First success tonight with the O-GPS1. Got a whole series of images at different exposures of Andromeda and her neighbors. I hope to get my first taste of stacking RAW files for more a detailed image tomorrow, but for now here is a crop of a single in-camera JPEG with only mimimal post-processing (described in my comments).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/10181475554/ I realize that it is probably the easiest astrophotography target in the sky, but it is a starting place, and I'm encouraged! The SMC K 135mm f2.5 gave pretty nice round star images across the field, with only the expected coma at the edges of the full frame. This was about 5 miles SE of town, down a Dead End road (where I saw a whole herd of deer in my headlights including a very nice buck). The moon was at about 23% and not quite set yet, behind me. From darker skies I would probably have gotten even more detail. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- 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.
