Yesterday in the early evening in Dorum-Neufeld at the lighthouse Obereversand. I have not seen so many photographers there yet. Normally I am more or less alone on the road. After the disappointing sunset, there will probably be fewer again soon…
Cuxhaven Duhnen
Virgo Cluster
In the night of April 16-17, I set up my iOptron mount in the nearby coastal heaths to photograph the Virgo galaxy cluster. However, 45 minutes of exposure time is not nearly enough to get enough detail. I took the picture with the Fuji GFX and the Mamiya 150mm f/4. Recording data. An astrometry […]
Stonechat
Today it was almost windless at the Grodener Wettern. Accordingly, there was also more activity there.
Grodener Wettern
This morning drove again to the place named Baumrönne in Cuxhaven to hopefully photograph the reed buntings. It was quite windy, so that not too much was going on. With a few situations I had then but luck.
Reed buntings and a pheasant
Yesterday morning a few reed buntings were cavorting at the tree canopy. Also from yesterday are the pictures of the pheasant and the gray heron at Pastor-Draegert Weg. A rough wire mesh fence was in the way of the pheasant, but this is only a small area in the plumage where the contrasts are a […]
Rosette nebula
Second attempt to photograph the Rosette nebula. Last Tuesday I tried it with the Fuji X-T3 and the Tamron 70-200f/2.8. By presetting it to 70mm at the beginning, it was a little easier to find the object. However, the image quality of the 70-200 is rather to get used to due to heavy coma. Nevertheless, […]
Cuxhaven Döse
Full moon
Yesterday, in the early evening, I photographed the full moon once again. Again with the Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF, but this time additionally with the Nikon 1.4 teleconverter, so effectively 700mm plus 1.5 crop factor of the Fuji X-T3. Above the result from 500 images. Of the 500 images, 100 had > 90% quality for […]
Starlings
Approximately 10000 starlings are currently seen on the Cappel-Neufeld compensation areas and the adjacent dike. From the observation tower a few avocets could also be observed and a meadow pipit was quite busy supporting the breeding.