Orion, among others.
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Has somebody made pictures of the big moon tonight? :)


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