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It came to pass that when the clock turned to the witching hour on the last day of the year that one of the most (well, not really) influential astronomers of the 21st century was outside braving the spirits of the dead and, even worse, the cold temperature. The quarry was of a familiar constellation but the approach was somewhat different.

I had opted for a medium focal length zoom lens and set my camera to 35mm focal length, ISO 800 and 15 seconds exposure. I started off by aiming at Orion. Well, not quite, as I made some adjustments to get the whole constellation in. To my dismay, there were clouds, not even haze, as I hoped. I proceeded anyway, as I can sometimes sort a bit out through processing.



I aimed at Cancer, which was higher in the sky.

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nice take , thx .
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Are you using a tracker or is the fl / exposure short enough that one's not needed?
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pakarinen wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:23 pm Are you using a tracker or is the fl / exposure short enough that one's not needed?
I don't have a tracker, so go for shorter exposures (15 seconds in this example) and stack. The area of sky around Orion was rather cloudy and I'm hoping to do a similar shoot on a clearer night.
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Hello again Philip. A nice pair of images from you using just your camera. Orion (The Hunter) and M44 (The Beehive Cluster) both show up quite nicely even with this relatively short exposure times. Thanks for sharing these beautiful nightscape captures with us Philip and best wishes for many clear skies.
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