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GUEST SKY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
Last updated: 18 July 2011

Some ETX users have sent me examples of their astrophotography. If you have some examples you would like included here please send me a description of how you made the astrophotos and a copy of the images as GIF or JPEG files (due to internet email gateway issues, please send only one image file per message). Send to etx@me.com. Alternatively, if you have created your own web page with your examples please let me know and I'll include a link to your site.

Submitted by: Maurice Collins (mauricejscollins@hotmail.com) [18 Jul 11]
Scorpius from New Zealand:

Here is a shot of the Southern Cross I took at this new Moon with a compact camera on a tripod.

Submitted by: infoforplt (infoforplt@comcast.net) [30 Jun 11]
Taken after midnight on the morning of 8/12/2010. I took these to test exposure combinations in prep for the Perseid Meteor Shower peak that was to be the next evening. As it turned out, the night of the peak was completely overcast. I saw about 9 Perseids over about a 2hr period this night and they appeared to come from the radiant. The night after the peak I saw about 29 in about the same amount of time that appeared to come from the radiant. Too bad it was so humid that night as my NASA ball cap was dripping on the bill. I decided not to photograph that night. Fog rolled in after about 2hr. Following are more specifics. Camera - Canon AE-1 Program in Bulb mode mounted on a standard photo tripod. 50mm f/1.4 lens. Not the widest angle lens but had hoped to get lucky the night of the peak. Aperture was set to f/1.4. Times are 60sec, 180sec, 300sec, 450sec, and 600sec. Film was Fuji Superia 100 ASA color negative (I had planned on using Fuji Provia 100 ASA Slide film the night of the Perseids peak). The photos are labeled with the ASA, f-stop, and exposure time in the labels. Negatives were scanned on a Canon 8400F scanner with film attachment. Scan software used is VueScan Professional Edition. Photoshop editing consisted of dropping the brightness -25 and upping the contrast +25. This helped remove some of the darken the backround in the originals and cleared some overexposure at the longer exposures. I was about 4-5 miles outside of a town of about 13,000 in southern MN on a friends driveway. I'm sure the lights from the city had some effect also. There also appears to be an artifact near Cas Epsilon in the 450sec exposure that may be a defect on the film. I don't see it in the other photos. All in all, I was pretty happy with the way they came out. Hope you and everyone else enjoy them. By the way, I am still shooting film but have upgraded to a Canon EOS-1V. I don't have a wide angle lens for it yet but should have the one I want by the time of the next best time for Perseid astrophotography in August 2013..

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