November Non-Challenge, Part II
Deep Into the Night - Orion Nebula
First time trying something beyond photographing the Sun and the Moon, so this is experimental for me.
I don't have a star tracker, so I needed to stack 43 of the 220 images taken. (Culling out the camera shake and poor quality images).
f/7.1 - 0.8 sec - ISO 3200 - 500mm
Another camera settings don't matter, you just need to add light...in this case by stacking.
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Nice work, Dean. I don't know anything about this type of photography, but you did a really good job.
Hi Dean!
A good start for the Astrophotography! On te 2nd image you have a nice color of the nebular. You found a good white balance!
As you are stacking deep sky images: which SW are you using for it?
I'm a bit surprised that the nebular appears so small in your frame with 500mm. Even with 300mm on FF it was bigger in the frame at my tries in Feb this year.
The first image in a single frame JPEG from the camera with no editing.
Sequator for stacking, and Lightroom for editing. I tried following along with a YouTube video for stretching in Photoshop, however their version was a bit older and hard to follow along with.
Thank you! I am using Sequator as well + Darktable. plus a startracker. Normally I try to use dark frames as well for noise reduction.
As with PG this is a field I have not tried.
I think it would be really interesting if you persevere and have suitable equipment (which I don't).
Keep on shooting, I'm keen to see how far you progress with this.