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Old 13-03-2012, 06:31 PM
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I'd love to see what everyone's light pollution is like.

I was wondering if those of us with DSLRs could take a wide shot of the night sky over our observing sites, perhaps all using the same ISO, exposure time and F-Stop, and then post them here.

Any suggestions as for the settings?
Love the idea and I would like to start it off with three pics I took whilst trying to capture that elusive Aurora....

And to add to that I like the suggestion Jason has made too below....
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Originally Posted by koputai View Post
Most of us will have varying LP depending on which direction we point the camera. In Sydney's Northern Beaches, my North and East is pretty good, West is bad, and South is very bad.

Maybe we need 5 shots each. North, South, East, West, and straight up.

Is there a PC application out there that can stitch heaps of shots together to make a hemispheric projection like the star charts in the middle of astro magazines? That would be interesting.

Cheers,
Jason.
LP1 is 24mm|20 sec|f5.6|iso 800
LP2 is 10mm|20sec|f5.6|iso 1600
LP3 is 20mm|53sec|f5.6|iso 250
all on my nikon d90, no adjustments in ps, just resize.
Taken about 22:00 11.03.2012, facing directly south. Midland would be directly south and Perth slightly to the right of the pic. Midland is about 20 km south of this point.
When I look at the NEF ( raw) pics its a lot worse...but then you would make adjustments hey?
The light in the fore ground is from flood lights and the moon
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