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Title: War Memorial and Dunnottar Castle starfields at Stonehaven
Post by: Kenny on Jan 17, 2015, 01:34:32

Canon 450D. Single 13 sec exposures at 18mm, f/5, ISO-1600.

Cygnus and Lyra over the War Memorial
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8672/16109391328_d17bc48930_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qxwQNm)

Orion and Gemini over the War Memorial
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7466/15674552044_d66c323676_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pT7bej)

Orion (and Gemini partial) over Dunnottar Castle
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/15677018923_d8edefc748_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pTjPxH)

Title: Re: War Memorial and Dunnottar Castle starfields at Stonehaven
Post by: MarkS on Jan 17, 2015, 01:47:25

Those look as if they have great potential. They need a bit of a histogram stretch to brighten them up.

Mark

Title: Re: War Memorial and Dunnottar Castle starfields at Stonehaven
Post by: Kenny on Jan 17, 2015, 09:35:04

Thanks Mark. I will take another look at that. Still a lot to learn about processing. Getting my hands on LightZone has helped but most of the changes I tried last night made the picture grainy. One of my BSIA buddies suggested light painting the foreground during exposure, which I did attempt at Dunnottar Castle later only to find it was too far away.

Orpington Astronomical Society

Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Kenny on Jan 17, 2015, 01:34:32