Astrophotography with XF 70-300mm and Sigma 15mm f/1.4
As the night photography season is getting really late over here in Finland, I headed out yesterday to try out my new XF 70-300mm lens on my X-T30II. I'm only learning how to take astrophotography images and these are my first attempts with a proper lens. But as the moon is almost in full brightness and the sky is getting too bright on these latitudes it's pretty hard to get proper images. But still, it has been wonderful experience. Yesterday I spent couple hours in the middle of the night, completely alone by the lake and listening to owls, storks and other birds as spring is coming. Enjoying myself for sure.
I took total of 600 shots with one second exposure of the andromeda (you can Andromeda in my wide angle shot over the lake, in the bottom left). Also took 50 of dark frames, bias frames and flat frames for calibration that I used with Andromeda and Pleiades shots. Then I took 250 shots of the Pleiades star cluster and finally the moon as a single exposure and twenty 15 second shots of the wide angle view over lake with the Sigma 15mm. Andromeda, pleiades and the wide angle landscapes I stacked in Sequator and edited in Lightroom & Photoshop.
(The last image of my equipment is taken with my Nikon Zf.)
