Nikon D3 - Astrophotography Page

 

Nikon D3 with 28-70mm F2.8 lens @ 28mm @ F4, ISO 800 - 5min exposure, 14bit raw file, processed w/ACR in CS3

Taken from LAAS club site in Lockwood Valley, California. Camera was piggybacked on Celestron C14. Exposure was unguided.

Jupiter is the brightest object in the frame. Yellow sky is light pollution from Los Angeles.

 

Celestron C14 w/Byers Retrofit drive on pier at club site & with 8 inch off axis solar filter

 

In 2009, spring-summer / planning on doing telephoto piggyback astrophotography with several telephoto lenses,
in addition to further imaging with my wide lenses.

C14 - painted tube and flocked inside with protostar flocking - May 2009

14mm piggybacked on the C14 looking at the Sagitarius - Scorpio region of the milkyway

D3 with 14mm lens @ F/5.6, 10min exposure - Looking up at Cygnus

 

Conjunction of Dec.1st, 2008 - Pasadena, CA.

 

 

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July 2009

C14 - project completed

Friend looking at the cresent moon