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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] nellorat.livejournal.com 2015-01-24 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely!

At first I read "fen" as plural of fan & wondered why they were desolate.

[identity profile] tigerfort.livejournal.com 2015-01-24 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You think being near Cambridge isn't reason enough?