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THIS IS NOT STOCK ART! DO NOT USE IT AS STOCK ART.I have had many people using this as stock art without asking permission first. I'm sorry to do this, but I won't be allowing anyone else to use it as stock art, even if you ask permission first.
My first real foray into the realm of astrophotography. Canon 350D, pointed straight up, 50mm lens, 20 seconds at f1.8. The sky above Blaxland about 8pm.
Okay, a bit of extra information, now that I've actually been able to figure out what the stars are.
This is the southern end of the constellation Scorpius. The three stars in a line on the left of the image are the tail, the bottom one being Lambda Scorpii, a.k.a. Shaula.
The bright bunch of stars just to the left of center is M7, a large bright open cluster. The bright star just below and to the left of center (just underneath the three little red ones) is M^, also known as the Buytterfly cluster. Just a bit further below that is NGC 6383.
On the right hand side, we have M8 as the pinky purple nebula, and further to the right of it, M20 (the triffid nebula) and M21.
The Wiki article on Scorpius is Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpius , although the photograph here is actually rotated quite a bit in relation to the starchart on the page.
But that's okay, there's no up or down in space....
EDIT
Well, colour me happy. One of the images from this night has been used by HarperCollins on the cover of the newly released "For Darkness Shows the Stars"! www.harperteen.com/books/Darkn… I got credit and everything!
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Nice! I just got into astrophotography myself. Hope I stick with it! There are some amazing things to be seen in the night sky. Great pic!
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You managed to catch beautiful colors. I have been trying that for months, but the Milky Way always end up a monochrome red, very ugly. I don't know what else to change in my Canon SX510 with CHDK hack.
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What settings are you using? You might find it hard with a non-slr camera. Nonetheless, depending on what manual settings you have on your camera, you can set a wide open aperture, a long shutter speed and a fairly high ISO. Also, if you are getting bad colours, try changing your white balance. And shoot in raw if you can.
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I tried everything except shooting in RAW and stacking pictures. I can enable through CHDK. I'll try next time. Yesterday I managed to get a closer shot of the Carina Nebula and a dense star cluster nearby. The best I got had a 5 second exposure, ISO 6500 and the widest aperture allowed (3 point something). I can only zoom in x30. I could see the strong red color behind lots of noise, and I think I could get a better focus too. It was by far the most starry night I've seen since I started photographing them in 2012.
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Can you post an image? If the noise is the biggest problem, I don't think there's much you can do. Cameras with smaller sensors generally have a terrible time in low light.
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There's a lot of movement in the stars, and given that you only had a ten second exposure, I'd say that you had zoomed in. You don't really need to - the benefit of astrophotography is that a long exposure will gather more light than your eye can, and that's how it shows you things that you can't see with the naked eye. Try zooming out. I shot my image with a full frame equivalent focal length of only 80mm, and your camera has a full frame equivalent focal range of 24-720mm. So you don't need to be zoomed in very much. If you do that and set your shutter speed to 15 seconds, you should get better results.
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Thanks for the tips, Tiberius47. I'll try again next time (:
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Great job on getting your photo on the cover!! :D On a scale of one to ten, how happy are you about that?!
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Beautiful caught my eye i think this would make a great wallpaper
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Thank you for explaining this a bit and for the awesome display of the night sky in Australia.
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*facepalms* Bob the titian is dead
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I'm a good titian
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Lower the iso , and fstop at 30 sec , iso 400 or 200 . max aperture and try again ... use a trepied ... See the difference
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This was already shot at 20 seconds, so a change of less than a stop isn't going to make that much difference. The aperture was already at 1.8, which was the widest that lens gets, and since I was using a 20 second exposure, I was obviously already using a tripod.
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hello! your photo is gorgeous, I love how the stars have their own colour to them! It inspired me to make this piece hartling.deviantart.com/art/Re…
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hey, i used here:carolinabeearaujo.deviantart.c…
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And if you look carefully, I specifically say this is NOT stock art.
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sorry! :3
failed my attention
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I'm sorry, but this is not stock art.
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Hey. I'd like to use this for my student newspaper :') Do you have any rules or so? I'd credit + link back to you of course ;')
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Sorry, I had a lot of people using this without permission so I'm not letting anyone use it now.
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As long as you credit me and give a link to the finished artwork.
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Amazing photograph! Really, congratulations.
Please, tell me how could you get a 20sec exposure without any trail?
Do you have any tripod with equatorial mount and the tracking motor? I was about to buy one of these...
thanks!
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Nope, this was very simple. Just a camera on a tripod. No tracking mounts. There's no trails because the lens was a 50mm, so the stars didn't move enough to get a trail.
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I also use a 50mm f/1.8 to take pictures of stars, but may be the fact I live closer to equator (-19 deg) it may be the earth rotation is more significant here. With only 10sec exposures I usually get trails, like this one: mateusop.deviantart.com/art/Wh… Its not a big trail, but minor stars did not show up. If I push up the ISO, sky polution rises.
Thanks for the answer!
Keep on the good work
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Nice shot!
Yeah, I'm almost 34 degrees south of the equator, so you'd get a greater movement in the same time.
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Thank you for the use of your stars, I used them here. hobbyit.deviantart.com/art/Dan…
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This image was NOT put up as stock art. I state in the description that I prefer people to ASK me before using it.
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I am very sorry if I did not read description very well. Would like me to remove it?
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No, it's okay now. But please ask in the future.
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