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Re: [APML] Mercury, Venus,Mars and Saturn wide-field (medium format 40mm)
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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taras Hnatyshyn" <tarashnat@earthlink.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: [APML] Mercury, Venus,Mars and Saturn wide-field (medium format
40mm)
> 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
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/tarashnat/astrophoto/welcome.html
>
>
> --
> <end of message>
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