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I am sure there is a more proper area, but I will show off my noob Astrophotographer status by not knowing it.... :) I had stopped just outside the Petrified Forest National Park with the intent of doing Deep Space Astro. So I got there and set my gear up. The skies there were so dark, it was...

This is from last week. One of my main goals driving back to California from Colorado was to be able to do some Deep Space Astro. I had hoped for 2 nights, but I got 1 night when I was at Joshua Tree shooting the Perseids Meteors. It was a bit hectic running out into the desert to place 2 of my...

I went out a few weeks ago to capture some Deep Space photography. It was a night I have already mentioned that was very windy, and it was a bit hard at first to get shots without the wind blowing the tripod and camera around and turning every star into a squiggle. As I was checking my polar...

Nikon D850 Tamron 150-600mm at 500mm SkyGuider Pro - Tracker 41 x 30 Sec images at ISO 6400 17 X Dark Frames

I am finally having some time to process photos again, so I dug into my Astro backlog and working on the Orion Nebula from February that I had taken. This also includes the Running Man Nebula above Orion. One of the tips I have picked up is after stacking the multiple images needed to do...

Hi everyone first post here, thanks to Sunny Sra for introducing me to this forum. This is my first deep sky imaging session in more than 4 months; with the bushfires and now rain/storm here in Australia clear skies are hard to come by. Did manage to get a bit last couple days though and was...

After shooting the Flame Nebula last week, I switched to Orion which is just next door to it. :) When I did this one, I was able to shoot it at ISO 1600 instead of ISO 6400, not totally sure why, but it's what I was able to do so I went with it. :) This also is a single image as the stacked...