Spoken word is not usually a format I would go out of my way to find but I was dragged along to a live performance of this by an ex girlfriend and was completely blown away:
Thanks chaps! That was taken with the following:
Skymax 127mm
2.5x APO barlow
HEQ5 mount
toUcam 740k with IR blocker
Astronomik L filter for Luminance and combined with RGB data
The effective focal length of that combination was 3750mm
Yep that motion trail is due to the fact that I had never aligned to the South Celestial pole before and it's extremely hard to find so I think my alignment was off by a fraction.
The light pollution filter is just a 2" Astronomik CCD filter that I simply placed ontop of the camera lens as...
Thanks guys, the picture is a mosiac made up of 4 panes. Each pane was with the following setup:
Canon 450D on a portable motorised table top tripod
10 x 30 seconds (with about 10 dark frames)
50mm @ f1.8 + 2" Astronomik light pollution filter
Just got back from South Africa and managed to get this while I was out in the bush:
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My lens filter wasn't on straight hence the star...
Cheers Mik, took a good couple of hours to capture everything. I did the same tile twice a few times because I wanted to be extra sure I caught everything this time (last mosaic I did I missed a spot!)
I used QG Video which should come with the QHY5, and a little trick I found is to turn off...
Thought I would work on the Moon a bit last week. Here is the link to a full sized mosaic, takes a little while to load:
http://www.samiransari.co.uk/moon_mosaic.jpg
And some smaller crops:
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