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This came out looking good. 15x300sec (1 hour 15 minutes) @ ISO400 with Canon 18-55mm II on my 350Da *

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Decided to put the 8mm Peleng to work so I drove up Palomar Mountain around 2 in the morning to catch the summer milky way rising. Conditions were perfect… weather was nice, there was a fog below the mountains that was blocking all the LP and the moon had just set. So even though I [...]

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Reprocessed this one I took a few years back with my old Nikon D60. Took this in Joshua Tree at the Indian Cove campground on 09-11-10, one of my favorite camping trips I’ve ever been on. *

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Still working hard on this. Getting there… This is the first large mosaic I’ve ever worked on and it is quite a tough one. Still working on getting all the background gradients in each frame squared away, you can still see the seam areas. I need to get more data for some of the frames, [...]

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I used some data I have for an ongoing mosaic project to throw this together in Pixinsight. One thing I’m missing is reflectivity of the Orion Nebula against the galactic dust background, not sure what happened there. *

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I recently rented an 8mm fisheye lens from Borrowlenses.com for a week to mess around. It’s pretty neat but you can only do so much with them. I think when I’m finally going to buy a nice wide lens it will be in the 21mm prime range. Image Location and Date: Tierra Del Sol (SDAA [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA Dark Sky Site at Tierra Del Sol on July 3rd 2011 Object: Sagittarius Star Cloud Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: 50mm 1.8 Nikkor Imaging FL: 50mm Imaging focal ratio: f4 Imaging camera: Nikon D60 Lights: 2 x 300sec @ ISO 1600 (10 Minutes) Calibration: Darks Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with [...]

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Image Location and Date: SDAA Dark Sky Site at Tierra Del Sol on July 3rd 2011 Object: Constellation Cygnus Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: 50mm 1.8 Nikkor Imaging FL: 50mm Imaging focal ratio: f4 Imaging camera: Modified Canon 350D Lights: 4 x 300sec @ ISO 800 (20 Minutes) Calibration: Darks Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with [...]

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Experimented with a series of 30 second exposures with the Canon 350D (modified) at ISO1600. Not bad for 30 seconds! *

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This was an experiment with stacking images from a fixed tripod. The stacking software aligns and rotates each image so the stars line up, hence, the foreground is blurred because it’s rotated. This is maybe 45 minutes worth of 30 second exposures from a fixed tripod, cool huh. Taken with a Nikon D60 *

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Image Location and Date: San Diego Astronomy Association Dark Sky Site @ Tierra Del Sol, March 6th 2011. Object: Antares area of Milky Way Mount: CG5GT Imaging scope: 50mm Nikkor 1.8 Imaging FL: 50mm Imaging focal ratio: f4 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 4 x 240 sec ISO 800 (16 Minutes) Calibration: None. Guide [...]

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30 Minute exposure with 28mm Tokina Lens @ F4, ISO800, Nikon D60 on an unguided CG5 Mount. *

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Image Location and Date: San Diego Astronomy Association Dark Sky Site @ Tierra Del Sol, February 5th 2011. Object: The Constellation Auriga Mount: CG5GT Lens: Omni XLT 150 Newtonian Imaging focal ratio: f4 Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D60 Lights: 20 x 180sec ISO 800 (1 hours) Calibration: Darks, flats. Guide scope: Antares 8×50mm finder with [...]

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Took these with a D70 while I was doing the time lapse. *

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Spent four hours doing a time lapse on Palomar Mountain last night, came out alright. I kind of wish the clouds rolled in to cover the city lights below, maybe next time. I’ve taken some interest in making interesting time lapses of the night sky so expect more posts like this in the near future. [...]

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Sitting at the airport, flight to SFO is delayed, processing some leftover images from last weekend. Here is the constellation Orion with some clouds in front of it. Here is a the center of Cygnus with a 70mm lens I found at the swap meet for $15 Still more to come from this session. *

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