G’day everyone,
The paddock of wheat about 20m from my observatory has been slowly ripening and turning golden, and I though it would make a nice nightscape.
I had a look around and found spot that I thought would work well and figured out the night of the 23rd at 9:28 would be when I take it.
I needed to take two rows of images, which would take around six minuets each, the plan was to time it so that as soon as I had finished taking the top row of the milky way, the 70% Moon would break above the horizon and light up the wheat for the bottom row.
Well the time came, I jumped on the motor bike drove to my spot, set up the tripod, took the images and it all went to plan.
As far as I can the images look great but I have not been able to stitch them together as my panorama program is not that crash hot and gets totally baffled. I have been wondering what to do, as I don’t want to waste all the effort I spent trying to capture it, and I don’t want to spend a lot of money on a program for a once off image, so I’ve finally decided to ask wether any body on here would like to stitch it together for me?
I uploaded the 18 Tiff images onto dropbox and they can be got
here.
I downsized them to 60% but they are still around 17.3 mb each.
If anyone stitches it together do you reckon you could upload the unprocessed version somewhere and post a link?
Everyone feel free to process the image to your liking and post it up, I’d love to see how it turns out.
Info and camera settings are:
Camera, Panasonic GX1 (micro 4/3)
lens, 20mm f.17 (40mm equivalent on a full frame camera)
Exposure, 20 sec iso 1600.
Two rows of nine images.
Thanks a lot,
Jo
PS. if there is any trouble with the link please let me know.