Astrophotography

All theimage were processed by theStellaImage5 & 7.

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Comet hunting under theMiky Way II

2015 May 29.722 UT
30sec, ISO 1600
Canon EOS 20Da, EF15mm F2.8 (F2.8)
Comet hunting under theMiky Way I

2014 April  25.726 UT
30sec, ISO 1600
Canon EOS 20Da, EF15mm F2.8 (F2.8)

C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS

2013 March 14.8917UT  (18:31 JST)
1/3 sec, ISO 400
Canon EOS 20Da, EF200 mm F2.8 (F2.8)
The image was trimed: the hight of the image is 2.5deg.

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2012

Total Solar Eclipse at Mt. Carbine, Australia

2012 Novemvber 13.8560 UT
This photo was overexposure due to the wrong setting of ISO. Canon 20Da, EF24-105 mm, F4
After the totality. There were many eclipse hunters behind us.

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Annular solar ecliplse on the northern limit line

2012 May 20. 22:29:00-22:39:00 UT
1/500 sec, ISO 200
Canon EOS 20Da, Borg 60ED f: 350 mm
Time in the photo is local time.
(2012 May 21 JST)
You Tube
Movie: Baily's beads
on the northern limit line

2012 May 20. 22:31:51-22:36:15 UT
1/500 sec. ISO 200, Shooting interval 6sec.
Canon 20Da, BORG 60ED f: 350 mm,Takahashi Teegul Sky Patrol

Sunlight through trees

2012 May 20. 22:25 UT
          May 21. 07:25 JST
 
Observing gears and the site

From left toright; BORG 60ED for photography, BORG 125 ED and 8x50 mm binocular for visial observation.
Obs. site: Matsumoto airport
             36°09’04”N, 137°55’37”E

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2008

Depth of the universe: a cross of the solar system and our galaxy
2008 Oct  2.772 UT
30sec, ISO 1600
Canon EOS 20Da, EF15mm F2.8 (F2.8)

Milky Way at the Onizuka Visitor Information Station, Mauna Kea, Hawaii 

2008 Sep 24.356 UT
25sec, ISO 1600
Canon EOS 20Da, EF15mm F2.8 (F2.8)

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2006

Under the Milky Way: The supreme time
2006 Sep 20.557 UT
30sec, ISO 1600
Canon EOS 20Da, EF15mm F2.8 (F2.8)

C/2006 M4 SWAN amd M13
2006 Oct 28.386
181 sec, ISO 800
Canon EOS 20Da, EF200mm F2.8 L II (F2.8)
The tail length was over 5 degrees.
Under the moonlight.


 Component B had a rendezvous with Vega, 2006 May 9.7394UT
 181 sec, ISO 800
73P Schwassmann-Wachmann
Common data
Canon EOS 20Da, EF200mm F2.8 L II (F2.8)

Tracking accuracy and/or fous are not good.

  Component B and M13 (lower right), 2006 May 4.6883UT
 90 sec, ISO 1600
 Component C, 2006 May 4.6999UT
 90 sec, ISO 1600

Component B and M13 (left), 2006 May 3.6784UT

M13 is 23,400 light years but 73P is only “55 light seconds”. You can feel the 3D image from those two objects.
Component C, 2006 May 3.7073UT
 181 sec, ISO 800

Beautiful but its appearance is much different from 73P B.

I am comet hunting at predawn. Light pollution looks like twilight.
Canon EOS 20Da, EF15mm F2.8 (F2.8)
50 sec, ISO 160


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