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BLINK came to Cincinnati again, only saw a small portion last night but there are 3 more nights. Blink Covington 2019 - 1 by jarredsutherland, on Flickr
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Oct 22, 2019 20:28
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Dec 29, 2019 14:24
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 First time trying the star trail thing, pretty fun! Didn't do anything to this other than stacking it with StarStax. Lots of hot pixels it seems.. Couldn't get to my intended subject (a line of rocks leading out to a small island) because the shoreline was flooded there, so this had to do.
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Dec 31, 2019 01:59
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Torchlight parade last night. I’d like to have gotten the mountain brighter. Is there a way to do that in post (LRCC)? I did 10s f/6.4 ISO400. I assume I should have exposed for the mountain at n seconds (spot meter to avoid the torches impacting metering?) and let the lights take care of themselves? That said, I’m very happy with the result. 
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Jan 1, 2020 23:06
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I'd predict that any shutter length that brings out the mountain would blow out the light trails. You can probably do a lot of shadow recovery in LR, but I think the ideal approach would be take a separate exposure for the mountain and blend it in with photoshop.
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Jan 2, 2020 04:18
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Two long exposure large format film shots, both on Fuji Provia slide film. The first was a 60 second exposure in a backcountry hut by candle light (I should have 'dressed the set' a bit more, it was a bit of a spur of the moment thing). The second was a 4 hour exposure of the outside of another hut we were sleeping in, unfortunately there was patch cloud blowing through and a nearly full moon that night, so the star trails weren't anywhere near as nice as they could have been, still turned out pretty well I think. 
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Feb 9, 2020 08:55
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Feb 15, 2020 14:15
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lockdown nights
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Apr 20, 2020 02:10
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lockdown nights, part 2 Capturing the Lyrids meteor shower on the morning of the 23rd. So much satellite traffic out there  The bright star below the Milky Way is Jupiter, then below that is Saturn. Mars is below Saturn, but can't be seen as it's behind the roof.
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Apr 24, 2020 06:59
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Carina nebula last night
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Apr 27, 2020 01:18
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Starlink satellites were visible over Chicago tonight and everyone on my wife's facebook is slobbering about how cool it was to see. I'm sitting here ranting at her how it's going to permanently gently caress up the night skies and now I feel the need to vent somewhere. gently caress Elon Musk. 
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Apr 27, 2020 03:23
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xzzy posted:gently caress Elon Musk. solidarity
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Apr 27, 2020 05:53
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I think he's obnoxious but I like that he exists because he's driving a lot of innovation and enabling a lot of smart people to explore things that make the world a more interesting place to live.
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Apr 27, 2020 18:00
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He’s not driving innovation he’s stifling it because he’s a capitalist pig. I used to think he was a net good but just a doofus and I was wrong. He’s a loving ghoul.
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Apr 27, 2020 19:03
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Bottom Liner posted:He’s not driving innovation he’s stifling it because he’s a capitalist pig. I used to think he was a net good but just a doofus and I was wrong. He’s a loving ghoul. Sir this is an Arby’s no-contact takeout zone.
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Apr 27, 2020 21:41
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well your curly fries are garbage now what happened
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Apr 27, 2020 21:50
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I just want night skies of actual stars, not elon musk stars!
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Apr 27, 2020 22:02
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Starry skies ruined by an obnoxious billionaire? Nostalgic for the days before orbiting billboards? Get the authentic real deal with luminar ai sky replacement, enter code SA420 for 2% off now!
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Apr 27, 2020 22:31
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xzzy posted:gently caress Elon Musk. Speaking of which..  Thanks Elon!!
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Apr 28, 2020 22:25
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Fools Infinite posted:Starry skies ruined by an obnoxious billionaire? Nostalgic for the days before orbiting billboards? Get the authentic real deal with luminar ai sky replacement, enter code SA420 for 2% off now! Are they actually any more noticeable than the other 2000 or so satellites that are already up there for GPS, telecommunications, military and whatever else?
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Apr 29, 2020 05:23
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Starlink satellites are particularly bad because they're low orbit and numerous. Other satellites are visible just after sunset and just before sunrise, when sunlight reflects off their surfaces and solar panels, but the starlink sattelites can poison the sky for astronomers for hours at a time. And there's only going to be more and more of them.
