Westwood Driveway Observatory
Practicing the Dark Art of Astrophotography
The night of May 17-18, 2018 was exceptionally clear with little moonlight, being close to the new moon. Normally, the telescope would come out to play. That just wasn't going to happen since I had work the next morning.
Read MoreI think I photographed more airplanes than meteors last weekend. I was using my f2.0 16mm Rokinon lens on a Nikon D5300 for this shoot. A Hoya Red Intensifier filter was used to cut the local light pollution.
I had the ISO at 3200, which I think was way too high for these 25 second time exposures. I had to give these images a good bit of Lightroom love. On my next shoot, I'll try test shots at ISO 1600 and 800 when I set up.
The Rokinon 16mm is proving to be a solid, wide-angle astrophotography lens.