[Chaos-l] pictures

[Tony Garcia]

Thanks to Robert for letting borrow the power cord!  I wasn't sure about my
battery life with such a long night.

I don't have good astrophotography pictures, no stacking, still learning,
stair trails, etc but I have several shots that are personally satisfying
in terms of "better than last time" for me.

That said, I did get a few great shots of the 5am crescent moon and venus.
The pictures don't do it justice and I'm a but surprised how neat
conjunctions are to see live.

In one you can see the ranger checking the fire pit area.  He looked at me
with his flashlight from the road and I assume he was giving me a funny
look for being there that early/late. I said hi.

I attached email versions of the dawn shots and one shot of Medoc at dawn.
One moon shot was near sunrise so it was washing out the moon but I thought
was interesting lighting.

We saw a lot of meteors last night.  Especially after midnight.   I think
the theory(from Robert I think) last night was that they were taurids which
are spread out over late oct and early nov, and especially with so many
fireballs.

I saw more meteors last night then when I got up early for the peak of the
Orionids.

One last thing - when taking the dawn shot of medoc I thought - daytime
photographers have it so easy!!  you can find the buttons, you don't have
long exposures, you hardly need a tripod, your fingers aren't as frozen ...

-ctg



On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Mark Montazer <mark at montazer.org> wrote:

> I ended up getting there after dark (aka, 6PM) so I setup hastily and
> didn't plan on doing more than testing my recent full spectrum camera
> mod.
>
> Here's M27 with 13.5 minutes of integrated exposure at ISO 3200. Both
> were stacked with Deep Sky Stacker using identical settings. The stack
> of M27 from last night was actually in JPG format with no darks. This
> is because my settings were reset during the mod and I didn't catch
> this until half way through the night. None of the images had flat
> frames applied either.
>
> http://www.astrobin.com/full/24555/
>
> Not only is there more color, but there are about twice as many stars
> visible! I wasn't expecting that benefit.
>
> Here's M42 with 3 minutes of integrated exposure at ISO 3200. Again,
> both stacked identically. The core is blown out, as expected, but it
> wasn't worth the effort to address for this test.
>
> http://www.astrobin.com/full/24558/
>
> I did a single frame star count with DSS and it reported over twice
> the number of stars available. It's great to see the OIII giving way
> to h-alpha in the interior.
>
> I took single shots of Veil, the Horsehead, Rosette, and Helix, and
> there was a decent amount of data available. Not worthy of posting,
> but enough that I now have some new targets to go after this winter.
>
> Mark
>
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>
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Allen Davis
> <starstorm151 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> > I know that Mark and Tony both last night were taking some pictures with
> > their scopes.  Please share when able…allen
> >
> >
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