[prichens (Peter)]

Earlier this month Scott (My youngest son) and I travelled out to the SAS viewing sight at Leyburn for a few nights imaging, the moon was starting to set later but by midnight the clouds and moon had vanished making the sky's very dark and quite spectacular. Unfortunately my gear suffered several problems and I was unable to do any guided imaging, including the fact I am yet to acquire any dew heater so at -4 deg C all of my gear was covered with ice!
Scott mounted his Canon Kiss on my tracking platform and we aimed it at the hart of the Milky way, I set the EQ3 mount to track at standard Sidereal speed and he proceeded to take a series of Photo's, unknown to Scott his zoom lens began to slip back and the attached "spectacular" photo is the result.
Please feel free to comment, Scott was initially shocked that I showed this photo to anyone but I think he is getting over it :-)
Peter Richens - VK4FSD
SAS