r/LandscapeAstro

"Meandering"

They call this an "entrenched meander". While covering only 1.5 miles the San Juan River flows more than 6 through these tight turns. Standing on the edge over 1000ft above the views are magnificent. We had clouds again. Seems to be the story of my first few nights out there, but this was my first opportunity to shoot with the Ha filter under truly dark skies.

I finished this up yesterday and watched Atremis II launch taking the first crewed mission to orbit the moon in 53 years! Praying for a safe and successful mission and excited for a new age of space exploration.

Taken 03-15-2026

Nikon z7ii astromod by Kolari Vision

Rokinon 14mm 2.8

Astronomical 12nm Ha filter

iOptron Skyguider Pro

Sky: 90s x 12 - f/2.8 - iso 1250 // 90s x 12 - f/2.8 - iso 2500 - w/Ha filter

Foreground: 1/60s - f/8 - iso 800

Shot in the midnightish hour 06/06/2024. Milky Way is seen from the marina in Lexington, MI

Canon 6DMII, Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art lens.

Sky is 48x25” exposures, f1.8. And the foreground is a single 6” shot at f2. ISO 1600. Preprocessed in Lightroom for raw photo conversion. Methods as described by clarkvision.com. Stacked in Siril manually, Sigma Clipping with weighting for noise. Stars removed and a background extracted version blended to taste with the natural sky. Stretched and blended in Photoshop. Stars added back in and stretched to taste. Color space in Photoshop set to Rec. 2020

Tracked with a sky watcher AZ-GTE updated for EQ mode

Taken from Alabama Hills in California, over the Sierra Nevada mountains

Camera: Canon 6D Mark II

Lens: Sigma 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM ART

Moon and star trails: 30s, f/5.6, ISO 400, 14 mm all throughout the eclipse

Sky background: 1/15s, f/5.6, ISO 800, 14 mm during blue hour

Foreground: 1/4s, f/5.6, ISO 800, 14 mm during blue hour

Used StarStaX for the trails, and continued editing in Photoshop.

For more like this: https://www.instagram.com/framingstarstuff/

Taken in camera with a Nikon F2, 17-35mm F/2.8, 800 speed film.

The sky moon were with 500mm, 900mm focal lengths.