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I took this (actually these) shot back in 2019 but was never even slightly happy with the editing of it. It is five shots stacked (plus a single dark frame) taken with the Astro Tracer mode on my Pentax K-3II. This is a four minute exposure so when the five are stacked it is 20 mins of exposure time. I watched a video on YouTube by Richard Tatti of Nightscape Images the other night & immediately thought of this image. To keep a long story short, I followed his editing techniques and came up with this.

This was taken in quite a dark sky at Myponga, south of Adelaide. I was using a Pentax 16-45 zoom at 20mm (30mm FF equivalent) at f5.6. This is far from a great astro lens to be honest. But anyway, after more than five years I am finally pretty happy with it. It has given me the enthusiasm to go out and try some astro now with my A7RV.

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BTW, the bright "star" just lower left of centre is actually Jupiter.

<blockquote data-quote="Richard A" data-source="post: 66214" data-attributes="member: 7190">I took this (actually these) shot back in 2019 but was never even slightly happy with the editing of it. It is five shots stacked (plus a single dark frame) taken with the Astro Tracer mode on my Pentax K-3II. This is a four minute exposure so when the five are stacked it is 20 mins of exposure time. I watched a video on YouTube by Richard Tatti of Nightscape Images the other night &amp; immediately thought of this image. To keep a long story short, I followed his editing techniques and came up with this.This was taken in quite a dark sky at Myponga, south of Adelaide. I was using a Pentax 16-45 zoom at 20mm (30mm FF equivalent) at f5.6. This is far from a great astro lens to be honest. But anyway, after more than five years I am finally pretty happy with it. It has given me the enthusiasm to go out and try some astro now with my A7RV.[ATTACH=full]70065[/ATTACH]BTW, the bright &quot;star&quot; just lower left of centre is actually Jupiter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richard A, post: 66214, member: 7190"] I took this (actually these) shot back in 2019 but was never even slightly happy with the editing of it. It is five shots stacked (plus a single dark frame) taken with the Astro Tracer mode on my Pentax K-3II. This is a four minute exposure so when the five are stacked it is 20 mins of exposure time. I watched a video on YouTube by Richard Tatti of Nightscape Images the other night & immediately thought of this image. To keep a long story short, I followed his editing techniques and came up with this. This was taken in quite a dark sky at Myponga, south of Adelaide. I was using a Pentax 16-45 zoom at 20mm (30mm FF equivalent) at f5.6. This is far from a great astro lens to be honest. But anyway, after more than five years I am finally pretty happy with it. It has given me the enthusiasm to go out and try some astro now with my A7RV. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_K3I0187_Dark_Median_Milky_Way_1.jpg"]70065[/ATTACH] BTW, the bright "star" just lower left of centre is actually Jupiter. [/QUOTE]

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