Sam - Groth Galleries - Astrophotography

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I almost didn't shoot this photo!?

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Have you seen my astro planning app? More info: https://t.co/D23bwehuLh

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Smoke from the Utah and Nevada fires blew in this evening making for some interesting unfiltered shots of the sun. You can see several sun spots clearly and several others faintly if you zoom in!

#sun #wildfire

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Only a couple days! A few spots left: https://t.co/7vIL6kdNTd

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Just released a video covering my editing process:
https://t.co/XsK2G8bgI2

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Recently gave this presentation to the local astronomy club. You can capture the Milky Way with your cellphone!
https://t.co/0EvfyIQ00Q

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Here's a presentation that I gave to the Black Canyon Astronomy Club highlighting a little about myself and some images from my remote telescope.

https://t.co/f9T3q0p7Av

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New podcast with AstroVagabond! https://t.co/EQCe7mutUT

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Watch here: https://t.co/iUGJH3U5Yj

This image is from the 2022 total lunar eclipse.

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Great Sand Dunes!! One of the coolest national parks. What's your favorite national park?

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Full milky way processing tutorial with raw data available!!
https://t.co/M1YHRDTbkU

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New off-roading video from last summer!!!
https://t.co/xJ6HUYzzTm

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I was testing out a new astro vlog setup in this video so I captured from my backyard where the skies were not nearly as dark as I would like, but I still managed to capture the Pleiades, Orion, and probably most prominently Jupiter in the final photo at the end of the video!

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Watch me capture the night sky:
https://t.co/YaBSKsEYja

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For the second photo, I waited for a slight calm and captured a single 30 second exposure.

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Which do you like better?

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It was very windy while I was capturing these photos so to ensure that there was no motion in the flowers, I captured a very short exposure (1/250) for the foreground with a bright flashlight.

The sky + background horizon was captured in a 30 second exposure.

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Astro apps to help you succeed:
https://t.co/hZNW4AmuOo

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Released a video with some of my deep sky photos mostly from @starfront_obs

Watch it here:
https://t.co/rnoLHNSnW1

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Equipment
Camera: Astro-modified Sony A7R4
Lens: Sony 24mm

The sky (~24x):
ISO: 1600
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 60 seconds

The foreground (2x):
ISO: 3200
Aperture: f/1.4
Exposure: 15 seconds

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The Toadstool Hoodoo!

I had the opportunity to visit this unique formation last September during an astrophotography conference.

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I was able to create this foreground by masking out the headlamp light between 2 separate images out of a sequence of 10 images which all contained some part of the image blown out.

The sky is tracked and stacked.