My Skies

nebulosity. (Jo) · #1 27-09-2014, 07:10 AM

'My Skies', taken from about a 100M from my house, On the 26/9/14 (yesterday) at around 8:30pm. It is a 26 image panorama captured with a Fuji X100, with 25 second exposures at ISO 6400. I was happy to capture the meteor in the Milky Way, and also the ISS passing though to the right of the zodiacal light.

Larger version Here.

Hope you enjoy

Cheers
Jo

tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook) · #2 27-09-2014, 08:38 AM

Superb Jo!

Looks seamless and natural.

Cheers,

Justin.

gregbradley · #3 27-09-2014, 09:29 AM

Lovely.

Greg.

Saturn%5 (Graeme) · #4 27-09-2014, 11:31 AM

Very nice

PeterEde (Peter) · #5 27-09-2014, 12:32 PM

Stunning shot
But you got a couple of scratches on the photo

nebulosity. (Jo) · #6 28-09-2014, 07:17 AM

Thanks a lot for your comments! Appreciated

I reckon this would probably be my best nightscape image so far, pretty happy with it.

Jo

h0ughy (David) · #7 28-09-2014, 08:33 AM

looks a tad muddy on the right, a few bright lights to contend with there, oh bugger it, i am envious of the great sky vista

nebulosity. (Jo) · #8 29-09-2014, 07:19 AM

I took another pano this morning

This one shows the sky pointing east, hope you like it.

Same setup and capture details as the last one.

Larger version Here.

Cheers
Jo

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #9 29-09-2014, 12:22 PM

They are spectacular Jo.

nebulosity. (Jo) · #10 29-09-2014, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

They are spectacular Jo.

Yes, it sure is a spectacular sky

Even with all the LP.

byronpaul (Paul) · #11 29-09-2014, 09:09 PM

Jo,

Amazing !!!!!

What stitching software did you use and how much post processing.

If I could do this I reckon I'd won the lottery.

Once again ...... Amazing

Paul

CapturingTheNight (Greg) · #12 30-09-2014, 06:33 AM

Great work Jo. That camera really shows up the Ha regions well. Especially like the east view featuring the Orion arm. Don't see that region in pano form often and I must admit I have never done a full 180 in that direction.

Peter Ward · #13 30-09-2014, 06:19 PM

Wish my sky was like that.

Sublime

nebulosity. (Jo) · #14 01-10-2014, 10:49 AM

Thanks Greg and Peter

Quote:

Originally Posted by byronpaul

Jo,

Amazing !!!!!

What stitching software did you use and how much post processing.

If I could do this I reckon I'd won the lottery.

Once again ...... Amazing

Paul

Thanks Paul,

I used the free program called Hugin for stitching on the Mac, with only a small amount of post processing (mainly contrast) in Aperture.

Cheers
Jo

Joshua Bunn (Joshua) · #15 01-10-2014, 10:52 AM

They are both very well captured Joe. You have great skies there!

whale (Nicholas) · #16 02-10-2014, 07:40 AM

Wow that's really good! Well done!

Poita (Peter) · #17 02-10-2014, 01:05 PM

I love hugin. I'm going to have to take my X100 with me next time I'm out.

They are just gorgeous, I'm jealous of your skies and abilities!

multiweb (Marc) · #18 02-10-2014, 01:31 PM

Awesome vista. Really cool shot.

nebulosity. (Jo) · #19 02-10-2014, 01:37 PM

Thank you Joshua and Nicholas

Quote:

Originally Posted by Poita

I love hugin. I'm going to have to take my X100 with me next time I'm out.

They are just gorgeous, I'm jealous of your skies and abilities!

If you going to take a few nightscapes with the X100, I have found it can make the skies way to blue/magenta, so I set the WB on 4000K and the WB shift on -7 Cyan and -2 Yellow. This gets every thing looking pretty good I reckon.

Cheers
Jo

strongmanmike (Michael) · #20 04-10-2014, 12:03 AM

Excellent Milky Way panoramas Jo, among the best out there really

Mike