p.1 #1 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
I'm finally getting through my plethora of images, and have spent hours with PTgui getting some of the last panos assembled. This image was captured on the night of 7/18/20 and was a challenge on several fronts, as I wanted to try and capture the sheer immensity of NEOWISE's tail with some perspective, in this case, the ubiquitous Milky Way (which was 180° in the wrong direction!).
20-image pano using the 5Ds and Tamron 35/1.4; the foreground layer is comprised of 3 focus stacks, both foreground and sky are daylight WB. Location is Gunnison National Forest near Crested Butte at 10,843' MSL, looking down upon Slate River Road, Paradise Divide on right horizon. Resulting image is 602MP, and can be printed quite large (cough!). Data took 45 minutes to capture, 5.5 hours to process. Seems crazy, I know, but it's one of the ways I've adapted to the 5Ds' high ISO noise characteristics (COUGH!!!)....
If you're interested, you can find more details here, including an annotated 'guide' image showing pertinent locations and features of the night sky shown in the image.
Cheers!
-Jeff
Comet NEOWISE sets as Milky Way rises over Crested Butte, CO
Crop of comet and tails, lights from dispersed campers on Paradise Divide
p.1 #8 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
Beautiful and done on a 5ds too!
Just ordered one that got lost in shipping. Either gonna reorder the same or a 5dsr.
Great work and well worth the efforts
p.1 #9 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
JohnMagee wrote:
Beautiful and done on a 5ds too!
Just ordered one that got lost in shipping. Either gonna reorder the same or a 5dsr.
Great work and well worth the efforts
Bummer! Grey market units are cheap as dirt right now (less than $1100); thought about buying one and having it astro-modified immediately since it would obviate the warranty that didn't much exist anyway. Not sure I'd pay much more for the "r", but if it were within $100 I might.
p.1 #10 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
Jeff wrote:
Bummer! Grey market units are cheap as dirt right now (less than $1100); thought about buying one and having it astro-modified immediately since it would obviate the warranty that didn't much exist anyway. Not sure I'd pay much more for the "r", but if it were within $100 I might.
Actually it’s about $325 more! That’s why I didn’t get the 5dsr the 1st time. Up to $200 I probably would have. They are both great each with their own strengths. Look forward to checking out your link on these shots!
p.1 #13 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
JohnMagee wrote:
Actually it’s about $325 more! That’s why I didn’t get the 5dsr the 1st time. Up to $200 I probably would have. They are both great each with their own strengths. Look forward to checking out your link on these shots!
Wow, no thanks. Most people would not be likely to notice a functional difference in the images between the two. I'd put the $300 toward a lens...
p.1 #14 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
Jeff wrote:
Wow, no thanks. Most people would not be likely to notice a functional difference in the images between the two. I'd put the $300 toward a lens...
I’ll probably end up getting another 5ds especially since I just bought a 16-35 f4 L and an 85 F-1.4 IS L. Have you shot any with a 5dsr and if so was it hard to tell the difference of sharpness in the files?
p.1 #15 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
Great work!
I can spot Antares and Rho Opiucchi complex even on the small version and how high it is in the sky and it makes me angry. Everybody else can get a nice photo of that but me... I tried capturing it for a proper astrophoto on a go to mount, but is raises low in our location and towards considerable light pollution. I will have to get a filter that will at least partially supress the city lights for the next season.
p.1 #18 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
Milan Hutera wrote:
Great work!
I can spot Antares and Rho Opiucchi complex even on the small version and how high it is in the sky and it makes me angry. Everybody else can get a nice photo of that but me... I tried capturing it for a proper astrophoto on a go to mount, but is raises low in our location and towards considerable light pollution. I will have to get a filter that will at least partially supress the city lights for the next season.
Thanks Milan! Sorry for your being latitude-challenged, Rho Ophiuchi is my favorite part of the galaxy to sit and ponder. Although I don't own a tracker I always marvel at the tracked images of this region of the sky (especially fond of Roger Clark's interpretation). I typically use the visibility of the dust lanes streaming toward the Pipe Nebula to roughly gage how clear the sky is on any given night, both while shooting and when post-processing.
p.1 #19 · Milky Way and Comet NEOWISE, from Crested Butte, CO (this one was a s-t-r-e-t-c-h...)
JohnMagee wrote:
I’ll probably end up getting another 5ds especially since I just bought a 16-35 f4 L and an 85 F-1.4 IS L. Have you shot any with a 5dsr and if so was it hard to tell the difference of sharpness in the files?
I have not, but I initially agonized over the decision to default to a 5Ds due to the 'r' version's widespread lack of availability (I needed it quickly for a large client project). So many things can get in the way of eeking out that last 10% of performance that the 'r' potentially provides, I personally think it gets overthunk a lot of the time (but I may be rationalizing, lol).
EF16-35/4L is a great, [I]great[/I] daytime lens; it has stood the test of time, and it's my default for architectural/interior work and daytime landscapes with filters (small, light, little distortion, sharp!). Pining for an 85/1.4 that is usable at 1.8 at night, probably my next purchase (though its use will inevitably confound my 5-year old 5k iMac computer's increasing inability to deal with these pano files... starting to wonder how it would like a baseball bat through the screen).
