My astrophotography 2022

CCD vs Film? Lots of time vs no patience? Alright, this is your place to discuss all the astrophotography what's and what's not. You can discuss about techniques, accessories, cameras, whatever....just make sure you also post some nice photos here too!
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leslie128 wrote: Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:36 pm
Where you usually go for astrophotography in Singapore?
Well, pretty much every dark and open-view accessible locations on the island . Upper Seletar, Kranji, Changi coast, .... If low energy I just choose to shoot from my HDB corridor or garden in Punggol.
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Something not to miss: the super close conjunction of Jovian system and Neptune.

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M4-Antares region in black and white.

It was actually meant for a color image of this fascinating field. But after receiving 9 subframes L, I noticed the diffraction spikes are so prominent thanks to the dazzling major stars in and out of the view. Hope I could give it another try but using my own refractor at a dark sky location soon.

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Anyway, the imaging performance is quite impressive.
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Planets lined up.

Two exposures blended -- one in focus and the other slight out of.

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2022-Apr-17

Planets lined up with me.

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Redo the planets alignment photo, using 3 sub-explosures for the sky and 1 for the foreground.

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2022-4-22 Impromptu drive to Desaru coast

11PM in (JB), 4AM out (Sg). A crazy night. Never been there before, but the first sight was surreal. Bortle 4 night skies!

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It was probably not ideal weather (passing clouds never end), but what a trip!
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hhzhang wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:10 am 2022-4-22 Impromptu drive to Desaru coast

11PM in (JB), 4AM out (Sg). A crazy night. Never been there before, but the first sight was surreal. Bortle 4 night skies!

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It was probably not ideal weather (passing clouds never end), but what a trip!
Great! You really went 1 night trip to Desaru.
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2022-Apr-25 Kept tracking the planets-moon co-motion in the morning sky.

I missed last morning's moon-planets alignment -- I was not sure if the so bright moon would make the images of the many-magnitudes-dimmer planets any impressive.
This morning the moon had moved to the side of Saturn. But still way too bright.

I would probably skip tomorrow morning's alignment again. But hope for clear skies in the subsequent mornings -- there will be great visuals of the much thinner crescent moon vs the planets.

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2022-Apr-28 Cresent moon and planets alignment. Hope they are worth the insect bites.

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