Yeah I was aware of the possibilities, was making dinner and told my son, I'm going to go check, but I doubt I'll see anything. Wrong. I probably missed the height by about 15 minutes, but still may have a couple to show.
Electromagnetism is a fickle phenomena. Tom C. > Subject: PESO: A couple from last night's sky shooting > Message-ID: > <caeqabgqkafw1mwu0xvyhswowey_ozkrekpbe8wymsuefmzq...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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/ > > 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/ > > 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. > > 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.
