Calling all Astrophotographers, all skill levels. Post your work.

a reply to: w810i

Those are meteors (shooting stars). Unlike ngchunter (he dose really awsome deep sky objects) I do wide angle and sky fish. Most night I shoot around 300 exposures, with only about 2 to 4 exposures having a shooting star, Most nights its 0. Thats why I call it sky fishing sometimes I catch them most times I dont.

Nothing spectacular but the contrast turned out good IMHO

Some picks of the moon rise over Pusch Ridge in Tucson and some of the lunar eclipse I got from last month.

This thread is great
Here are some of my pic's.
I have a Dobson 6" and a Lumix DMC-FX700 Point and shoot.
If anyone can recommend a good camera please do so

Here is a Video of clouds rolling over the moon.


Here is a video I took tonight of the occultation of Saturn.


Saturn just above moon before occultation


Moon Pic

originally posted by: wycky
Saturn just above moon before occultation

Love that one. I had a very nice clear view of the moon, Mars and Saturn last night while I was cycling home, but (a) I didn't have a telescope and (b) the occultation wasn't visible from here.

The pick above is a softball sized fireball the was visible over Georgia(US) 5/15/2014. It went completely out frame so no pick of the end.

Last night might have been a total meteor shower bust, but the haze that had been obscuring the fainter stars lifted for a bit and I got a nice long exposure of straight up. I didn't bother with a tripod this time, I simply laid the camera on the ground on 10-second delay. Turned out pretty!

Straight up. You can see the haze a little, and definitely can see the city glow to the left. The haze was heavier to the north (left)
ISO 400, F3.3, 30 second exposure


Looking northward, haze & light pollution most visible on the bottom.
ISO 200, F3.3, 30 second exposure

originally posted by: ngchunter
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I really like this photo. There's some nice detail in the center dust lane. Great job!!

Vince

A frame from a time lapse last night testing out my new 14mm f/2.8 lens. Apparently I haven't figured out how to do inline images?

Full moon from last month that I caught just climbing over the trees. I had hoped to catch some of the background in with this, but it took me too long to get my camera out. Taken with a 200 mm telephoto lens.



Was also out struggling with the autoguider a couple nights ago and after several unfruitful hours, I did a few short exposures of M16, as my other photo of it is not that great. This is a slight improvement I think. I over-exposed the central stars in post processing and just couldn't seem to correct it without screwing up the whole image.




Thanks,
Vince

a reply to: ngchunter

VERY nice indeed ngchunter.

originally posted by: astrostu
A frame from a time lapse last night testing out my new 14mm f/2.8 lens. Apparently I haven't figured out how to do inline images?

That's a nice image for 20 secs at iso 800