ASV Astrophotography Observatory

[Phil Hart]

Thought you might enjoy a couple of these taken while James (Moon) was commissioning our new astrophotography observatory at the ASV's Leon Mow Dark Sky Site during the 'Galactic Centre Star Party' last night.

Caught a nice bright meteor during a timelapse test too but had some issues with motion control (panning too fast among other things) so the stars are unfortunately doubled up.

Phil

[iceman (Mike)]

Lovely Phil, love the first one!

Where's the timelapse?

What gear/settings did you use for these?

[Phil Hart]

thanks Mike.

All with Canon 5DMKII

1 14mm lens, 2min, f2.8, ISO1600 (with Polarie)
2 14mm lens, 5min, f3.5, ISO800 (with Polarie)
3 14mm lens, 30 sec, f2.8, ISO3200
4 24mm lens, 15 secs, f1.4, ISO1600

Timelapse was just testing a new iteration of fred's gear from a different location and didn't work out all that well (got cloudy and boring among other things).

cheers
Phil

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Great photos,Phil!