I was inspired by JJJ (Jeanette) who used to do a lot of fantastic widefields at the time. I had an old Pentax lens and shot very dark fields even tracked at 15min exposures for a while not understanding that the lens I was using had a camera controlled aperture so the iris was almost closed when the lens was separated from the DSLR. Bit of plastic shim to keep it open eventually sorted that out.
Marc: You have always been very busy and some great M'Ways.
JJJ was always a great inspiration, busy doing other things now I suppose.
Mirko: Wow! Never seen it done that way before.
Turning it into a rectangle might be tricky.
Have heard the term 'nifty fifty'. It was a Canon 50D so you may well be right.
I gave it away to a church so they could do the 'remote sermon' thing via skype or similar (during covid).
CHarles: Trees are good. They connect us to the ground.
Next idea for us is doing a collage with the MWay as the backdrop.
Hey all,
Long time since i've posted but got inspired by the Milky Way images.
A selection of mine over the years so details are available but a bit of searching required!!
I was all set up to do some Milky Way images last night. Its been a few years so I was pretty excited.
I set my alarm for 4am so that the core was well into the sky and guess what???? Cloudy!!!
Anyway here's a few oldies
Thanks Peter,
I use a good old trusty 450D (modded) as well, for all my astro. I've now got a Samyang 14 mm lens to try out.
Tonight might be better maybe
Cheers
Andy
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One for a little while back
Actually took a lot of images to do this. This is a vertical panorama, 5 positions from ground to sky. Super wide 14mm lens on full frame Sony A7 camera. Each position had long exposures for ground followed by 5 stacked shots for stars. Then each position was merged to one final pano.
Actually took a lot of images to do this. This is a vertical panorama, 5 positions from ground to sky. Super wide 14mm lens on full frame Sony A7 camera. Each position had long exposures for ground followed by 5 stacked shots for stars. Then each position was merged to one final pano.
Now that is an extraordinary result Murray.
Sort of image that would inspire others to give it a go.
Actually took a lot of images to do this. This is a vertical panorama, 5 positions from ground to sky. Super wide 14mm lens on full frame Sony A7 camera. Each position had long exposures for ground followed by 5 stacked shots for stars. Then each position was merged to one final pano.