Re: Anyone want to guess what this is, besides my first attempt at astrophotography

OK, here's the story...just picked up a 14mm Radian for my TV-102. It's been cloudy every day since last week, so I couldn't test it on any real stars....

TV-102, 14mm Radian with pupil-guide installed. SONY CyberShot with cameraman who doesn't know how to disable the flash or allow for longer exposure since he didn't read the manual. I just held it up to the pupil-guide and fired away. I was 10 feet back from the window looking 75 yards across a parkinglot at icicles lit up by a street light.

In the eyepiece it was beautiful, dozens of pure white pinpoints of light with repeating rainbows at exactly 90 deg angles (because of ice's molecular / crystalline structure?) It was like a surreal globular cluster. I wish you all could have seen it...maybe some of you can replicate it if you have weather like this...

http://www.paulmurphy.net/astro/ice.jpg

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Paul Murphy


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