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Astrophotography
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A community for sharing your astrophotos and discussing all things astrophotography.
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Real astrophotography images only. There are other communities for AI-generated artwork.
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This was my first real crack at astrophotography (captured last August). Taken with my Nikon D7100, 50mm f/1.8 reduced to f/2.8, untracked on an Amazon basics tripod (I’ve gotten a nicer tripod since then and am in the process of making a barn door tracker).
339 lights at 5" (28’ total exposure) @ ISO 2500, 50 darks, 50 bias, 50 flats.
Stacked in DSS, Post-Processed in GIMP (I’m still trying to figure this out). I’ve started using Siril primarily since taking this.
I’ve learned much more about post-processing since I took this last year and should probably reprocess this. I found out after taking this that I have a little mold in this lens ( hence the smudged corner) and have gotten a few new ones since, but all in I’m pretty happy with this for my first time.
