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Hello from Guildford, Surrey


MarkAR

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Hi All, I think I caught a bug taking pictures of the Aurora Borealis in Tromso whilst up to knee deep in snow.

Tried taking shots of the moon and some stars with a little success so have decided to get a tracker for longer exposures and see how it goes.

I've been doing a lot of searching and found a whole load of information to get me started on the basics, now to put theory into practice.

 

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25 minutes ago, Stu said:

Welcome to the forum Mark. Not so far from me, Walton-on-Thames. Some decent dark sites on the South Downs for you to head to.

Cheers Stu, looking at light pollution maps it does get down to Bortal 4 a little further south, hope to find somewhere not too far away where I can park up away from the glow a bit, looks like there are quite a few choices of commons to visit.

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12 minutes ago, MarkAR said:

Cheers Stu, looking at light pollution maps it does get down to Bortal 4 a little further south, hope to find somewhere not too far away where I can park up away from the glow a bit, looks like there are quite a few choices of commons to visit.

Ranmore Common is quite good, and we sometimes head down to bear Bignor which is a bit darker but a long trek for us, particularly coming home!

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Thank you everyone. Well I'm still waiting for my IOptron Skyguider to be delivered but I thought I'd pop outside the other night and take a couple of stills.

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Taken with my Canon 80d, Samyang 14mm F2.4 set at F2.8, ISO 1600 for 15 seconds.

Tweaked it a little in Mac Photos to try to remove some light pollution,  supposedly Bortal 5 here.

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Hi Mark,

Welcome to the forum.

I used to live in Surrey and when there used to be an astronomy shop in Dorking they would go up to Ranmore common and do some observing, could be worth a look.

Happy observing.

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41 minutes ago, Orion17 said:

Hi Mark,

Welcome to the forum.

I used to live in Surrey and when there used to be an astronomy shop in Dorking they would go up to Ranmore common and do some observing, could be worth a look.

Happy observing.

Yes, Ranmore is pretty good, well worth trying

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