Basic Astro Imaging Tutorial Video

[jjjnettie]

I figured I could share this with more people by putting this in general chat. LOL
ANYONE can do basic astro imaging.
Go on....give it a go....you know you want to. :D

http://vimeo.com/16833554

[hotspur]

I'll have a look at that -thanks.

One of the advanced imagers sent me a tut he wrote.only just had a chance to look at it,been a little distracted from my AP studies this week.

I see Barry has submitted a good image in Oct photo challenge,I would like to do something similar one day.he has milky way setting in sky,-a DSS stack of star images that,I geuss he had taken while camera on tripod,and the fore ground of tree etc,while the tracking turned off.

How do you blend these images to get the scene effect?,is that something done in DSS.or CS x.

Any tuts on that would be handy-thanks Chris

[Octane]

Chris,

Blending is done with layer masking in Photoshop.

Often, with wide angle lenses, you can expose for 30-40 seconds and you don't need to stack the sky and blend a foreground.

H

[PCH]

Thats excellent jjj, thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:

[bloodhound31]

It's a single exposure. No stacking, no blending. Lots of experimenting all night for that one shot. I used lighting of different colours, angles, strengths and durations.

Nice little video JJJ. Thanks for posting!

Baz.

[Chillie]

Thanks for posting JJJ. I might give it a go.

Usually when I point my camera at the night sky, unless it is at a full moon, all I see is a black LCD.