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Starry, starry, night - with Bode's Galaxy in sight!
Starry, starry, night - with Bode's Galaxy in sight!
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Challenge: 30 Seconds Or More VI (Standard Editing)
Collection: 2024
Camera: Sony Alpha a7 II
Lens: Laowa 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO
Date: Apr 8, 2024
Aperture: F4
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 30s
Date Uploaded: Apr 8, 2024

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I haven't used, or attempted, any night sky photography since Covid. Dusted off the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer, and tried to remember how to use it. :-) Not quite sure I'm 100% up to speed on it again. May have to figure it out this summer.

Anyway. I mounted the Sony A7II to this with a Pentax 85/1.9 (m42) at first, but was getting some serious chroma on the brighter stars. Since I had the Sony 7RIII and 24/1.4 mounted on a regular tripod already, I went back in the house and grabbed a 100/2.8 macro lens to experiment with. Crisp images. Not as bright, but it worked. Randomly lined up some areas of the sky to see what I might get. ... and here's my fav of the bunch. Just a star field mostly, with a glimpse of (M81) Bode's Galaxy (placed on the lower-right ROT point).

Exactly a 30 second exposure. :-)

From facts.net ...
"Bode's Galaxy (M81) is a stunning spiral galaxy with billions of stars, including massive blue stars. It's 12 million light-years away and has a supermassive black hole at its core."

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04/18/2024 09:14:52 AM
My favorite in this challenge.
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