Astrophotography for May 2011

Here's the May gallery. Again, as befits 2011, not much owing to the crappy weather . . .

The Milky Way on a crisp, low-humidity night.

 Follow the arc to Arcturus, speed onto Spica . . .

The Dippers

 The Moon as shot through a 1000mm F.L. refractor

A crop from the above shot. Don't go dragging a laptop with waste of money telescope focusing software programs out to your telescope for astrophotography! I used the live view with 13x magnification function on my D700 to get this crisp, perfectly focused image.

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