Antares closeup

[JohnG (John)]

Antares closeup, JPEG straight out of the camera, forgot to change it to RAW while doing an ST-4 calibrating run.

60 seconds, ISO 800, prime focus Takahashi FS-102. Nothing done to the picture.

JohnG

[RB (Andrew)]

I love it John.



How did you get the star spikes?
Did you string something across the TAK?

[JohnG (John)]

2 bits of fishing line and a couple of elastic bands on the dewshield

JohnG

[Striker (Tony)]

Hey that sound familiar John.....I love the defraction spike's...just gives it a nice appeal.

Looks great.

[h0ughy (David)]

whos a clever chappy!! Nice John!

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful!

[asimov (John)]

Looks nice mate!

[Robby]

Lovely... Like the colour spectrum within the spikes. Nice!

[JohnG (John)]

Thanks for the comments and replies, Guys. Considering it was a mucked up photo, I rather like the effect.

Tony, known about the fishing line for awhile now, but I still stole the idea from you. LOL

JohnG

[Lester]

Lovely effect you got on Antares. Look forward to more images with the Takahashi.

[sheeny (Al)]

That gets my vote for "Best Bungle", John! Love the rainbows in the diffractions spikes - very pretty!

Al.

[acropolite (Phil)]

I normally don't like spikes, too chocolate boxy, but this shot is superb, nice result, Antares seems to draw you in and to me it's more representative of the sky I see than the majority of astro images.

[astroron (Ron)]

I looked hard for the secondery star but to no avail,good shot all the same