As I type this, I am sitting in our study, gazing westwards, longing for the thick, gray, angry clouds to disperse and reveal a slender crescent Moon with Venus and Mercury in attendance, nearby.
Somehow, I don't think I'll get lucky tonight. Good luck to any Ice In Spacer's who manage to get a few shots off. Just post them so I can see what I look likely to miss.
Well, I dragged the mount upstairs and plonked it down by the study window. Aligned on South using a compass offset by 11 deg for magnetic variation, clamped the Pentax istDS on top, plugged in the remote shutter release, unlocked the security screens, sat and waited.
After a few minutes we got a brief clearing and I snapped a couple of 10 second exposures using my 135mm manual focus lens set to f8.
I wished I have an equatorial mount! Excellent shot Dennis. All I got was this, with a pentax *istDS, on tripod no drive. it is blowing a gale here at the moment, partially cloudy.
it is ten times better than my attempt Dennis. Send it into S&T and all the rest of them, even submit it to spaceweather. Hey I might have to see if mick pinner still has his eq6 still for sale
Nice shots heUwee and Denis (OK... you too Ken); another one for the mags perhaps. Looked out at dusk, beautiful deep blue sky, fringed with red from the sunset, but just a little too early for mercury. Of course as it darkened the clouds came in.
Last edited by acropolite; 10-07-2005 at 11:45 AM.
Great shots people! I observed it but was driving - constantly nearly swerving/crashing while trying to observe heheh - these events are a traffic hazard! had that constant "what a shot that would make" sensation but no camera - but I was confident and knew the IISer's would get the shot - like the Canadian mounties 'always get their quarry'!
Kearn
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