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Fumesucker

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Thu Apr 2, 2015, 10:49 PM Apr 2015

Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer

This is the constellation Orion, of which I've been trying to get a really outstanding shot for four months. I have shots of clouds, airplanes, satellites, bad focus, dewed up lens, overexposed, underexposed, banged the tripod, polar alignment off, wrong tracking speed, dead batteries in the tracker and so on...

Orion will only be visible for the next few weeks and then it will be moving behind the sun and basically not observable until September or so, it's goodby for the summer.

I was hiding the camera from the moonlight in this shot, the moon was to the upper left so the trees on the right are brighter and you can see the thin cloud going across Orion's belt, NEX-C3 6 seconds @ ISO 3200 Auto Rikenon 55mm f1.4 @ f2.8.

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Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer (Original Post) Fumesucker Apr 2015 OP
Gorgeous. F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #1
Thank you Fumesucker Apr 2015 #3
This is a wonderful shot, my dear Fumesucker! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2015 #2
Thank you Fumesucker Apr 2015 #4
Awesome Pic ... Congrats on that shot ! sunnystarr Apr 2015 #5
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