“So You Are a Star” is an old Hudson Brothers song that pops into my head when I see this photo. 50mm prime lenses excel at star pictures because they gather a lot of light and they usually have very low coma. Coma happens when light going through the edges of the lens does not line up properly at the sensor. In star photography coma causes the pin point of a star to have an oval image.
My Canon 50mm f/1.8 has great light gathering but does have some coma wide open. So this shot was taken at f/2.8 to reduce the coma. This is also not a single shot but a series of 4 second exposures that I stacked in Photoshop.
Not bad for a Monday!
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 | Canon 7d | 4sec at F/2.8
