Yes, that is M31, the Andromeda galaxy. Also, you've captured the Double Cluster in Perseus, which is just over trees.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Since it didn't terribly matter exactly where I was aiming my lens, I used > lightroom's panorama feature to string a bunch together including my one > meteor, which gave me 16291x2704: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/20320189520/sizes/o > > It seems as if my FA31 and FA77 focus at infinity all of the way at the > stop. I tried focusing by aiming a green laser at the trees at the > distance. > > Does anyone know what nebula I captured? It's about halfway between the > trees and the right edge of the photo. > > > Larry Colen wrote: >> >> It seems as if the Perseids will be in full swing this week. Does anyone >> have any advice borne of experience for photographing them? >> >> I suspect that a lot of short exposures will have the advantage of >> running at a higher ISO and making it easier to capture a dimmer >> transient event. Then there is the question of darkfield frames. >> >> Astrotracer or not? Optimal focal length? >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
