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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2015-01-22 09:32 pm

The mounting turns out to be the important thing

With a clever bit of mechanism to keep it pointed in the right direction, you can get quite reasonable pictures of the stars with a moderately fancy camera and lens from a desolate fen a mile outside Horningsea:

orion-nebula

comet1

hyades

[identity profile] twoeleven.livejournal.com 2015-01-23 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, Orion, Taurus, and vicinity is one of my favorite parts of the sky. Probably because that's one of the few parts I can see well from home.