First Light of the 135mm lens with 2 hours of data

[Garyh]

Ah...missed the reprocessed version.....
Much, much better Andrew.
Colors are much better and more fainter dust clouds are now showing from the background.
Excellent..
At home under semi-dark skies @ f/2.8 I can go to around 6min at 400 iso before skyfog starts giving the image that greenish look..
If you stop it down to f/3.2 or slower it might help but I don`t know how dark the skies are your way?
cheers and have fun!
cheers Gary

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by acropolite

Nice Job RB, a very pretty area of the sky. Good to see you managed some time to yourself. You imaged this area before with an 85mm in this thread. I still remember the beautiful colour.

Thanks Phil, yes it's nice to get some time to actually image.
Usually too busy or the weather's not behaving.

Originally Posted by Garyh

Ah...missed the reprocessed version.....
Much, much better Andrew.
Colors are much better and more fainter dust clouds are now showing from the background.
Excellent..
At home under semi-dark skies @ f/2.8 I can go to around 6min at 400 iso before skyfog starts giving the image that greenish look..
If you stop it down to f/3.2 or slower it might help but I don`t know how dark the skies are your way?
cheers and have fun!
cheers Gary

Cheers Gary, it made a huge difference in the end and I'm quite happy with it.

My skies here are deteriorating due to urban/industrial sprawl and I notice a big change within the last few years.
These lenses are super fast and I need to take it all into account when estimating the exposures. As I said it was difficult to process this one.
Learning all the time.

[Tamtarn]

Impressive first light with the 135 Andrew. Lovely composition. Certainly like the reprocessed version.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

Impressive first light with the 135 Andrew. Lovely composition. Certainly like the reprocessed version.

Thanks guys, it's a great patch of sky to image and a fun lens to use with this particular FOV.