astrophotography

I took the North America + Pelican Nebulae using narrowband filters relatively recently and wanted to share it. Feedback is welcome! North America and Pelican Nebulae by Daniel Drew posted Jan 16, 2019 at 9:29 PM Narrowband Image Frames: 8x360 seconds each of Hydrogen-Alpha, Oxygen-III, and...

So I wanted post something to show my progress in the hobby, as illustrated by 4 images of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, spanning a 6 year period from 2009, when I started out in the hobby, until 2015, when I took what is at least for now my best image of M31. This hopefully not only illustrates...

So in case any members are feeling the pull of the astrophotography bug, I thought I might try to cover a few introductory topics, as astrophotography is a very enjoyable sub-hobby of photography, but it also has a learning curve and a large potential to end up frustrated if you spend your money...

One of the most beautiful areas of the night sky visible from the Northern Hemisphere, the Rho-Ophiuci Nebula Complex shows off a myriad of colors in this natural light image captured through LRGB filters. There are also a number of globular clusters visible in the image, the most prominent...

The limbs of these dead trees seem to be reaching up and grasping for the rich and colourful core of our Milky Way galaxy, and the planet Mars as well. Jupiter is about to be eclipsed by the trees on the left, while not far above it a pair of satellites reflects the light of the sun from their...

The farmer who owns this property, located in the hills southwest of the rural town of Nowra, Australia, happened to come home as I was setting up my camera and tripod. Seeing him move toward the gate, right near where I was lurking in the dark, I uttered “hi there”, but it went unanswered...

Yalwal Camping Area, New South Wales, Australia. Despite having planned to get to this spot when Venus was higher in the sky, I ended up arriving just as the “evening star” was close to the horizon. By the time I lined up my camera and tripod to shoot this vertical panorama, the trees on the...

Hello everyone, I'm new to the group. I met Jim about a month ago during the last new moon at Joshua Tree National Park and he was kind enough to invite me to join the group. Looking forward to learning and sharing with everyone here. Currently shooting with a Pentax K3ii. Here's a couple of...

A friend here in Colorado told me I need to check out Mono Lake if I was going to go to Yosemite. The first day when Jim and I got there is was snowing, cold and overcast but the following night when we had finally decided it would be best to shoot Mono at night rather than Mammoth due to time...

Anyone tried Loxia 35mm or 21mm with Sony for astrophotography? Just wondering how good is it for Astro, I'm just thinking about using the loxia 35mm with A7S for astro pano, any suggestions? Thanks

I mentioned it over on another thread...so thought I might post it here too...once I get around to re-editing I will share the new version too... This is an image that was nearly 2 years in the making. From the time I first started to really learn to shoot the MW, through a fall trip the idea...

Appreciate the invite to the community. Look forward to building online and perhaps in-person relationships with some of you. This is a shot I took in May of this year. It was my 2nd attempt at shooting the Milkyway. My 10 year old daughter was out there helping me at 1AM too, so a little...