GMPhotography Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Here is my most recent Milky Way image. I missed the alignment of the milky way with the path by about a month and a half so to make it really work, I had to flip the path horizontally. For all my milky way images, I use the in-camera astrotracking that my Pentax K3II is equipped with (that is, the sensor moves with the rotation of the earth, to freeze the motion of the stars). So, I had to take 3 images. 2 for the sky for a bit of a panorama and one for the foreground, untracked, to maintain detail and avoid motion blurring. No added light, just a long exposure time (160-180s) MilkyPathFinal by Greg Murray, on Flickr Jangbu, GarryP, direct_current and 6 others 9 Quote FInd me at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GM-Photography-142947659079869/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gmphotography32/ or my personal website, not kept frequently up to date: www.gmphotography.ca I use Affinity Photo, Lightroom, Panorama Maker 5, and Photomatix for my photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 11, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2017 That's simply beautiful Thank you for sharing. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Wonderful how you "kept" the foreground in it since that is the only indicator that Earth is the viewpoint. Excellent! Quote ♥ WIN 10 AD & AP ♥ Lenovo Legion Y520 15.6" Laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMPhotography Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 Thanks gents Love this type of photography. I plan to spend more time on Milky Way next season and as the season comes to end, shift my focus to deeper space when more deep space objects are in view (M42, M31, M32 higher in the sky etc) Quote FInd me at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GM-Photography-142947659079869/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gmphotography32/ or my personal website, not kept frequently up to date: www.gmphotography.ca I use Affinity Photo, Lightroom, Panorama Maker 5, and Photomatix for my photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jangbu Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Lovely capture! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tschens Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Congratulations to this outstanding pic! I tried to make a milkyway pic recently and wonder how you got this intensive lights and colours. My results are somehow in between yours and this one. You say you took 2 pics from the sky. Did you one "normal" one with lets say 20-30 sec of exposure for the stars on the left and right side and one with extra long exposure only for the milky way part? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMPhotography Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 Hi Tschens: I shoot with a Pentax k3II which, among other neat tech advancements, has a built in GPS unit. Not so special as Canon and Nikon also have options with GPS, but Pentax is special. Because Pentax has developed and advanced their in-body shake reduction system so much, the decided to take that techonology, along with the GPS data, and come out with a camera whose sensor can track the motion of the stars for up to 5 minutes using data from the GPS. With my 14mm lens, I am able to track the stars for about 3 minutes. (i've done 3, but if the GPS is out a little or has interference, then 2m:40s is perfect). The settings for the sky were: 2x140s tracked, ISO1600, F4.5 14mm. No need for separate exposures for Milky Way VS. other stars. General rule of thumb is to use the widest aperture you can, but because I can expose for so long, I stop my lens down some to reduce CA and other distortions. If I were you, I'd try shooting: 10-15 frames of 15s (turn off noise reduction!), ISO 6400 14mm f2.8 (or comparable) and stack them in Starry Landscape Stacker, or manually in Affinity Photo. It'd be nice if Serif would develop more features for Astrophotography purposes; I find the stacking to be quite slow and a huge resource hog compared to other stand alone stacking software; I can stack 10s-100s of images in other programs but AP simply freezes beyond 11-12. My machine has a role to play in that, but still, other programs are far more efficient (Starry Landscape Stacker, Starry Sky Stacker, Nebulosity, PixInsight etc.) MEB 1 Quote FInd me at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GM-Photography-142947659079869/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gmphotography32/ or my personal website, not kept frequently up to date: www.gmphotography.ca I use Affinity Photo, Lightroom, Panorama Maker 5, and Photomatix for my photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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