Say hello to the Skull and Crossbones nebula. Also known as NGC 2467. I think it has proven to be a little too distant for a 150mm telescope to handle. I might have to revisit it with a longer lens sometime, but for now this will have to do.
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Tag: astronomy
Seven sisters
I took some more time to get to know my new bit of kit last night, particularly scheduled shoots. I am going to chalk it up to learning settings, because I had several target shots and none of them came out the best they could. I took a photo of the Pleiades and didn’t really get much of the associated nebulosity. But at least I can find targets and my alignment wasn’t askew.
I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe
I think it’s the law that a novice deep space object photographer must shoot the Orion nebula. And there were luckily some breaks in the cloud this evening. So here’s my photo. Not bad for a Bortle 5 sky, but the highlights are a little blown out. I think I have to shoot shorter subexposures when it comes to objects like this.
From the archives
I haven’t been very active in keeping this blog of late, but I really should have posted for September’s partial eclipse. After all I did get up at sparrow-fart and headed to the beach to take some photos. I wasn’t the only person doing that, either.
In October, I went down to the Moray Place entrance to the art gallery to protest the Prime Minister. I have to admit in the moment instead of shouting something like “Justice for Palestine!” or “Pay the nurses!”, my brain kinda shorted out and I just went “Boo!”
