Went out to a darksite and tried snapping some milky way pics with my DSLR while the main telescope was doing its thing. The three brightest stars in the image (Vega, Altair, and Deneb) make up the 3 points of the Summer Triangle. There’s also a ton of deep sky objects in this part of the sky, including all of these that I’ve photographed before. Captured on July 18th, 2023 from the Deerlick Astronomy Village (bortle 3 zone)

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Equipment:

• Canon T3i (astro-modded)

• Tamron 17-50mm lens

• Joby 3K tripod planted firmly on top of a RAV4

Acquisition: 3.5 minutes (17mm f/2.8 ISO 800)

• 14x15"

• Darks- 10

Capture Software:

• Captured using my finger on the shutter button

PixInsight Processing

• BatchPreProcessing

• StarAlignment

• Blink

• ImageIntegration

• DrizzleIntegration (2x, var β=1.5)

• DynamicCrop to remove blurred trees at the bottom

• DynamicBackgroundExtraction

• SpectroPhotometricColorCalibration

• SCNR green

• NoiseXTerminator

• ArcsinhStretch + HT to stretch nonlinear

• Slight SCNR green

• Shitloads of curves to adjust lightness, saturation, contrast etc with varying luminance/star masks

• MLT chrominance noise reduction

• NoiseXTerminator

• LocalHistogramEqualization

• DarkStructureEnhance

• more curves

• Resample to 60%

• Annotation