Hi All,
As Phil mentioned in an earlier thread we had great fun at The Dish on Friday. The DMA reception on Saturday was great too and it had been very nice to finally meet IIS members. Congratulations to all winners!
I am still going through the 30 GB of images I shot Friday night and managed to put together a time lapse with a sound track.
Youtube kills the quality so I uploaded the 35MB MP4 file to my ISP:
http://users.on.net/~che/parkes2010.mp4
For the time lapse I used Nikon D700 and Nikkor 14-24mm lens at 15-17mm and f/2.8. For the Milky Way parts the exposure time was 10-15s at ISO 3200, the twilight - 3s at ISO 800.
I attached star trails image I made from the time lapse data. The celestial equator dissecting The Dish was a bonus
I also made a 360 degrees virtual panorama in Adobe Flash (you can pan with the mouse click and drag; zoom in and out with ctrl/shift keys):
http://users.on.net/~che/Dish.swf
I made the 360 spherical panorama from 4 images with Nikkor 10.5mm fish-eye (hood shaved), 15s, ISO1600. Stitched in PTGui.
I hope there will be more images to follow as I get to process them.
Cheers,
Alex
P.S. I will be off-line and not able to respond until Tuesday night.