I
went out with
four other fellow Macarthur Photographic Society members
to Belangalo State Forest with the Macarthur Astronomical Society who
hosted us on
Saturday night.
It
was a "New Moon" night, so very dark.
Thanks
very much to Tony
Law
and
Chris
Malikoff
and
the team from
the Macarthur Astronomical Society for
a great night.
The
weather Gods were kind up to a point for us.
We
had cloudless skies which showed off the Milky Way in all of it's
magnificence. The only problem was the dew point. It was very "dewy",
the lens was very wet and my lens was fogging up continuously.
You
will see this in some of the images with the halos around the
brighter spots.
I
was shooting with my Pentax K1 Mk11, with a 15-30mm Pentax lens. All
of my images that I will show were shot at 15mm, iso 1600 and f2.8.
The only change was with the shutter speed. My shutter speed went
from 30s to 300s.
The
Pentax K1 has a Astrotracing setting where you can get up to 300s
without star trails. So I tested that out.
You
can definitely see star trails at 300s, but the faster shutter speeds
were pretty good.
