I love these delicate bands of green and reddish magenta in the lower horizons. They move over time and this shows
up in the time lapse. I did not know these effects existed until I started doing DSLR widefield images.
Greg.
Last edited by gregbradley; 12-01-2013 at 05:47 PM.
its a great shot but man i havent seen as much noise since the last rock concert i went to. must have been a very warm evening indeed. i like your composition
its a great shot but man i havent seen as much noise since the last rock concert i went to. must have been a very warm evening indeed. i like your composition
Yes looking at it again you're right. Time for a repro! Perhaps I should turn on high ISO noise reduction as well in the camera in summer.
Updaate: I reprocessed it in Lightroom and noise control there works a treat.
Greg.
Last edited by gregbradley; 11-01-2013 at 08:34 PM.
Very nice image Greg. I have read somewhere that the air glow colours are linked to aurora. All the best.
Yes it has that look to it. Like ionised something that moves around in the atmosphere. They move like clouds in time lapses. I took some more of this area last night with the Polarie and longer exposures. I'll post them later once processed.
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Originally Posted by Deeno
Lovely shot!
Cheers Deeno.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Nice image, Greg! Where did you take it?
My dark site observatory 80kms from Cowra. Almost no light pollution and often clear thanks to the Great Dividing Range. Sometimes windy though.
I did a longer exposure version of the same area last night. 2 minutes with Polarie tracking and 2 minutes without for the foreground.
So this is a composite image with the foreground being the first shot and the sky from the same spot the second. I wanted to highlight the delicate hues of colours that are very faint in our skies. These must be some sort of radiation effect and are not normally noticed except a strange green bias in a long exposure astro image.
Dam Niiice Capturing & processing Greg, Top Stuff ! !
Thanks Bob.
I am enjoying getting the DSLR out plus this camera is picking up skyglow that previous DSLRs I have used did not. So that is an added incentive.
I am enjoying this form of astrophotography. You feel very connected to the night sky and the environment taking these types of shots.
I think this is a very good point! There's not much setting up needed with the DSLR before you can just sit back, look up, and enjoy the view.
As a bonus, you get to see a lot of transient events like meteors. I was out shooting last night and saw a bright meteor streak over about 100 degrees of the sky, with dust/smoke trailing for about 3 degrees behind. Would have completely missed it if I were staring into my laptop screen!
Hmmm nice colours Greg, but I believe the composition is wrong. I think it would be better to place the rocks either to the far right or far left and wait for the Milkway to be tilted over further. The composition as it stands looks awkard to me and too contrived.
Looks to be a great site there but using the rule of threes in composition will help quite a lot.
Just my opinion though and I am sure one or two others might think so too.
