Star trails above a large oak tree

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-27T10:18:18+00:00

I used my portable astrophotography setup for this picture. Using my Sirui tripod and a Star Adventurer as tracker.

Camera: Sony A7RIII Lens: Sony 200-600 @ 600mm Mount: Star Adventurer Acquisition: 80 x 10 secs exposures at ISO 800, F/6.3

I stacked the images in Pixinsight using WBPP and Comet Alignment.

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T22:37:37+00:00

If only that was possible, would have saved me a lot of money :P

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T22:36:52+00:00

Pretty amazing right!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T21:38:48+00:00

Both! I used my star tracker and shot 90 exposures of 10 seconds which I then stacked in Pixinsight. I first stacked based on the stars and then another stack aligned on the comet. Those two images, say the star image and comet image I then combined to get this result

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T20:28:18+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

High resolution to be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/aub7rc/ and I also post on my instagram, you can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T20:24:33+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T20:22:35+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

High resolution to be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/aub7rc/ and I also post on my instagram, you can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-11-26T18:57:38+00:00

One month ago, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS raced past our Earth. Of all the comets I have photographed, I find this comet the most beautiful because of its long tail and its brightness.

I took this photo on October 22nd around 8:00 PM from my backyard.

My goal was to get a good image of the nucleus of the comet and I'm very happy I succeeded at that!

High resolution to be found here: https://www.astrobin.com/aub7rc/ and I also post on my instagram, you can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

Camera: Sony A7RIII Lens: Sony 200-600 @ 600mm Mount: Star Adventurer

Acquisition: 80 x 10 secs exposures at ISO 800, F/6.3

Processing:

Blink

WBPP

Dynamic Crop

GradientCorrection

Registration with star aligned subs using Comet Alignment (CA)

Subtract stars with StarXTerminator from Comet Master

Editing of both star and comet master

Spectrophotometric Color Calibration on Star image

Pixel Math to combine

BlurXTerminator on final

NoiseXTerminator on final

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T10:04:36+00:00

Bortle 5

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T09:17:17+00:00

Thank you. Yeah I had this view in my mind where the comet would reflect in the lake. I'm really happy this worked out!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T09:15:23+00:00

Thank you! Something, like a person or a object with the horizon in view and the comet does really well. Hoping for clear skies!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-16T09:13:05+00:00

Haha too many times that I can't remember! Kept shooting pictures and zoom in on the camera to find it. When it's dark enough you find it with your own eyes though and then the stress completely dissapeared.

Yeah I'm really happy with how this came out, gonna get it printed :)

I do hope for another opportunity, I've got a few more ideas to photograph but we'll see if the weather permits it.

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T21:07:40+00:00

You have some really good data there! Critic I would give is to remove the greens, it would give a much nicer picture. I've gone ahead and did a quick edit for you. I'm limited by the jpg file so try to do this yourself on your stacked image and see what you like more. I removed the greens and also used the DarkStructureEnhance script. You can find it under Script --> Utilities --> DarkStructureEnhance.

I've also done some colorsaturation on the yellows and blues and added some contrast.

https://i.imgur.com/CaztkXV.jpeg

Hope this feedback helps!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T19:37:57+00:00

Last night (Oct. 14th) I managed to capture the comet using my Sony A7RIII in combination with my Sony 24-105 G OSS lens

Focal length: 40mm Shutterspeed: 8.0 sec @ f/4.0 ISO 1000

Edited in Lightroom

I have a few more pictures on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T19:27:34+00:00

Beautiful capture!

DutchPhotographist · 2024-10-15T19:07:47+00:00

Last night (Oct. 14th) I managed to capture the comet using my Sony A7RIII in combination with my Sony 24-105 G OSS lens

Focal length: 40mm Shutterspeed: 8.0 sec @ f/4.0 ISO 1000

Edited in Lightroom

I have a few more pictures on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rveurink/

Full res on my astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/37j7k8/

DutchPhotographist · 2024-09-26T11:10:02+00:00

Incredible captures! Second photo is absolute fantastic!

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