r/nightskyporn

Hope I am up to standards with you guys and your awesome pics. I caught Venus and the moon side by side this evening and thought it was pretty cool.

One shot at an alpine lake in Colorado capturing the Milky Way and airglow behind the Rocky Mountains. Processed in Photoshop. I used StarXTerminator to remove the stars to process the scene and process stars separately to keep them from blowing out. ISO 1600, f/2.8, 30s.

Taken with Nikon Z8 and NIKKOR 14-24mm, 14mm, ISO 500, f/5, 30s. Processed in Photoshop. One shot with no composites.

Shot this one back in March but only found time to edit it recently. Captured with Sony a6700 + Viltrox 27mm f1.2 Pro. Tracked 5x8 panorama for the skies, each shot at 30s, f1.2 and iso 400. Tracked with MSM Nomad star tracker. For the foreground I shot 4x8 panorama with 30s, f2.8 and iso 1600 for each shot. Stitched in PTGui and PS. Edited in Siril and LR.

The best feeling in the world is being alone at night and looking up to see these.

My second go at landscape astro. Braidwood NSW, Australia.

Nikon Z50 ii

Viltrox 20mm f2.8

ISO 3200 Exposures 6s - stacked for noise reduction

Two shots, same location.
Same camera and body for both shots.

Nikon D850, Sigma 14mm 1.8.

Foreground in both is the same image. Single image | ISO 1600 | f/4 | 516 sec.

Milky Way - Stacked and Blended.
Background/Sky - 15 Images stacked and blended. | ISO 2000 | f/1.8 | 20 sec.

Star Trail - Stacked and Blended.
Background/Sky - 140 images stacked and layered in photoshop. | ISO 2000 | f/1.8 | 20 seconds.

Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse, Strong City, KS

I love star trails, don't get me wrong. They are amazing. Sweeping arches of light are cool.
But the milky way shot, I'm proud of this one. Since getting into astrophotography 2 years ago, I have always wanted to get a picture of the milky way core with the golden yellow glow, the purple nebulas, the whole shebang. After years of seeing other people capture incredible, amazing milky way shots, I have finally captured one that I am so proud of. It makes me choke up a little inside.

Anyways, enough sappy stuff. I hope you enjoy these photos. One day, i'll make some YT videos on my process of capturing and editing one of these shots.

I took this moon photo in two shots in succession. One to properly expose the moon and another high ISO to freeze the clouds. I then processed and stacked the two frames together in Photoshop. Captured with Nikon Z8 and NIKKOR 100-400mm with NIKKOR 2X Teleconverter on a Tripod.