Forgot to post these

[Tadakun]

Since someone has resurrected my barn door shots I guess I should post up the pictures i forgot to post over the summer months. I didnt post them before because I short on time and wasn't partiularly thrilled with the outcome. I know I could've done better but it got dark so late

Both of these were shot using my barn door tracker. I can't remember the exposures, there werent many subs and the exposures may of been 120 seconds each.

They were also shot with my Canon 30D unmodified and a 20mm lens.

anywayss here they are cygnus and the center of our home.

[Stargazer Jack]

Very good images. I like the second one with 3 satellites or meteors and a big bright thing down the bottom

[Casperovic]

Great shots!i like the second one too , is that a plane on the bottom? ! how long exposures you able to do on you mount ?

[Tadakun]

I think I could do about 10minutes at most before it would start to error to out. But I can't remember. it may be 15minutes. The streak on the bottom was definitely a plane as there was a airport to the west from where we lived at the time. The two streaks heading down into the bulge must've been satellites but two streaks moving horizontal had to be planes.

[Casperovic]

Im impressed why don't you try with some telephoto lens ?

[Tadakun]

I have and you can see my other threads where I've photographed the whirlpool, Bodes, horse head nebula, and some others. I have a 70-200mm f2 canon IS-L which I've done my DSOs. But I have to say I was always more impressed with the views that my 18mm-50mm produced.

[JimStan]

We get nothing that dark around here. Last night, I could barely make out the brightest stars of most of the constellations. Limiting magnitude was probably around 3rd !

Jim S.

[Tadakun]

well i used to live in Vermont and up in the hills. the closest "big" city was 30 odd miles away. Now I'm in Oregon in the heart of the willamette valley so there's a bit more pollution but still good viewing.....except for the whole pacific northwest thing where it's cloudy from now till july and rainy....I'm hoping I'll get a break soon to get the the 15x70 binos out and do some viewing.