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MW from Narrandera
Last week I took a trip from Sydney to Balranald. En route, I stayed overnight at Narrandera.
I took my new Losmandy Star Lapse along for its serious outing. I polar aligned roughly with the help of a laser and some guesswork and started plugging away with the trusty Canon 40D.
Its been years since I wielded a DSLR in anger and my laptop battery usually gives me about 45 minutes before it packs it in. That said, I'm quite happy with this shot of the Milky Way around Sagittarius. Details are as follows:
Canon 40D with nifty 50mm lens set to f2.8 (from memory)
5 minute image. No dark subtraction or in camera noise reduction (will do that next time)
Some noise reduction and histogram and saturation adjustments in PI.
Next time I'll take a back up battery and use In Camera Noise Reduction.
The one thing I was pleased with was the tracking. I felt that the Star Lapse could run for hours.
Comments welcome
Pete
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