On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:28:44PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: > 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/
Very nice. > > 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. With dark skies, Andromeda might be Messier. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
