Last light - IISAC 2015

[Rod771]

Every time I see this image I kick myself!

I was sitting at the laptop nodding off to sleep while the scope was getting close to it's RA limit when imaging IC 2631, it was 2:00 am. The thought of a meridian flip, re frame and re focus disappeared, with every micro sleep reinforcing the decision not to carry on. The scope hit the limit and I shut it all down. As I was heading in, the tiniest bit of guilt from walking off on such clear conditions forced me to look east to the Milky Way, "I better take a shot of that", I said to myself, just in case. Just in case the clouds right off the rest of the star party, Yeah right?

History has it that "Yeah right?" is Yeah! Right! With clouds ruling the skies for the next two nights. Glad I took that shot of the Milky way rising in the east at 2:10 am, I think to myself. That thought is always followed by a slap on the forehead for the meridian flip that never happened. :doh:

Canon 6D ISO 6400 Exp 30 sec. Samyang 14mm F2.8.

Large Here (http://astrob.in/full/167299/0/)

Thanks for looking. :)

Cheers

Rod

P.S. I think that might be Al Sheehan sitting behind his camera on the horizon? :question: Photo Bomb!!! :)

[peterl]

Excellent shot Rod.
well worth keeping your eyes open for a few minutes longer.
The 6d does it well
one of the best from camp
well done.
Peter.

[Camelopardalis]

Beautiful Rod, good job :thumbsup:

[sheeny]

Really nice shot, but I'm not the photo bomber.:)

Mike spent a bit of time at the dam (a lot more than me anyway). I don't know if it's him? I assume that's the wall of the dam, but it doesn't seem to be in the right place to me for that...

Al.

[Rod771]

Thanks Peter! :) Getting up at 5:30am Thursday morning was no doubt the reason for snoozing.



Thanks Dunk! :)




Ah, Sorry Al. I thought it might have been when you were shooting your nice pano's. I thought I saw Mike calling it a night a bit earlier? Looks like we have a mysterious Nightscaper. :confuse3:

Thanks for the feedback :)