Shorncliffe Pier sunrise

Headed out pre-dawn again with Andrew this morning to shoot sunrise. This time at Shorncliffe Pier. Unfortunately we didn't get the pretty pink fluffy clouds we were after. Still, it's a great location. Here's the pick of my bunch.

Fingal Head sunrise

Went down to Fingal to capture Comet Lovejoy, but the clouds had another idea. So we stayed for sunrise. Well worth it. I did have a minor disagreement with a wave over my location - ie my camera and I got drenched. Thought I'd cleaned the lens in the dark, but there was some flare in this image from some droplets that I didn't get. Did my best at processing it out. If you look closely, there's a bonus ghostly fisherman somewhere in there. :)

Christmas lights

This is a house around the corner from Kristy's parents' place. Regularly wins the local best lights competitions. All of the lights are synchronised to a soundtrack, changing colour and turning on and off to the music, and are absolutely spectacular.

Hayden had an absolute ball, dancing away to the music and watching the lights. Hilarious. He loves his music and dancing, and the crowd was smiling watching him squeal with delight and jigging away.

F-wow-ah

Hayden at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens.

PixInsight: master calibration files workflow

After doing a lot of reading and trying to understand the best settings and workflow for creating master calibration files for astro image processing in PixInsight, I thought I'd post these screenshots of the settings here, more for my poor memory than anything else.

There is plenty of good theory and background information in the Image Integration documentation and also the Master Calibration Frames: Acquisition and Processing tutorial.

I can flyyyyyyyyy!

Took the camera to the park yesterday for a change. Been a while and wanted to capture some of Hayden's shenanigans.

Cause and effect: