Re: [APML] California Desert Night Sky

[Jerry Lodriguss <lists3@astropix.com>]

Hi Chris,

Excellent.  Love the zodiacal band, that is very hard to capture on film.

Reminds me of some of the dark sky sites we have here in downtown 
Philadelphia. :-)

Jerry



At 01:00 AM 4/10/2005, you wrote:
>Hi all -
>
>Here's a shot I did last Friday when I was out in Southern California.  I
>had wanted to do this shot when I lived out there but never got around to
>it.
>
>Its an all sky image taken from one of the darkest locations in SoCal,
>between Joshua Tree NP and Blythe in the low Colorado Desert.
>The night this was taken would rate around a Bortle 1 to 2. The LVM is
>easily 7.0 to my eyes and probably 7.5 to those with really good eyes.  The
>Zodiacal Light was bright and the Zodiacal Band was visible going through
>the ecliptic... both of these were recorded in this image.
>
>Here's the result........ Place your mouse over the image to see it with
>labels.
>
>http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/dc-fisheye.html
>
>It doesn't get any wider than this! ....well ok, that's not entirely
>correct... you could shoot with the Nikkor 6mm fisheye.... <VBG>
>
>Film can still kick ass.  :-)
>
>Hope you enjoy the view!
>
>Chris
>
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