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Subject: [Leica] Astronomical images from Australia
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:42:39 -0500
References: <544A7C46-BA7A-45AE-9CDB-A4911F0076B0@twc.com>

Very impressive, Howard.  Your techniques and equipment seem to work 
quite well!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/10/2017 12:12 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr wrote:
> G?day, Mates?
>
> I finally fulfilled an ambition of over 50 years and visited Australia, 
> actually my first venture south of the equator. I attended something 
> called the OzSky Star Safari <http://ozsky.org/> at a place called the 
> Warrumbungles Mountain Motel outside the town of Coonabarabran, NSW, about 
> 5 hrs NW of Sydney. It?s so far out in deep rural Oz that it?s only a few 
> miles from the Australian National Observatory at Siding Spring, on the 
> edge of Warrumbungle National Park.
>
> My first view of the southern Milky Way from a seriously dark site was 
> astounding, and I highly recommend it as a bucket-list item! As a neophyte 
> astrophotographer, I had taken a Nikon D810A (the one with the sensor 
> glass that better passes deep red) and a couple of zooms. I used the 
> camera on a tripod for the shorter time exposures, and with a tracking 
> device that offsets the Earth?s rotation for the longer shots. I got 
> several nice ones, posted to the Gallery 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Gallery_001/>.
>
> C&C&Q welcomed.
>
> ?howard
>
>
>
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