I really like the one of the guy at the red-lit console. The series makes the problem of light pollution very evident, too.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Fri, 7/4/08, Beaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Beaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PESO - Stars and Astronomers > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 7:43 PM > The Howard Astronomical League had an outing last Wednesday > night. > The first successful event in quite a while. We tried the > previous > Saturday. I got there just in time for a really hard > downpour. > Wednesday was really nice weather- warm, no dew, and no > clouds. I got > some pictures of stars, and astronomers. > Canon 10D, Tokina 12-24mm f4 lens wide open, exposures from > 1/8 to 56 > sec, ISO 100 to 400. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157594414463840/ > > Next time, I'll try making RAW, ISO 200 exposures, and > bracket to > find where the noise starts. Got to remember the Nikonos > (sp?) > "viewfinder" ( no optics, just a frame with a > cold shoe I use for > aiming with a pin hole lens.) The camera viewfinder is > pretty much > useless for stars. The Tokina lets me cheat- set the lens > to infinity > and let depth of field do its magic. > > [The moon pictures were made last year] > > Cheers > Mike > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
