A little more than two years ago I had already photographed the Pinwheel galaxy. Last night I photographed it again with the Nikkor 300mm f/4 PF and the Fuji X-T3 on the iOptron mount. Again, the positioning was not easy and finally the galaxy itself landed in the lower right quarter of the sensor. This needs more practice…
M101 – Pinwheel Galaxy
Besides, 300mm on a crop camera is quite short.
The recording data and astrometry evaluation.
Yesterday the weather was finally good enough for us to drive the 300km to East Westphalia to photograph two Gehry architectures. First stop was in Bad Oeynhausen at the Forum Energie Innovation. Then we went to the MARTa Herford… … and back to Bad Oeynhausen once again.
A picture from today in the early afternoon. A panorama of 7 individual images with the Fuji GFX and the Zeiss Biometar 80mm on the Hartblei adapter. After cropping, this resulted in an image with 35158×5868 pixels.
It was actually supposed to be the Komet 12P/Pons-Brooks. But the clouds put a spanner in the works. The sky over Neuwerk, on the other hand, was largely clear.
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