When imaging goes wrong

[prichens (Peter)]

Earlier this month Scott (My youngest son) and I travelled out to the SAS viewing sight at Leyburn for a few nights imaging, the moon was starting to set later but by midnight the clouds and moon had vanished making the sky's very dark and quite spectacular. Unfortunately my gear suffered several problems and I was unable to do any guided imaging, including the fact I am yet to acquire any dew heater so at -4 deg C all of my gear was covered with ice!
Scott mounted his Canon Kiss on my tracking platform and we aimed it at the hart of the Milky way, I set the EQ3 mount to track at standard Sidereal speed and he proceeded to take a series of Photo's, unknown to Scott his zoom lens began to slip back and the attached "spectacular" photo is the result.
Please feel free to comment, Scott was initially shocked that I showed this photo to anyone but I think he is getting over it :-)
Peter Richens - VK4FSD
SAS

[iceman (Mike)]

haha that's very cool, what a great effect.

Nice one Peter and Scott

[dannat (Daniel)]

yeah nice effect

[sheeny (Al)]

Aye, Aye! Jumping to warp speed now, Captain!

Al.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Looks great, love the effect!

It almost makes you feel like you are travelling into the centre of the Milky Way.

Well done.

[erick (Eric)]

Do it again - centred on something like Jupiter or a nice tight little cluster?

How long was the exposure? The zoom seemed to slip in a nice linear constant fashion?

[mrsnipey]

That's a freaky effect.

[AlexN]

I've tried similar to that during long exposure terrestrial photography, focused on the subject, and 5sec or so into a 30sec exposure start slowly and evenly winding the zoom in or out... makes an interesting effect on land based subjects... but WOW! doesn't it look fantastic on that!

Looks like you're moving at extreme velocity towards M8.

[garyp]

great image It really draws you in.