Here is a Youtube video I created from stills and timelapses that I captured in the Atacama Desert, near San Pedro de Atacama.
The opening sequence shows the Milky Way in LRGB and Ha. Please select HD!
Malcolm Park
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Uranus 26-27 August 2014
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:26 pm
by George Tarsoudis
At last night I have a very clear night, I take 3 videos each about 30 min, here is my animation to see the movements of planet Uranus.
This movie includes only 2 images, it is nonetheless apparent movement in the gas planet's atmosphere.
Many people say the images from the planet Uranus may be artifacts, because the planet is far from the Earth, but this is not correct.
Condition with medium seeing good transparency
Telescope SkyWatcher 14 inch @f/4.5, camera Flea3 FL3-FW-03S1M, barlow 3X, filters RG 610 & Televue Type A.
360 Degree Startrail Panorama Copyright: György Soponyai
My second all-sky startrail photo was taken between 17th and 24th August. Dömös is a village in the Danube Bend (Dunakanyar) located 45 km north from Budapest. The Dunakanyar is often considered as one of the most beautiful part of river Danube where it flows between Börzsöny Mountain and Visegrád Mountain.
I started the project on evening of 16th August by taking two hours of exposure turning the camera to northern direction towards the Börzsöny Mountain however the air was very humid and cloudly and I was not sastisfied with the poor result. On the next two nights the sky was crystall-clear so I went on photographing the southeastern and southwestern part of the scene. Every evening I started the photo session four minutes earlier so the visible position of stars were the same.
On the third night many friends of mine joined for baking some bacon, you can spot us in the southern part of the photo.
When I started processing the raw images it became obvious that it's impossible to make a good-looking result by using the first night's photos. So I went back to Dömös on 24th August in order to re-take the photos of the northern sky. In the previous six days the water level of the Danube decreased making the photo alignment complicated. But here is the result at last.
Photo details:
2014.08.17-18 and 2014.08.24. Dömös, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5, 3 x 52x120sec, ISO 800, F5.6
Re: Submissions: 2014 August
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:45 pm
by vanamonde81
A Little Night Planet Copyright: György Soponyai
This photo is based on the previous all-sky startrail image by applying a Little Planet effect to it. Just for fun..
Photo details:
2014.08.17-18 and 2014.08.24. Dömös, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5, 3 x 52x120sec, ISO 800, F5.6
Re: Submissions: 2014 August
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:08 pm
by IC 1396 Narrow Band
This is 17 hours of integration time on the Elephant Trunk Nebula.
10X1800 Ha
12C1800 OIII and SII each.
FSQ 106N
"Solar Night" (HD link- http://500px.com/photo/81243021/)
This is the reason I pleasurably spend so much time behind my camera, stay up late and wake up early. Capturing the calm lake and the bright glow of the milky way with its interstellar dust giving it contrast was good enough, but to have witnessed the Aurora Australis coming to visit us was even better. The solar flares from our bright ball of fiery light were enough to still give us a display at night. The milky way is almost as old as the universe itself.
I really like the shape of this old swampy tree pictured here.
Pictured here is a 360 degree panorama taken at Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand.
To the right you can see the glow from Christchurch city, and to the left you can see the awesome glow from the Aurora Australis.
It's not everyday, or every year for that matter that we get to see this awesome display of light from the heavens so far North!
My new Canon 6D and lenses arrived just in time!!!
I hope you like this as much as I do, I sacrificed dry shoes to get this shot!
Preview:
Re: Submissions: 2014 August
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 12:45 pm
by Greg Parker
vanamonde81 wrote:A Little Night Planet Copyright: György Soponyai
This photo is based on the previous all-sky startrail image by applying a Little Planet effect to it. Just for fun..
Photo details:
2014.08.17-18 and 2014.08.24. Dömös, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Samyang EF 8/3.5, 3 x 52x120sec, ISO 800, F5.6
Many congratulations in working out a new slant on showing a night sky image. Great work!!
Greg Parker - New Forest Observatory - http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
Re: Submissions: 2014 August
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:04 pm
by angelaros
Sandgirl wrote:IC1805 and Comet Jacques
Rosetta Nebula in conjunction with comet V5 Oukaimeden Copyrights: Ángel R. Arós
rosetta_cometa_pixi_lr_small.jpg
I have prepared a new version by enhancing the contrast, even though I lose some details on the edges. I think it is now more appealing. What do you think?
IC 1318, Butterfly Nebula
2 hour exposure time with a DSLR @ F = 500 mm f/2,8
For higher resolution, click here. Thanks for watching.
Technical details can be found on my website: www.dutchdeepsky.com
Copyright: Maurice Toet
Once the courtyard of our farmhouses were places where people met and talked about the strenuous day of work in the fields. May be they stayed sit looking at the clear and dark sky. Nowadays these places are abandoned and no one is looking at the sky any more. That's the reason why the chair is empty and the mirror reflects the sky that the missing observer would have looked at. The red light creates a surreal atmosphere about a sky that is seen but not abserved at the same time.
