Linsensuppe

August 2025 in Germany

Technical Details:

Lumix G85 + Lumix 100-300 F/4-5.6II @286mm

• Shutter: 1/5000
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 1600

Jetzt das ganze mit Wörtern in der Grundschule…

Nomen sind rot

Verben sind blau

Adjektive sind grün

Ich suche auch streit

Another lifer (at least for photography) for me after seeing a great spotted woodpecker yesterday.

August 2025 in Poland

Technical Details:

Lumix G85 + Lumix 100-300 F/4-5.6II @300mm

• Shutter: 1/500s
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 1600

August 2025 in Poland

Technical Details:

Lumix G85 + Lumix 100-300 f/4-f/5.6 @300mm

• Shutter: 1/1300s
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 3200

August 2025 in Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

Technical Details:

Lumix G85 + Lumix 100-300 f/4-f/5.6 @300mm

• Shutter: 1/1300s
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 250

June 2025 in Germany

Technical Details:

Lumix G85 + Lumix 100-300 f/4-f/5.6 @180mm

• Shutter: 1/640s
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 5000

June 2025 in Germany

Technical Details:

Lumix G85 + Lumix 100-300 f/4-f/5.6 @300mm

• Shutter: 1/1000s
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 3200

First image with my new Star adventurer GTI tracker

Image of the Monkeyhead nebula I took last night.

Equipment:

• Lumix G85
• Lumix 100-300 f4-f5.6
• Sky watcher Star adventurer GTI Image:

~ 1.95 hours of exposure

• 100mm zoom (200mm ff. eq.)
• 30 sec, f/5, 1600 ISO
• 233 Lights
• 50 Biases, Darks, Flats

Stacked and using Siril with Starnet++

With the new mount Im seeing a lot less walking noise compared to the old one (Omegon Mount MiniTrack LX3 Essentials) and its a hole lot easier to get setup because of the easy polar alignment and goto.

Can anyone explain to me the horizontal stripe of noise at the top of the image? Its only red/yellowish noise and only there. Part of it might still be nebula, but especially to the left is a lot of noise. There are more stripes like this all over the image when bumping up the contrast and saturation. Some of them are more green and blue and some like this.

Image of the Monkeyhead nebula I took last night.

Equipment:

• Lumix G85
• Lumix 100-300 f4-f5.6
• Omegon Mount MiniTrack LX3 Essentials

Image:

• 5 sec, f/5.6, 6400 ISO
• 1634 Lights
• 50 Biases, Darks, Flats

Stacked using Siril and edited in GIMP

I took a few pictures of the most common objects and am using a Lumix G85 with a 100-300 (200-600mm eq.) lens. That is around 2.2lbs/1kg (Yes, that is a micro four thirds sensor) together with a Omegon Mount MiniTrack LX3 Essentials. It is a very cheap mount which you have to tention manually and it only runs for 1h at a time, polar alignment is hard due to the cheap "straw" you have to look through.

I really like this hobby and want to upgrade to a newer mount and the Sky-watcher Star Adventurer GTi looks really good for the price. However, I am worried about it's max payload of just 11lbs/5kg. For me it is more than enough, but I want to know if it will be enough along the way if I upgrade to heavier camera or even a dedicated one with a proper telescope.

Can someone tell me about the Sky-watcher with a heavier load or pro-level gear on a different mount and how heavy it is and if you think this mount will be enouh for it.

I like their services and have brought a few things, but their prices are 3-5x the price (sometimes more) of no-name chinese ones. I don't know where the parts of AZ-Delivery are produces, but its probably china too, but is this price right in your opinion. But even if they are more expensive than others on amazon for example, I don't want to support the evil bald man

Edit: Here's the English site: https://www.az-delivery.de/en

How would or do you backup your home server? I don't have enough physical storage (for now) at home to store some backups, so I want to upload it to the cloud. Of course I want the backup to be encrypted, but I don't want to enter the password every time by server does a backup. I am currently using borg on my PC and do it manually. How do I create a encrypted backup without entering the key manually? Do I hardcode it somewhere? Don't really like that. I am also fine with trying other backup software.