Tej Dyal
Ghostly Me enjoying visual astronomy with my Celestron Nexstar 8SE
Just a fun self indulgent timelapse of me setting up and enjoying visual astronomy with my Nexstar 8SE and towards end sharing the views of the cosmic beauties with one of my my astronomy society friend. The red light streaks are from my head torch...red light because it doesnt affect our eyes from adapting to the dark to see more details in cosmic objects through the telescope.
Normally, on forecasted clear nights I spontaneously gather my scope and jumps on a maximum 2.5hr hour train journey to explore potential rural dark sky locations wherever a b&b or campsite is available. but this time, one of my fellow Flamsteed Society friends who is also keen to explore out of London nearby dark sky locations offered to drive me to Newbury to try out a new spot. It was certainly an improvement from London but as you can see, not really devoid of light pollution. Milky Way was not in view even after moon had set (which serves as a good indication of decent dark rural skies if it is in view). So not quite dark enough.
Capture info:
Timelapse was captured with a Canon EOS 650D mounted on a static Monfrotto BeFree tripod.
Lens: Samyang 16mm F2
Aperture was 2 stops down at F2.8
99 frames, each one being a 25 second exposure (maximum before stars elongate due to earth rotation)
ISO 3200
Timelapse processed with Camera Raw (contrast, shadows, whites and Blacks adjusted), export to Jpegs then timelapse assembled with Windows Movie Maker (each frame set to 0.25 secs...ie 4fps)
Ghostly Me enjoying visual astronomy with my Celestron Nexstar 8SE
Just a fun self indulgent timelapse of me setting up and enjoying visual astronomy with my Nexstar 8SE and towards end sharing the views of the cosmic beauties with one of my my astronomy society friend. The red light streaks are from my head torch...red light because it doesnt affect our eyes from adapting to the dark to see more details in cosmic objects through the telescope.
Normally, on forecasted clear nights I spontaneously gather my scope and jumps on a maximum 2.5hr hour train journey to explore potential rural dark sky locations wherever a b&b or campsite is available. but this time, one of my fellow Flamsteed Society friends who is also keen to explore out of London nearby dark sky locations offered to drive me to Newbury to try out a new spot. It was certainly an improvement from London but as you can see, not really devoid of light pollution. Milky Way was not in view even after moon had set (which serves as a good indication of decent dark rural skies if it is in view). So not quite dark enough.
Capture info:
Timelapse was captured with a Canon EOS 650D mounted on a static Monfrotto BeFree tripod.
Lens: Samyang 16mm F2
Aperture was 2 stops down at F2.8
99 frames, each one being a 25 second exposure (maximum before stars elongate due to earth rotation)
ISO 3200
Timelapse processed with Camera Raw (contrast, shadows, whites and Blacks adjusted), export to Jpegs then timelapse assembled with Windows Movie Maker (each frame set to 0.25 secs...ie 4fps)