Milky Way Rising & others

[rogerg]

G'day all,

Had an enjoyable trip out to the wheatbelt on Sat/Sun for a night of astronomy and other general daytime photography. I was very happy with the results and we had a great time. Such a nice time of year to be out and about.

This shot is my favourite: http://www.rogergroom.com/items/200805_MilkyWay300s_Avg1

That one will look nice at 60cm easy I think, which is great, been a while since I got a nice shot suitable for printing big. :)

Others are here: http://www.rogergroom.com/items/kokerbin_may2008

The Emu one has much more potential not yet realised with image processing. I am keen to add every second exposure then average the 5 resulting images to get more contrast. And test out some more colour alteration.

:thumbsup:

All comments and suggestions on processing improvements welcome.

Roger.

[AlexN]

what a beaut shot! Great coloring, the exposure was spot on!

top work mate.
Alex.

[RB]

Excellent work Roger !

Love the M.W rising and the emu is a cracker too.

[dugnsuz]

A very nice set of widefield images Roger.
I enjoyed viewing them.
All the best
Doug

[iceman]

Beautiful images, Roger. I love this type of work from you!

[rogerg]

Thanks all, much appreciated :thumbsup:

[Matty P]

Fantastic image Roger.

I love these kind of widefield Milky Way images.

Very well done.

[beren]

:thumbsup: Top work Roger very nice images

[prokyon]

Fantastic image, Roger!
But, is it possible to make the horizon sharp?

Cheers

werner

[rogerg]

Not without really stretching the truth :) To make it as "sharp" as it is, I used only one exposure for the horizon, the first exposure. I could have taken a shorter exposure but the contrast would have been less, so harder to make the horizon fit. I like some blurr, because naturally it is blurred due to movement of the sky and wind. :)

Roger.

[prokyon]

You don`t wanna stretch the truth - I´m with you ;)

werner