Cape Ealing

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conjunction of venus and the moon.
shot from ealing on canon 400d, ISO 200.
1.6s exposure , F5.0.

not quite the clear skies of the atlas mountains, but still there. just.
shot with a canon 400d, no telescope, ISO200.
30s exposure, f4.0, f/l 18mm.

taken from the roof of a fantastic hotel in the atlas mountains – the kashbah du toubkal – at around (1800 m) at the foot of Jbel Toubkal (highest peak in North Africa). this was shot on 35mm film using a canon 350. . no telescope. no mount. film: ISO 200. 20 second exposures. f5.4. manfrotto tripod.

the world’s first (I think) laptop-controlled binocular mirror mount. for those not yet ‘in the know’, the binocular mirror mount is designed to make star-gazing easy with a pair of binos. the usual problem is pretty simple: holding binoculars up to see the sky gets tiring (and therefore wobbly) pretty quickly. over time, humanity has […]