Milky Way Astro-seascapes & landscapes

[rnl]

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25 x 10 second exposures, aligned and stacked, foreground lit by two LED light panels. Shack Bay near Cape Paterson.

Looks good. Have you considered using tungsten light setting?

 

[DaveC Oz]

Looks good. Have you considered using tungsten light setting?

This was one of my very early attempts at low level lighting, before I started setting my white balance with any real intent. Now I mostly shoot with the camera set to around 4200K, and vary the colour temp of my lighting if I'm using any.

 

[DaveC Oz]

This single shot taken a few hours ago gives a good illustration of one of the advantages of multiple stacked exposures in astrophotography, getting rid of all the transients caused by satellite trails. The pink glow is sunlight, (2 hours before dawn), and street lights reflected in bushfire smoke haze.

• Viltrox AF 35/1.2 LAB FE
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/1.2000000476837
• 8 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[DaveC Oz]

Milky Way core "erupting" from smoke haze on the horizon. Cape Woolamai in silhouette from Pyramid Rock lookout

• Viltrox AF 35/1.2 LAB FE
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/1.2000000476837
• 8 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[rcreamer]

View attachment 55386
25 x 10 second exposures, aligned and stacked, foreground lit by two LED light panels. Shack Bay near Cape Paterson.

Wow, nice shots and a very helpful thread! I finally took my first polar-aligned and tracked test shots with my new SA GTi with stars that were fairly pinpoint at 70mm + 120 sec + about 70° south of Polaris (Jupiter in frame). So, my first attempt at polar alignment was encouraging. Now on to taking actual astro photographs and all the learning curves associated with that (calib frames and stacking sw).

 

[DaveC Oz]

Wow, nice shots and a very helpful thread! I finally took my first polar-aligned and tracked test shots with my new SA GTi with stars that were fairly pinpoint at 70mm + 120 sec + about 70° south of Polaris (Jupiter in frame). So, my first attempt at polar alignment was encouraging. Now on to taking actual astro photographs and all the learning curves associated with that (calib frames and stacking sw).

Thank you. I look forward to seeing your shots as well. I look back at some of my early efforts, and see so many things that I do better now. Hopefully in a few years time I'll be able to say the same about my current shots. I find myself learning all the time, and that's a good thing.

 

[DaveC Oz]

Milky Way over Wilsons Promontory from Norman beach. The mountain on the left is Mt Oberon, barely visible are the masts of the communications towers that my father helped pour the foundations for.

• Viltrox AF 35/1.2 LAB FE
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/1.2000000476837
• 80 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[DaveC Oz]

Lake Eildon from Dinny's Lookout with Mt. Buller and surround on the horizon.
6 shot panorama with each shot being a 4 exposure stack.

• Viltrox AF 35/1.2 LAB FE
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/1.2000000476837
• 32 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[DaveC Oz]

Some 10 shot stacks from the above location with both the 35mm and 16mm Viltrox

• Viltrox AF 35/1.2 LAB FE
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/1.2000000476837
• 80 sec
• ISO 5000

• Viltrox 16mm F1.8 FE
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/1.7999999523163
• 80 sec
• ISO 5000

• Viltrox AF 35/1.2 LAB FE
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/1.2000000476837
• 80 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[THXGEEK]

Nice pics!

It looks like your Viltrox 16m does a nice job with astro. Good! That's one of the reasons I bought mine. Now I just need to find some time to get out there.

 

[DaveC Oz]

Nice pics!

It looks like your Viltrox 16m does a nice job with astro. Good! That's one of the reasons I bought mine. Now I just need to find some time to get out there.

Thanks Craig. I love the field of view from the 16mm, and it really has been my go to lens for astro since I got it. But I have been amazed with the 35mm how much difference the extra 1/2 stop in aperture makes in these really low light conditions. The different perspective is interesting to play with as well. In short I'm enjoying both of my Viltrox lenses a lot.