As I said yesterday, over the next few days I will be posting some of David's astronomical photos.
Here is what he has written about today's photo.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a relative heavyweight as galaxies go. Heavy enough to capture smaller galaxies and have them orbit it in a gravitational embrace. One of its captives is the Large Magellanic Cloud - 163,000 light years from Earth and one hundredth the size of the Milky Way, but still containing the equivalent of 10 billion sun-sized stars.
This photo was taken with the camera mounted on a tripod.
@helenm2016 I asked David what the blue stars are and he said they are foreground stars. They look bigger because they are closer to us and the Megellanic Cloud is further away.
I am endlessly fascinated with the stars and planets - amazing thing, space. I couldn't dream of photographing the night sky here, there is way too much light pollution around London. But this is beautiful
As some of you know I put together a photo book of each year on 365 and as I want to include some of David's photos in my book at the end of this year I have decided to occasionally post his shots on here.
I was walking home from a party on Friday night and was looking at the sky and thought it was about time I had another crack at night sky photography. This shot has lit the fuse Babs
@taffy This shot can be seen as a smudge with the naked eye in the Milky Way and the photo was taken with just his camera on a tripod. Probably his 500 mm lens.
I am posting David's astronomical photos all week.
Yesterday's photo of the partial eclipse was taken with his camera on a tripod with a 100,000 ND filter.
The photo of Tycho crater on the moon was taken with the body of the camera attached to his telescope.
Later in the week I will be posting shots of Eta Carinae and Orion Nebula and both were taken with the body of the camera attached to a telescope and Orion was a 30 sec exposure and also I will be posting the transit of Venus which was taken with a 100,000 ND filter. Hope that helps.
February 21st, 2017
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As some of you know I put together a photo book of each year on 365 and as I want to include some of David's photos in my book at the end of this year I have decided to occasionally post his shots on here.
I am posting David's astronomical photos all week.
Yesterday's photo of the partial eclipse was taken with his camera on a tripod with a 100,000 ND filter.
The photo of Tycho crater on the moon was taken with the body of the camera attached to his telescope.
Later in the week I will be posting shots of Eta Carinae and Orion Nebula and both were taken with the body of the camera attached to a telescope and Orion was a 30 sec exposure and also I will be posting the transit of Venus which was taken with a 100,000 ND filter. Hope that helps.