Did someone say widefield! hey Paul *SNAP* (insert twilight zone music) one of hundreds of our rejects sitting in drawers still - taken May 2003 - 135mm lens - 11 min - fuji 800 film - found a use for it yay
Kearn
EDIT: forgot! tacuma f2.8 135mm lens - one and only time we used this lens - to much CA and to soft/slow (dark)
Last edited by fringe_dweller; 15-06-2005 at 04:41 PM.
great minds think alike Paul and thankyou - its like looking in a mirror! - tho Stew actually guided this shot (we do hand guiding tag team style in turns - while the other becomes the assistant/secetary and gets a breather {and straightens their spine} - doing the shutter release start stop [running start on guiding heheh works a treat! and can use the super short shutter release's] /times & paperwork/ on plane and satellite watch - and we both set up the scope/mount - I do the first rough polar alignment with stews help lifting and turning the scope/tripod - and double/triple check each others work/framing every detail - freaks really - so thats why all our guided stuff has two names on it - first one is always the guiders name)
Kearn
Sounds pretty complicated to me . That's why I have a laptop. It does my thinking and back breaking for me. Though it would be nice to have someone to chat to while the computers doing the guiding.
hehehe 'why do things the easy way?' is our motto lol - we havent arrived in the 21st century yet! although we did get a 350D recently - I now have foot seriuosly in the dark side - scaarryyyy hope i still go to heaven
Kearn
PS I do all the scanning website ect. Stewart takes the pics into developers (mostly)
Though it would be nice to have someone to chat to while the computers doing the guiding.[/QUOTE]
Paul - yes the other one becomes the motivational coach as well - I trick stew into guiding longer sometimes - he'll say (in agony) is that 10 minutes up yet? - me: nah, just keep going mate - plenty to go and then he always gets the best shots LOL (hope he doesnt read this heheh) but since he smashed his last cheap PC computer (probably after reading one of my crazy posts) he hasnt bought another one yet - so i am safe for now
Kearn
Though it would be nice to have someone to chat to while the computers doing the guiding.
This is why I'm looking forward to getting my new scopes. So I can set one up for imaging, walk away and then casually view the heavens till its finished (its not that simple really but i can dream ). But then it'd still be nice to have someone to go "Hey! Check this out ! " to.
we are lucky i admit, and dreams keeps us all going i guess -
we do photography as a group/pair for strength in numbers sort of thing, as well as being good friends with a shared interest - never know what can happen out on your own in the middle of nowhere - like when we got bogged one night in the extreme middle of nowhere and had to walk 30 klms to get help - then your glad of company for sure!
(btw that pic wasnt taken from a truly dark sky - but we only do a handful of nights a year of guiding usually atm - fortunately for our spines/postures - but we plan on getting G11 full monty goto or something similar maybe by next year sometime? eventually anyway - and maybe even try widefield medium format film (to heavy for our present set up)
Kearn
Last edited by fringe_dweller; 15-06-2005 at 04:43 PM.
Another, reprocessing effort on M8/M20. Same raw data as before, but actually including exposures just from 1 night (19 x 90 seconds). I like the wider field of view better with this one.
Hey Paul. How are you ? Nice shot Registax stacked? Or photoshop? You know me Paul. Not happy unless I'm getting the intimate details.
And you too Terry. Love that wide field. Seeing as I'm expecting a 50mm sometime this or next week, care to share a few more capture details. Speed, simple 5 min or stacK, your engineer who removed your filter.
And you too Terry. Love that wide field. Seeing as I'm expecting a 50mm sometime this or next week, care to share a few more capture details. Speed, simple 5 min or stacK, your engineer who removed your filter.
Its a single 5 minute exposure unguided, ISO400 at f4.0.
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hey Paul *SNAP* (insert twilight zone music) 
one of hundreds of our rejects sitting in drawers still - taken May 2003 - 135mm lens - 11 min - fuji 800 film - found a use for it yay 
hope i still go to heaven 
). But then it'd still be nice to have someone to go "Hey! Check this out ! 
Registax stacked? Or photoshop? You know me Paul. Not happy unless I'm getting the intimate details.
