Imaging with the Samyang 135mm f2

[Adreneline]

On 26/08/2024 at 21:41, Adreneline said:

Getting this amount of Ha and OIII has been a real challenge against the elements; more of both is required - lots more - and a sizeable amount of SII

Same with more OIII - lots more - and some SII.

SO much going on - what a great piece of sky to explore with a SY135  

[Adreneline]

On 26/08/2024 at 21:41, Adreneline said:

more of both is required - lots more - and a sizeable amount of SII - hopefully this year.

Low and behold along came a clear night and I was able to get a really good stash of OIII - now in the ratio of S:H:O=1:3:1

You would think that more than doubling the amount of OIII would make more of a difference - subtle at best.

I think my 1600 needs to become a permanent fixture on the Samyang. 

Edited September 5 by Adreneline

[emyliano2000]

I finally used my Samyang 135mm and my modified Canon 6d under dark skies.

At the begining of the month we went on a family holiday to La Palma and even though I didn't have time to use it up on the mountains where there's absolutely no light pollution, I did use it from the garden of the house we stayed at. The sky was pretty good over there too, you could clearly see the Milky-Way with the naked eye.

For the first photo, I went for the center of the galaxy region between the Large and the Small Sagittarius Star Clouds with the Lagoon and Trifid nebulae in the center of the image.

This photo is a stack of 70 x 60sec ISO1600 with the lens wide open at f2.

For the second photo, I wanted to shoot the Cepheus region of the sky because of the large amount of dark nebulae but because I didn't have the counterweights and the bar with me, it was very difficult to rotate the camera in the position that I wanted when I was trying to shoot that particular region. Instead I pointed the camera towards the big W in the sky (I think you know what I'm taking about 😁)

This photo is a stack of 119x120sec ISO1600 with the lens at f2 again.

I added the annotated versions too.

I hope you like them!

Emil