Hi all,
For those who are interested here are a few shots of the night sky from my home in North Eastern Thailand. Beautiful clear, dark skies most of the year. All images taken from my first floor balconies (either front or back depending on time of year).
Gear I mainly used is my Canon R5, or my older 5D Mk III, Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L III (for Milky Way shots), Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II (for Orion Nebula & Comet Leonard).
I usually take around 10 to 15 shots for Milky Way and stack them in Starry Landscape Stacker and then further edit them in Photoshop, for the Comet Leonard I took 20 shots and did the same.
I have recently purchased an IOptron Sky Guider Pro, which now allows me to take 3 to 5 minute exposure shots without blurring the stars and for the Orion Nebula I took 20 tracked shots at 180 seconds, f/4.0, ISO 800 and 20 shots at 15 secs, f/4.0, ISO 800 (to get the core of the Nebula not blown out) then stacked them separately in Siril software and blended the two final output images in Photoshop.
I only take lights frames and do not bother at the moment with dark frames, bias frames or flat frames as I am happy with the results I get at this time and don't want the hobby to consume me too much.
Hope you like them and I am interested to hear your thoughts, input or ideas.
Thanks
Andy
For those who are interested here are a few shots of the night sky from my home in North Eastern Thailand. Beautiful clear, dark skies most of the year. All images taken from my first floor balconies (either front or back depending on time of year).
Gear I mainly used is my Canon R5, or my older 5D Mk III, Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L III (for Milky Way shots), Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II (for Orion Nebula & Comet Leonard).
I usually take around 10 to 15 shots for Milky Way and stack them in Starry Landscape Stacker and then further edit them in Photoshop, for the Comet Leonard I took 20 shots and did the same.
I have recently purchased an IOptron Sky Guider Pro, which now allows me to take 3 to 5 minute exposure shots without blurring the stars and for the Orion Nebula I took 20 tracked shots at 180 seconds, f/4.0, ISO 800 and 20 shots at 15 secs, f/4.0, ISO 800 (to get the core of the Nebula not blown out) then stacked them separately in Siril software and blended the two final output images in Photoshop.
I only take lights frames and do not bother at the moment with dark frames, bias frames or flat frames as I am happy with the results I get at this time and don't want the hobby to consume me too much.
Hope you like them and I am interested to hear your thoughts, input or ideas.
Thanks
Andy