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!
@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