Auckland has suffered *a lot* of rain and cloudy weather this summer and *finally* we had a great clear night with (almost) no moon to take a DSO object, and I hadn’t imaged Orion in about 2 years. So I was itching to go.
This was taken about 50km/36 Miles north of the Auckland (Bortle 4.1) on Saturday 21 February
I used
Lens: Sigma 150-600mm lens f7.1 (@600mm)
Camera: Sony A7IV
Mount: CEM 26
72, 3 minute photos at 4000ISO
Overall it was wonderful. I typically don’t use a standard zoom camera lens for DSO but I wanted more zoom than my RedCat51 and I was able to crop out most of the aberrations from the corners.
I used DeepSky Stacker, photoshops, and Lightroom.
I feel that despite almost a year not taking a DSO, this has by far been the best image I’ve taken yet in my 6 years of Astrophotography.
I may try using SIRIL on this to learn how to use the software better though it has never worked for me. (User issue I think)
by wanderlustcub