Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Peter! I want to go back myself. The tripod shots were 15-30 seconds, about all that can be managed without objectionable star trailing with the 14-24mm FLs that I used for them. The ?closeup? (!) of the Large Magellanic Cloud was made at 85mm for 180 sec with the camera on the tracking device. ?howard > On May 17, 2017, at 7:33 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> > wrote: > > Glorious shots. Brilliant. I want to go too! What were the exposure > lengths? > > Peter > > 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 >> > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information