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| anonymousgamer | Date: Monday, 28.09.2015, 03:14 | Message # 511 |
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Supermoon Eclipse in progress
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 28.09.2015, 03:22 | Message # 512 |
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| Clear skies here.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Monday, 28.09.2015, 03:26 | Message # 513 |
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| My beginning was fairly decent besides a thin layer of clouds and humidity fogging the lens
Then one long cloud decided it would drift in front of the moon for the entirety of it being red
Got this at the ending though 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 28.09.2015, 12:33 | Message # 515 |
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| Quote astroniki (  ) Another one taken with the remote telescope at itelescope.net.
Gorgeous photo!
Quote Watsisname ( ) Eclipse night:
Wow, the mountain with the moon in the background is spectacular, excellent shot.
I took a few photos of my own of the eclipse.
All forum users, please read this!
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| Fireinthehole | Date: Monday, 28.09.2015, 17:13 | Message # 516 |
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| Extraordinairy pictures by all! I myself haven't got much of a camera but at least I tried. 
This is the first total Lunar eclipse I saw since 3rd March 2007. It was just as cool as I remembered!
Btw what is your ISO and shutter speed guys?
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| Watsisname | Date: Monday, 28.09.2015, 18:24 | Message # 517 |
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| Everyone took great photos! @Doc: Sucks for the clouds, but at least you saw a good portion of it, and your shot at the end of totality is really nice.
Quote Fireinthehole ( ) Btw what is your ISO and shutter speed guys?
My settings varied a lot due to rapidly changing light conditions. From here, the Moon rose above the theoretical horizon 3 minutes before sunset, and then entered totality 15 minutes later, just before clearing the hills. So when it actually came up, the sky was still so bright that the eclipsed moon was completely invisible! It took an additional ~10 minutes for the sky to get dark enough to spot it, and even then it was only the brightest part (closest to the shadow edge) that could be seen. Another ~15-20 minutes beyond that to become fully visible.
For the early landscape shots, I was at ISO100 f/11 and 4s exposures, then raising to ISO400. Finally, taking close-ups with the dark sky, ISO800 f/5.6 at 1s.
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| Cordax | Date: Saturday, 10.10.2015, 04:56 | Message # 518 |
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| Impressive how close to these images it looks ingame
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| pzampella | Date: Tuesday, 20.10.2015, 23:45 | Message # 519 |
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| Hi! I would like some advices about photographing The Pleiades. I have a DSLR camera and no tracking base, so I use DeepSpaceStacker to stack hundreds of images. I've read in several sites that some people uses different ISO to catch different aspects of the nebula, and then stack them together.
I would like to know what should I do? Is there any guide online you could indicate me?
This is my best so far:
As you can see, poorly colored and almost imposible to see the nebula.
Edited by pzampella - Tuesday, 20.10.2015, 23:51 |
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| Watsisname | Date: Wednesday, 21.10.2015, 09:18 | Message # 520 |
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| M45 is a surprisingly difficult target for capturing nebulosity. Your results are already quite good! :)
Thoughts and suggestions:
You did lose a lot of color information somewhere along the way. The image is almost completely desaturated. Stars should be brilliantly blue. Consider your white balancing first: a good technique is to increase the saturation to full, then affect color temperature until the image is essentially half blue and half red/orange. Don't actually perform this change; increasing the saturation is just a visual aid for determining what the correct WB setting is. Change saturation or do other color manipulations later.
As for not getting much nebulosity, don't be surprised. I'm actually impressed that you got any of it. Your biggest challenge is the lack of a tracking mount, so you have short exposure times. Darkness of the sky matters, too. But, you might be able to get more from your image processing, especially with curve stretching. There's a lot of hidden detail you can pull out from a processed image stack, especially with well calibrated frames. So look into tutorials, see if other techniques might get more detail out of your data.
Tutorials I can recommend:
Frame Calibration
Lonely Speck (processing techniques with Photoshop and Lightroom)
Hope that helps!
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| midtskogen | Date: Friday, 23.10.2015, 06:24 | Message # 521 |
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| Venus, Mars and Jupiter are nicely aligned right now. The image below is a single frame from a video recording, so the quality isn't that much, but it's a calibrated camera so I could easily add a grid to show how close they are.
It was taken 03:32 UTC today.
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| Watsisname | Date: Friday, 23.10.2015, 07:40 | Message # 522 |
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| pzampella, what kind of file is it being exporting it as? Is it a .fits? Sometimes image editors incorrectly interpret the color channel information with the default settings for opening that file type. Try checking the image mode and color channels manually.
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| pzampella | Date: Friday, 23.10.2015, 18:42 | Message # 523 |
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| Watsisname, I used raw files (.cr2) and saved the result as a .tif
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| midtskogen | Date: Thursday, 05.11.2015, 20:33 | Message # 524 |
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| The Taurids (the southern and northern) are active. Here are some pics of Taurids taken over the past week.
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 07.11.2015, 23:57 | Message # 525 |
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| Nice ones! No chance for me seeing them of late; cloud season is in full force.
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