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Old 22-08-2006, 12:56 PM
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Scorpius, Southern Sky & SMC

Had my first dark sky experience on Saturday night out at Mark's (mhodson) place at Glenore Grove. Also there was Andrew (astro_south) and Darren (dhumpie).

Took the StarTracker with me to do some widefield shots, but realised I had left the ball mount at home attached to the telescope. Andrew just happened to have one attached to his scope that I borrowed and fitted to the StarTracker, but it wouldn't tighten up properly and the camera kept flopping around. The upshot of all that was that I was limited in the areas of sky I could photograph.

Here are the images I managed to get. They look a bit noisy and I am not overly happy with them but here they are anyway.

1. Scorpius region, 19 x 64 sec, f4.0, ISO 200
2. Southern Sky, 18 x 64 sec, f4.0, ISO 200
3. SMC + LMC, 4 x 64 sec, 10 x 32 sec, f4.0, ISO400

All images dark frame subtracted (SMC+LMC only had 2 dark frames because the batteries ran out in the camera).

[Edit] Oh yeah, forgot to add we also caught an Iridium flare as well. Not deep space I know, but added the photo to the end of the list
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