Re: [APML] Mercury, Venus,Mars and Saturn wide-field (medium format 40mm)

["Taras R.Hnatyshyn" <tarashnat@earthlink.net>]

Stuart,

That was a 3 sec exposure at f/4. I had one exposure that had gone 4 
sec.
I just scanned the transparency that looked the best to my eye to remain
current. I'll take a closer look at all 12 exposures I took that evening
eventually. I only acquired the 40mm Distagon this January, so I'm still
getting the hang of how it performs.

Taras

On Mar 31, 2004, at 8:30 PM, Stuart Heggie wrote:

> Taras - looks good! I would think you could have gone with a longer
> exposure. Did I miss the details - what film and actual exposure?
>
> Stuart
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/stuart.j.heggie/Stuart.J.Heggie/
> Flesherton, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>> Fellow APMLers,
>>
>> I finally had clear skies for the planetary alignment on Monday,
>> just in time for the greatest elongations of Venus and Mercury.
>> The photo was taken with a Hasselblad 2000FCW with a shutter
>> speed multiplier (gives electronicly timed shutter speeds from
>> 1s to 60s) and my 40mm f/4 Distagon C T* lens. The lens gives
>> a hor./vert. field of view of about 68 deg. Just enough to catch
>> the four planets.
>>
>> I am debating whether to take the effort to process out the
>> horizon glow/vignetting effects, or whether to leave the image
>> as it is. Photo take at approx. 7:15 pm in NYC, at least a half an
>> hour before the end of twilight.
>>
>> Monday's western sky...  (640x640 pixel)
>>
>>  http://homepage.mac.com/tarashnat/temp/MF-00163-07.jpg
>>  http://homepage.mac.com/tarashnat/temp/MF-00163-07a.jpg (with legend)
>>
>> Taras
>>
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