Hi Pat,
From Churchlands, I never take shots in CBD direction è eastlish. Most of my shots have been taken right up, looking slightly south-west.
In this instance I used 50mm, F1.4, slowed to 5.6.
This particular lens produces that “nice” shape of brighter stars with blades.
I have Astronomik CLS clip filter but I don’t use it.
In my opinion, and some users don’t share it, these filters irreversibly spoil the colour balance and also remove “something” from the data.
food for thought there ian........ i thought an LP filter would be an absolute necessity!
i very much like your result and i must give it a crack as i have the 60da and a 35mm samyang f1.4 and we are a similar distance from the cbd
pat
In a message to me Paul Haese pointed out that the image had to much green tone, so following his advice I produced newer version of the original image by going through PixInsight SCNR-Green-0.2 ..
Yes that looks even better. I often find my astro images have a bit too much green in them. Yet I often image at my dark site which is nearly completely dark and almost no light pollution.
After doing a lot of widefield DSLR imaging I could see the sky is often green with skyglow. I presume that is where the extra unwanted green comes from. It isn't every night either so that factor also throws you.
