Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

I'm trying a bit of serious macro photography - of planets and stars instead of spiders and their behavior. I'm shooting at ISO 3200, f/1.8, 28mm Nikon Lens, D610 full frame DSLR for intervals of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 seconds.

Here I think is the Milky Way - with Cygnus near the center. I learned something about vision - that I sort of knew but had not internalized. My camera accumulates light whereas my eye does not. So I can see Cygnus readily with my eyes and a 1 sec exposure. For longer exposure, new stars appear and begin to obscure the clean structure of Cygnus. I need to figure out how to recognize constellation landmarks.

This is another region

And another region

And another region

and another region

and yet another region

C. Frank Starmer

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