west by north west

I really like making these star trails and very soon want to go somewhere other than my back yard to expose them. I'm thinking about going to the PSSG this year with the brother, it's a whole week of star gazing stuff in October. I'm just not sure about taking off a whole week to do this.

12mm, toward the north

Another star trail photo, I had hoped to do another one on Sunday but the weather didn't cooperate with me.

M81 and M82 10min54sec 11frames, dark, bias, iso 400, ED100Sf-post

M81 and M82 with more post processing

Southern Sky Star Trails

Slow photography times, I set up the camera on the deck again this weekend and shot about 3 hours of star trails, made it into a video as well.

Crescent Moon, Venus and Mars

Took this along with a bunch more in sucession in order to make a short film of the moonrise. Had fun doing it even though I had to get up at 5:30am on a Saturday. to do it.

Star Trail on deck

Taken off my back porch/deck. The dotted line going through the middle going higher from right to left must have been a plane, it's light blinking as it went. Removing it seemed wrong to me.

about 34 shots, 4 minutes a shot for a total of 136 minutes or about 2 hours 16 minutes

Star Trail on deck

Taken off my back porch/deck. These shots were focused on the Big Dipper .

about 17 shots, 4 minutes a shot for a total of 68 minutes or about 1 hours 8 minutes.

Moon

I haven't gotten out with the camera at night either to take shots of nebula, galaxies or the moon for quite some time. My brother has been out several weekends lately and I need to take a stab at it again myself.

I think this weekend is going to suck as far as clear skies go, last weekend would have been great. Procrastination is bad you see.