My Skies

[nebulosity.]

'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. (http://astrob.in/123181/0/)

Hope you enjoy :thumbsup:

Cheers
Jo

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Superb Jo!:thumbsup:

Looks seamless and natural.

Cheers,

Justin.

[gregbradley]

Lovely.

Greg.

[Saturn%5]

Very nice :thumbsup:

[PeterEde]

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

[nebulosity.]

Thanks a lot for your comments! Appreciated :thumbsup:

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

Jo

[h0ughy]

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.]

I took another pano this morning :thumbsup:

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

Same setup and capture details as the last one.

Larger version Here. (http://astrob.in/123716/0/)

Cheers
Jo

[cometcatcher]

They are spectacular Jo. :thumbsup:

[nebulosity.]

Yes, it sure is a spectacular sky :thumbsup: Even with all the LP.

[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 :eyepop:

Paul

[CapturingTheNight]

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]

Wish my sky was like that. :sadeyes:

Sublime :thumbsup:

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Greg and Peter :thumbsup:



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]

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

[whale]

Wow that's really good! Well done!

[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!

[multiweb]

Awesome vista. Really cool shot. :thumbsup:

[nebulosity.]

Thank you Joshua and Nicholas :thumbsup:



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]

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

Mike

[nebulosity.]

Thanks a lot for the compliment Mike! Much appreciated :thumbsup:

Jo

[Rod771]

Great shots Jo! I really like the eastern image. :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Hey you're welcome, I just had another look through your astrobin collection...some excellent work in there, great stuff :thumbsup:

Mike

[dutch2]

Fantastic pano. Well done.:thumbsup:

[nebulosity.]

Thank you Rod, Mike, and Ingrid :thumbsup:

Jo