As usual my sense of timing seems to be impeccable, I decided experiment with image stacking for deep space imagery when the monsoons are about to start. Ever since I made the decision, it's either been raining or completely overcast. I even had some difficulty in trying to do solar photography. Luck turned my side when I went on a trip to one of the national parks in SL, Wilpattu. The bungalow we stayed in was right in the middle of the jungle with absolutely no light pollution. My brother was the first to spot that the Milky Way was clearly visible overhead. He was trying to experiment with a set of long exposure shots while I was trying to get a series of comparatively shorter exposure shots for stacking. Milky Way across Cygnus (20 frames of 10sec exposure) The image above (Milky Way across Cygnus) was stacked on Deep Sky Stacker using 20 images each with 10sec exposure. The stacking was done with 10 dark frames and 10 bias. The image below captures Milky Way across Sco...
An amateur's attempts at astrophotography.