Saturday night was an astrophotography night. I am not an astrophotographer myself, but this was a good opportunity to test my relatively new Olympus 12-40 f/2.8 lens. One of my friends, however, is passionate about astrophotography and has all kinds of cool gadgets: a telescope with a tracking mount, a full-frame DSLR with a huge 300mm lens, 2 laptops that run the software, and a big number of cables. We almost filled the entire trunk of the car with his equipment and headed off to a village up in the mountains.
There, away from the city lights and in the company of thousands of chirping crickets, I realized that the lens is not the best performer for such type of photography. I didn't capture any constellations but instead took a few cool pictures of the telescope.
Setting up the telescope took us a good 1 hour
Red light is easier on the eyes
You can see the camera and its lens mounted on the top of the telescope
I hope that you enjoyed the photos, and thank you for stopping by!
Dan