Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Cygnus Wide Field (50mm Lens Test, 1hr.), Mark Germani
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Cygnus Wide Field (50mm Lens Test, 1hr.)

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Cygnus Wide Field (50mm Lens Test, 1hr.), Mark Germani
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Cygnus Wide Field (50mm Lens Test, 1hr.)

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With my Zenithstar 61 in the shop to deal with a tilt issue, I figured I'd test my little Canon Nifty-Fifty lens to see how well it handled astrophotography. This is just one hour of 25s exposures, unguided, and the lens had been stopped down to f/4 which I forgot to change (probably could have gone a bit wider) but I was quite happy with the result for such a short integration time. Clearly worth trying again but with more integration time! I also bought a converter so I can screw my 2" filters in front of the lens, so that will be another experiment for a future date.

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