A Million Suns New Lens

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A Million Suns New Lens

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Although not strictly Solar thought this may interest some. These shots are with a Sigma 105mm f1.4 lens at 1.4 ISO6400 on a Canon 1DXMKII camera with in camera noise reduction on . I wish I got Aurora"s
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:lol: and we wish we had a view of the Milky way like you, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence :lol:
Fabulous Milky Way, there is hardly any dark space! unbelievable :bow

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An amazing sky. Excellent new toy, Derek.

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Wow


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Everyone I forgot to mention this was a 6s exposure.


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That's a great piece of glass Derek, and the results are fantastic. 6s, wow!


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Awesome shot for 6 sec Derek!!! The lens looks to have huge potential astro imaging.

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