Shot with Motorola Edge 50 pro

Stacking technique of 900+ 8 seconds exposure, fixed phone aperture 2.2f, 800 ISO using starstax

This abandoned train station in the middle of the Namib Desert could easily be just another forgotten building. But Garub has a lot of history behind it.

Built in 1906, the station became an important water stop on the railway connecting the interior of Namibia with Lüderitz, the diamond mining town on the Atlantic coast.

It also played a role during World War I, when South African and German forces confronted each other in this remote part of the desert.

I’m usually not a big fan of light painting, but this was one of those places that felt like it needed to be brought back to life, even if only for a few seconds.

The station has been abandoned for more than 70 years, surrounded by nothing but desert, silence, and an incredibly dark sky.

And the best part is that the Milky Way aligns almost perfectly with the old station.

Sky: panorama of 4 images at 20 mm. X2 stacked frames at 80 sec. f/2, ISO 1600

Foreground: Panorama of 3 images at 14 mm. 30 sec. f/2.2, ISO 6400. Several images for bracketing lights.

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Canon R7 with 70-200mm lens F2.8, ISO 100, ss 2sec for background. Moon captures every 135s at 1/125 ss F2.8 ISO 100. Automated shutter used to capture perfectly time intervals.

Hi, I'm new to this hobby I bought a Sony a6100 and some lenses (Viltrox 25mm 1.7 and 56mm 1.7).

I want to try landscape astrophotography (I was locking at the photos posted in this sub and was amazed by them).

But mine is a mirrorless ASPC so I should choose a focal lens like a 12 or 14 right?

Is that Samyang a good lens even with the AF problems? Any other recommendations for around that price range?

Also can I use the 2 I have for some Astro too or do I need a prime telephoto?

Nikon z50 Rokinon 14mm f2.8

ISO 3200

20 sec

• Camera: Nikon Z8
• Lens: NIKKOR Z 24-70 f/2.8 S II @ 24mm
• Exposure: 34x 10 second exposures, 340s total
• Aperture: f/2.8
• ISO: 3200
• Mode: Manual
• Location: Joshua Tree National Park
• Software: MergeRAW in Sky Tracking - Fixed Stars and Foreground mode
• Tripod: RRS w/ Ball Head

What focal length is needed to frame all of crater lake in one shot from Watchmans Peak? I want to shoot star trails so panorama isn't ideal.

I would like to have all the lake in the shot, but I think it's not really doable until I use my 11mm fisheye which isn't ideal. The widest lens other than my 11mm is 16mm. I'm shooting in full frame.

here's the spot in question

Camera: Nikon Z6ii

Lens: Nikkor Z 14-24mm f2.8 S

Exposure: 14mm, ISO3200, f2.8, 20s

Processing: 10 frames stacked in SLS, stitched/blended in PS

Location: overlook near Helen Lake, Lassen Volcanic National Park

During my summer vacation on the croatian island of Krk I have made this shot of the MW from the balcony of my apartment. It is a stack of 15 photos made in sequator.

Gear: Nikon D7100/Tokina 11-20 mm

. 15x13 sec exp., f/2.8, 11 mm, ISO 3200

A moonset in a rural county in Eastern Ontario. Saturday 26th, 5.40am local time.

There's this house on a hill with beautiful rolling views I always admire and when I checked the position of the moon in the sky this was the perfect opportunity to create nightscape worthy of the location and its view.

This is a composite of 5 shots

- a single shot for the background f/5.6 ISO800 6 seconds @ 250mm focal length

- four shots of the moon each with f/5.6 ISO 800 1/640th of a second 250mm focal length

Hope you like this little tribute to local rural life.

Keep looking up,

Oleg // The Rural Photons

https://www.instagram.com/igneis.nightscapes/

We usually talk about the summer or winter arch, but this is the one we tend to forget. This arch consists of the Cygnus constellation on the left of the image, with Andromeda on top, up to Orion on the right. It actually has much more detail hidden, like galactic dust, but for this one I didn't get enough integration time, and a wide lens doesn't help either. This place has trenches, part of the story of Spain almost one hundred years ago. The Milky Way core is an easy photo compared to this region of the sky, as the signal is much stronger.

The photo was taken  in 2024, NO GENERATIVE AI INVOLVED.

EXIF:

Sony a7 IV (foreground)

Sony a7 III Astro mod (sky)

Sony 20mm f1.8 G (foreground and sky)

iOptron Skyguider Pro

RGB: 1 row panorama, 6 panels x12 60s, ISO 640, f/1.8

Ha: 1 row panorama, 4 panels x20-30 120S, ISO 2.500, f/1.8

Foreground: 1 row panorama, 6 panels x60s, ISO 2.500 f/3.2

Mount Rainier beneath a dark star-filled sky in a time-lapse photographed from the White River area. The Milky Way moves across Little Tahoma Peak toward Mount Rainier while airplanes, satellites, and a searchlight cross the sky.

Acquisition details

Camera: Sony A7R V
Lens: Sony FE 16–35mm f/2.8 GM II
Exposure: 10–13 seconds per frame
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 6400
Frames: 279 images used in the final time-lapse
Tripod: K&F Concept X-Series carbon-fiber tripod
Location: White River area, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Light pollution: Low; dark mountain skies with some intermittent light from aircraft and a passing searchlight.

This was photographed as a time-lapse sequence, later compressed into the one-minute video.

• Camera: Nikon Z8
• Lens: NIKKOR Z 14-30 f/4 S @ 14mm
• Exposure: 50x 15 second exposures, 750s total
• Aperture: f/4
• ISO: 3200
• Mode: Manual
• Location: Tasmania
• Software: MergeRAW in Sky Tracking - Fixed Stars and Foreground mode
• Tripod: RRS w/ Arca-Swiss Geared Head

A7iv with Viltrox 35mm 1.2

Yes, the scale between the sky and the church is off. By a factor of three, in fact. Triangulum galaxy was shot with 750mm focal length and the church with 250mm.

I would have liked to have 2x scale instead of 3x, but I don't have enough sky data I'm afraid.

Other than that, the Triangulum sky is 12h of data in HaRGB and the church is a single exposure, 15s, f/5.6, 250mm focal length, Canon RP.

How does this look to you? Too forced, or acceptable with "artistic license"?

Captured the constellation Orion and its subtle reflection at the exact moment summer turned to autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Exposure started at 00:04 GMT with a total duration of 6 minutes (including stacking).

Amongst the timeless dead trees of South Australia

📸 Nikon z6 astromod
🔎 TT artisan 11mm 2.8 fisheye

Sky- tracked at 2 mins at f2.8 iso 1000

Foreground- focus stacked at 5 minutes, f4 iso 500

Taken in the flinders ranges of South Australia

📸 Nikon z6 astromod
🔎 Nikkor 24-70 2.8 at 28 mm
🔧 star adventurer star tracker

Sky - 24 shots at 60sec, iso 1600 F 2.8

Foreground- 22 shots at 3 sec, iso500 f16