Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Time to start binging on the 1950's sci- fi movies. On Sat, May 22, 2021, 1:53 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > We tried a few night shots one day while in Yosemite. I pulled up to > Valley View and hopped out of the van and saw the strangest thing. A > whole line of lights moving across the sky from west to the east, one > right after another. Like a military convoy of planes. One other > person was there and he said they just started and he counted 36 of them > so far. I quickly set up the Q2 and did a rough manual focus on the > stars and got this shot. I was lucky. I did not have time to play > around with the focus or even where I was aiming the camera. As it turn > out I learned later these were satellites for the StarLink internet > program of Elon Musk, the destroyer of astrophotography if you read some > articles about that program. So, here is my quick grab shot. I guess > there were 60 in all and I got the tail end. > > f2.0, 8 sec, ISO 800. Had to brighten it up quite a bit in LR. > > Valley View Stars-1000161 (leica-users.org) > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s21/y/Valley+View+Stars-1000161.jpg.html> > > > > Comments welcome. > > -- > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information