Milky Way in Mojave
May 25, 2018 11:08:15 #
A couple quick shots, the shot with the rocks was taken separately and PS’ed in.
May 25, 2018 12:02:30 #
Beautiful Brian!
I think I detected some camera movement in the PS'd version.
Still out? And still windy?
Pretty amazing, light pollution free photography.
I bet you found a great place for night sky!
I think I detected some camera movement in the PS'd version.
Still out? And still windy?
Pretty amazing, light pollution free photography.
I bet you found a great place for night sky!
May 25, 2018 13:16:05 #
May 25, 2018 13:56:38 #
I was about 45 mins NE of 29 Palms. Went up to the top of the NE part of Joshua tree around 1 am trying to get away from the wind. Was working on setting up my camera and tracker when a mountain lion came out of the brush about 15 feet away. I guess he didn’t like our laser and wondered off. I couldn’t get the tracker to work so ended up leaving without any pix. Got back changed batteries and worked fine. So almost got eaten for no reason. Oh well I got a story out of it.
May 25, 2018 13:59:47 #
SonnyE wrote:
Beautiful Brian!
I think I detected some camera movement in the PS'd version.
Still out? And still windy?
Pretty amazing, light pollution free photography.
I bet you found a great place for night sky!
I think I detected some camera movement in the PS'd version.
Still out? And still windy?
Pretty amazing, light pollution free photography.
I bet you found a great place for night sky!
Yes it was pretty windy on that one. And of course with wind comes dust. I came back early, every night was wind, the last night was a lot of clouds and dust. It’s odd how the sky is not good, but you can still see stars.
I did get a spooky shot of the Milky Way with clouds and dust, it’s kinda cool.
May 25, 2018 14:05:39 #
Europa wrote:
A couple quick shots, the shot with the rocks was taken separately and PS’ed in.
Nice! Very nice!
bwa
May 26, 2018 09:14:58 #
May 26, 2018 11:09:53 #
John Martin wrote:
Very impressive!!!! What was your set up.
Canon t5i with rokinon 14mm and 85mm. Ioptron Skytracker. Esposure time was 150 seconds. It was windy, so there was some shaking.
May 26, 2018 20:09:26 #
Excellent shot! The part about the mountain lion is making me question my sanity of wanting going out to shoot the Milky Way alone! Yikes!
May 27, 2018 01:02:18 #
CathyAnn wrote:
Excellent shot! The part about the mountain lion is making me question my sanity of wanting going out to shoot the Milky Way alone! Yikes!
Thank you CathyAnn, it’s all part of the excitement. If I wasn’t too busy trying to get my tracking set, I could have taken a pix of it. It wasn’t in any hurry to leave.
May 27, 2018 14:09:51 #
Europa wrote:
Thank you CathyAnn, it’s all part of the excitement. If I wasn’t too busy trying to get my tracking set, I could have taken a pix of it. It wasn’t in any hurry to leave.
Lol I was wondering where the mountain lion shots were.
Nice job with the pillar shots.
Jim
May 27, 2018 14:26:47 #
Europa wrote:
A couple quick shots, the shot with the rocks was taken separately and PS’ed in.
Great job Brian, I've not been to the desert with my scope but I'd like to something.
Craig
May 27, 2018 15:40:54 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Lol I was wondering where the mountain lion shots were.
Nice job with the pillar shots.
Jim
Nice job with the pillar shots.
Jim
Thanks Jim and thanks for your help with Jupiter. I’ve upgraded to usb3 and a SSD, i’m able to get just over 100fps, so huge improvement. The screen shots helped a lot too, figuring out those wavelets in Registax is tough.
I do wonder how to max out the full capacity of the camera, I believe mine says 150fps full resolution. I’m getting 100 at the lowest.
May 27, 2018 16:15:05 #
CraigFair wrote:
Great job Brian, I've not been to the desert with my scope but I'd like to something.
Craig
Craig
It’s pretty amazing, although we had wind that kicked up dust makinging seeing poor 10-15 degrees above horizon, you could see the Milky Way across the entire sky. Would have been nice to kick back in a lounge chair and look up.
May 27, 2018 23:05:25 #
Europa wrote:
It’s pretty amazing, although we had wind that kicked up dust makinging seeing poor 10-15 degrees above horizon, you could see the Milky Way across the entire sky. Would have been nice to kick back in a lounge chair and look up.
You could kick back in a lounge chair...
But 5000 years from now some archaeologist would be digging you up from a sand dune...
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