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Radar
September 2nd, 2008, 09:39 PM
We drove out to New Norcia Western Australia the other night for Space Cowboy. There is an ESA Deep Space Tracking facility out there that the crew wanted to film. After that I setup some equipment and pinged off a few shots. The piggyback system I am using to mount my widefield cameras on is suffering from minor movement whilst I'm shooting. This is giving the stars in my photo's trails. I'll have to look into this sometime soon.

In the star trail shot my dew heater decided to make an appearance. This shot was about 1.5 hours.

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Second shot is Cygnus. 40 minutes. I was hoping to get the North American or Pelican but it seems I need to go longer.

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Final shot was Sagittarius with bright Jupiter. Again the piggyback bracket I'm using on my counterweight bar has moved causing my stars to trail. 40 minutes.

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All shot on Kodak Elite Chrome 200.

I haven't done any bush photography for a while, it was good to get back out there.

Ray

timthelder
September 2nd, 2008, 10:58 PM
Top shot's Ray, :bow:

I can't see me packing all the digital carp'e out to the bush...I'd need one doozy of a generator...Good ole film, lot less gear.

Cheers:smile:

Saundersgal
September 3rd, 2008, 02:05 PM
Gorg shots Ray, the star trails look great :thumbsupmate: