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).