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)
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:
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