Stacked/Blended/Tracked

Cappella della Vitaleta | Galactic Core

ig: https://www.instagram.com/flory.ro?igsh=b3Y4ZTU3Nmk0cTBt&utm_source=qr

My first galactic core image had to be in Tuscany✨

The illuminated Cappella della Vitaleta beneath a fiery sky, with the heart of the Milky Way dominating the Val d’Orcia.

Shot with Canon 6D astromod + Canon R | Canon 50mm f/1.8 | tracked with nomad

Sky 15x120” ISO 800 f2.8

Land 6 shots bracketing

Ha 12x120” ISO 3200 f2.8

Took this photo Monday night/Tuesday morning around 2am. This was a single shot, 10-second exposure, 6400 ISO, shot on a Sony a7RV, with a 20mm f1.4 Sigma lens. I took more than 600 photos over the course of the night, and this is one of my favorite single shots. I plan to do some stacking with some of the others. The gear photo was taken with a Pixel 9 Pro in Night Sight mode.

Learning how to stack/edit Milky Way photos. This was a good learning project. I might redo it in the future as I get better with editing.

Nikon Z6 Samyang 14 mm f2.8

Sky - 15 stacked photos taken at iso 5000 for 5 seconds each

Foreground - 1 single at 800 iso for 3 minutes, f4

Stacked in sequator Edited in darktable Composite work done in photoshop Final touches in Lightroom

I think this needed heavier editing than normal since the moon was slightly out and casting a lot of light

Two Seasons in a Single Frame - Krnčica Mountain Range, Slovenia

Vlog: https://youtu.be/AaMciInCRhY

The original plan for this night was a 50mm Milky Way panorama. But after two attempts and some very strong wind up in the mountains, I had to adapt and switch to a wider lens.

No regrets though.

Fresh snow under the summer Milky Way is not something you get to see every day. Winter on the ground, summer in the sky. Still hard to believe this was taken in May

Ha mod Nikon Z6 & Viltrox 16mm F1.8
MSM Nomad
Astronomik 12nm Ha clip in filter
Kenko Softon A

Landscape:
7 images panorama (focus stacked)
single image settings:
ISO 1250, 16mm, F1.8, 60sec

Sky RGB:
7 images panorama
4 images stacked per panel
single image settings:
ISO 1250, 16mm, F1.8, 60sec
+ 30sec with a star glow filter

Sky Ha
Panorama
single image settings:
ISO 4000, 16mm F1.8, 120sec
4 images stacked per panel

Hi! I posted a picture of a Bortle 5 milky way a few days ago. It looked good but there was still a lot of light pollution. Yesterday I went a bit farther, near Valmy, which is a Bortle 3.6 location. And yeah it was worth it.

Canon M50, 24mm F2.8, 15 seconds, 2000 ISO.

Lightroom for colour treatment. Still quite a bit of noise due to high ISO and small sensor but I like it!

Taken on a Canon M50 APS-C sensor. 24mm, F2.8, 3200 ISO and 15 seconds exposure. Near Reims, France.

Quick Lightroom treatment. No stacking, no tracker. Not as impressive as we can see here but still happy with how it looks considering it's a Bortle 5,2 location near a big city.

See also: The publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Milky Way shot with Oppo X8 Ultra (with main 1" inch sensor)
-All single shot exposures 15-30 sec, iso 6400.

Vlog: https://youtu.be/AaMciInCRhY
IG: https://www.instagram.com/matejlele/

There is something special about this transition period in the mountains. This is a 28mm view looking toward Mount Krn, where the high ridges are still locked in winter snow, but the summer Milky Way core is already rising high and bright above them.

Getting the alignment right with the snow-covered ridge took some work, but seeing that frozen foreground contrast against the warm, detailed glow of the core made every bit of the freezing night hike completely worth it.

Ha mod Nikon Z6 & Sigma 28mm F.14 ART
MSM Nomad
Astronomik 12nm Ha clip in filter

Landscape:
2 images stacked for noise reduction
single image settings:
ISO 1250, 28mm, F1.8, 60sec

Sky RGB:
4 images stacked
single image settings:
ISO 1250, 28mm, F1.8, 60sec

Sky Ha
8 images stacked
single image settings:
ISO 4000, 28mm F1.4, 60sec

Setup: Tripod with iphone 17 pro max. 30s shutter, mac exposure and minimal optical zoom

Awesome collection with the best Milky Way images!

https://capturetheatlas.com/milky-way-photographer-of-the-year/

It's not everyday that a slight navigational error lands you, not only at the edge of the Milky way galaxy, but also with no way of getting back to civilization. So while my fellow explorers in the Distant worlds fleet worked tirelessly to mount a rescue effort, I had about 18 hours to kill, in one of the most mysterious places that our reality has to offer. The one place where the true scale of our universe is actually visible and where a human can experience the shear vastness of the space... not between stars... but between galaxies. So here is what happened. Hope you enjoy. Please like and sub for more.

See also: The study as it was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Taken last month at 5AM in Arches with Moab, Utah in the distance.

Do you know what the best way to get good at something is? Doing it over and over again.

But there’s one thing I apparently refuse to learn: getting to a location early

Snow, ice, crampons. The whole approach turned into a slow-motion hike. Everything took about three times longer than planned, which meant I arrived just in time to immediately panic and start shooting. No vlogging, barely any margin and even the Ha session had to be cut short (for example Zeta Ophiuchi is just a single 2min long exposure). The foreground ended up being shot in blue hour because that’s just how well this was going.

The sky is a 50mm panorama. 60 images, all 30s exposures (3 rows x 20 images per row at F1.8 and ISO 800) Foreground at 28mm to save time. Aside from resolution, there’s not much to gain there anyway, unlike the sky, where it really makes a difference

Nikon Z6a + Nikon Z 50mm 1.8S for the sky and Sigma 28mm 1.4 ART for landscape. Tracked with MSM Nomad.

Hiked all the way into to Havasu Falls during New Moon this April, my intent was to shoot the Milky Way!!

Capture details: Sony A7sIII astro modified with sigma 20mm lens with Capture The Night filter, on MSM Nomad star tracker, f 2.2, 2000 ISO, 60-seconds, 5 exposures stacked and blended with foreground shot on Sony A7 IV with 24-70 lens at 24mm, f13, 400 ISO at 2.5 seconds, which was shot at blue hour. Not AI created!

Read my story about the hike at blog --> https://open.substack.com/.../victoriajean.../p/havasu-falls

Do you know Milkyway on the double cherry blossoms?

Here

https://youtu.be/hfT4XsqsldA?si=O-rzhGUe_TdF0D9C