luisferfranco
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While I was looking for Santa, I grabbed my Alpha, the Quantaray 70-300 F/4-5.6, a Bowen 2X telextender and a long long exposure on the sky (about 7 minutes)
I don't know nothing about stars and the sky and such, I only know those three bright stars belong to the Orion belt (at least I think so), with such information, someone better than me at interpreting the skys might tell me which are the other stars.
You must go to my flickr page in order to see bigger pics (I didn't post the original 10MP file, so lots of tiny stars are missing in the flickr files)
This is the original, only resized (and border added), the bright points in the upper side are due sensor heat produced by the long exposure, it is easily fixed, but I decided to leave it so you can see the effects of long exposures in the camera.
This is the same pic, with a little PP: Noise Reduction (using NeatImage Pro) and setting a black point (any point in the sky)
These are 100% crops from the previous pic, you can't see any of those objects in the sky with naked eye:
What is the red thing? a Red Giant star? a Nebulae?
No, it's not dust in your monitor, those are stars
Another small stars and a star trail in the bottom
I'm not vey much into astrophotography, but I think these pics shows how capable is the A100 for this job.
EXIF: ISO 100, 432s (7.2min), 420mm, F11
lens: Quantaray 70-300mm F4-5.6 and a Bowen telextender 2X
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http://flickr.com/photos/luisferfranco
I don't know nothing about stars and the sky and such, I only know those three bright stars belong to the Orion belt (at least I think so), with such information, someone better than me at interpreting the skys might tell me which are the other stars.
You must go to my flickr page in order to see bigger pics (I didn't post the original 10MP file, so lots of tiny stars are missing in the flickr files)
This is the original, only resized (and border added), the bright points in the upper side are due sensor heat produced by the long exposure, it is easily fixed, but I decided to leave it so you can see the effects of long exposures in the camera.
This is the same pic, with a little PP: Noise Reduction (using NeatImage Pro) and setting a black point (any point in the sky)
These are 100% crops from the previous pic, you can't see any of those objects in the sky with naked eye:
What is the red thing? a Red Giant star? a Nebulae?
No, it's not dust in your monitor, those are stars
Another small stars and a star trail in the bottom
I'm not vey much into astrophotography, but I think these pics shows how capable is the A100 for this job.
EXIF: ISO 100, 432s (7.2min), 420mm, F11
lens: Quantaray 70-300mm F4-5.6 and a Bowen telextender 2X
--
http://flickr.com/photos/luisferfranco