At my weekly networking meeting this morning I decided to cover star gazing. Last week I had been asked about the star photographs I had captured whilst away on holiday.
Here is a few of the images I showed this morning:
Tech details = You need to be in a dark room to see the detail.
My camera was set for a 20 or 30 second exposure to capture the light from the stars.
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| The Plough above the Cottage. |
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| The top of the summer Triangle. Deneb on the left and Vega on the right. Not a constellation but a pattern of stars and a way of finding the Milky Way on a moonless summer night. |
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| This was taken at 11pm and it is still too light. The sky appears blue. This is why astronomers do their gazing in the winter months. |
I don't think I freaked everyone out about the fact that Andromeda (our closest galactic neighbour) is hurtling towards us at a 100 kilometres per second. Nobody changed their plans for the weekend that's for sure as Andromeda won't be with us for another 3 billion years. You can see Andromeda with the naked eye, it is the most distant thing we can see. It appears as a smudge but its beauty becomes clearer with binoculars or a telescope.
Happy Gazing
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