Cygnus Region on a 50mm lens

[melsky]

Second shot from Tuesday night, a closer view of The North American Nebula and Sadr Region.

22 frames of 120 seconds @ 1600 iso on the Canon 600D with a 50mm Olympus Zuiko lens @ F2.8

Worth looking at the full size file, these old Zuiko lenses are great for astrophotography.

Mel

Full size file (5140 x 3426 pixels) All sizes | NGC 7000 - Sadr Region - Cygnus | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[Moonshane]

truly stunning image. awesome.

[russ]

as Shane says, truly stunning image...great job!

[Steve 1962]

That's a magnificent image - brilliant!

[Pete Presland]

very nice lovely colors

[Merlin66]

Some of those ol' photographic lenses are under appreciated.

I use my ol' Zuiko lenses for spectroscopy and they perform very well.

Your image shows their potential. Well done!

[Psychobilly]

Very Nice

The Zuiko's were well respected in their day and being designed for 35mm (full frame) they tend to work really well on the smaller APS-C sized fitted to some DSLR's...

I have a couple of Super Takuma's and Fujinon primes which I really should give an outing...

[Nightfly]

Very nice work. Good glass those Zuiko lenses.

[antimorris]

Just fantastic! Makes me want to look into one of those lenses!

[darkside]

very nice image good colours as well

[AndyUK]

Absolutely superb...! I'd like to try one of these over the summer, but I can never pin the focus down well enough - Can I ask what aids (if any) you used to focus this, and also if you used any LP filter (or was this taken from one of those rare fairly dark sites?!)

[Merlin66]

I think it was a dark sky site.

BTW the std camera filters on these lenses are 49mm thread.

You can get a 48-49 stepper filter ring and use 2" astro filters (LPR etc)

[melsky]

Hi Andy

I focused using the live view on the Canon 600D and was using a CLS clip filter to reduce light pollution, it was shot at the same location as the 24mm image, the Rollright stones north of Chipping Norton during a CNAAG members observng session.

Mel

[AndyUK]

Cheers Mel - I also have a LP clip filter, but, for some reason, find it really tricky focusing with liveview off the back of the camera. I can get away with using my Equinox 80 B mask on my 180mm lens, but anything with less FL and I flounder - I did try making a Y mask, but the spars obviously weren't thin enough. I'm thinking APT might be able to help though...

[todd8137]

great work i tried last night but the old moon ruined that, did 35x 45 secs and lpf filter no joy all came out wrong , this pics makes me morethan ever to get this right

[Aris Panagiotopoulos]

Such a Great Image you've got there.

Fantastic!