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01/03/2008, 08:12 PM
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More camera play
Got some FTS shots, finally. Not the best, but I'm still learning. I had to merge the 125 pics since I'd have to stand in the middle of a wall to get it all in the 70-200mm L...
   Some Alabama skys. I've just recently figured out that if I focus the trees in the foreground, the pics turn out a lot better (these may have been pre discovery  ).  
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01/03/2008, 09:05 PM
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is that "ET" in the lower right of the last pic?
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01/03/2008, 10:19 PM
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Nice, Gary!
Brandon
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01/03/2008, 10:24 PM
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01/04/2008, 03:14 AM
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nice pics!
I JUST got into photography myself and started buying lenses of all types as well as an adapter for my telescope so I can get some great pics of saturn's rings and the orion nebula (damn I am such a geek..lol) |
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01/04/2008, 03:35 AM
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You may be a geek, but I promise you are in good company here!
Brandon
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01/05/2008, 01:06 PM
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I hadn't thought of coupling a camera and a telescope. That'd be a whole new obsession... I always wanted to be an astronomer when I was a kid (not an astronaut
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01/05/2008, 02:07 PM
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Well with today's technology it is pretty inexpensive and a LOT easier to enjoy astronomy and/or photgraphy combined even.
I tried getting into astronomy even 5 years ago and was so frustrated with the focusing, keeping steady and lining stuff up that I just ended up giving up on it. I just got a new scope recently from Sams and it only cost me 200 bucks, comes equipped with astrostar that does everything for you as far as locating. So now I just hit a button and it finds saturn and mars etc.. Adapters for cameras (T Mounts) are as little as 15 bucks as well. Makes it very enjoyable and removes all the frustartions 
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01/05/2008, 04:35 PM
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Plus, you've already got a digital SLR, don't you Gary? Exposure times won't be an issue as SLRs are pretty much necessary for astronomy photography, if I understand correctly.
I tried getting into it a LONG time ago... probably 6th grade... ( ). All of the computer guided scopes are really cool, and you can almost always retrofit an existing scope with a computer and its motors. Plus there's some awesome software available, too!  Brandon
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01/05/2008, 07:50 PM
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Mine too... but thats how I'm getting my T5s...
Brandon
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