Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That?s a really great shot, Howard! Thanks for sharing it. Adam > On 2020 Jul 8, at 2:21 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information