Keith, I was using an 8" f/8 telescope. The camera was attached to an eyepiece adapter that holds an eyepiece attached to the telescope and projects the image onto the film. I believe the effective f value was like f/50, so the effective focal length was like 400 inches (10,000 mm).
Walt On 7/23/08, keith_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Hamler wrote: > > I shot this back in June 1978. It is a close conjunction of Saturn and > > Mars. I shot 5 frames and one frame had the object shown here between > > the two planets. I believe it is a meteor caught just as it was > > entering the atmosphere. The exposure was maybe 2 seconds on B&W Tech > > Pan film. > > > > Walt > > > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/Saturn-and-Marsweb.jpg > > > > Great luck, and very good exposure! > What were you using for a lens? > > keith whaley > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
