Orion over Aristarchos Telescope

[aradiel]

If you remember my previous post (http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/245203-milky-way-from-mt-chelmos-greece/#entry2664994) about being unlucky and not reaching the big telescope on the top of the mountain back at May, it looks like that I finally got lucky and reached the top in the middle of November !

As you may know, for the past 20+ days here in Greece we have an amazingly good, hot and clear weather ! 

So, it was the perfect opportunity to reach the 2320m altitude location of the Aristarchos Telescope (http://helmos.astro.noa.gr/#).

The weather was outstanding, with no humidity due to some medium winds, and the temperature just over 0 Celcius.

So, for this image I wanted to capture the enormous telescope with the Orion Nebula and I used the Vixen Polarie Star Tracker taking two (2) seperate exposures of 60 seconds each, one for the sky with the tracker on, and one for the foreground with the tracker off, although there is still some movement on the telescope because it was operational at the time (it was constantly moving as it was "stargazing").

Flickr : https://flic.kr/p/AvM76j

I still have a lot of images to process, but my free time is very limited these days.

I will update as soon as I have them ready !

[kenny k]

Nice image...thanks for sharing.

Kenny

[happy-kat]

very nice capture

[laudropb]

Very impressive photo. Thanks for posting.