WWDarkdiz Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Timed exposure, 8 secs, f22 for the first, f3.5 for the second, Pentax K3 with 18-135 f3.5-5.6 @18mm 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Superb photos, Diz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Great images, Diz! FYI, Meghan and I are coming your way one weekend when the solar flares are hot, and you're ready for company. I need a stamp in my passport anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Winnipeg is only ten hours away, or so. Just sayin' ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGeezer Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Amazing images Diz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSensei Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted August 28, 2022 Author Share Posted August 28, 2022 20 hours ago, WWSandMan said: Great images, Diz! FYI, Meghan and I are coming your way one weekend when the solar flares are hot, and you're ready for company. I need a stamp in my passport anyway... You are MOST CERTAINLY welcome, I'm free all next summer (closing her down in a week or so)! Bring a spare liver, you'll need it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share Posted September 6, 2022 Last night was arguably the most spectacular Aurora I can remember. Greens, reds, dancing across the sky like an out-of-control-tornado (hmmmm,,,,, aren't ALL tornados out of control?????) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 That's just effing AWESOME! ~~~ Saturday night/Sunday morning, for some dumb reason I was still up at nearly 2am. Meghan tells me her phone was blowing up with push-notifications from her aurora apps and that I ought to go see what I can see. She tried to get me to go for a drive somewhere out of town to avoid the city's light pollution, but I really didn't expect to see anything. I was yawning hard and I mean, I'm in *southern* Minnesota, barely north of places like Toronto and Boise (those cities being roughly the same latitude.) Well, after a quick run through LightRoom (I doubt I'll ever see the lights as clearly with the naked eye as Diz and Craven get to) ... I captured this from my back yard, in town. Looked like haze to the naked eye. Four second exposure, ISO 800, 50mm @ F2.0 Clouds and haze don't dance vertically, in shades of green and red. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share Posted September 6, 2022 Hmmmm, just a thought, if you increase your ISO to around 1600 (or even 3200), at F2, focus manually at infinity and set your shutter speed from anywhere from 8-15 secs, you might get more of the lights, as the sensor has longer to "see" them, and will terefore have more "data" to work with. This gives you more options in post-processing. I got this info from various pamphlets/books/magazines etc over the years, the settings are buried in a notes binder I have out at the cottage. I also have notes on Milky-Way, lightning, and general astro-photography, for the most part, they seem to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Yup, I tried several of those settings, but I got overwhelmed by the local light pollution. This one was a compromise, but from a position on the middle of 50,000+ people, and with the Twin Cities metro area almost due north, I was impressed to get any results at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted September 7, 2022 Author Share Posted September 7, 2022 Ya, light pollution sucks, but there is probably some post processing that can address most of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWCraven Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Not the greatest shot, didn't have my camera ready so I tried my iPhone. Taken Saturday evening while camping at 11:28pm. No enhancements done, it's kinda fuzzy as I tried to focus in on the trees. Lights weren't all that spectacular, was a bit of light cloud around. Sadly we didn't get the purples to show up this time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Still cool as hell. I gotta cross the border and go visit some of y’all. WW reunion in Canada?!?! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted September 8, 2022 Author Share Posted September 8, 2022 At my cottage. Pack a spare liver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 I always carry a spare... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 I like that idea... Throw in a geo-magnetic storm and the lady of the house would be happy to attend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted September 8, 2022 Author Share Posted September 8, 2022 6 minutes ago, WWSandMan said: I like that idea... Throw in a geo-magnetic storm and the lady of the house would be happy to attend. She'll need to bring her own spare liver... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 She'll have new knees, but the liver may be an issue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWDarkdiz Posted September 9, 2022 Author Share Posted September 9, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, WWSandMan said: She'll have new knees, but the liver may be an issue... Seriously, next summer, just let me know when you want to come up to the lodge, lots of room ...and bring spare livers... Edited September 9, 2022 by WWDarkdiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIA_Stahl Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 (edited) On 9/5/2022 at 9:57 PM, WWSandMan said: That's just effing AWESOME! ~~~ Saturday night/Sunday morning, for some dumb reason I was still up at nearly 2am. Meghan tells me her phone was blowing up with push-notifications from her aurora apps and that I ought to go see what I can see. She tried to get me to go for a drive somewhere out of town to avoid the city's light pollution, but I really didn't expect to see anything. I was yawning hard and I mean, I'm in *southern* Minnesota, barely north of places like Toronto and Boise (those cities being roughly the same latitude.) Well, after a quick run through LightRoom (I doubt I'll ever see the lights as clearly with the naked eye as Diz and Craven get to) ... I captured this from my back yard, in town. Looked like haze to the naked eye. Four second exposure, ISO 800, 50mm @ F2.0 Clouds and haze don't dance vertically, in shades of green and red. Nice image. Here is a sight that has some tips on using a camera for night time shots. Do you have image stacking software? If not then here are some links to some free software that will stack images. Stacking images greatly increases the SNR for data and the images really pop after processing. https://astrobackyard.com/the-500-rule/ http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html https://www.astronomie.be/registax/ Edited September 10, 2022 by SIA_Stahl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIA_Stahl Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 You would be amazed at what you can actually see within a light polluted area with the right filters. Also Lightroom has astrophotography plugins that enhance and remove noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIA_Stahl Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 On 9/7/2022 at 7:38 PM, WWCraven said: Not the greatest shot, didn't have my camera ready so I tried my iPhone. Taken Saturday evening while camping at 11:28pm. No enhancements done, it's kinda fuzzy as I tried to focus in on the trees. Lights weren't all that spectacular, was a bit of light cloud around. Sadly we didn't get the purples to show up this time. Great phone image. You might be surprised at what is really in there. What format was the image taken? PNG or TIFF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIA_Stahl Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 On 9/5/2022 at 9:15 PM, WWDarkdiz said: Last night was arguably the most spectacular Aurora I can remember. Greens, reds, dancing across the sky like an out-of-control-tornado (hmmmm,,,,, aren't ALL tornados out of control?????) This is a truly amazing image, great capture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIA_Stahl Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 (edited) If you guys have no issues with sharing files, you can send me an untouched. unprocessed RAW, TIFF or PNG file and I can run it through my Astrophotography software to see if I can sharpen, deconvolute, enhance nebulousness, round out stars, and clean up SNR. Prefer RAW or TIFF but can work with PNG I currently run PixInsight for post processing and it is light years ahead of Lightroom for Astro and night time imaging. Don't get me wrong, Light room is great but PixInsight was developed by professional astronomers who work with ESA, JPL and Nasa exclusively for astro imaging. Edited September 10, 2022 by SIA_Stahl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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