Iridium Flare through the pointers

[rogerg]

Just a quick one ....

A chance photograph of a bright iridium flare which passed between the pointers on Saturday night, amazingly enough, while I was photographing the area!

http://blog.astrophotography.com.au/2012/05/iridium-flare.html

Single 180 second shot @ 1600 ISO on the 7D with Canon 8-15mm fisheye @ F/4.

:D

Roger.

[naskies]

Nice timing! :) How do you find the 8-15 fisheye for astro?

[SkyViking]

Awesome, that looks really good. What a lucky shot to get just when you were imaging in that direction. Thanks for the view.

[iceman]

Nice Roger, looking forward to more from that trip.
Must've been a great weekend.

[rogerg]

I think it's great. I'm not good with scientific pixel for pixel comparison testing but I think it's great. I hired the lens for the weekend, and the first shot I took I went "wow! got to have it!". I expected significant distortion around the edges because it's a fisheye, but to be honest first impressions are it's sharper throughout the whole FOV than my 17-40 F/4 L. I bought one when I took the hire lens back.

I see it as an enabling lens. It gives you a different capability as opposed to a higher quality of a normal range I already have. I think it's quality is easily passable for high quality large (1 metre) prints, so will do me fine.



Very lucky :) very rare to be so lucky :)



Thanks Mike, it was a great weekend, had such a good time. :) Now back at work :(