#Star Photography

[rabbitinthemeadow]

And to every word left unsaid // Part 3

September 9th, 2022

[neil-gaiman]

First of all, thank you for being you and for making good art. I am a huge fan.

I loved the recent photos of the stars you shared on your page! Was that what you were able to see with the naked eye as well? Were the photos taken in a spot with very little light pollution to get that level of clarity, or did the camera enhance the stars?

It's more than the naked eye could see. But there's no light pollution where I am right now, so you can walk outside and look up at the milky way.

What I see is this:

What the camera sees in a four minute exposure is this:

Tonight it was cloudy, and I thought there wouldn't be much chance of getting anything, and I was surprised when I discovered that the clouds were moving enough that the camera, taking a 4 minute long exposure, was able to find the stars. Here's a tiny film of a few seconds of what the camera saw...

[theofficialastronomy101]

Some of my favourite star clusters!

[odiggity]

Half the Park is After Dark

Black Rock Canyon Campground - Joshua Tree National Park, CA

[princessijessi]

Ocean of Stars.

[kumsal-thingss]

Çünkü her ne olursa olsun, hayat bir şekilde, bir yerlerde devam ediyor; sen kayıp, o ayıp etmiş olsa da...

[filtrospazio]

Aurora Borealis - Alghero

11 Maggio 2024 (Sardegna, Italia)

[rhiannatruex]

hauntress

[i-need-a-place-to-be]

✨ Turn up your phone brightness and see the stars ✨

Sleep, it will be better in the morning

[rabbitinthemeadow]

And to every word left unsaid // Part 1

September 9th, 2022

[neil-gaiman]

Good evening! As a night photography nerd I’m loving those shots with the Pixel 6, but I’m wondering about the foreground lighting - is that ambient light, or is it on purpose with a flashlight or similar? It’s really impressive that it doesn’t wash out everything else in the shot.

The foreground light is the phone taking a tiny amount of light -- basically what's coming from the house windows, or even the starlight itself -- and using that as a light source, in the same way it uses stars as a light source.

Here's what happened when I tripped an automatic light outside for a few moments while I was shooting...

and this is what it looked like when the lights were off...

[theofficialastronomy101]

The recent northern lights show was a result of some serious magnetic activity on the Sun. This brings us in for a look at the explosive solar disc and prominences using the Lunt 40mm hydrogen-alpha solar scope!

[oatcakespodofficial]

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Here are some downtown full moon pics from this past Saturday.

[wildernesswanderess]

I’ll never get tired of staring at the stars ✨

[kumsal-thingss]

Ben kendi gökyüzüne kendi yıldızını asanlardanım...

[astrantiia]

for the last 2 days, from morning to evening, we had seminars on astrophotography and last night we went to the roof of the planetarium to take photos

now I need to process and edit the photos and write a text about how I took them and what interesting space objects can be seen there. and it just so happened that I had already done something similar in the summer for Ursa Major and at the seminar I also photographed it, so we can say that part of the work has already been done

I’m very tired (and I feel a little sick), but I realized that I like astrophotography, I’m interested in it, I want to do it and try to experiment with it somehow