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Night Sky Images - 04/11/2021
Gear:
- Canon EOS 200D
- Tokina AT-X Pro SD 11-16mm f/2.8 (IF) DX
- Tripod
- Star Adventurer 2i tracking mount (with shutter release cable)
Weather:
- Light cloud (~10%)
Location:
- Garden
Software
- Rawtherapee - RAW file importing, optical correction & image processing
- ASTAP - Image stacking / general astrophotography toolset
- GIMP - RAW/TIF to JPEG, cropping
Images
Not a great image - You can just about make out Deneb (Cygnus) descending below the tree line here. Quite a noisy image - not the best, though looking very closely you can barely make out the tiny form of the Andromeda galaxy at the upper left corner.
Looking east, with Capella (Auriga constellation), Mirfak (Persus) and the Pleaides cluster visible in the centre of the image.
Conclusion
Reducing ISO to 800 and increasing exposure didn't work too well; also the sky wasn't as clear as I thought, with the main tree-line sequence particularly plagued by thin cloud. Next time I'll increase the ISO back up again and reduce the exposures back to 60-120 seconds, with more exposures if possible.