Live view zoomed in, aim it at a bright star planet etc. Sometimes I'll use a green laser and focus on the dot in the distance
On July 16, 2018 10:18:37 AM PDT, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: >How do you focus? I tried some astro whilst in New Zealand and my >eyes could not get a good focus and the live view was pretty much >useless. > >-R > > >On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Some attempts at astro landscapes. >> >> I don't quite have it wired yet, but I'm learning things to try for >next >> time. These were done with the rokinon 24/1.4 from the town of Mount >Shasta. >> A couple of these might print up well. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157697414506681 >> >> 24mm isn't wide enough to get the full arc of the Milkyway, even >positioned >> vertically. >> >> These were done with the DFA 15-30 using astrotracer from outside of >Weed, >> just off of I-5. I was hoping the smoke from the fires would be >beneficial >> for foreground effects, it may have caused more problems, possibly >even the >> rainbow effect, I'm not sure. >> >> This set doesn't show the ones I tried with the 24/1.4 or the non >> astrotracer with the 15-30. I don't think I really got any keepers >out of >> this set, but I learned a bit. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157698646538354 >> >> I should go back at about a half moon so that I can get shots both >with no >> moonlight and also with Shasta lit after the moon rises. >> I need to do more overlap on the frames, particularly with the 15-30 >> The astrotracer really helps with the sky, and with the dark >foreground >> doesn't make a lot of difference there. >> I should definitely bracket the photos. >> I wish there were stacking software that could separate the sky from >the >> foreground and stack them each appropriately. Also software that >could >> stitch an astrotracer sky with a non astrotracer foreground, while >stacking >> them for HDR and panorama. >> I also wish the software would use the gps, accelerometer and compass >data >> to make the stitching go faster. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and >> follow the directions. > > > >-- >-- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding >it still. Dorothea Lange > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
