Sony a7iii with 200-600 lens. 60 x 1 minute exposures.

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    1 year ago

    Wow. And this is just with the telephoto lens? That’s incredible! Did you have it on a motorized mount?

    • BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Yes, I had dabbled a bit with astro photography with wide angle lenses and thought the zoom might be too heavy for the mount. Used a Sky Adventurer 2 tracker and had to use an additional weight to balance the lens.

      Really happy with the way it turned out.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Woah! I wasn’t expecting much when I loaded the image … but this is awesome! Though, Andromeda is surprisingly big in the sky right … like bigger than the moon??

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      1 year ago

      Thank you. I think it’s small in the sky and quite difficult to see. I used a star finder app on the phone; starting at 200mm until I found it then zoomed in and took some test shots at 600mm until it was in the frame. It’s still kind of a fuzzy blur in the frame. Then set it to take the images and it’s only once you stack the images and then stretch that the details really come out. It’s really great fun from start to finish. (My first edits were dreadful; learnt a lot through a discord forum on how to do the processing)