Short camping trip

[armando_m]

A trip with a group of guys with telescopes, just 1 hour away from the city , but 500m higher altitude
The whole idea was to watch the night sky, and peek at various sky objects with the telescopes

1. The big telescope
2. &  3. wild flowers
4. The V1 does a night landscape 18mm iso 800 f1.8 30 seconds, this is probably the single time I'm happy focus is reset to infinite even when set to manual, stars are already trailing with this crop / focal length

[armando_m]

While I talked to people , looked through telescopes, drank coffee, and nibble at different things

I had the D800 on the skytracker capturing 2 areas of the sky

M101 is the whirpool galaxy but the capture was not really successful, this was with the 70-300, and the area is not really that dark ending up in a fairly low quality image

2nd attempt with the 85 f1.8G pointed to Saturn, because it was in the middle of the milky way, most of the shots came out ok and the results after stacking with deepskystacker are - IMO - great

[Thomas G]

Nice. There seems o be a lot of enthusiasm going on.

[armando_m]

Thank you Thomas

[Peter Connan]

I agree. Great shot.

[Fons Baerken]

Clear skies

[Akira]

I've never been bored with the starry sky imgaes.  Thanks for sharing!

[Bjørn Rørslett]

That's some serious telescope outfit - complete with towel to remove dew from the secondary mirror?

Agree with Akira, star-studded heavens are always fascinating. This is a case in which the camera potentially "sees" more than us mere humans.

[Jakov Minić]

Is the telescope called Big Bertha
Lovely star images!

[armando_m]

The big telescope mirrors had to be dried at 2AM , I do not know what happened later,  at 2:30 my companions declared they were to cold and not willing to sleep on the floor (inside the tent and sleeping bag) as we were only about 1hr away from home, we left

The towel seen in the shot  I guess is just to keep dirt from the mirror as the telescope is transported dissassembled on an open pickup truck

I don't get tired of shooting stars either

Thanks for commenting

[elsa hoffmann]

I am fascinated by Telescopes. Beauts of note - thanks for sharing

[simato73]

How the heck do they transport that beast without damaging it?!