I will be posting various images of the Milky Way from our vacation in the Yellowstone - Glacier Park area. I haven't done many of these before so it will be a trial and error operation.
Images MW-1 and MW-2 were both 30 second exposures of different parts of the Milky Way. They were collected at our first location, a campground/RV park/cabin spot in Victor Idaho very close to Jackson, Wyoming and the Teton National Park.
I really did not do much processing on this and it came out better than anything I did before with much heavier processing. There is no substitute for dark skies!
MW-1
MW-2
MW-1 and MW-2
Location: Victor, IDDate: 7-21-19
Camera: Canon T3i/600D modified
Lens: Canon EF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Focal Length: 18mm
f/3.5
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro on a Manfrotto Tripod
Filter: none
Autoguiding: none
Exposure: 1 x 30s
ISO: 1600
Processing: Photoshop, Lightroom
The next stop was in Glacier National Park. This provided another opportunity to image the Milky Way. As before, I used the standard Canon 18-55mm lens set at 18mm but also took a total of eleven 30 second exposures and stacked them in DSS. However, the image color was way of whack - I tried playing around with it but just could not get it look as pleasing as the single exposure. Oh Well!
While I was imaging these I was scanning the heart of the galaxy with my 10 x 50 binoculars and was amazed at the clusters and nebulae that we usually just image. As shown on the annotated version, lots of objects are visible in this image. Although the color is not there when looking at them live with the binoculars, they incredibly stunning and glisten in the sea of stars.
MW-3
Date: 7-24-19
Camera: Canon T3i/600D modified
Lens: Canon EF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
f/3.5
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro on a Manfrotto Tripod
Filter: none
Autoguiding: none
Exposure: 1 x 30s
ISO: 1600
Processing: Photoshop, Lightroom
The next stop was in Glacier National Park. This provided another opportunity to image the Milky Way. As before, I used the standard Canon 18-55mm lens set at 18mm but also took a total of eleven 30 second exposures and stacked them in DSS. However, the image color was way of whack - I tried playing around with it but just could not get it look as pleasing as the single exposure. Oh Well!
While I was imaging these I was scanning the heart of the galaxy with my 10 x 50 binoculars and was amazed at the clusters and nebulae that we usually just image. As shown on the annotated version, lots of objects are visible in this image. Although the color is not there when looking at them live with the binoculars, they incredibly stunning and glisten in the sea of stars.
MW-3
MW-4
MW-3 and MW-4
Location: Glacier National Park, MTDate: 7-24-19
Camera: Canon T3i/600D modified
Lens: Canon EF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Focal Length: 18mm
f/3.5
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro on a Manfrotto Tripod
Filter: none
Autoguiding: none
Exposure: 1 x 30s
ISO: 1600
Processing: Photoshop, Lightroom, PixInsight
Yellowstone marked the last stop for imaging, thus these are my last of the Milky Way images for this series. I used two different lenses this time, one being the 18-55mm standard lens and the other being the Opteka 6.5mm Fish Eye. For image MW-5, I stacked six 60 second images taken with the 18mm lens. Image MW-6 was a single 2 minute exposure for the Milky Way combined with a 1 minute exposure for the foreground.
I am OK with the images and the stacking resulted in less noise, however, when I was doing the foreground for all of my images in this series, I should have turned off the tracking.
MW-5
Date: 7-25-19
Camera: Canon T3i/600D modified
Lens: Canon EF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 and Opteka 6.5mm Fisheye
f/3.5
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro on a Manfrotto Tripod
Filter: none
Autoguiding: none
Exposure: 1 x 30s
ISO: 1600
Processing: Photoshop, Lightroom, PixInsight
Yellowstone marked the last stop for imaging, thus these are my last of the Milky Way images for this series. I used two different lenses this time, one being the 18-55mm standard lens and the other being the Opteka 6.5mm Fish Eye. For image MW-5, I stacked six 60 second images taken with the 18mm lens. Image MW-6 was a single 2 minute exposure for the Milky Way combined with a 1 minute exposure for the foreground.
I am OK with the images and the stacking resulted in less noise, however, when I was doing the foreground for all of my images in this series, I should have turned off the tracking.
MW-5
MW-6
MW-5 and MW-6
Location: Glacier National Park, MTDate: 7-25-19
Camera: Canon T3i/600D modified
Lens: Canon EF 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 and Opteka 6.5mm Fisheye
Focal Length: 18mm and 6.5mm
f/3.5 and f/5.6
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro on a Manfrotto Tripod
Filter: none
Autoguiding: none
Exposure: 6 x 60s and 1 x 120s
ISO: 1600
Processing: Photoshop, PixInsight
f/3.5 and f/5.6
Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro on a Manfrotto Tripod
Filter: none
Autoguiding: none
Exposure: 6 x 60s and 1 x 120s
ISO: 1600
Processing: Photoshop, PixInsight
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