What a fantastic 5 nights viewing, perfectly clear and dark sky
. Nearly died the first night because I had no wood and got so cold I was scattered and disoriented by early morning
. Up all night 5 nights in a row all up other nights were excellent with an open fire
. Slept till after noon each day but was tiring five days. Used the 12 inch whilst waiting for exposures to run so it was a full photo and visual five day run.
Got some long exposures this one is the longest at 1736 seconds and at 200 iso..just to see how it goes ..there is one longer but it has some trails. Used standard Canon 300d and lens piggy back on 70 x 600 mm ar on eq5 mount. The mount worked so well and was well alinged so many shots went with out adjusting the control.
I cant get the green out of this stuff?? I set up various coloured filters with these wide fields and will be interested to see what comes from them.. and did and subtracted a dark frame... for this shot..so will do some more combining and see how I go. I got over 150 raw images mainly widefield.
I will post them as I find them fix them etc but I think it will be an early night. I have opened a photobucket account so I will get some high res images on it when I sort things out.
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