Nature Photography

[mdees88]

I tried my luck this evening. I struggled to find it until well after sunset. It was visible naked eye for a short period of time then it got too low on the horizon. I haven't shot astro in months and I was super rusty setting up the tracking mount and didn't get a very good alignment. Missed focus too on the wide angle shot, lol. I'm going to shoot this pretty much every other day for the rest of the week and try and perfect it. Very cool seeing it though. I'm going to bring some binoculars next time too. I shot 100mm on a FF and that was pretty ideal for a landscape shot with the tail. I'm probably going to do 100-200mm on a crop body on the tracking mount next time for a little tighter shot.



100mm FF

300mm crop body on tracking mount

 

[mdees88]

Here's a few more northern light pics...

I got a shooting star in this one...

This one was near the end of the night whe the lights were starting to weaken. You can see the milky way and the Andromeda galaxy...

 

[fuzzi]

At the beach for a few days. Of course I left my good camera at home

Phone photos:

 

[jnicholes]

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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Great shot, Jared!

 

[BlueO]

Just took this yesterday.

 

[Squawkers]

At the beach for a few days. Of course I left my good camera at home

Phone photos:
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Those are absolutely amazing!! I wanna see what you’d do with your good camera

 

[azurbanclucker]

From my back yard and the green belt behind my house.

Tomorrow I will hunt darker skies.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I went out just now, at 10 pm and the moon is too bright.

 

[mdees88]

I went out just now, at 10 pm and the moon is too bright.

You need to start looking west at 630-45ish (central time). By 715 it should be easily visible. By 8-830 it will be below the horizon (too low to see).