Only 3 and a half weeks till the evenings start drawing in. Lets hope the autumn will be better than the spring.
It’s too late now for the scope to be setup especially after the week I’ve had. So I thought that I’d have another go at the celestial equator star trails show. Inspired by an awesome APOD image a while back… shame I don;t have something nice in the foreground….
This images is a made up from over 200 x 1 minute exposures. Using the 300D, the standard 50mm lense at 18mm, ISO at 800 and F5.6.
I used a heated dew strap to keep the lens from dewing up.
Images taken from around 23:10 – 02:50, with 10 seconds between each frame to save the data to the card and to let the chip cool a little.
I also looked at one of the frames and did some silly stretching to try and highlight the Milkyay running through Scutum and Sagittarius. It’s a rubbish image but does highlight the Milkyway a little.
Finally I did a little video for youtube.
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