Space Photographs

[terrets]

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

[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. 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.

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.