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Since 2014 I am a happy user of an OLYMPUS OMD E-M1 camera. Recently I started to apply it to astro- photography. See below selected results of my new hobby.




Star trails above K2 (8611 m) and Broad Peak (8051 m) in Karakoram, Pakistan, 13 Aug 2022
Lens: M.ZUIKO 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 1000, 12 mm,  f/2.8, 
  Live Composite, base exposure 25 s, total  about 40 min.
See all photos from this trip here (in Polish)





Zodiacal Light, Wólka Prusinowska, Poland, 9 Oct 2021, 2 h before sunrise
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 2500, 7 mm,  f/2.8, 30 s



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Pleiades (M45), Wólka Prusinowska, Poland, 8 Oct 2021
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 3200, 150 mm,  f/2.8, 90 s, stack of 20 images




Lagoon Nebula (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20), Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 21 Aug 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 3200, 150 mm,  f/2.8, 90 s, stack of 20 images





  Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 13 Aug 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO+teleconv.x1.4;  Setting: ISO 200, 210 mm,  f/5.6, 1/50 s





  Comet NEOWISE, Malinówka Wielka, Poland, 18 Jul 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 500, 90 mm,  f/2.8, 40 s, stack of 21 images






Noctilucent clouds (NLC) over Łaśmiady Lake (53.9º N), Poland, 18 Jul 2020. The Sun is 12º below horizon. Comet NEOWISE is seen on the right frame
Left: ISO 320, 40 mm, f/2.8, 4 s; Right: ISO 400, 18 mm, f/2.8, 5 s



  Moonrise over Łaśmiady Lake, Poland, 18 Jul 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO; Setting: ISO 400, 125 mm,  f/4.0, 1s




  Rise of Venus and the Moon over Łaśmiady Lake, Poland, 18 Jul 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 12-40 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 400, 40 mm,  f/4.0, 3.2 s




  Star trails (including the comet) over Łaśmiady Lake, Poland, 17 Jul 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 500, 8 mm,  f/2.8
 
Composition of 380 frames of 20 s, total about 2 h 




  Comet NEOWISE above Łaśmiady Lake, Poland, 17 Jul 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 12-40 mm PRO;  Setting: ISO 500, 35 mm,  f/2.8, 20 s






Noctilucent clouds (NLC) over Park Szymańskiego (52.2º N), Warszawa, Poland, 5 Jul 2020, the Sun is 10º below horizon
ISO 640, 20 mm, f/4.0, 1.6 s



A cavalcade of Starlink satellites with Venus setting down, Park Szymańskiego, Warszawa, Poland, 22 Apr 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 1600, 7 mm,  f/2.8, 1 s, timelapse from 220 frames with 1 s break




  A few Starlink satelites and one airplane, Park Szymańskiego, Warszawa, Poland, 21 Apr 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 1600, 7 mm,  f/2.8,
 
Live Composite, base exposure 4 s, total about 25 min 







Comet C/2019/Y4 in Ursa Major, Czarnia, Poland, 24 Mar 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 2000, 150 mm,  f/2.8, 90 s
  stack of 16 images 

Magnified part of the image on the left





Bode's Galaxy M81 with M82 (right) and NGC 3077 (upper left), Czarnia, Poland, 24 Mar 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 3200, 150 mm,  f/2.8, 90 s, stack of 28 images 




Second approach to Orion Nebula, M42, Czarnia, Poland, 24 Mar 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO + teleconv.x1.4;  Setting: ISO 1000, 210 mm,  f/4.5, 120 s, stack of 13 images 




Star trails, view towards Venus setting down, Czarnia, Poland, 24 Mar 2020
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 2000, 14 mm,  f/2.8, 150 x 20 s, stacked using StarStaX





Moon and Jupiter with its 4 moons, Polana Obidza Poland, 10 Aug 2019
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO+teleconv.x1.4;  Setting: ISO 200, 210 mm,  f/5.6, 0.5 s




Test of the MC-14 teleconverter, Park Szymańskiego, Warszawa, 16 Feb 2019
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO+teleconv.x1.4;  Setting: ISO 200, 210 mm,  f/10, 1/500 s 




Orion Nebula, M42, Nowy Zyzdrój, Poland, 14 Oct 2018 
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150 mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 1600, 150 mm,  f/2.8, 60 s, stack of 10 images 




     
A Perseid fireball with 3 images of the trail it left, labeled by the time (min,sec) after the event,
The start of the exposure is taken as the time reference. Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 12 Aug 2018 
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 2000, 7 mm,  f/2.8, 25 s 

The same event, captured from a different location (in Slovakia), featured
the Astronomy Picture of the Day (see APOD on 17.08.2018) !

Zobacz też artykuł: "Przygoda z meteorem" Delta 08/2022, str. 6 i tylna okładka




A Perseid fireball, Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 12 Aug 2018 
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 2000, 7 mm,  f/2.8, 25 s 




Milky Way, Mars, and a meteor, Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 07 Aug 2018 
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 3200, 8 mm,  f/2.8, 20 s 



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Star trails, view south on Mars, Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 08 Aug 2018 
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 1600, 8 mm,  f/2.8, 
  Live Composite, base exposure 20 s, total  about 30 min.
    
Star trails, view notrh on Polaris, Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 08 Aug 2018
Lens: M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting:
ISO 1600, 7 mm,  f/2.8, 
  Live Composite, base exposure 15 s, total  about 40 min.




Total sun eclipse, 21 Aug 2017, Tellico Plains, TN




Moon, Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, on 08 Aug 2017
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 200,150 mm, 1/200 s,3 images (f/11, f/16, f/22) fused




Andromeda Galaxy - M31, taken from Obidza n/Piwniczna, Poland, 15 Aug 2017
Lens: M.ZUIKO 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO;  Setting: ISO 1000, f/2.8,150 mm, 90s, stack of 20 images



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