Night Sky Photography Entries
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Andromeda
Forrest Ginn: Andromeda galaxy right center framed by trees, lower center brighter trees pointing up to Double Cluster, Cassiopeia, and Milky Way above that.
Taken from Diamond Lake, OR. 8/28/2021 10:54PM.
Equipment:
Canon 6D Mark II, Canon 35mm f/1.4 L USM, on a fixed tripod.
Exposure and Processing:
ISO 6400 f/1.8, Stack of four shots at 8, 10, 13, and 15 seconds.
Stacked in Sequator, light editing in Lightroom. -
Center of the Milky Way in Gila, NM
Alex Hawthorn: Center of the Milky Way above the US Forest Service sign for the Cosmic Campground in Gila, NM.
Equipment:
Nikon Z7ii, f2.8, iso 800, 19mm (14-24mm NIKKOR lens)
Exposure and Processing:
2-image composite: foreground exposure 5s, sky exposure 15s.
Edited in Adobe Lightroom. -
Perseid and Milky Way above June Lake, CA
Babak Saberi: Perseid and Milky Way above June Lake, CA August 2021
Equipment:
Fuji GFX 50R, 23mm F4 lens, ISO 12800, fixed tripod,
Exposure and Processing:
single image, 20 sec. photoshop (reduce green cast by house flood light to the right). -
Aroura Borealis and Big Dipper Over Husavik Iceland
Spencer SooHoo: Aurora Borealis over Husavik, Iceland with Big Dipper visible near the top of the image. If you look closely, you can see Mizar as a double star in the handle.
Equipment:
Nikon D5300 with 10mm lens, f4.5 on tripod (no tracking)
Exposure and Processing:
ISO 6400, Single 20 second exposure
Photoshop for minor contrast/brightness adjustments and take out distortion due to the wide angle lens -
The Milky Way from Cassiopeia to Scorpius
John Fisanotti: The Milky Way, from Cassiopeia to Scorpius, over the Panamint Valley in Death Valley National Park
Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D810A. Lens: Sigma 28mm f/1.4 Art.
Exposure and Processing:
Panoramic composite of 26 images. Aperture, f/1.4, ISO 2000
Shutter speed: 10 seconds for the sky, 60 seconds for the landscape.
Processed in Adobe Photoshop and Topaz Labs DeNoise -
Katie and the Milky Way
Kevin Kelly: Front to Back--Katie & Jupiter & Saturn & The Milky Way Galaxy at Bryce Canyon National Park ~midnight of last September's New Moon.
Equipment:
Nikon 850
Exposure and Processing:
15 second exposure, 1 image -
Summer Milky Way over the Mohave National Preserve
Greg Wu: Summer Milky Way over the Mojave National Preserve, Black Canyon Group Campground, during a public star party hosted by Mojave National Preserve Conservancy and Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers, May 2018.
Equipment:
Nikon D3400 with Tokina 11-16 mm f/2.8 lens on fixed tripod
Exposure and Processing:
Shot at 11 mm f/2.8 ISO 3200 25 seconds. I am still a newbie learning how to post-process raw images, so this is the unedited out-of-the-camera shot. -
Moonrise over DTLA
Michael Hayford: Moonrise over DTLA, with the snowcapped San Gabriel mountains in the background. Taken on 12/29/2020 from Kenneth Hahn State Park.
Equipment:
Canon EOS RP with EF 70-200 zoom set at 200mm fl.
Exposure and Processing
f/4.2, ISO 250, 1/250 sec exposure. -
Pointing to Meteor
Nasir Jeevanjee: In this lucky shot I posed myself in front of the camera for about 10 seconds out of 24 total seconds of exposure time during the 2016 Perseids meteor shower. This single shot taken at Red Rock Canyon State Park in California features 4 meteors. In addition to the brightest streak to which I am pointing to there are 2 near the top left corner and a tiny one at left of Pleiades cluster.
Equipment:
Camera: Sony alpha-58
Lens: 18-250 mm zoom lens
Mount: No mount just a tripod
Exposure and Processing:
24 seconds.
Software: iphoto -
Comet Neowise from Western Mojave Desert
Michael Singer: Comet Neowise from the Western Mojave desert July 17, 2020, 2142 hrs Pacific time
Equipment:
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 70-200mm telephoto zoom lens at 120mm focal length, f2.8 on tripod.
Exposure and Processing:
1 second exposure, ISO-25600, using a linked Apple MacBook Pro for laptop exposure and trigger/control.