Milky Way though 85mm lens

[Adox]

I am sharing one photo of the stunning sky of Ayers Rock.

Camera: Modified Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 at f/4
Exposures: 16 x 60s
Sky Quality Meter: 21.5 magnitudes per square arcsecond

[Ryderscope]

That's looking good Adriano. The modified camera is picking up the Ha well and I'd say you've nailed the exposure time at 60s. Top spot for imaging as well. Thanks for sharing.
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[BeanerSA]

Nice! Do you have a link to a higher res shot?

[RickS]

Very nice, Adriano. I'd like to see a higher res version too.

[strongmanmike]

Yeah nice :thumbsup: but yes, a bigger version would be great to view. From what I can see perhaps you have used some shadow highlights filtering or similar?..this can flatten the image a bit too much by over reducing the bright areas.

Mike

[Adox]

Thank you, yes I used the light and shadow filter to highlight the dark nebulae, that area of the Milky Way is too bright!

Here the link for the high resolution image: http://www.astrobin.com/218739/

[strongmanmike]

Fair enough, still looks good :thumbsup:



Much better!...great shot Adriano (that is my brothers name too) :thumbsup:

Mike

[rogerg]

Nice image :thumbsup:

Is it a 100% crop of the original?

Your choice of F/4 - is there distortions on the Zeiss at faster apertures that needs to be controlled?

[Adox]

The image is cropped, the original file is 5448x3636.

The Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 is a great lens but it working better at f/4. It works fine at f/2.8 but considering the sensitivity of 3200ISO, I can double the exposure that was just 60 seconds.

This lens is very old (it is made in west Germany so it is at least 26 years old) but I think that the new Zeiss lens share the same optical configuration and design of the lens of the XX century.

[rogerg]

Great, thanks, very interesting :thumbsup: