29 January 2011 Star Watching Photos from Mt John


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Thank you for joining the Earth & Sky Mt John Star Watching tour, here are tonights star photos taken by Fraser Gunn, all the staff at
Earth & Sky, hope that you enjoyed the experience. Feel free to copy the photos to your computer and share them around.
Southern Cross
Southern Cross 50mm f/8 ISO 800 480 seconds
Magellanic clouds
Large Magellanic Cloud 50mm f/5 ISO 800 600 seconds
Eta Carina and Southern Pleiades
Eta Carina and Southern Pleiades 50mm f/5 ISO 800 600 seconds
Orion setting
Orion setting 50mm f/5 ISO 800 600 seconds
Moon Megrez 90 Telescope
Moon Megrez 90 Telescope ISO 1600 1/200 seconds
Scorpius, the Moon and Venus rising
Scorpius, the Moon and Venus rising 23mm f/8 ISO 800 360 seconds

Tonight I also made a timelapse animation looking SSW from Mt John using a 15mm fisheye lens, for the animation I used 788 x 30 second exposures (total time 7 hours 10 minutes) - which came out extremely well you can see it here
  Tekapo Southern Night Sky taken from Mt John (23mb) 

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