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Cause; those must be pretty short exposures but they’re nice shots. Each features the Pleiades in the lower right, and a piece of sky that isn’t really centered on any constellation I can identify (Aries should be above it, though.)
rav, you’re right about the exposures – the first is 6 secs and the second is 4.
As for the constellations, here they are as best I can tell. Keep in mind this is a 10mm wide-angle, so there’s going to be some fisheye aspect to it. (Click for larger size.)
My daughter and I drove about 40 miles out of town last night to a place I’d previously decided would be great for stargazing. It’s basically a flat river plain “bowl” between two “mountain” (or what passes for mountains here in OK) ridges. I’d only ever been there during the day on my cycle, but it turned out to be a nice spot – really dark skies and no obstructions for miles.
The show itself was a little disappointing. We were out for about 2 hours between 1-3am and saw probably about 40, far short of the predicted 60/hour. Great time nonetheless; probably going back tonight with my wife and youngest son.
I took 131 pictures and managed to grab 2. Pix pop to the originals. Both are shot wide-angle at 10mm, so the streaks themselves are somewhat small.
powerfulkatrinka: Here’s a template for linking to a larger version:
Remove the tags if you don’t want it centered. Remove target=”_blank” if you don’t want it to pop. Replace LargeImageURL and SmallImageURL with the actual image URLs, of course.
