Here are some images from the last 2 or 3 months of my night time expiditions!

Note.... If you look just above the tree line of the star trail image you can see lots of meteorites!

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These are fantastic!

Some of the guys on here use RAWTherapee (it is similar to Adobe's Camera Raw) but you can also get Adobe Lightroom for about £12 a month....

Personally I prefer Lightroom, I use it for all editing unless i am creating composite or astro images,

I also see no need to convert to Tiff, RAW has got it all. If you are wanting to print images, then it is worth saving them as Tiff's.

PS.... If you want some prints, check out DS Colour Labs!

This is a really neat idea with a brilliant outcome!

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Looks more like flower of pot to me

Btw... first two for me!

I have managed to have a few clear nights in the last two weeks.

Pickerings Triangle & Eastern Veil Nebula



M31 Anromeda Galaxy

£55 inc delivery?

Bad luck..... and an unfortunate set of circumstances, but (dont you just hate that word )....

You were on a safari (I am jealous) on rough roads? I go off road a lot with gear that is valuable and I always, and I mean always make sure its secure. That is because of two incidents I had. One errant jolt and it'll be catastrophically expensive... as you unfortunately found out.

Once I put my K20D on a table, with my Sigma 150-500 and monopod on it. A kid ran past, caught the monopod, gear stoofed in to the floor. Camera mount ripped off.... lens fine!!

Incident two exactky the same lens and another K20D over my shoulder..... walking along on some grass, tripped over a bloody rabbit hole!! Down I went, camera mount ripped off again!! Lens... is once again, fine!!!

Moral of my story.... look where I am bloody going and not leave gear in stoooopid places!

Maybe the Sigma is more robust than Pentax??? Apart from a HSM replacement, the lens if still fine to this day!

Just out of interest.... did you not insure your kit?? Both my K20D were replaced by insurance....