Constellations

[Quatermass]

Last night after 3 weeks of cloud and fog the skies cleared and I had a great night under the stars. Took a few shots and heres what it looked like out the back of my garden.

[Dave]

Nicely done.

Dave

[martin_h]

Thats handy having the names in the sky as well!

LOL

Nice image

[Quatermass]

Thats handy having the names in the sky as well!

LOL

Nice image

Yep they just appeared as if by magic! lol it hard to see the constellations sometimes so I spent some time joining up the dots all helps to get me to remember them;)

[Neil78]

Wow, the stars have come out very clearly, and the sky very dark, considering the light pollution from what I guess is a street light illuminating the house and tree-tops. What lens and settings did you use for ISO speed/shutter speed/aperture, if you dont mind my asking?

[Quatermass]

Yes the light pollution from the pesky street lights is a pain but I went behind my garden wall to cut out the worst of it. I used a lumix G1 with its standard lens and set it to manual ISO was 200 and 400 with widest aperture setting and adjusted shutter speed to the centre guide dial about 8 seconds on ISO of 400 and 13 on 200 ISO. I intend to have another crack at it with my camera piggy backed to my telescope so I can do some longer exspoures later on. It was cold and I needed to hit the sack so I took the shots pretty quickly. Im still on a vast learning curve with all this. Heres a few more..

The plough looked like a big question mark above my chimney pot ie what are you doing out here at 1am in the morning freezing your buns off you nutter!

[Taff]

Hi' well done no star trails in your capture.Mark