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For 2 years in a row I have imaged Saturn with my Sigma 150-600mm C lens. In 2019 I only had a tripod and was constantly chasing Saturn as it moved. This year I had a tracking mount and it was very easy to do a series of photos to stack. And Jupiter from the same night. Now I did have to...

If you have a star tracker, it will be much easier, and perhaps a telescope is needed. Saturn and Jupiter will converge in the sky, and be at their closest to each other on the 21st. In North America, Jupiter and Saturn are in the southwest sky right after sunset and setting an hour or so...

Yes GIMP has layers and layer-masking. I use them often.

Did anybody else get up and photograph this? Here is a 48mm view from this morning. Kind of a warm-up for Friday.

About the 7-8 of November Mercury will be in the sky near Venus before sunrise and about as high as it will be over the horizon. Stellarium is showing this as a possible photo-op. These screen-shots are frozen at about 5:45 am at my location and you would be smart to check in Stellarium with...

Astico, WI Durward's Glen, Merrimac, WI

Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin Durward's Glen, Merrimac, Wisconsin

I know, old thread. I have used in the past an early 1990's Tamron 90mm that autofocused with the screw-coupler. Nice images, but the focus was sloooooww and hunted a lot. I used mainly for photographing my wristwatches, so I could take time in a studio setup. I upgraded to the most current...

Shot #2 was the portrait mode photo I took that night, I also composed in landscape to cut out the outhouse. But it looks more amateurish with just some tree-tops at bottom frame. I did not know to take several dozen photos at that time, so I only had 11 images in the portrait pose. Not even...

I told this story in the "post your Milky Way" thread. This is my very first attempt to photograph the Milky Way in 2017. I was not at the "dark park" purposely to do this, I was trying to capture aurora that night. I had no idea how to do it. My camera body then was a D7000 and I did (still do)...

I have many thoughts here. I will try to keep it organized. First of all, while I have places dark enough to photograph the Milky Way within 90 minutes drive, I have known all along that trying to do that in my suburban back-yard is a fantasy. I can take photos of planets and some deep-space...

Morgan Creek Falls - Ashland WI Parfrey's Glen - Merrimac, WI Superior Falls - Ironwood MI Pewitt's Nest - Baraboo, WI

Thank-you for the too-kind comments. Normally I am my own harshest critic. @Mike150 : I shoot Raw+Jpeg so I will upload a straight Jpeg from camera with the EXIF intact. You can see my starting point that way also. Looks like I stacked 12 images out of 15 taken. Dew was forming and I had to...

Andromeda Galaxy, I shot this in July. The normal procedure for an astrophotography subject like this is to use software to automatically align and stack a few dozen images which are then flattened into a TIFF. I use RawTherapee and GIMP for the post-processing mostly, but I do have Luminar4...

@Whiskeyman : The original author mentions he is selling his photos, and therefore is a professional. Every missed photo is dollars lost in the pocket, so I cannot dismiss his desire to help himself by buying new gear if it truly works out. But in my amateur opinion, I question if the lag you...

@Clickr it would be good to know what software you are using to post-process with. There are color profiles for your D7000 available from Adobe that can be used in other software also, like RawTherapee. I also like to use the sample tool and click on a white object in a photo to get my...

I threw out 2 images and restacked with DSS. This is now mainly processed with Luminar4 and some touch-up in GIMP. This may be a work in progress for the entire weekend too. Edit: I took that TIFF output from DSS and again came at it fresh using RawTherapee and touched-up in GIMP. Might be...

Andromeda Galaxy has been the popular subject, but how about Triangulum Galaxy (Pinwheel Galaxy)? It is the 2nd closest galaxy to us. And it is not that far away from Andromeda, you just can't see it with unassisted eyes. I did this at the end of taking a series of Mars and Uranus. Battery was...

I know I am a minority in the photo world using GIMP, but there is available a plugin set for astrophotography work. The last tool on the menu is "star rounding" and it will minimze the size of the stars in your final output. I can demonstrate with the same photo of NEOWISE I did. Only real...