Some shots from Astro Camp

[rogerg]

Hi all,

Some shots from Astro Camp. Not particularly stunning, but it's been a long time since I did much serious landscape photography. I really enjoyed having the opportunity to do a little.

Landscape tree & view... I used a grad filter for this one, to balance the brightness somewhat between sky & white tree vs darker bottom right 3rd of the image. Looking at it now, I wish I'd tweaked the levels some more, oh well..
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom/productImages/000703.jpg

Portrait tree... grad filte rused again..
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom/productImages/000696.jpg

View..
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom/productImages/000702.jpg

Quick snap of gumleaves, not really good, but something..
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom/productImages/000695.jpg


And the whole group of astro camp shots:
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom/esh_rog_gallery.jsp?Item=568

Roger.

[h0ughy]

Nice shots, hope the camp was a success.

[rogerg]

It was h0ughy, a great success. Lots of people (30+ scopes), populated the field quite nicely. Good viewing conditions both nights except for after 11pm on Saturday night when a storm rolled in and stopped as it got to us, but still clouded it out.

Still a little warm for my tastes but you can't have everything :)

A very enjoyable weekend in all.

[[1ponders]]

Looks like a great site Roger. The trees don't look too intrusive and there is plenty of flat ground. I'll bet it was dark as well ;)

[rogerg]

Yeah, there is plenty of flat ground, the observing field is quite large. And the tree's aren't a problem, they are lower than they look when it get dark :) The line of trees shown are also the tallest/closest, to the east, with the north, south and west being very close to flat.

You can see the glow of Perth to the north-west from this site. It's not a large problem but would prevent wide field photography in the low to mid north through west of the sky due to gradients. It is 2 hours drive from the city, but you know what it's like with light pollution and how far it spreads. When I started going to the Astro Camp about 14 camps ago, you couldn't see Perth at all.

I see I've messed up another one of the photo's .. the 'View' one isn't coming up with the right photo.. damn thing, couldn't get it right this time :-( .. I'll sort it out tonight.