Hello all,
It's been a long time "between drinks" for me with respect to astro photography lately, with all my LX200 troubles. But on the weekend we had a great trip east to the dark skies of the Wheatbelt where I snapped a few shots.
It's going to take me a while (possibly longer than this week) to get the astro shots processed as I have a lot on right now, but I'm trying for one a night, let's see how I go!
This is a simple wide field shot of the Milky Way rising from the ground. You can see the gradient of the dusty lower altitude with the clearer higher altitude. There's no light pollution visible from this observing location so it's all natural gradient.
I love this kind of shot, taken at this time of year. It would have been better with more ground and a foreground object, but oh well. You can just imagine the ground is just barely off FOV (which it is).
The night was partly cloudy and you can see a hint of cloud near the bottom of the image where it's patch dark across in lines.
3 x 300 seconds, Canon 350D, no guiding. In fact, no polar alignment either! I didn't get around to doing that
Larger image:
http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=592
Roger.
