Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Southern Exposure redux

OK. Adding a little color to the visible universe - here is the same Rho Ophiuchi region of the sky seen in the previous post - albeit done a little more properly. 66 one minute exposures with a Canon 5D MKII through an 85mm lens at f/1.8 and ISO 800. Tracked, standard astro post processed with flats, biases and darks, and finally gaudified with photoshop. Ha!

3 comments:

Dean said...

Hi Dave-
Great shot of the dark clouds - particularly like the clear differentiation between dark and REALLY dark clouds. Looks like the snake nebula is about the blackest area... I need to collect more photons - running out of time with the eventual arrival of the monsoons!

-Dean

Paul said...

Very nice. Used to stare at Rho Oph for hours and hours on Kitt Peak. It sure looked different at 115.27120 GHz. ;-) Anyway, Very nice work, David, very nice.

Susi said...

Beauty Full !!