Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great stuff, Howard. You cannot beat really black sky. I went to Ile de Reunion in the Indian Ocean, and the following year to Sabah in Borneo, and the true black sky experience is utterly gobsmacking. The stars in these dark and darkish areas are just quite incredible. Anybody limited by earthbound ambitions should be forced to fully comprehend the majesty of the firmament that surrounds us. That said, Ile de Reunion beats Borneo into a cocked hat, so that's the trip that I'd recommend. Mind you, if you like native dances with enthusiastic locals, mainly pulchritudinous females, using very large logs to trap your feet as you hop in and out of them, then Borneo is your man. However, Irish dancing is great training to avoid these minor entrapments. Douglas On 10/05/2017 18:12, Howard L Ritter Jr wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Douglas ________ Douglas Barry Inveresk, Monkstown Road, Monkstown, Co. Dublin