Nature Photography

[Devyn Nagy]

Orion from bortle 7 skies.

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Stacked in sequator, abused in photoshop in post. Dust spots.
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Cool! I’d like to get into astrophotography. What causes the ring of haze in the photo? Is it an artifact from image layering?

 

[azurbanclucker]

Cool! I’d like to get into astrophotography. What causes the ring of haze in the photo? Is it an artifact from image layering?

I don't know yet The actual haze is because of light pollution from shooting in the middle of town. I'm guessing that it's a processing artifact because all I have in the data set is lights (actual images). I need to also take some flats and darks during my sessions to include in the data processing set. I THINK that will help with the vignetting. Also took all the defaults in Sequator, so there may also be settings there to tweak.

There's so much I know that I don't know at this point. Lots to learn.

 

[mdees88]

Orion from bortle 7 skies.

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Stacked in sequator, abused in photoshop in post. Dust spots.
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Nice! In bortle 7 too. Better nebula color and detail than my first attempts ....

I've had that happen before, don't remember exactly what caused it. I do know shooting darks and flats improved the image a lot when stacking. Good chance that will help with the green.

Not kidding about being a lot to learn. I havent shot a stacked astro image in over a year and I'd have to watch at least a half a dozen YT videos to remember how to polar align and use the stacking software, lol.

You actually got the flame and horsehead nebula too!