Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just superb! Cheers Jayanand On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information