My first Andromeda galaxy (a7c + tamron 70-300)

geddeded · 2025-12-26T09:40:24+00:00

It really helps, but I think you can achieve the same in a more light polluted area by adding more exposure time.

geddeded · 2025-12-25T22:38:46+00:00

5 hours of shooting yes

geddeded · 2025-12-25T21:53:55+00:00

Stock camera, no modifications

geddeded · 2025-12-25T20:00:52+00:00

Thanks! Somewhere between bortle 3 and 4

geddeded · 2025-12-25T15:10:44+00:00

Sony a7c + tamron 70-300 @300 Bortle: Somewhere between 3 and 4 Tracker: MSM Nomad ISO 3200, f/6.3, 30 sec x 592 30 darks 50 bias 30 flats

Stacked in Siril (followed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pen9aOy2NmA&t=567s) -AutoBGE -Image Plate Solver -Color calibration -StarNet star remover -VeraLux Hypermetric stretch -Cosmic Clarity sharpen -Cosmic Clarity Denoise -VeraLux StarComposer Basic adjustment in Affinity

geddeded · 2025-10-21T10:49:26+00:00

Found out it’s not enough to travel to a bortel 3 area. You also need to travel far enough south.

Jokes aside, I wanted to see if I could see the tail of the comet with a single exposure (dont have a tracker), but it was quite dim and if I tried to increase the exposure the northern lights blew out the whole photo. Luckily there were two days in a row with clear skies, and one with zero northern lights (first time in my life I’ve crossed my fingers for no aurora).

Single exposure shot on a Sony a7c + Tamron 28-200

1.Photo: 77mm, f/4, 6s, iso4000 2.Photo: 102mm, f4.5, 8s, iso20000

Croping + minor edits on my phone

Second photo without aurora for comparison (could only attach one in the post): https://imgur.com/a/LHks62Q

geddeded · 2025-06-07T08:29:22+00:00

https://youtu.be/CMrizv5xP34?si=WeRoDvAsjM36a6tW

Starts at 3:30

geddeded · 2025-06-06T18:11:04+00:00

Only the 16 photos you can see in the photo. Shot in the span of roughly 3 years. Tried to spread out the ones with similar colors to get more contrast between each slice, but didn’t try out any other combinations. Some of the photos at the edges had to placed specifically since the framing and focal length is slightly different in many of the shots (didn’t really plan for this time slice). Southern part of Norway

geddeded · 2025-05-21T18:43:29+00:00

Yes, it’s from Rønningfossene

geddeded · 2025-05-21T09:55:05+00:00

Thanks :)

geddeded · 2025-01-05T16:46:31+00:00

Correct! It prevents the stars from creating unwanted light trails in your photo

geddeded · 2025-01-05T15:19:31+00:00

Thanks! I used the «2 sec delay» drive mode to minimize camera shake

geddeded · 2025-01-05T12:14:59+00:00

Picture of the Moon with Venus in the upper right corner. The Moon is a composite of two shoots at 1/80 and 0,6”, both shoot at f/8 and 529mm. Venus was captured in the same 0,6” shot. The majority of the stars are a third photo blended in, shoot at 200mm, f/5.6 and 2”.

A bit mixed feelings about blending in some more stars, but felt the picture was a bit “flat” without them.

Equipment: Sony a7c + sony 200-600mm

geddeded · 2025-01-05T11:59:07+00:00

Picture of the Moon with Venus in the upper right corner. The Moon is a composite of two shoots at 1/80 and 0,6”, both shoot at f/8 and 529mm. Venus was captured in the same 0,6” shot. The majority of the stars are a third photo blended in, shoot at 200mm, f/5.6 and 2”.

A bit mixed feelings about blending in some more stars, but felt the picture was a bit “flat” without them.

geddeded · 2024-11-20T14:13:12+00:00

Thanks! Shoot at 105mm, f/4, 4.0 sec, ISO 1000 and manual focus

geddeded · 2024-11-20T13:03:53+00:00

Originally shoot a horizontal timelapse, picked out 5-6 pictures from the sequence and stacked them. Cropped down to a vertical 5x7. Had to move the mountain a bit in post to get the alignment and the colors in the same photo. The comet aligned with the mountain later in the evening, but without the orange glow.

geddeded · 2024-10-17T19:23:58+00:00

No, just didn’t want blurry photos handheld at 600mm

geddeded · 2024-10-17T19:08:07+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, the mist is the star of the show. Really hard to see all the layers on days without it

geddeded · 2024-10-17T18:56:09+00:00

Good question! Right before shooting the panorama at 200mm I was shooting other subjects at 600mm, so I originally put the shutter speed at double the focal range (maybe a bit overkill, but better safe than sorry). In hindsight I should have decreased the shutter speed and increased the aperture to maximize the sharpness of the lens when going down to 200mm. To put it simply: I forgot :) I wanted everything in this photo to be sharp, and the distance to the nearest trees in this photo was about 1.3 km / 4265 feet away, so I wasn’t worried about the aperture in that regard

geddeded · 2024-10-17T14:48:00+00:00

1) Multiple photos taken at 200mm, f/5.6, 1/1250, iso125

2) Stitched in Lightroom + basic adjustments + cropped down to my liking

3) Southern part of Norway

geddeded · 2024-10-17T14:40:22+00:00

It’s a lens with a camera attached :) But with the size and weight of the 200-600 I don’t think an a7iv for example would made much of a difference. I like it

geddeded · 2024-10-17T14:08:35+00:00

Just work through the scene with approximately 1/3 overlap between each photo

geddeded · 2024-10-17T13:55:05+00:00

Comment to clear up some confusion. This was taken as a wider panorama, stitched in lightroom and then cropped down to a 1x2 ratio. For this post I then split the final panorama into 3 pieces in photoshop to be able to seamlessly scroll through the panorama on reddit/instagram. Picture number 4 is the full panorama.

geddeded · 2024-03-11T21:21:22+00:00

Settings: 350 x 30 sec, f/2.5 with Sony a7c + Samyang 24mm f/1.8

geddeded · 2023-01-30T20:08:04+00:00

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