Action at Jackson

[JimFox]

Lake that is in Colorado.

Jackson Lake is a state park about an hour from my daughters that I thought might work for Deep Space Astro as it's pretty out away from the city, and hopefully wouldn't be as cold as going to the north into Wyoming. As it was it was down into the 20's during the night so still a bit chilly.

While I was doing Deep Space Astro with my D850, along the shoreline of the lake I set up the new "well used" D810 I had bought a week ago to test out. There was lot's light pollution along the horizon for being a Dark Sky site, but since this was really meant as a test, I embraced the light. This is 600 images shot over a 3.5 hour period approximately.

For these night timelapses I am batch processing in ACR into jpg's. Then Assembling the timelapses in Photoshop CC 2020, and finally titles and music are added in Movavi.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice sequence watching the stars and the clouds. That is a lot more light pollution than I would expect for a Dark Sky site.

Not sure I would be up for 3.5 hours of temps in the 20's but the show goes by much quicker in front of my monitor in a warm house

 

[Ben Egbert]

Jim, this is much cleaner than your previous one, looks like this camera passes the test. I assume this was done with a locked shutter at around 20-25 seconds and maybe ISO1600? Looks fairly wide.

Anyway, I like it.

 

[JimFox]

Nice sequence watching the stars and the clouds. That is a lot more light pollution than I would expect for a Dark Sky site.

Not sure I would be up for 3.5 hours of temps in the 20's but the show goes by much quicker in front of my monitor in a warm house

Thanks Alan! Yeah, it's a bit nippy to be running around outside.

I am guessing the Dark Sky must have to do with looking up? So it can get away with all of the lights along the horizon? I will try it one of these new moons and see if the sky is really dark there or not.

 

[JimFox]

Jim, this is much cleaner than your previous one, looks like this camera passes the test. I assume this was done with a locked shutter at around 20-25 seconds and maybe ISO1600? Looks fairly wide.

Anyway, I like it.

Thanks so much Ben!

The moon made it pretty bright, so yeah it was 20 secs at ISO 800 and f1.8 with the Sigma 14mm f1.8 lens on it.

Yeah, the new used D810 seems to pass all of the tests, so that's really awesome. I think it was a steal at only $729.