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Wednesday 27 January 2016

Stack - short duration

Stacking x21 LF using StarStax gives trails



On the other hand , registering each frames (align ) and stack gives you more stars visible. Compare the single LF versus stacking in DDS and CS2 reveal far more stars 




Tuesday 26 January 2016

ISS on a cloudy morning pass through Orion

ISS making a -3.4 mag pass through the stars in Orion 8:22 pm. The dashes are  result of manual activation of interval shooting in G5X.  
Heavens-above.com plot reproduced below courtesy of HA


Friday 22 January 2016

Conjunctions in the east

Saturn meets Antares.   A satellite left a short streak and bright Venus in lower left corner

Tuesday 19 January 2016

IRIS came to the rescue..

Here are some experimental shots from our Light Polluted Neighbour - G5X
DSS 9 LF and centred on the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri


PNG version of Crux Rising from a nearby field


Scorpion rising from kitchen window...

Now i want to make the star bigger


In IRIS using SBLUR 10 4 ... removed the blue hue in PS and viola Fuji Akira effect


Thursday 14 January 2016

Light Polluted sky and playing with stacking and star trails

   Some wide field stuff in our LP sky.

 Just toying with a 15mm Sigma f2.8 lens... I stood the lens-remote release intervalometer setup  in the middle of a field and arbitrary chose 6 sec ISO 400 with Orion in sight.  



Short duration stacks of  x190 6s ISO400.

Orion's Belt in the middle, inverted 'V' Taurus and the Pleaides nearby. Register and Stacks of a 30 something frames in DDS and PS. The sky is full of stars mag +5.57 easily seen

Wednesday 13 January 2016

Canon G5X and sunrise

Shot from the kitchen window... imaging what it could be like if i WAS at the east facing Reservior...


Just a day after a fiery morning sky.... I return with a tripod for 60D canon and a hand-held shot from the f1.8 G5X...  Guess which camera i shot the most from.


Canon G5X and Sunrise 
Jan 13 2016@Lower Seletar Reservior



I tot i saw a sea-horse here


This mark the bearing for the rising sun later...


Here it comes!
   
This little camera can only pull in x4.2.  Here is a peep of the yellow boxed top sun.


 Framed as a Portrait-look to include  reflections from the water.

Not far away this gentleman(stripped Ts) caught a fish and called out his friend to bring up the fish with a long-handled net.





A view from the 55 floor Ion Sky on construction area.

Short exposure at Garden by the bay for the Orion