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STAR PATH
Finally the clear skies opened up over Dorset last night. A composition that has interested me for some time is the coastal path at Durlston. I really enjoy the challenge of integrating a foreground into my night sky images.
In fact I wouldn't even call it astrophotography, the sky is a nice feature but to me its the foreground in these images that gives me the greatest satisfaction.
With haze creeping in I was limited in the amount of detail I could capture. I chose to use a common stacking method to create this image, essentially taking several images in a row and compressing them to reduce sensor noise.
A dark, dark location and last night you could hear a pin drop. The beams of light from Anvil Lighthouse peppered the sky above me and flickered across the cliff.
A surreal experience being somewhere so remote in the pitch black. Not for everyone but if you like solitude then this is just the ticket!
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Canon 5d mk3
Samyang 24mm
F/2
ISO 6400
15 seconds
15 x images with above settings
1 x 14 minute foreground exposure at F/4.5, ISO 800
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Wright's Metalmark (Calephelis wrighti)
The female is on your left side. Make note of the larger abdomen and its overall larger size. San Diego County, CA.
RAF Fairford 1st April 2019
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Final Approach 13/52
After Brexit, the airlines had nowhere better to go except sunny Devon. The runways weren't quite up to the same standards they'd got used to in Tenerife though.
1,000 steps away from becoming reality.
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Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris)
Photographed at Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth, Dorset.
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Snowy owl
A perfect set-up while the full moon was going down.
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The Integrated Flux Nebula surrounding M81 and M82
This latest process of mine from Grand Mesa Observatory was captured over 3 nights in January 2019 using the QHY367C Full Frame One Shot Color CMOS camera. Over the years I have photographed the very faint "Integrated Flux Nebulae" and "Arp's Loop" many times but I think this is quite possibly my deepest image of this area yet made possible by doing longer 10 minute exposures, also visible are the many very distant and faint galaxies.
Telescope used was the Takahashi FSQ 130 F5 APO Refractor “System 1” on Grand Mesa Observatory’s January subscriptions. grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
Total Integration Time 11.5 hours
Technical Information
Location: GrandMesaobservatory.com, Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Captured January 1st, 6th 13th 2019
QHY367C Full Frame One Shot Color COLDMOS cooled to -20C
Size: 7376 x 4938 pixels
Pixel Size: 4.88um x 4.88um
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Darks, Bias and Flat Calibration
69 x 600 sec
Optics: Holloway Takahashi FSQ-130
Paramount ME German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Pre Processing Pixinsight
Post Processing Photoshop CC
Synthetic Star Spikes created by StarSpikes Pro
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