Patrick’s Photoblog

Shot this evening from my driveway.
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Canon 20D | EF 75-300 USM@300mm | M | F/9 | 1/25sec | ISO-400

The Milky Way overhead at the cottage in the early fall. Similar to the other recent astrophotography posts I’ve done, the camera was piggy backing on a telescope on an equatorial mount and using a sidereal drive so that the picture frame follows the stars and no star trails are formed.
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Canon Rebel XT | EF-S 17-85 IS@17mm | M | F/5.0 | 6min 11sec | ISO-800

Another shot with the Pleiades seen on the right side. The dark area on the far right of the image is the tube of the telescope that the camera was piggy backing on so that I could follow the stars rotation using its equatorial mount, and in order to get a wide shot that I wanted, the tube needed to be in the shot.
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Canon Rebel XT | EF-S 17-85 IS@17mm | M | F/4.5 | 10min 39sec | ISO-400

Mars is on the right side (the orange “star”), with the Pleiades on the left.  The camera “piggy backing” on the back of a Meade 2080 8″ telescope on an equatorial mount so that the camera frame followed the stars, rather then staying stationary.
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Canon Rebel XT | EF 50 | M | F/2.5 | 4mins 18sec | ISO-400

A 60min 15sec exposure of the western sky line at the cottage in early October.

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Canon Rebel XT | EF-S 17-85 IS@20mm | M | F/4.5 | 60min 15sec| ISO-100