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Re: [APML] California Desert Night Sky
Yes Chris , my darkest site is where you can see the red X on the map here at bottom
Unfortunately , this site is not accessible in winter but I'll surely make it in summer.
Clear skies !
Dom :)
Chris Cook <ccook@cape.com> wrote:
Hi Dom -
I would love to do this kind of shot from every place I've observed... sort
of a light pollution survey of astro sites. Isn't your site near the US
border and northern Maine? I bet its dark up there!
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Cantin"
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography"
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] California Desert Night Sky
> Beautiful image Chris !
>
> One day I'll have to try a shot like this on my darkest site !
>
> Thanks for the view !
>
> Maybe you could send the link of your picture to APOD , it's a candidate
for APOD !
>
> Dom :)
>
> Chris Cook
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....
>
> Film can still kick ass. :-)
>
> Hope you enjoy the view!
>
> Chris
>
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