Re: Can you recognise this starfield?

From: David Nakamoto (res07oeg_at_verizon.net)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 19:53:40 GMT

This is why you should take good notes when observing, so you don't wind up
asking this question on a wide open newsgroup.

This problem will either require someone who just recognizes the field right
away, a lot of work pouring through images to find this field, which by the
way it would help if you'd determine the FOV shown, or it's just impossible.

For instance, "reasonably near zenith" doesn't help, since if this is a 1
degree FOV, there's hundreds of square degrees depending on how close you
were to the zenith. I'm guessing this is a very wide angle FOV, but that's
just a guess.

And people always wonder why I keep a fairly detailed notebook of my
observations. 

-- 
   Yours Truly,
   --- Dave
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       'raid if you're afraid you'll have to overlook it.
   Besides, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it.
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"Thomas Womack" <twomack@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message 
news:62k*UlBtq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~twomack/618.png (220kb)
>
> This is a (dark-frame-subtracted, median-filtered to remove the
> background) photo taken with an Olympus E10, 8-second unguided
> exposure at effective ISO 320 and effective focal length 120mm f/2.2,
> looking somewhere reasonably near the zenith, at 10pm on Tuesday from
> a non-dark-sky site in England.
>
> The camera recorded all those details, and I was assuming I could tell
> from the star-field where I was actually pointing it; this proves not
> to be correct, and I've spent about an hour futzing around with Skymap
> and Norton's to try to work out what I've photographed.
>
> Please help ...
>
> Tom

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