I love the colour and detail in that crop image.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was one of our planned astrophotography classes, but since my > wife was ill, and I figured I could do it as easily from my yard, I > did not attend the class at the observatory. I set my phone alarm to > 1:35 AM (I thought) but somehow made it PM. I awoke a couple of > minutes after 3 AM and hurried out the front door with the equipment I > had set up the night before. > > One dumb thing I did was attache my p0 ballhead to the K-01, instead > of the Bigma's tripod foot. No idea why I did that, but the Arca-Swiss > monoball p0 did a find job of supporting the whole thing with no sag, > even racked out to 500mm. I was very impressed with that. > > I haven't had time to closely look at all of the images, but it was > obvious on the Live View/Focus Peaking that there were moments of > better seeing and other moments of blur, due to the atmosphere. I shot > with the 2 sec self-timer to hopefully let any movement from my > pressing the shutter button settle down. (No mirror flop to worry > about with the K-01) > > Three images up on Flickr (sorry to those of you who hate it) > The last image is a straight crop of the 2nd, which shows the full > frame at 500mm. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/13871281925/in/photostream/ > https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/13871747733/in/photostream/ > https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/13871717785/in/photostream/ > > > If it is clear for the next one in October, I think I will try to > bracket and HDR to include some stars in the image. Hopefully I will > be a little better acquainted with my tracking equipment and will be > able to do a time lapse, of that one, as well. With a little planning > I could probably be shooting both cameras on different tracking > equipment (K-5 II and the K-01). > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Steve Sharpe <d...@eastlink.ca> wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:20:53 +1200, Alastair Robertson wrote: >>> Good views here in NZ - cloudless following a southerly straight from >>> antarctica to clean the air yesterday. Unfortunately camera was at >>> work! >> >> My wife, who's one of those Early Morning People, dragged me out of bed >> at 5:15am to have a look. It was quite a pretty sight under a hazy sky, >> with Mars and Spica nearby. Didn't photograph it, though. Went back to >> bed, instead. >> >> --- >> >> Steven Sharpe - The Office Gallery >> >> d...@eastlink.ca >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
