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Old 15-10-2010, 11:44 AM
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Experimenting with astrophotography in our backyard, we set the camera to take a 15-second exposure. As soon as we hit the button, a helicopter with a bright flashing light on it appeared...
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Old 16-10-2010, 02:13 PM
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Look like you were pointing WSW at the centre of the milky way? Get any workable images?

Nice one of the 'copter though!
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Look like you were pointing WSW at the centre of the milky way? Get any workable images?
basically west, I think. We got a couple of what I think were acceptable pics of the Lagoon, where "acceptable" relates to "from inner city Melbourne with a streetlight next door on our first attempt"! I've got them up at my blog; certainly not worth putting up here.
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Old 17-10-2010, 08:36 AM
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I don't think there's any such thing as a pic not worth of IIS sharing, but sounds like you've had fun anyway Alexandra
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