[Leica] Astronomical images from Australia

[hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr)]

G?day, Mates?

I finally fulfilled an ambition of over 50 years and visited Australia, 
actually my first venture south of the equator. I attended something called 
the OzSky Star Safari <http://ozsky.org/> at a place called the 
Warrumbungles Mountain Motel outside the town of Coonabarabran, NSW, about 5 
hrs NW of Sydney. It?s so far out in deep rural Oz that it?s only a few 
miles from the Australian National Observatory at Siding Spring, on the edge 
of Warrumbungle National Park.

My first view of the southern Milky Way from a seriously dark site was 
astounding, and I highly recommend it as a bucket-list item! As a neophyte 
astrophotographer, I had taken a Nikon D810A (the one with the sensor glass 
that better passes deep red) and a couple of zooms. I used the camera on a 
tripod for the shorter time exposures, and with a tracking device that 
offsets the Earth?s rotation for the longer shots. I got several nice ones, 
posted to the Gallery 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Gallery_001/>.

C&C&Q welcomed.

?howard