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Well, was goofing around last night and wandered out with my new lens and the sky was clear. Well, as clear as it can get this close to Austin. I had a tripod downstairs so I grabbed it and did just a few shots. This one was just 1 second. At 200mm that is enough for the stars to just show some movement, but at f2.8 was open enough to capture the gas clouds of M42, the Orion Nebula. What I need to do is some shorter shutter speeds and stack them. Actually I need to use the 150-500mm lens, but it is f6.3 at 500mm so more shots at even shorter shutter speeds and stacked.
This is a crop to show the middle half of the image. I'm putting it up just to show how easy it is to get some really cool images at night. 1 sec, f2.8, ISO 1600. I shot both jpeg and RAW, but this is from the jped (auto uploads to the web and I was at work so I processed what I had. Used Lightroom on the web)
This is a crop to show the middle half of the image. I'm putting it up just to show how easy it is to get some really cool images at night. 1 sec, f2.8, ISO 1600. I shot both jpeg and RAW, but this is from the jped (auto uploads to the web and I was at work so I processed what I had. Used Lightroom on the web)
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