iceman
29-09-2008, 10:44 AM
Hi guys
This shot of Jupiter in the Milky Way was taken on the 20th September at the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club during one of our new moon meets.
I didn't get there until 8pm and it'd been so long since I'd done any widefield photography, I didn't capture my first real photon until 9:30pm or so. I also remembered that my serial port on my laptop is broken (stopped working at Nambucca in early July) and so I can't control the camera (long exposures) through ImagesPlus anymore - so I had to use the timer remote for the exposure control and ImagesPlus just downloaded the images after each exposure.
I can't remember how many exposures (it's on the other laptop) but I think it was 12 exposures @ 5 minutes each, ISO800, using the Canon 350D + Sigma 17-70mm lens. 5 darks were used in the calibration (no flats). It was a very warm night after a very warm day.
800px version attached, but please check out the 1200px wide less compressed version in my gallery:
Jupiter in the Milky Way (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/mygallery/displayimage.php?pos=-758)
Thanks for looking.
This shot of Jupiter in the Milky Way was taken on the 20th September at the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club during one of our new moon meets.
I didn't get there until 8pm and it'd been so long since I'd done any widefield photography, I didn't capture my first real photon until 9:30pm or so. I also remembered that my serial port on my laptop is broken (stopped working at Nambucca in early July) and so I can't control the camera (long exposures) through ImagesPlus anymore - so I had to use the timer remote for the exposure control and ImagesPlus just downloaded the images after each exposure.
I can't remember how many exposures (it's on the other laptop) but I think it was 12 exposures @ 5 minutes each, ISO800, using the Canon 350D + Sigma 17-70mm lens. 5 darks were used in the calibration (no flats). It was a very warm night after a very warm day.
800px version attached, but please check out the 1200px wide less compressed version in my gallery:
Jupiter in the Milky Way (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/mygallery/displayimage.php?pos=-758)
Thanks for looking.