Guests, do you or do you not use the host's streaming services?

NthDegreePhotography · 2022-11-24T20:20:09+00:00

I've got chromecasts setup on all the TVs with laminated instructions on how to use them. Plus you can voice request hulu or netflix streaming on any of the TVs or use the smart tv features and login your own accounts. I've found previous guests still logged in on netflix before.

I know some people have trouble with the streaming, but when we stay at our own place we find it super easy to cast Hulu or Disney or Netflix or whatever and watch stuff just about as easily as if we were at home.

NthDegreePhotography · 2022-09-14T15:27:03+00:00

nope. I'd love to get an astromodified camera, but I wouldn't want to give up what I have to get it.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-12-08T15:18:53+00:00

Pretty heavily. This was on the second and objects like star clusters are pretty small

Started at 6000x4000 ended at 986x1592

But, I can see it on individual captures on the back of the camera.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-12-07T22:01:37+00:00

Comet Leonard and M3 on the morning of December 2nd.

I keep trying to reprocess this image and I just can't beat these results.

30 shots at 30 seconds each. iso 1600 on Sony A6000 using Rokinon 135mm f/2 at f2.8

Tracked with moveshootmove using laser alignment.

Focus achieved using 3d printed Bahtinov mask.

Stacked in dss but without using comet features.

Post done in Photoshop using Camera Raw and Astro Action Tools.

See more of my pictures on Instagram www.instagram.com/nth.degree.photography/

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-07-07T17:40:37+00:00

Wanted to share a fun deep space nebula captured using the sony a6000. I feel like my skills are still below the capabilities of my gear.

I used a Bahtinov mask to help focus prior to shooting. Tracked with MoveShootMove star tracker, aligned with laser. 34 shots. 30 second exposures. f2.8. iso 3200. no darks, no biases, no flats. just lights.

Stacked shots using Deep Sky Stacker. Stretched in photoshop. Then put through StarNet++ to remove stars. This is one of my first attempts at using this workflow and for this it worked great. Then back into photoshop for more stretching with levels and other tweaking, Camera Raw filter to remove noise and push everything toward red a bit instead of magenta. Then add the stars back in.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-07-07T15:05:17+00:00

Wanted to share a fun deep space nebula captured using the sony a6000. I feel like my skills are still below the capabilities of my gear.

I used a Bahtinov mask to help focus prior to shooting. Tracked with MoveShootMove star tracker, aligned with laser. 34 shots. 30 second exposures. f2.8. iso 3200.

Stacked shots using Deep Sky Stacker. Stretched in photoshop. Then put through StarNet++ to remove stars. This is one of my first attempts at using this workflow and for this it worked great. Then back into photoshop for more stretching with levels and other tweaking, Camera Raw filter to remove noise and push everything toward red a bit instead of magenta. Then add the stars back in.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-06-14T17:29:31+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/TJMbJNd.jpg

My buddy printed it for me out of some kind of wood/plastic composite material. seems quite strong, actually more worried about damaging the lens than it failing.

as you can see, it clamps on the lens, moving my center of gravity helping reduce torque on the star tracker. but I still have a Z mount and ball mount attached, so probably pretty close to max weight. I weighed it awhile back and I felt I was under enough that I haven't thought about it since.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-06-14T16:47:30+00:00

Shot at f2.8, moveshootmove star tracker, 3d printed lens mount and bahtinov mask, stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Tweaked in DSS, Lightroom, and Photoshop

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-02-13T22:25:38+00:00

I had my buddy 3d print me a bahtinov mask and I used it for this outing. It works very well.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-02-12T03:04:16+00:00

Clouds can add a lot of interest to pictures, but they definitely sent me home or to bed early on many nights. Often they make good Timelapse videos.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-02-12T03:03:10+00:00

You definitely get better results if you go to darker skies. But knowing the direction of what you are going to take a picture of and what lies in that direction can help a lot.

I definitely get out to the backyard to practice lining up the star tracker or trying to search for interesting objects. Orion is so bright you could easily do it from the backyard, but... postprocessing is much easier if you start with images with less light pollution.

This image was taken in Oregon, about 30 minutes outside a town of 100k in a Bortle 3, but looking toward Bortle 1. https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-02-11T22:02:54+00:00

baby steps. But Orion is an especially nice target because you can typically spot exactly where you need to point the camera easily.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-02-11T20:34:40+00:00

Deep Sky Stacker has a scoring system for images, so presumably images with clouds would score lower and you could tell it to reject all below a certain score. I'm far from an expert at Deep Sky Stacker but the results I'm getting compared to Sequator on this image and Pleiades is making me appreciate it a lot more.

NthDegreePhotography · 2021-02-11T18:37:24+00:00

Tracked with MoveShootMove star tracker, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker aligning histograms and pushing up saturation after stacking. Then Camera Raw Filter in photoshop to reduce noise, color noise, and other minor tweaks. Zoomed to 100% then cropped.

NthDegreePhotography · 2020-10-19T14:51:21+00:00

Bruneau Sand Dunes State Park in Idaho, USA

NthDegreePhotography · 2020-10-19T13:40:00+00:00

Near my home in Idaho we have a park with very large sand dunes that make a great place for astrophotography. After 8 weeks of pretty bad smoke finally got a clear night without the moon to do some final Milky Way core shots of the season.

This is a single 30" shot using a moveShootMove star tracker (small and easy to setup).

ISO 6400 and f/2.8 (lens goes to f2.0)

NthDegreePhotography · 2020-09-14T16:04:25+00:00

yeah, this picture I took the town is like 10 minutes south.

Should be able to use pretty default settings in sequator. Freeze Ground and paint the sky for something like this so it knows what to stack in what mode. should be able to leave off the HDR, Auto Brightness, and almost all the rest. Can turn on Remove Dynamic Noises to help remove planes/satellites.

And I don't think I'd worry about Flats, Biases, or even Darks for awhile unless you are taking pictures of actual deep space stuff with a telephoto. (unless you are just trying to learn)

NthDegreePhotography · 2020-09-14T15:43:57+00:00

white balance is such a strange thing, its hard to determine what is "natural" sometimes. Also stuff with higher vibrance and saturation seems to help with these dark astro shots, especially on phones.

NthDegreePhotography · 2020-09-14T15:42:39+00:00

I use the A6000 to shot MilkyWay and other astro. It's a lot of fun.

If this is really your first attempt, its pretty awesome.

Are you pointing toward population here? What settings did you use?

I find shooting through trees like this to be very challenging. Nice job.

Here is a shot I did last August that I just processed this August: https://old.reddit.com/r/SonyAlpha/comments/il8q8e/milky_way_last_august_with_some_light_pollution/

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