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Todd Weeks
{K:7636} 11/25/2006
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Brian,
Ain't she a beauty?
Todd ;^)
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Brian Rueger
{K:7341} 11/25/2006
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Very interesting Todd. You did this with only the 300mm lens???
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Rob Graziano
{K:6678} 11/24/2006
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Todd...glad you don't mind...I think these shots are mind blowing. As I said before...I only wish I could get something like this; congrats...they are hands down World Class!!!
rob
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Todd Weeks
{K:7636} 11/24/2006
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Rob,
I don't mind at all. These images are just quick edits that I have done. I really (as you can see) don't know what I'm doing when it comes to editing. A serious problem on my part. I will be sitting down with friends to re-edit these pictures and hopefully learn something at the same time. Thanks for showing me the potential.
Todd
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Rob Graziano
{K:6678} 11/24/2006
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Todd...that is mind blowing that we are able to see that with our lenses...wow! I only wish I could do something like this. I wanted to take your picture and play with it to see what you thought; let me know if you like it or not; I hope you don't mind.
thanks!
rob
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mike donovan
{K:3698} 11/24/2006
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wow! The other one is definitely more impressive but this one is awesome too!
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Todd Weeks
{K:7636} 11/24/2006
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Hi Bill,
Thanks for the kind words. Perhaps I should explain the process in a little more detail. Ivo has a telescope on an equatorial mount. The mount itself is capable of doing tracking. In other words, it was set up to follow objects while observing them in the night sky. This works great for visual observing in so much as you don't have to keep nudging the scope along to keep the object in the field of view. Unfortunately, that's not good enough for photography. Tracking mounts have all kinds of errors in accuaracy related to setup, mechanical tolerances etc. that make for blurry stars when using a 300mm lens/telescope for the long exposures required in these low light conditions. To get this image, here's what we did. I attached my camera and lens to his telescope, piggy-back style. The telescope was aimed at a bright star in the general area of the object, and the camera was pointed to the object. Using a high magnification eyepiece with crosshairs in the telescope, Ivo was able to use the keypad controller for the mount to make incremental adjustments to correct the errors in the tracking mount. This allowed us to take these photos without ending up with blurry, elongated stars.
Todd
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bill smith
{K:5416} 11/24/2006
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Very impressive Todd. Manually following an object in the night sky for 4 minutes is no easy task. Very Impressive indeed!!
Bill
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