Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I dug into my archives and came up with this image of Hale-Bopp from spring 1997, imaged on Ektachrome with a Hasselblad 500CM and 80mm Planar @ 2.8. The camera was mounted on the tube of my 6? refractor on a tracking mount. Exposure unrecorded, but to judge from the trailing of the foreground trees (and the ISO of the film), it was a couple of minutes. Taken under light-polluted skies from my front yard 3 miles east of Toledo Express Airport. It wasn?t until I became familiar with the magic of petitioning St. Photoshoppis* for the blessing of a crippled slide many years later that I realized I had a useable image. The album shows the before & after. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Hale-Bopp/Hale-Bopp-1.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Hale-Bopp/Hale-Bopp-1.jpg.html> C&C welcome. ?howard *I believe it?s pronounced ?fo-TOSH-uhppis?. > On Jul 8, 2020, at 8:46 AM, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > Got up at 4:00 AM this morning and drove out north of town to get away > from the city lights. Set up the tripod. Looked for comet NEOWISE in the > NE sky but couldn?t pick it out but a pair of (Leica - see? on topic) > binoculars found it right away. > > Astro photography is a bit of a different thing for me. I made some > mistakes. I should have used the delay on the camera so I got a bit of > tripod shake. But I did make a comet photo! > > <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/MiscUsage/Astronomy/i-DwpdHCL/A> > > Fujifilm GFX100 with 250mm f4 lens. 1.3 seconds @ ISO 2000. > > It was fun to see the comet which was naked-eye visible as my eyes got > adjusted. Of course the sky was lightening also. > > Thanks for looking! > > Adam Bridge > Davis, CA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information