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Capturing the Great Celestial River(CGCR)🇨🇦🇺🇦
@hioctane321.bsky.social
SCORM expert, e-learning developer

Full spectrum astrophotography, Food, Travel.

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As a follow up to the unprocessed mono image of M13 here is the processed version.
I used Affinity photo 2 to process the rgb and remove the vertical banding.
June 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A full spectrum composite at two different shutter speeds of the strawberry moon June 11 2025. The haze from the wild fires out west is showing. I'm not good at composites but I can't learn unless I try right?
June 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a semi unprocessed stacked shot of the Hercules cluster. I just adjusted the levels and removed some of the gradient from the moon.
240 x 45sec
Full spectrum
300mm in 90% full moon

My sensor seems to be creating more and more vertical banding.
June 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
2x zoom in of Andromeda on a pixel 7. Applied a preset style which actually enhanced the glow of a ferry terminal located about 400 meters beyond the trees. Thought it was a neat effect.
March 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I forgot I took this shot of the Great Celestial River while setting up for a timelapse.
March 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Where I live we have to wait long periods of time for clear skies, so last year everytime we expected Aurora's we always had clouds. I got fed up and just snapped this with my pixel camera. Later that night it cleared but it turns out my full spectrum camera doesn't work well on Aurora's.
February 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I didn't expect to capture the extra two satellite galaxies in the upper left.
February 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Since then I have been shooting with 80mm only and randomly photographing sections of the sky, sometimes having success while others failed. Andromeda is a fail, but I did find more than expected. I have many more but I'm still playing with processing techniques.
February 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I then ordered a tracker from Ondrag star tracker and several weeks (after assembly) I went to a bottle 1 zone to photograph the Milky Way again. Unfortunately the wind was blowing all night so the photo was a bit blurry. It is an h-alpha stack using @siril.org and some pixel math. 75x60sec
February 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Then after a long cloudy winter I ventured outside the day after the solar eclipse and tried capturing 12p/ pons brook. First with the 300mm which I later threw in the garage. Then with a 28mm. All without a tracker. Composite astrophotos are hard work, respect to you guys. I love the h-alpha result
January 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I then tried capturing Jupiter with an old 300mm lens and couldn't get it focused (so I thought) but turns out my lens was rubbish and suffered from coma.
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Once I got my modified camera I set out to photograph something I always wanted to try. The Orion nebula. I did this without a tracker. I did manage to capture it, but being my 1st deep space object, I still had a lot to learn. It's rubbish but it was a milestone.
January 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
That same night I also shot this with the same pixel camera but put it on a tripod. That settled it. In the next couple of months I started reading up on astrophotography and decided to purchase an astro modification for my old canonT3
January 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So I think it's about time I start posting. My profile image is the first ever starry sky photo I ever took. I had no idea how much detail I could get from our night sky with just a pixel camera, but I could see a couple of clusters and the rosey tint of the Milky Way. It was enough to want more.
January 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM