Some lightning from last night

[multiweb]

Last night I saw some lightning further out west over the blue mountain so I set the camera with the lightning trigger. It is utterly useless with the IR remote control on the NEX-5. By the time the shutter triggers the show's over. I suspect it might work better with a direct cable connection on the Pentax *istD. Will try next.

So instead I set the intervalometer to 10s exposures. ISO 400 and caught some (6 subs out of 70). I stacked them in PS to make a pretty picture. The planet setting down is Venus I believe.

I have a better quality shot here (http://www.astropic.net/astro/lightning_f.jpg).

[leon]

Nice going Marc, I'm hanging out for a good storm, might have to head back to NT.

Leon

[brian nordstrom]

:) You would be impressed up here at the moment Leon , we had a storm yesterday morning the lasted aboout 3 hours and 1625 :eyepop: lightning strikes were counted at Darwin airport , awsome ! :thumbsup:. . it was a continous roll and flash .
Brian.

[leon]

Teaser, don't worry I'm coming back later in the year.

Leon

[SkyViking]

That's a great image, lots of action in that cloud.

[Kevnool]

Pretty speccy Marc

Cheers

[spearo]

nice and crisp
well done
frank

[multiweb]

Thanks guys. Getting a bit more familiar with all this stuff. :thumbsup:

[StephenM]

Nice result Marc.

Cheers,
Stephen

[multiweb]

Thanks Stephen. :thumbsup: