Iridium Flare through the pointers

[rogerg (Roger)]

Just a quick one ....

A chance photograph of a bright iridium flare which passed between the pointers on Saturday night, amazingly enough, while I was photographing the area!

http://blog.astrophotography.com.au/...ium-flare.html

Single 180 second shot @ 1600 ISO on the 7D with Canon 8-15mm fisheye @ F/4.



Roger.

[naskies (Dave)]

Nice timing! How do you find the 8-15 fisheye for astro?

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Awesome, that looks really good. What a lucky shot to get just when you were imaging in that direction. Thanks for the view.

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice Roger, looking forward to more from that trip.
Must've been a great weekend.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by naskies

Nice timing! How do you find the 8-15 fisheye for astro?

I think it's great. I'm not good with scientific pixel for pixel comparison testing but I think it's great. I hired the lens for the weekend, and the first shot I took I went "wow! got to have it!". I expected significant distortion around the edges because it's a fisheye, but to be honest first impressions are it's sharper throughout the whole FOV than my 17-40 F/4 L. I bought one when I took the hire lens back.

I see it as an enabling lens. It gives you a different capability as opposed to a higher quality of a normal range I already have. I think it's quality is easily passable for high quality large (1 metre) prints, so will do me fine.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Awesome, that looks really good. What a lucky shot to get just when you were imaging in that direction. Thanks for the view.

Very lucky very rare to be so lucky

Originally Posted by iceman

Nice Roger, looking forward to more from that trip.
Must've been a great weekend.

Thanks Mike, it was a great weekend, had such a good time. Now back at work