Friday, September 26, 2008

Cygnus and Neighbourhood



Camera: 350D modified
Lens: Canon 135 F2 Wide open, on ball head Manfrotto 308RC
Mount: EM11USD3 manual guide, GA4
Guidescope: FS60C
Exposure: 2 pane mosaic, each pane ISO400 5min x 6

Everything went wrong for this picture.

I did not have sole ownership of the mount, so the things I did were in quite a rush. That cost me the essential accurate focus and also a more accurate framing. The texture of the photo is disastrous and it can hardly be recovered by processing techniques.


Also when compared to the photos taken in Taiwan, those taken in XinJiang showed obviously more nose due to the temperature difference. I estimate the temperature up on the Taiwan mountains are a bit more than 0, yet in the desert ngiht it was around 20-25 Celcius.


A matter of 20 degrees made a huge difference in image quality.

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