[Chaos-l] My first astrophoto

[Mark South]

Yes nice photo!

Sent from my cell

On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Mark Lerch <mark.lerch at quest.com> wrote:

> Congratulations Michael, on a nice shot.  And welcome to a very  
> addicting aspect of astronomy.  I'm not sure whether to welcome you  
> or pity you, lol..  : )
>
> You will be amazed what you can do with that camera.  Even in  
> severely light polluted skies, as long as you take lots and lots of  
> images you can get nice results.
>
> Here is the result of about 2 hours worth of 30-second exposures of  
> the cluster 7789 in Cass I took from my deck at the end of '08.  A  
> quick & dirty crop, not ideal, but it gives you an idea.
>
> http://www.marklerch.com/7789.jpg
>
> And these things are so ridiculously fun with a DSLR they should be  
> outlawed: http://www.astrotrac.com/
>
> Mark
>
> From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On  
> Behalf Of Michael Hrivnak [mhrivnak at hrivnak.org]
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:17 AM
> To: chaos
> Subject: [Chaos-l] My first astrophoto
>
> http://hrivnak.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1880&g2_imageViewsIndex=0
>
> You guessed it. What else could I image tonight but the moon? This  
> was done from my back porch with a Celestron 4" f/9.8 refractor (the  
> Omni XLT) and a Canon XSi.
>
> Is that yellow tinting near the top-left chromatic aberration?
>
> Michael
>
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