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Friday night down at Cuckmere Haven beach. 20 minutes tracking the core and Rho Ophiuchi over the sea. The thin skin of cloud wasn’t really evident until I got the images together at the end and started to process the stack. Still I like this image and the clouds make it a bit easier to get a realistic blend sometimes I think.
I wish I had spent longer on the sky with hindsight. I had shot an arch over the beach before this and wanted to try a different spot for a second shot on the core but really should have spent longer here. Especially as my next composition and re-alignment of the tracker didn’t work!!!
Canon 6D mkii Astro modified, sky adventurer 2, Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 @50mm. Iso 1600 20x1 minute tracked exposures for the sky and 3 for the foreground untracked, and as per my other post, keeping live view off after focussing did seem to eliminate the annoying patch of sensor noise that had been frustrating me the previous week.
Processed in deep sky stacker and photoshop. I also did some searching for guidance on how to process rho ophiuchi, my astro processing is still very basic as I don't do much beyond standard milky way shots very often. I found a video with a link to Starnet++ for star removal so used this for a starless layer. The interface is as basic as it gets and took me back to Windows 3.11!!! but it did a great job of removing the stars so I could focus on the nebulosity, and then blend the starry layer back in. I quite like the result, not too difficult to use and I'll use it again. I find star removal in photoshop to be a pain and it never gives me what I want really.
Rho ophiuchi over cuckmere haven by Alan, on Flickr
I wish I had spent longer on the sky with hindsight. I had shot an arch over the beach before this and wanted to try a different spot for a second shot on the core but really should have spent longer here. Especially as my next composition and re-alignment of the tracker didn’t work!!!
Canon 6D mkii Astro modified, sky adventurer 2, Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 @50mm. Iso 1600 20x1 minute tracked exposures for the sky and 3 for the foreground untracked, and as per my other post, keeping live view off after focussing did seem to eliminate the annoying patch of sensor noise that had been frustrating me the previous week.
Processed in deep sky stacker and photoshop. I also did some searching for guidance on how to process rho ophiuchi, my astro processing is still very basic as I don't do much beyond standard milky way shots very often. I found a video with a link to Starnet++ for star removal so used this for a starless layer. The interface is as basic as it gets and took me back to Windows 3.11!!! but it did a great job of removing the stars so I could focus on the nebulosity, and then blend the starry layer back in. I quite like the result, not too difficult to use and I'll use it again. I find star removal in photoshop to be a pain and it never gives me what I want really.
Rho ophiuchi over cuckmere haven by Alan, on Flickr
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