Widefield Plough Pic

[Greg]

With possibly a Majorid meteor and a satelite...

Cannon on a standard tripod 60 sec exposure 200ASA

[gsjag]

Impressive exposure!

[gaelicstorm7]

lovely image, processed at all or right out of the camera ?, if so you must have some nice dark skies !

Alan

[geppetto]

Just thinking that myself

If thats not colour tweaked then I'm envious of your dark sky :D

The dotted line seems to have been an aircrafts flashing lights but

I'm curious about the other line. Just wondered if it might have been

an Iridium flare?

Any chance you might check with Heavens Above site to see if one

was forcast for that time

Love widefield shots 8)

[anthony]

Lovely shot there - Are your skies that dark or is there a bit of processing?

Anthony

[OXO]

Loceing pic Greg 8)

Just to show how bad my LP is from my location here's an image unprocessed i took a few days ago:rolleyes:

25secs exp static tripod iso 1600.

A little bit of processing skills get's you this..

25x25 sec's stacked images iso 1600 each frame rotated to account for Field rotation.

Still not great

[anthony]

Hi James,

I was looking at your first picture thinking, "Look at all those stars out in the day time!"

Awful light pollution.

Anthony

[OXO]

Hi Anthony,

Yeah it's pretty much like this most the time ya do get the odd evening when it's half as bad and were i used to live it was twice as awful as here :shock:(blackpool).

James

[Greg]

All I did to it was get rid of the orange amp glow on the right hand side by cropping it a little.

When Steve came over the other night we did a wide field 4min single exposure od Cygnus.....He had to brighten the image to try and get Cygnus out of it!

So yes I am lucky that I probably live in the darkest site in Devon. Will try and organise a SP here one year..

I was thinking that it could be an iridium flare, but wasn't sure.

[MartinB]

Nice one Greg. Interesting to see how the trails develop as you move away from polaris

[Greg]

I'll wait till next week and have a go at one of those arty swirly stars around Polaris shots....Leave the shutter open for 2 hours or something!