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What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:06 pm
by Big V
Last night myself and 12 other keen individuals set up 9 telescopes for a night of Astronomy. This is a 6 hour shot showing how much activity there is through out the night.
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Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:23 pm
by adame
Very cool mate, good to see you finally got around to a really long circles shot.

Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:37 pm
by radar
Very cool shot. Is that a number of long exposures all stacked together? Would you have a good reference on how its done that I can read somewhere on the web?

I was at the Newcastle Regional Library yesterday and they had an exhibition on astronomy from local astronomers/photogs and that picked my interest.

Cheers,

André

Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:47 pm
by colin_12
I like the foreground activity in this one Big V. It is almost as good as those trails. :up:

Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:16 pm
by DebT
Wow really interesting -
so this is what it looks like when the earth moves (or is it the sky) I never realised just how much activity there was.
Like the telescope in the forground - not sure why just do
Deb T

Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:48 pm
by Willy wombat
Very interesting piece BigV

Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:09 pm
by wojtek
Looks awesome... quite a fan of the two different planes of activity, the rotational and horizontal.
I'm interested in the techinque used.. how long were the exposures? I assumed stacked in PS?
I'm heading off to the flinders ranges over easter... hoping to give this star trail thing a shot.

Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:24 pm
by Big V
72 5 minute exposures taken at 800 ISO f5 with a 17mm lens on a Canon 1DMK111...

Re: What does 6 hours of Astronomy look like?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:54 pm
by Killakoala
Awesome :) I like it....