jerryy

@jerryy, does this mean you want some more or you've had enough of these ? 😀 

ehm, before you can answer that...

Big Bear, Big Dipper...
Every now and then one of the images I post will have an asterism, which is just a pattern in the stars that is interesting to see, but the stars have no relation to each other unlike stars in constellations. There is a famous one where both happen at the same time, the stars are in an asterism and in a constellation...

This is a screen capture from Stellarium, with annotated star names added on top. All of the stars are part of constellation Ursa Major. The blue-ish colored lines and the white-ish colored lines connect the main constellation stars, the white-ish colored lines alone form asterisms. The orange-ish colored labels are for the stars in the two asterisms.

This is the equivalent of an 80 seconds exposure.
As a side note: Alcor and Mizar are a famous double star pair, very easy to see visually or with binoculars or telescopes.
http://stellarium.org/
https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/ursa-major-constellation/
https://www.space.com/ursa-major-constellation-great-bear
 

"Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly” * 
Back on page one of this thread, there is a post showing a quick exposure isolating IC 405, The Flaming Star Nebula. That section of the sky has so many things to see it is almost a tourist-oriented nature-viewing area.

Some of the highlights include tadpoles, starfish, spiders, flies, pinwheels and more.

This is the equivalent of just about 56 minutes of exposure.
* The Spider And The Fly by Mary Botham Howitt
Messier Object M36 (The Pinwheel Cluster): https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-36-pinwheel-cluster/
Messier Object M38 (The Starfish Cluster): https://www.go-astronomy.com/messier.php?Messier=M38
IC 417 (The Spider Nebula): https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/spider-nebula/
NGC 1931 (The Fly Nebula): https://waid-observatory.com/ic417-2020-01-19-HOO.html
IC 410 (The Tadpoles Nebula): https://skyandtelescope.org/online-gallery/ic410-the-tadpoles-nebula-a-star-nursery/
And, of course, IC 405 (The Flaming Star Nebula): https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ic405-flaming-star-nebula-object
Will the spider once again coax the fly into its parlour? Will the fly escape the machinations? Their exchange is in the sky for us to ponder...
 

XH2 with XF 33 wr

I just wanted to say hi to everyone. I am a former Canon user, but have sold off all of my Canon gear and starting over again with Fuji.
I used to shoot weddings and such back in film days, happily switched to DSLR later on. 
Since I am on a fixed income, I have to be much more selective when buying gear, so I spend my time shopping used gear.
I have an X-H1 that I am using with some adapted vintage lenses and a TTartisans 27mm.
I am interested in street photography, outdoor/ landscape and especially astrophotography.
 

Hi
I have tried to make Northern lights photos the first time in my life. I used 2000 ASA, f2.8 and 2 seconds. The aurora borealis was moving around quite fast and with more than 2 seconds the pictures came out like fuzzy mush. To find infinity on the fully manual Laowa lens has to be done in advance, I marked it on the body of the lens.
What do you think about the result?
Kind regards, Hannes

I am going to stick with guessing it is a hardware issue, those chips can have many (+) and (-) traces going into them so that the cells are supplied with juice all at once rather than one at a time. A cold solder joint can cause one set of cells to not be refreshed properly while the others are just fine. But, this will take some diagnostic efforts to trace.  a software issue on the other hand would show up in more than one camera body.
I do hope you are able to get this resolved.

I didn't introduce myself on my first post .. I do it now .. happy to be here ..
I own a X-70, bought new many years ago.
Ciao! ☺️

sort of astro.........screwing around with my new 8mm, the stars are starting to trail, thought the tree was cool at night

Orion has plenty of interesting parts to see; nebulas, bright glowing stars and whatnot. Orion is not the only neat thing in that part of the sky, the Rosette Nebula is close by and it is certainly neat to see. But there is also a Cone, a Christmas tree and a little variable thing as well.


This is the equivalent of 112 minutes and lots of change worth of exposure.
NGC 2261, Hubble’s Variable Nebula is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, who also has the big space telescope named after him:
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/35/904-Image.html
The Cone Nebula, NGC 2264, is actually much larger than the part seen above, the part in the images is what gives it its name:
https://www.constellation-guide.com/cone-nebula/
NASA had some fun with the Christmas Tree Cluster (The batch of stars in the “lower” part of the Cone Nebula), they rotated the image upside down — or right side up if you view it in the land down under — x-ray colored the nebula green and animated the Cluster’s stars. They have a player on their page:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/telescopes-illuminate-christmas-tree-cluster/

Busy as a bee… Not far from Castor and Pollux in Gemini, actually just in the next constellation over to the “left” in Cancer, is Messier Object M44, The Beehive Cluster:


M44 is fairly easy to find visually or when using binoculars or small telescopes. This is the equivalent of 58 minutes of exposure.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night-sky/hubble-messier-catalog/messier-44/
https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-44
https://www.constellation-guide.com/praesepe-m44-the-beehive-cluster/
 
 

Thanks! A lot to consider.
I appreciate all of your information!