By Peter Lowenstein | 2026-11-10
Constellation Lyra within the heart of a capital
On 11/08/2026 08:46 pm by Güray Hatipoğlu | Website | Esat Hal, Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey
While previously I thought any cool space-night sky photos could only be taken with heavy and expensive equipment and under Bortle 3-4 skies, this was totally wrong. It was possible to gradually learn astrophotography in capital, within a busy life, without anything other than a phone. Then, the moment I obtained a relatively old DLSR camera, I was able to test what I know and began getting pretty images, in which, Constellation Lyra was among the best of them.
Canon EOS 1100D with Canon f/1.8 50 mm lens
RAW format (.CR2 files) capture of 50 frames with 1 second exposure and 3200 ISO
Only Siril software was used for the post-processing.
-Loading images and converting them to a sequence with debayer option checked.
-Co-registering the frames with Global Star Alignment (deep-sky) with 2-pass option.
-Stacking them with Winsorized sigma-clipping (3-standard deviation) and additive with scaling normalization.
-Removing green noise.
-Radial basis function-based dithered background extraction and subtraction.
-Histogram stretching (auto).