Normal shots just showed a white dot, so I decided to track it to the horizon with a longer exposure. It moved a long way in 76 seconds!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:55 PM Subject: Re: PESO - Comet McNaught > Now, come on. You just added a sloping white line in Photoshop, didn't > you..... > > Interesting capture - I went out comet watching too but there was just too > much dirty haze in the south west to get a decent view. Saw it through > binoculars though. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > > > > > Quoting J and K Messervy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I shot this in the back yard this evening (About 1/2 and hour ago >> actually) >> with the 600mm mirror lens and 2x teleconverter. That hill is 2 >> suburbs >> away (about 3km). This was a 76 second exposure with the wireless >> remote. >> I only closed the shutter when the comet disappeared behind the >> hill. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/yyxnj8 >> >> Cheers >> >> James >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Click here for free information on nursing degrees, up to $150/hour > http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/CAaCMPJmKixgPwNxxxW9A3ZhOYclAoaJ/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
