My Imaging Rig on Mauna Loa August 2013
The Milky Way looked clear and beautiful with my naked eyes. Sagittarius Star Cloud looked really like white cloud seen in light-polluted cities. Many open star clusters and bright nebulae including M8 and M20 were visible clearly with binoculars. Pipe nebula looked dense and dark in the view field of binoculars.
I imaged southern objects with my usual rig near MLO, Mauna Loa Observatory in Mauna Loa area on August 9, 2013. They measure atmospheric transparency with strong 532nm green laser beams, and they tend to come into frames.
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/programs/gmdlidar/mlo/gmdl...
I placed my rig at a little distant site from MLO to keep away from the laser beam, but the distance was not enough. This view is toward west-southwest. There are electric poles by the access road to MLO.
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/visitingandtours/direction...
equipment: Sony DSC-RX1 at f/2.0 ISO 2,500 on a compact tripod
exposure: 20 seconds with both in-camera noise reduction and lens correction on, at 23:18:59HST August 9, 2013
site: 3,123m above sea level at lat. 19 33 07 North, long. 155 32 26 West on the shoulder of Mana Loa
processing: none. The camera made this frame. I did not process the image at all.
My Imaging Rig on Mauna Loa August 2013
The Milky Way looked clear and beautiful with my naked eyes. Sagittarius Star Cloud looked really like white cloud seen in light-polluted cities. Many open star clusters and bright nebulae including M8 and M20 were visible clearly with binoculars. Pipe nebula looked dense and dark in the view field of binoculars.
I imaged southern objects with my usual rig near MLO, Mauna Loa Observatory in Mauna Loa area on August 9, 2013. They measure atmospheric transparency with strong 532nm green laser beams, and they tend to come into frames.
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/programs/gmdlidar/mlo/gmdl...
I placed my rig at a little distant site from MLO to keep away from the laser beam, but the distance was not enough. This view is toward west-southwest. There are electric poles by the access road to MLO.
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/visitingandtours/direction...
equipment: Sony DSC-RX1 at f/2.0 ISO 2,500 on a compact tripod
exposure: 20 seconds with both in-camera noise reduction and lens correction on, at 23:18:59HST August 9, 2013
site: 3,123m above sea level at lat. 19 33 07 North, long. 155 32 26 West on the shoulder of Mana Loa
processing: none. The camera made this frame. I did not process the image at all.