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Originally Posted by JA
I prefer the one on the left without the flats. The one on the right is NQR with greens etc...
In those areas there should be a yellowish/orange/brownish glow in certain areas as that is the core of the Milky Way around M8 & M20. This can be seen in the much wider widefield (low res) image below ...
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JA
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Stunning image JA!
What lens was used?
I noticed the ISO 800 and the f1.4 in the image title (and number of frames and exposure time).
The following image is a composite of several images with the camera panned between shots (groups of shots) so it's not just one small section. Done in an area where I used to have nice dark skies until the installation of all of the new LED street lights, one of which shines into my back yard and lights up 2/3 of the yard, good for thieves and burglars I guess (I hope the mongrels trip over my junk, lol).
I had a lot of trouble trying to process the image until I did some basic reading on gradients and obtained a free program I still don't really know how to use but the overall results aren't too bad for my playing around.
14mm f2.8 Rokinon (Samyang) lens, Nikon D810 just 15 frames per image section at 25 seconds (maybe ISO 2200, I don't remember but can look that up).
In saying that did you select a lower ISO to keep noise lower?
I don't know how noisy my images may be, my eyes aren't as good as I wish they were. I just like to pretend it's all stars.
I'm a little ashamed, I have access to a few properties reasonably close where the dark skies are amazing, starting at around 15 minute drive to 40 minute drive which I haven't taken advantage of yet because of health but I really should soon while we still have our reasonably crisp winter skies (and no fear of treading on a tiger snake in the dark).
https://i.postimg.cc/tgdG7QQj/Milky-...-3840x5760.jpg
In keeping with the theme of this thread you would know this JA because you have the Nikon D810 from memory, do they accept any clip in type filters?
I've been curious with an occasional lens without filter thread (like the 14mm) but it would also solve the problem of needing a range of different sized filters for a range of lenses if it does take clip in units.
And sorry, I know I can look this stuff up online but I'd rather hear from someone I know has experience than someone who just thinks they know the answers.