On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Darren Addy wrote: > I got an Aurora Alert from the UK at about 7 PM, but wasn't able to > get out of town until closer to 10 PM to see if the camera could pick > any up from Nebraska (a relatively rare event). It seems that I was > just in time to see the end of the show and the closing credits roll. > It isn't a remarkable image, by any stretch of the imagination, but I > do appreciate documenting aurora from this far south. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/6279780167/in/photostream/lightbox/
Very cool. One phenomenon that I have yet to see in person. > > While I was at it, I experimented with the shortest non-guided > exposure that I could use to get round star images of the Pleiades > cluster (AKA "Seven Sisters"). I stopped the Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 that I > was using down to f2.5 and made this image at 4 sec (ISO 800). This is > a simple center crop 1028x768 out of the full frame (in-camera jpeg). > I did have to clone out one spot of hot pixels. I also rotated the > image so I could compare it to this star map: > http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/pleiades.gif > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/6280298876/in/photostream/lightbox/ Very cool. > > Visually caught a nice long meteor overhead. Wish I'd captured that on > camera! Very relaxing 90 minutes before heading back to town and a > semi-responsible bed time. I saw several meteors on my last couple of nights shooting, and my camera dimly caught a few more. > > Darren Addy > Kearney, Nebraska > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
