Thanks, Jens. The moon pictures were taken last year, with the camera bolted to a telescope.
Cheers Mike On Jul 4, 2008, at 11:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting small series. I love the darkes of moons a lot. > > Regards, Jens > >> 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.
