I had some old negatives scanned for a presentation I gave to IISAC back in Jan 2007 but I never got around to putting them on my web site.
I thought some of you might like to see them?
Here is an 8 panel mozaic of the Milky Way I did when I was a teenager in March 1984, so exactly 25 years ago now...
:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...64272/original
Here is a David Malin amplified cold camera negative of NGC 4945 from teh same year (compare it to that done by Marcus
...oh how technology marches on...)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...64273/original
and here is yours truly with his equipment a quater of a century ago:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...64271/original
and a close up of my wide field imaging gear on the job:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...64269/original
There is a link under to some Hallleys Comet shots taken with the Pentax 6X7 lenses too.
How far we have come
...although in real life the Milky Way mozaic would probably still hold it's own at the David Malin Awards I recon, especially for the huge size it was at approx 1.5m X 0.8m (making it an illegal entry size of course
)
Mike