Worked out alright, quick shutters, though. Looking into the sun and all.

Last edited by paulou (2012-05-22 05:53:33)

That's my soul up there.

I wish. Oh, but I wish. Still haven't sold my old setup, I don't have much time for this right now.

Nice pictures though! Love the second one.

Last edited by Saniss (2012-12-15 17:55:33)

A few days ago, I went with a few friends to a big mountain not too far from here and spent the whole night up there watching the sky with a telescope and taking pictures of it. Holy hell, the sky was awesome.

Mostly, I shot some timelapses, which I intend to release in a single video, along with the other few timelapses I have in store. Here are a few astrophotography shots I made during the night, though.

I don't have a proper shot of the Milky Way at the beginning of the night, when it's the most interesting (galactic core) - I was shooting at timelapse of it at that time, and while the shots will still be nice as a timelapse, I had to go to town on the post-processing because light pollution was still a pain in the ass around the horizon, even up there.

So, this is the Milky Way around the constellations Cygnus and Cassiopeia at 5:30 in the morning. Nice touch: you can see the Andromeda Galaxy in the top left-hand corner. The bright region at the top is the Double Cluster in Perseus.

I'm very happy with this one, mostly because it's only after shooting it that I found out what was on it.

The white glow starting toward the antennas and crossing the Milky Way is the zodiacal light. It's sunlight scattered by dust in the solar system. I had never seen it before; I actually thought you could only see it with the best skies on Earth, like in the Atacama Desert or something.

The Moon is seen here bathed in earthshine - reflection of sunlight from the Earth.

If you'd like to see the other pictures I made that night: A Night atop the Lure Mountain.

Last edited by Saniss (2013-09-06 01:02:53)

That makes me want to rush out and shoot a film these could be posters for!

A tripod and a camera (Canon EOS 60D).

For the first two pictures, I used the Ultra Wide Angle lens I bought recently, a Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 lens. It's amazing.

You never know. Anyway: 30s, f/2.8, 1600 ISO. No filters.

Last edited by Saniss (2013-09-06 10:19:53)

Thank you Tom. No, I don't have the 60Da (and quite frankly I believe it to be a big rip off which will only sell with people who don't know much about astrophotography).

The 60D is actually quite good at managing noise, but post-processing also helped a lot.

Last edited by Saniss (2013-09-07 00:06:11)