Well done Tim. At surface brightness about 15.5 mag/sq arcmin, it wouldn't be straightforward. We might get about 4.5 hours of this Diamond one Hot August Night when it's best positioned.
Well done Tim. At surface brightness about 15.5 mag/sq arcmin, it wouldn't be straightforward. We might get about 4.5 hours of this Diamond one Hot August Night when it's best positioned.
Thanks M+T,
Yes, even up here at -17deg S it only gets up to an altitude of around 35deg.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Nice catch Tim I did that one in Ha years ago in between two pegs on my neighbourg clothes line just above my northern fence.
Cheers Marc!
Yes a challenge from down south with fences and cloths pegs !!!
I too was lucky to have had the opportunity image the Crescent Nebula when I was living in Japan, but at that time I was still a noob at digital astrophotography and over processed it. It ended being a little too "Zsa Zsa Gabor"-ish.
I lived & worked in Tokyo for about 19.5 yrs. My friends would drive to Chiba (a golf course conveniently named Cosmo Classic GC) & we asked for permission to use their car park. It’s about Bortle 6 skies with a major glow from the Kawasaki factories but the east & south were decently dark (peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean).
One can get darker Bortle 2 skies driving up to the mountains but would have to keep in mind of bears.
I did that one in Ha years ago in between two pegs on my neighbourg clothes line just above my northern fence.
a great shot of a normally, northerners target 
