2200 mm. on a 5D MkII

[GSPeP]

I don't know if it has been here before, but I thought it would be interesting to share with you:

http://www.skynyx.fr/legault/atlantis_hst_transit.html

Found this link on another forum.

[Cuong]

These are truly out-of-this-world images.

Cuong

[David_S85]

Kids, don't try this at home without adult supervision and without solar filtering! :deal

I caught that link on The Bad Astronomer's site (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/) a couple days ago. Equal to those incredible images is the prep he had to go through to capture all these. 16 images at continuous with shooting beginning 2 seconds before the predicted solar transit time (1/3 second) is, well — thankfully there are people that can crunch all that math stuff. And he shot several series of this. WOW!

[Manfr3d]

He should've used a flash for fill .. that spacecraft is horribly underexposed :wink

[tjstrider]

He should've used a flash for fill .. that spacecraft is horribly underexposed :wink

I was going to make a snide remark but I was beaten to the punch.

I wish I would have seen all that euipment on a 15$ tripod though... haha that would have been fun!

That's really cool btw.

[LoriKTM]

Very cool!! Thanks for the link! :thumb

[Nikolai]

Unreal! :huh
Thanks for sharing!
What amazes me the most is that he took that in Florida, and on the beach of all places... Air humidity and winds alone must have created tons of problems...
I can only imagine what kind of quality one could get with a similar equipment and a better location... :scratch

All this DIY astro stuff is really making me itch to go and do it...:wink :rofl

[Qarik]

He should've used a flash for fill .. that spacecraft is horribly underexposed :wink

aye..the new nikon sb-900000 would have worked