I waited months for it to ship and arrive, all the while reading up on flats, darks, bias, dark flats and all the other hoo-hahs associated with astroimaging. Then it finally arrived in the dead of summer, when it’s ostensibly too warm for DSLR astrophotos (thermal noise and all that). Then when it cooled off it was either cloudy and / or Noah-scale dewey. And my camera isn’t weather-sealed at all.
And now I’ve forgotten half of what I ‘learned’ while awaiting the device’s arrival.
The nature of astroimaging (at least this type of DSLR / mirrorless OSC imaging) is you take your shots, stack, process, etc., see your mistakes, try to figure out what caused them, rinse and repeat. Ad infinitum. Well, I’m waaaaayyy too light-polluted to do any shooting at home so that means a round trip drive and hours of sitting around in the dark while subs fire off, just to find out fourteen things went wrong.
Now that I’m retired, hope to put mine to use. No good excuses, got a lot of dark sky in Colorado. The state park we rent cabins at is a bit too close to the glow of the Front Range, but there’s a Denver Water campground at Antero Reservoir, further west…
These remind me of the big ice storm in 2013 that knocked out power for a large part of Eastern North America. We stayed warm by Macgyvering a generator to our furnace…but I used up a lot of time and gas driving around to find a working gas station to get more gas for the generator!
Hung on the trees? It wasn’t until I was processing this one that I noticed how the mist-laden web appears to “hang” on the background trees. This is a fairly severe crop of a larger shot.
A few days ago on my way to work, I photographed the beautiful morning out the window of the train. A quick edit on the phone to make it B&W because the train window made the colors look strange…
From time to time it happens to me to be away from a computer and to just wi-fi some jpeg from my Sony a7 to my phone and quick edit in snapseed a shot to share on the spot …
But even with a good amount of fiddling I guet a quick satisfaction but never quite close to what the edit look like in DT (that’s kind of reassuring … jpg on a phone VS raw on a proper computer with good software …)
So I mentioned Snapseed but what app did you use on this one ?
Is there even a good open-source image editor on Android ?
PS : Very nice shot and edit ! Really gives me motivation to try B&W !
A fairly effective way to escape the tyranny of your cell phone is to “accidentally” leave it at home when you go… Of course that’s guaranteed to be the time your car engine will spontaneously ignite and blast off into orbit for no good reason. Your choice.
How many places are there in the US where you have no phone coverage?
There’s loads here, once you’re away from the population centers and major highways, but they’re slowly shrinking.
(that’s kind of reassuring … jpg on a phone VS raw on a proper computer with good software …)