This is the last one I'm posting from the night sky photo shoot a few evenings ago. For this one, I took three images vertically to create a pano. I rotated them 90 degrees so that LR would know how to stitch them together, and then once it did its magic, I rotated it back and cropped it into a standard vertical size. I learned this from @jokota (thank you!) and it works fairly well if the tripod is steady. It gives me more height with less distortion than my widest angle lens.
Beautiful work you have done here. I haven’t done a stitched pano in a long time ( getting so lazy) but it does produce a fabulous image when done right.
@shepherdmanswife According to Wylie @pusspup you don't even have to do the rotation part. I didn't know that -- or they've improved it since the last time I tried to do so!
Instant fav of course! I brought your suggestions to my friend in Cape Cod this past weekend. He was very grateful for the tips. I didn't get any shots through the telescope- my cameras don't have the proper attachments, but it was absolutely amazing to see Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and a couple different nebuli (is that a word?) through the "big fellow". He has not had much luck with fellow astronomers giving him the info he's looking for. I told him to stop asking astronomers and to find some amateur photographers like many of us here on 365- they are more than happy to share info and learn from each other. Hopefully what I gave him was a good start. Thanks again!
Which program do you use to stick the 3 photos together?
Did you use a star tracker?