We had clear skies on the Saturday night before TSP officially began, so I took the opportunity to revisit a favorite location -- the VLBA Radio Telescope just a few hundred yards from where Kim and I were staying at the Sproul Ranch.This year I chose to try a 3 panel panorama with the Milky Way arching to the dish (like a galactic rainbow leading to the pot-o-gold). This was shot with my Nikon D700, 12-24mm lens, on a tripod. Each 3 exposures were 45 seconds, then stitched together using Photomerge in CS5.
3 comments:
Flipping incredible. Just found your page while researching what I can do with my D700 and astro (I also have an 8" Newtonian I may mount to it). Love what you produce out here - wish we had this kind of darkness in southern NH. Really awesome stuff out here.
Thanks Raymond! As you can see, a lot of fun can be had with the ol' D700 : )
I think I commented somewhere else on your blog about looking for a higher res photo. This one, Milk & Dish, was really what I was looking for. Sorry about that.
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