Recently we stayed at our cottages in Tracadie Bay and the sky was clear for a while. I took these long exposure shots and in some of them you can see how light pollution from Charlottetown is clashing with the dark skies on the north shore. In the last shot, many stars are visible, but without the dust lanes of the milky way.
Although m4/3 is not an ideal solution for astrophotography, it can be done. I made these images with Panasonic G9 and the Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 pro lens. The settings were ISO 1600, 7mm at f/2.8 and 25 seconds exposure. The first and and last images are 4 separate exposures stacked together to resolve more stars and reduce some of the noise. The other two images, the ones with the clouds, are single exposures. They all required tweaking in Lightroom to extract more information and make the milky way pop.
