February Sky

[brenski]

new magazine subscriber and new to this forum. I've been taking some night-sky images over the last year or so...Neowise followed by the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction. While awaiting arrival of my new Samyang 135mm F/2.0 lens, I setup my canon 200D with my Samyang 85mm F/1.4.

resulting image is stacked 15x 4sec exposures, iso 1600 and aperture F/1.4.

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[Trev B]

Can't see it!

[brenski]

it's definitely showing here

[Farider]

Sorry, not showing for me either

Ian

[Colin W]

I can not see the photo

[BobSapey]

That looks good and it's nice to see the labels. I'm a bit surprise that the belt is brighter than Betelgeuse, I've found the opposite. Does it vary?

[Farider]

I can see the pics now. Looks very impressive, were the colours of the stars enhanced or is that how they came out? Never tried this as I don’t have the gear and its too bright in a town anyway. Assume you had to use an equatorial mount? Like the labels! Quite essential.

Ian

[brenski]

I've used the Astroflat filter - it removes a lot of background noise - gives you a darker sky - which enhances the stars.
some stars will gain more colour the closer they are to the horizon - i think this is an atmospheric thing?

higher in the sky, the more pin sharp and clear they'll appear