jpstanley
Nemesis
On clear summer nights, under a good dark rural sky, I can stare up into this region of space forever. Unlike the Sagittarius region, however, the Cygnus region just defies photography. I have imaged it many times and I'm seldom satisfied with the results.
Taken with my 400D and kit lens at 18mm. Typically I've left the lens wide open at f/3.5 to bring in as much light as possible; this time I stopped down to f/4.5 to try and bring a little better definition to the eleventy billion stars visible in the frame.
Stack of 6 five-minute shots, 18mm, f/4.5, ISO 1600; total 30 minutes exposition time. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed further in Canon DPP.
Nemesis
On clear summer nights, under a good dark rural sky, I can stare up into this region of space forever. Unlike the Sagittarius region, however, the Cygnus region just defies photography. I have imaged it many times and I'm seldom satisfied with the results.
Taken with my 400D and kit lens at 18mm. Typically I've left the lens wide open at f/3.5 to bring in as much light as possible; this time I stopped down to f/4.5 to try and bring a little better definition to the eleventy billion stars visible in the frame.
Stack of 6 five-minute shots, 18mm, f/4.5, ISO 1600; total 30 minutes exposition time. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed further in Canon DPP.