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Apr 29, 2020 07:54
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Megabound posted:Starlink satellites are particularly bad because they're low orbit and numerous. Other satellites are visible just after sunset and just before sunrise, when sunlight reflects off their surfaces and solar panels, but the starlink sattelites can poison the sky for astronomers for hours at a time. And there's only going to be more and more of them. also musk left those satellites highly reflective as opposed to other satellites that have a non-reflective coating
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Jun 12, 2020 05:32
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I wasn't quite sure which thread to post these in, but this was probably close enough. Last weekend I took some long exposures of fireworks and some of them actually turned out pretty cool! It was my first time using the bulb setting and really my first time doing any night time photography since getting into the hobby a few years ago. Album: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmPadoGA Some highlights:  IMG_4950 by Kevin Strzalka, on Flickr  IMG_4971 by Kevin Strzalka, on Flickr  IMG_4983 by Kevin Strzalka, on Flickr
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Jul 3, 2020 18:29
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Just the one clear evening for Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) in my part of the UK:
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Jul 19, 2020 15:23
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I tried real hard to get a cool shot with a nice foreground, but gently caress me Illinois is devoid of subjects that work well in astrophotography. It doesn't help that the corn is high enough that you can't really see over it anymore, so you need a good subject AND about 8 feet of extra height. I saw a shot someone did with the comet over the city skyline which is the best I've seen of the area but I wasn't willing to go and steal the idea.
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Jul 19, 2020 16:42
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I had several good nights, but I sold my tracking mount a long time ago, and so it was a battle between ISO and star trailing. While I don't think I won that battle, I could have done worse.    
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Jul 19, 2020 18:26
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Cornfields and grain silos.   This one is from the weekend of the 18th. I tried to go back out Friday for another shot, but the comet had gotten too dim to see through the city glow. I think I had a more interesting composition lined up but it was not to be. When it comes back in 6800 years I'll make sure to do it proper.
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Jul 19, 2020 18:53
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 Trees and the tail end of a sunset were what I got Friday night.
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Jul 19, 2020 20:19
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I'm heading up into the mountains backpacking this week and hoping to get anything close to as nice as those shots. My longest lens at this point is a 55 or 56mm on my Fuji. Is that enough lens to get something discernably comet like, or is it going to look like a meteor streak? This all assuming I'm not socked in under cloud cover two nights in a row. I won't be heartbroken if I strike out, I'm really hoping to experiment with Milky Way photography.
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Jul 20, 2020 07:57
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I think at this point you want at least 200mm. It's at 3.5 magnitude now which is about the same brightness as the North Star. So to compensate you gotta go long.
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Jul 20, 2020 13:01
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 20 minute exposure onto some 35mm slide film, bit of a spur of the moment shot so turned out pretty well IMO.
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Jul 22, 2020 10:51
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That's pretty cool. Most short stair trails look like mistakes, but the hazy background and the flare give it some intent. Is that the Milky Way making the pinks? And what made the flair?
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Jul 22, 2020 13:13
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xzzy posted:That's pretty cool. Most short stair trails look like mistakes, but the hazy background and the flare give it some intent. Is that the Milky Way making the pinks? And what made the flair? Yeah it was the milky way giving the general pink glow. Not sure what the really bright trail was (I assume a planet) or why It flared, potentially a small cloud blew over or some smoke from the wood fire of the cabin we were staying in.
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Jul 22, 2020 19:09
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probably saturn, it's pretty bright this month and low in the sky.
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Jul 22, 2020 19:20
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Bottom Liner posted:probably saturn, it's pretty bright this month and low in the sky. It broke my brain real bad until I remembered he's a southern hemisphere poster. So yeah, somewhere in new zealand looking east one could get star trails that arc like that, and Saturn is on that side of the galactic core down thataway.
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Jul 22, 2020 19:43
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Is this the official/unofficial telescope thread? If so, I have an Orion 130ST EQ with their EQ-2 mount: https://www.telescope.com/Orion-SpaceProbe-130ST-Equatorial-Reflector-Telescope/p/9007.uts I just bought a T-mount for it with a Canon EOS ring on it so I can take pictures. I can already tell from watching a million youtube videos on the subject that the next thing I'll want is some sort of motorized mount to follow the stars/planets/moon. I'm not ready to pony up for a go-to mount yet, but there has to be some sort of affordable kit to add clockspring functionality to a regular mount, right? Its very literally just moving a servo motor or a stepper motor at a known speed. Any advice in this area?
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Jul 25, 2020 01:14
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is this the official/unofficial telescope thread? I forgot where the astronomy thread was, ... ... but you can get a non-goto mount with a super nice drive for <$1k in the form of a Losmandy GM8. They are old models, but with very little work (they were designed to be worked on) you can get them to deliver very good tracking, and excellent guiding if you ever go down that path. If you do find the astronomy thread, people who do astrophotography will tell you that the mount is the most critical part of the setup. Whatever your budget, half of it should go towards the mount. Edit: Found it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3155317
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Jul 25, 2020 01:56
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So, took my photo gear up into the hills with me backpacking, and was rewarded by mostly socked in days for the whole trip. However, got a lucky break and had a few hours of clear skies at night. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get foreground shots I was looking for to do a composite, but relatively pleased with my first attempt. Stacked in Sequator after lousy results in Photoshop.
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Jul 25, 2020 23:42
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Got a mavic air 2 and was trying out some long exposure night shots when i heard sirens. i pointed the gimbal down just in time to snap an ambulance heading through its wild how stable the ma2 is that it can take 1 second and longer shots without them turning to a blurry mess 
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