117 frames taken 1 minute apart with 1/20s exposure through a 40mm F/5.6 lens, iso100. Shot between ca 1am and 3am early morning on Thursday 16 July 2009. I’ve also combined all the images into one, using either all (1 minute interval) or some (2 and 3 minutes) of the frames: This is clearly worth [...]

An ISO100 1/100s exposure of the moon through my Synta 80ED. An easy target during last night, but moonlight also lit up most of the rest of the sky preventing any serious deep-sky photography.

Pooling our hardware resources together in the lab, we now have a 102 mm F/9.8 (f=1000 mm) refractor on an EQ6 equatorial mount and either a Canon 20D or a Canon 400D to shoot with. When one camera is coupled to the scope the other one can simultaneously take a wide-field photo. Did not bother [...]

I’ve made a first attempt at pointing my camera towards the night sky. Achieving good results is not an easy task – some people spend considerable amounts of time and money on the hobby of astrophotography ! (and the results are breathtaking) Just a fun thing to do for me – for now… (they call [...]