Monday, April 20, 2009

Wide-Field Saturn

What a great weekend....so far. Sunny days and clear nights. I used the opportunity to do some imaging last night. This is a wide-field image of Saturn, using a 28mm lens on a CCD camera, mounted on a telescope which is "tracking", or following the stars across the sky. It is a 10-minute exposure. I actually enjoy doing wide-field the most...it tends to give more of a perspective of the region of sky being photographed (as opposed to the previous image of Saturn, showing only the planet). Click on photo for larger version.....

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