Month: September 2022

Sky Trippin’

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Searching for Andromeda
Finding Cassiopeia
Tripped over Jupiter
Looking for Saturn

These first renderings are so amateurish and yet so satisfyingly fun.
What a ride this is becoming.

Spent some time processing the Andromeda Galaxy. It took some searching, but I found it after multiple tries.

Andromeda

While searching for Jupiter I found Saturn! Very tiny. Barely 40 pixels wide on the originals!

Saturn

Jupiter was a horrible mess to process…too much atmospheric interference. These are all good lessons for future imaging. Looks like there are a couple of rogue pixels in there still. And the moons are a little hot as well.

Cover photo is of the Cassiopeia constellation…though I’m not sure it really looks like that!
Here are the separated channels it took to get to the final output:

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Our little world
Hanging by a thread
If you look up
You see the spin

I’ve been exploring the sky. Finding the north star (Polaris) was my latest goal.
It’s set directly above earth’s northern axis so there is little movement. Every thing else appears to spin around it, though it is earth’s rotation that causes this. The cover photo and video below is the resulting image after stacking several hours of photographs.

On another note, the heat wave here in Cali will be abating and making way for some rain. Rain?
High winds are expected as well (80mph gusts) so it’s batten down the hatches here.
With the clouds here, I will not be able to make any full moon work.
This one is from last light.

Hello moon!
Photos that make up a star trails photograph