Harts Road night sky

[TraKtorman]

Hi all, building a new house at Krawarree. The sky is delightfully dark. These pics, taken on Tuesday evening, are part of an ongoing learning process for me. Some are stitched panos using a Samyang 24mm lens, others using a Sigma 50mm lens. Interesting sky glow that night.
Looking forward to moving the observatory out here! Hope you like them. cheers
Peter

[RobF]

Love the composition for the 2nd "Emu" shot Peter! :thumbsup:

[TraKtorman]

Thanks, its pretty nice to have that as your southern view!

[Mickoid]

Nice crisp shots there Peter. :thumbsup: What camera did you take them with? Glad you decided to post them on this thread, I was getting sick of seeing mine up the top for weeks without any replies. :lol:

[TraKtorman]

Hi I have an "old" Sony A7S. I really like the colours it captures in low light. For nightscapes I am always surprised by the colour or the sky and how much it varies due to sky glow. I tend to use ISO 6400 or less, I abide by the rule of 500 (or in my case, a rule of 250 :-) ) and to date I have been too lazy to stack and calibrate images. So what you see are single frames with in camera dark subraction, or multiple dark subtracted single frames stitched in LR. I also have started to use some of the Topaz Labs plugins, in particular Topaz Sharpen AI and Topaz DeNoise AI. Cheers.

[S_Pettigrew]

Great set of photos

[TraKtorman]

Thanks, glad you liked them!

[Ryderscope]

That’s a great composition with the emu standing up and looking at the Megellanic clouds.