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September 5, 2010
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The night of Sept 4th/5th. Shoot about 50 miles west of Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

One 12 minute exposure at AS 100. 28 MM f/2 Nikkor lens set at f/4. Nikkor lens mounted on a Canon 450D camera. White Balance at 3600K. Raw to JPG converted then Photoshop touch up of Contrast and Brightness. Light saturation brush touch ups.

Update Sept 7th: Many have wanted a few more details. Yes this image was a tracked image. The camera was mounted on a Vixen GP German Equatorial Telescope Mount. The mount is outfitted with a Skyview Pro Goto System by Orion and one of Orion's guiding camera. PHD guiding. A 115 Mack Vixen scope was used for the guiding camera.

Side note: I have not found a sky glow free sky around Louisville,Ky. I have tried 150/200 miles our from Louisville, Ky. If you know of a location please post.

Image as a wallpaper. Looking South, south, west.

Rikk DarkMoon DarkMoonPhotography DarkMoonPhoto aka 19.5
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~SZKYOL Sep 9, 2010
wonderful ;)
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*darkmoonphoto Sep 9, 2010  Student Photographer
Cool, Many Thanks.

Rikk ................
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~SZKYOL Sep 10, 2010
:)
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*darkmoonphoto Sep 11, 2010  Student Photographer
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~SZKYOL Sep 17, 2010
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~silverfernn Sep 8, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
soooo beautiful! you must have enjoyed what you saw and created there.
weird that a 12 minute exposure on a tracked mount can be so clear. that meddles with my blond logic :boogie:
here is someone who dreams of having access to such gear some day - and someone who thanks you for sharing :blowkiss:
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*darkmoonphoto Sep 8, 2010  Student Photographer
The lens is a key part of an image like this. I have boxes of lenses to pick from. I have keep lens from my first days of photography some 51years. Boxes and boxes of old lenses. The lens I used is older then that. It is about 60 years old. Older may be better.

Rikk .................
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~silverfernn Sep 8, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
ah, cheers for the info. you are right, when something older is of better quality than something younger then older is better ;p
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~ReachingFlames Sep 6, 2010  Professional Photographer
Hey man. Thanks for the information in your comment. I just don't understand one thing... Why aren't the stars rotating?
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*darkmoonphoto Sep 7, 2010  Student Photographer
The camera was on a tracking device that followed the stars.

I just add to the comments about the mount I used to do this image.

Rikk ...............
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