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This is a photo of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere with the milky way in the background. It was taken by fellow ASSA member Lafras Smit and is a result of 15 stacked exposures. It was taken at Sutherland, 300Km from Cape Town, the yellow glow at the bottom right is light pollution from Cape Town city.
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Excellent photo.

Why are you posting it instead of the photographer? You need to get him/her to join. ;-)

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OzEclipse wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:07 am Excellent photo.

Why are you posting it instead of the photographer? You need to get him/her to join. ;-)

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Uitsteekende foto!
Ek het nie geweet die lug vervuiling van Kaap stad kan van Sutherland af gesien word nie.

Ek sal sien of ons Afrikaans by die google translate knoppie op die forum kan byvoeg, miskien sal dit help as die manne in Afrikaans die forums kan lees?

Ek sal graag die facebook blaai wil sien, kan jy dalk a skakel vir ons pos?
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KingClinton wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:24 am Uitsteekende foto!
Ek het nie geweet die lug vervuiling van Kaap stad kan van Sutherland af gesien word nie.

Ek sal sien of ons Afrikaans by die google translate knoppie op die forum kan byvoeg, miskien sal dit help as die manne in Afrikaans die forums kan lees?

Ek sal graag die facebook blaai wil sien, kan jy dalk a skakel vir ons pos?
Dit is ’n geslote groep so jy sal eers moet aansluit....
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Wow, that is an outstanding image!! Thank you Piet.
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Here is Lafras Smit's latest Milky Way : it was taken on his farm in central South Africa, it is my new desktop. Its in hi-res enjoy!
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Beautiful!
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These are outstanding, gives such a good ethereal or ephemeral "feel". Thanks again!!

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Stunning photos!
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Incredible image, thank you for sharing it.
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terrrrific for sure . Thanks for sharing them . great to see the full arc like that .. Phill
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Lafras Smit just put a video on YouTube highlighting the work he has done in 2019....if you enjoyed his photos you would enjoy this...
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Both Milky Way image captures are positively breathtaking. Both are very nicely framed.
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They have so inspired me that I bought a new camera,a Fujifilm X-T100 with 15-45mm lens, to get me going....I know its going to take a while before i get close, but I am going to give it a go.
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Amazing image of the Milky Way.
Thank you for sharing this.
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OzEclipse wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:07 am Excellent photo.

Why are you posting it instead of the photographer? You need to get him/her to join. ;-)

Joe
Mr Joe Cali I see your photos are in AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE November/December 2019 on page 56-57 nice going! maybe you can tell us more about them?
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Piet Le Roux wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:18 pm
OzEclipse wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2019 7:07 am Excellent photo.

Why are you posting it instead of the photographer? You need to get him/her to join. ;-)

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Mr Joe Cali I see your photos are in AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE November/December 2019 on page 56-57 nice going! maybe you can tell us more about them?
Piet Le Roux wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:18 pm
Mr Joe Cali I see your photos are in AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE November/December 2019 on page 56-57 nice going! maybe you can tell us more about them?
Hi Piet,
Thank you for your post & comments! Sorry for the delay in responding.

I already posted the solar eclipse photos that appear in the article on this site last July

Here is a direct link to the page on my website : -
http://joe-cali.com/eclipses/PAST/TSE2019/index5.html

The article is written by my long time friend Peter Anderson. Peter was one of my astronomy mentors back in the 1970's. He has observed many eclipses and is an outstanding occultation observer with more than 100000 occultation timings to his credit but he is not an expert eclipse photographer.

He also had to cancel his trip to Chile last July. So Peter contacted me to ask if I would provide illustrative photos from this years eclipse for his preview article for next years eclipse.

After discussing the content of his article, I provided 4 images - 2 eclipse images and two people images. I have not yet seen the article and so I don't know which images the editor published.

On the day they were doing the layout, I arranged for the editor to email me the final image dimensions. I resized a 16bit png direct from the PSD file at the exact final dimension of 195mm wide@300dpi. By doing this, I minimised the possibility of them creating a posterisation of the delicate sky gradient during resizing of an 8 bit jpg image. So I am sure that the wide field multiple image was used to cover about half a page and given that, and the 800 word text, it would not surprise me if the other 3 images submitted were dropped from the article.

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Pentax K1, 50mm f1.7 lens @f5.6, Baader Astrosolar ND5 film partial phases 1/2000s, 3min intervals, total phase 5 exposures radially stitched to reproduce corona out to 5 solar radii from the limb.



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This composite image is made up from 12 different exposures ranging from 1/1000s to 2s at f4 using a Pentax K5 DSLR, Pentax 300mmf4 EDIF lens at ISO100



Two people shots. The first you may recognise from my avatar!
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There was no payment for the images and so I had Australian S&T's editor sign a non-distribution/syndication contract. Usually, when S&T pays for an article, they get you to sign over world re-publication rights so that they can republish your article or photos in any of their group publications. This occurred for a feature I co-wrote in the October 2013 international edition. The article was republished in Australian S&T the following year.

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