Scorpius, Libra and Iridium 63

[Ant]

I've recently moved to a more rural location. The skies are much better than my previous house. Although I have to admit to being a little disappointed...

But then I remembered that it's summer and hasn't got properly dark since mid May and won't again until mid July. So I'm going to wait until then before I get too disappointed.

Anyway we've had a few clear night and I've found a nice secluded spot about 50 metres from my house that has great horizons

The shot below was 10 x 25 second shots with the 300D at 400ISO with Darks subtracted. Considering that this was taken at around 10:30 I think this shows that the skies have great potential!!! I cannot wait to see Orion sitting there above this horizon

I've also drawn in the constellation lines - I'm looking forward to giving this another go - maybe on a driven mount at night.

About 30 minutes later there was a -5 Iridium flare over in the NE, so I had a go at that as well. This was about 30 seconds with the same darks as taken earlier for the Scorpius shot.

I hope that you enjoy!

Cheers

Ant

[Beyond_Vision]

Glad to see you settled in Ant. Here's hoping the views will be good for you in the Autumn.

Regards

Kevin

[Paxo]

Nics images Ant, glad to see your all settled in and imaging again. Do you have any large walls to fall off during lunar imaging sessions?

Steve

[Ant]

Thanks guys.

Steve, lol no walls for me to fall off of but a few metres from my house is farmers fields (where I took these images from), there are plenty of ditches and holes for me to fall down

So I doubt it's the last time I'll do something stupid!

Ant

[MikeP]

Looks good to me Ant.

I would not be disappointed - 10:30 here at present is still pretty light, nowhere near as dark as even 6:00 in mid-winter.

Enjoy the new life.

Mike

[Psychobilly]

Oh for a Southern Horizon.... Certainly Looks promising...

It will be well worth taking a driven mount for the Southern Milkyway .. works nicely at 50mm...

[Ant]

Thanks Mike / Peter.

I did think about an astrotrac, but I really cannot justify the money. So maybe a little EQ3 will do quite nicely - easy to carry down there with a chair - happy days!

Ant