Photography by Steven Sharpe
"Cygnus"
Showing the North America and
Gamma Cygni nebulae. Taken from my back yard, August 2002. The
original had bad distortion in all but the centre portion of the
image, so I cropped it out. I actually did not do a very good job of
guiding this exposure...hence the softness.
Miranda Auto Sensorex EE, Auto
Miranda EC 50mm F1.4 lens wide open, Fujichrome Provia 400, 15 or 20
minute exposure piggybacked on an equatorially mounted and driven
Celestron 5; image cropped, sharpened and colour balance adjusted in
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.
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