This article is about Astrophotography in Oberstdorf. Last year I put all my equipment into the car and drove to Lake Garda. Unfortunately, in contrast to the forecast I had lots of clouds and no chance to take a good astro-picture. Last weekend I decided to give it another try and took all my equipment to Oberstdorf – a small village at the foot of the German Alps. Beside hiking I think this place is well suited for astrophotography.

I found a good place not far from the center of Oberstdorf, with free view to Polaris and almost no traffic:

GPS coordinates: 47°24’17.5″N 10°17’28.9″E

(Oh, and btw. a good Italian restaurant is also not too far: Ai Quattro Canti…)

Compared to Böblingen the light pollution in Oberstdorf is much less critical. I was even able to see the Milky Way from my observation point. The picture on the left I took this evening with my Fujifilm X-T1 camera (f/2.8, 15s, ISO2000). The image was saved as RAW and post-processed with rawtherapee. For this image the dark-frame subtraction was enabled. Unfortunately there is still some noise in the image…. :/

Anyhow, due to the good conditions I decided to give the Witch’s broom nebula another try.