Scintillating Sirius

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celeron787
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Scintillating Sirius

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A fun little project that was on my to-do list.
Extremely easy to do, simply center the star and set it out of focus. A 30sec video should provide more than enough frames to put into a nice collage.

The star Sirius can be seen shifting through every color of the rainbow. That effect is due to atmospheric turbulence that bends starlight slightly and makes stars look like they’re twinkling. These air fluctuations bend different colors of light by different amounts, giving Sirius its multi-hued appearance.

Sony A6400
William Optics RedCat 51 Petzval APO
Tripod

Singapore, Bortle 8
ISO6400
100 frames from 1:00min video

PIPP - Cropped and centered
Photoshop - Collage, Saturation and Curves

ImageScintillating Sirius by Yun Chong Lim, on Flickr
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Interesting project! :)
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Re: Scintillating Sirius

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Airconvent wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:52 pm Interesting project! :)
LookingForScope wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:03 am wow that looks cool!!!
Thanks! It's extremely easy to do, try it out!
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