Thank you to everyone who submitted photos last week! This week's theme is "The Night Sky." I'm looking forward to seeing your astrophotography work!
This was by far the most exciting thing that happend in the night sky at my house: Northern Lights in the South! Say what? Pretty strong showing with both greens and reds showing over the moon illuminating though huge oak trees.
I thought it was pretty neat...
@bhoward A circular fisheye; with a 180+ deg field of view. This was the Meike 3.5mm f/2.8, an all-manual lens for MFT cameras. I haven't mastered the use of the thing yet (I suspect there were better exposure parameters and post-processing moves than what I used for this photo), but I liked the full sky view for that crazy aurora display we had in May. I was also amused that the Big Dipper was nearly centered in the view.
Well, don't have any astro photos, but since the theme is night sky, I can put some moon experiments (Jason recently talked about Adapting Lenses for Fun)
gx85 + canon ef 200 2.8
gx85 + nikon 500mm f/4 P
gx85 + sigma 100-400 + TC 1.4
Another aurora - even in northern Minnesota one doesn't usually see an aurora display looking to the SW. Panasonic DC-G95, Laowa 10mm, f/2, 4 sec, ISO 1600. Massaged a bit with RawTherapee. 4 seconds is just barely long enough to get a decent exposure at this ISO, but short enough to capture some of the texture and curtaining.
Taking this photo of Neowise in 2020 was a big challenge. In my home town the comet was only visible after sunset in the west. An when I had time to try to get a photo of this comet, it was already near the end of the period of the visibility. I went up to a hill but light polution of the area was really strong. I had to search with my binoculars more than one hour to even detect Neowise. So not the greatest shot but I was happy to have at least a photo of Neowise, which was not visible here by eyes only.
Canon EOS 7D mark II, 135 mm, f/2.5, 4 sec, ISO 3200
This photo was not intended to be an astrophotography shot. During my stay in Karpathos/Greece in the last two weeks I took this photo mainly because of the rocks against the blue evening sky. During development of the photo I detected, that the starrs have been already visible in the night sky due to the long exposure of 30 sec.
Canon EOS 7D mark II, 24 mm, f/4, 30 sec, ISO 100
One of the first days in May this year. I used the late after-work hours (around 3 AM) to make this dreamy composition. The day before I hadn't enough luck, but this time it worked pretty well. Just few days later the, rapseed field was harvested. I used Sequator to stack the images und processed the rest in Lightroom.
The light in the background comes from a village nearby and the moon, that appeard some minutes later behind the field. For the foreground lightning I've used my smartphone display for a few seconds.
Nikon D7200, 11mm, f/4, 15x15 sec., ISO 2500
