Tamron 50-400mm lens, f/4.5-6.3. Below was at 50mm. So far, shooting at 400mm is providing too much wobly in the stars. More testing needed. The red dots are a plane passing overhead.
It was painful to get to this point, because I had left the camera on Auto Focus mode. Of course it couldn’t focus looking at a dark sky, so the shutter wouldn’t release.
I finally figured it out and changed to Manual Focus, and low and behold, all systems are go.
Longer shutter time than 10 seconds creates star trails, or a smearing of the points of light. Trying to keep the ISO as low as possible to minimize noise.
I could turn the ISO down even more, and inscrease the exposure time to 15 seconds. It will be something I need to experiment with to get more of these details worked out.
I changed the identifier to “SON” for Sony, and added my domain name to identify my work.
Next, I need to shoot in RAW and develop these in Lightroom so I can pull out more detail from the night sky. It’s an ongoing, never ending learning experience for me, because…
“I’m not a smart man.” But I know what love is.