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I only recently discovered that I could get OK MW shots from my back yard. Another thing I discovered is that you need to be VERY, VERY careful with focus during astro photography. I have a good focus process, but I guess I got lazy and my 5 x 2 pano with each shot stacked 15 times (that's 150 shots if you're counting) were all out of focus, so I spent almost an hour freezing my butt off (it was 33 degF) for no result. While I was sitting on some bricks in my backyard cursing myself for wasting the best part of an hour, and still freezing, I had the major AHA moment. I think it was my frozen butt that realized it first, but it took a while to get to my frozen brain. The bricks I was sitting on were actually a gas fire pit - AHA warmth, and a composition idea.
So, this image is a 2 pane vertical pano, stacked, blend. The sky was 15 images @ 13sec, F2.8, 28mm, ISO 4000 stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker. The foreground was a single image, and the lower frame of the vertical pano, @ 2 secs, F2.8, 28mm, ISO 200.
They were blended in PS. The blend point is along the tree line.
P.S. Now that I see it uploaded, I think I overdid the processing a little - I'll know better next time!
So, this image is a 2 pane vertical pano, stacked, blend. The sky was 15 images @ 13sec, F2.8, 28mm, ISO 4000 stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker. The foreground was a single image, and the lower frame of the vertical pano, @ 2 secs, F2.8, 28mm, ISO 200.
They were blended in PS. The blend point is along the tree line.
P.S. Now that I see it uploaded, I think I overdid the processing a little - I'll know better next time!
