Milky way

[astroron (Ron)]

I took this shot a few of years agofrom my observatory with a combination of a 28mm wide angle lens and a Macro Micro lens, giving a field of about 170 degs, Minolta SRT101, pickybacked on a Celestron Ultima 8 unguided
I thought of this when I read the latest AS/T and mine doesn't look to bad for a cheap setup. astroron

[h0ughy (David)]

not bad, I think you even got a meteor in it too

[astroron (Ron)]

Thanks Houghy I did, It is much clearer on the unscanned photoastroron

[astro_south (Andrew)]

Nice one Ron.
Is that Mars going through Sagittarius?

[fringe_dweller]

Is it Jupiter/MW 1996? Great shot :-)))
kearn

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful shot Ron, but what's a "macro micro" ?

I loved that shot in the AS&T.

[fringe_dweller]

Mike i think it is some kind of teleconverter attatched to the 28mm? just guessing!
Kearn

[atalas]

Yeah nice shot astroron !

Louie

[astroron (Ron)]

Hi All, thanks for the complaments, the the bright object is Jupiter and the photo was taken on July 19th 1996.
Mike a Micro Macro lens allows you to take very close up photo's as well as very wide field photo's much wider than my 28mm lens.
I was playing about with my 28mm lens and realised that the Micro Macro lens fitted onto the 28mm and was in focus , it gave me a nearly a wrap around image of my lounge room,so I thought I would try for an all sky image and that was the result.Regards astroron

[ving (David)]

nice shot ron. very purdy!

[quicksimon]

Awesome I looooooooooooooooove milky way shots and that is great