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Moon/Scorpius/Cygnus

(Topic created: 08-04-2022 10:28 PM)
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Who_Me
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Scorpius before edits


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Scorpius after edits


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Cygnus with crude delineation to assist with the preceeding image. Brightest star to the left of the head is Vega.

A little bit of a challenge tonight as for some reason it took a little longer than normal to get into focus, Aperture for the moon Shor kept sliding and bouncing off the "best shot" circle. But did what I could. 

Before and after editing of Scorpius overlooking my house. Shot in nightmode with some edits in both the native gallery and Adobe Lightroom. Cygnus just shot in nightmode with a minor tweak to sharpness in the native photo editor. Got a copy with a crude markoff for Cygnus as it may be hard to delineate, but once you see it, you can sorta picture a swan/goose figure. I use Stellarium to help guide me to the constellations. 

In the same image with Cygnus you can see a polygonal shape to the upper left-- that's the head of Draco, a very large constellation thst resembles a dragon. And over to the lower right of Cygnus, there is a smaller polygonal cluster-- that is Delphinus.
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Teknician
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Did you do this on our S22? That is beautiful..
Who_Me
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I sure did. Some heavier editing on scorpius wirh Adobe light room. And just some minor tweaks in the native photo editor on the others.