well i had a hack at it tonight - my wedding anniversary and managed to get a happy snappy - canon40D slightly modified and a 135mm lens on a tripod. its a pity that it was shot from the burbs - going to a lake or somewhere flat with it being guided or at least tracking longer exposures may have brought out the lagoon neb near venus
edit added second image where i have tried to balance the red a bit better
well i had a hack at it tonight - my wedding anniversary and managed to get a happy snappy - canon40D slightly modified and a 135mm lens on a tripod. its a pity that it was shot from the burbs - going to a lake or somewhere flat with it being guided or at least tracking longer exposures may have brought out the lagoon neb near venus
Happy anniversary David!!!!
( BTW is that a cropped zoomed in pic?)
Cheers
Bartman
Ps did try at the Moon and Venus, but too many clouds and could not get focus when there was a break....
Thanks guys. No Houghy, there was too much haze and the sky was too light - my horizons aren't great and I couldn't follow the pair down low as it darkened. Cleared later but a miss is as good as a mile!
Much the same here... by the time I had the EQ6 set up properly and the skies were dark enough, I ran out of horizon It would have been a cracker shot to have Venus, Mercury, Moon, Lagoon and Trifid all in the one frame/exposure.
Much the same here... by the time I had the EQ6 set up properly and the skies were dark enough, I ran out of horizon It would have been a cracker shot to have Venus, Mercury, Moon, Lagoon and Trifid all in the one frame/exposure.
i had a tweak on one of mine again - this time tunring it to a B&W and added some labels. Fantastic shot of yours naskies - very similar to mine - might end up labelling the bright stars yet?
Thanks David. I was going to use the 135L but it had pretty bad framing (I don't have a 3/8" adapter to put my bullhead on the mount), so I went with the 70-200 instead. Interesting that the diffraction pattern ended up being very similar.
Here's my labelled version of what I would have liked to have captured... with a bit of outside help, of course