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fly me to the moon
this was just luck. taken with the canon 400d through the william optics zenithstar 66 with 0.8 field reducer (ISO 100, shutter speed 1/160 sec) from la azhoia, spain. no photoshopping. each shot separated by 2 about seconds.
polaris – 2 minute exposure from la azohia
no tracking mount on holiday so a straight 2 minute exposure of the only bit of the sky that wouldn’t move too much during that time – polaris. the second shot shows the ‘engagement ring’ – the semi-circles of stars to […]
a binocular mirror mount: capeMirror v. 1.0
so here is capeMirror version 1.0. the binocular mirror mount no-one has been waiting for! iIt had no ‘bottom plate’. It was just directly attached to the tripod (a manfrotto). It also had no azimuth scale – just a compass. but it worked very nicely. very happy with it. needs a lick of paint. Ben
capeMirror version 1.0 plans
capeMirror version 1.0 having pondered this quite a while since the trip to morocco, i’ve now got a fairly good idea about how to build this binocular mirror mount. i also seem to have settled on a name (which is possibly even more important): “baltaz” – a binocular mirror mount in altitude and azimuth. these […]
saturn moon conjunction
conjuction of saturn and the moon. over-exposed moon just shows its unlit face. the second picture is not an enlargement of the first, just part of the first at full size. the second shows a very wobbly saturn. shot using […]
