Space Photographs

[terrets]

Bored. Figured Id share some photos I recently took. Id love to see some of your space photos too.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs760.ash1/165136_1530705799746_1597770304_31330142_2325637_n .jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs058.snc6/168865_1530705919749_1597770304_31330143_178205_n. jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs063.snc6/167375_1530706519764_1597770304_31330147_7542469_n .jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1334.snc4/162622_1530706879773_1597770304_31330150_3089843_n .jpg

[CoreyB]

Nice pics man.

[terrets]

Well thank you..Although anyone with a camera that you can set the exposure time and a tripod can do this. :D Just dont do it when it is 0*F.

[CoopKill]

What exposure did you use there? What lens?

[terrets]

Just used the lens that came with the DSLR. Set the aperture at 3.5. Exposure between 10 and 30 seconds. ISO at 400-1600. Just play around :)....The professionals like to use a large number of short exposure times and stack them together. Thats how they get the photos of colored gases and what not.

[CoreyB]

Had no idea that the exposure setting was so important. Bought my wife a nice canon sx 30. Not a slr but very nice.

[Macky]

these are awesome! I just need to find a place locally without that much light pollution to get these photos. I think joshua tree national park is the closest one for me. Id like to try these too soon.

[green-lantern]

This reminds me of when I was a kid. We would go to a friends lake house and my father would put his camera on a tripod, leave the shutter open for 15-30min. No light pollution out there so it sort of looked like going light speed in star wars. Well going in circles at light speed. :lo5l:

Nice pics man!

[Austin@STM]

Very cool, I wish we had a sky like that around here.

[duke3k]

Pics I took of Comet Hale-Bopp 1995 El Paso Texas.
SetUp as Best I can Recall:

Cannon T70 - 35mm SLR
1600 ISO 35 Film
1 to 2 min exposure (??)
the 35mm Camera was riding piggyback on a 5" Celestron Scope in equatorial tracking mode.
http://casadiaz.com/?attachment_id=385
http://casadiaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/comet-halebopp-1995-boyscout-ln-elp-tx-pic2s.jpg

[terrets]

^ Now thats cool. I wonder when the next meteor shower is...

[ChargerX3]

Love space photography. Cant wait to get a telescope and mount my camera to it.

[reallyxxxxxxloud]

You have female neighbours do you!!!!

[green-lantern]

Pics I took of Comet Hale-Bopp 1995 El Paso Texas.
SetUp as Best I can Recall:

Cannon T70 - 35mm SLR
1600 ISO 35 Film
1 to 2 min exposure (??)
the 35mm Camera was riding piggyback on a 5" Celestron Scope in equatorial tracking mode.
http://casadiaz.com/?attachment_id=385
http://casadiaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/comet-halebopp-1995-boyscout-ln-elp-tx-pic2s.jpg

That is too cool! It looks photo shopped, you not pulling our leg are you? :P

[duke3k]

Nope not photoshopped. I've got the 35mm negatives to prove it.