Testing our skies

Ye have some nice clear skies there lads.

Hi Frank......

In my case it was a bit of good old "photoshop magic" to get rid of the Light Pollution......otherwise the image would have been washed out.

The "homemade" lens hoods helped a bit with dew and in blocking some of the peripheral light sources nearby....

This is a quick unaligned stitch job from last night:my weekend project

Super Mosaic there Kieran....... looking forward to seeing the finished product!!!!

What Lens and camera combination were you using?

The more or less finished result. Three software programs used for this: Astroart for mosaic, then Photoshop, Pixinsight for light pollution colour removal followed by more Photoshop. Lost some of the colour in the process but still very pleased with this one. Even M31 is visible. I also had an image with the double cluster and northeastern horizon but the mosaic got too freaky when I tried to get it in.

Kieran,

Great result! Do you get those images from home or do you have to travel far. My problem here is LP. I would have to travel maybe 20/30 miles when I want to observe, and I would only get away with that a couple of nights a week.