my 'new toy' does the night sky 7-1-04
 

http://img14.exs.cx/img14/4598/6079s...ight_small.jpg

overlooking my mom's nieghbor's house. it was quite bright in the western portion of the sky at that time due to a full moon... which kills the ability of stars to appear as bright. both these photos are level curve enhanced to show as much of the night sky to its fullest, which is why this 12am shot looks like it could be 8pm

http://img14.exs.cx/img14/3589/6079s...t_small_II.jpg

this one turned out much better then i could have hoped :) no special tools invovled here, just a digital camera, and its peak exposure time of 30 seconds.

im hoping by the end of the summer to get attatchments to connect my camera to my telescope... who knows, mabey a comet will be named after me :wink:

Cool, I haven't seen stars in a LONNNNG time. Probably not since the major blackout!

Nice nightsky :D

BTW, I hosted them somewhere else since they couldn't fit any of our galleries ;)

thanks TT... ill host them @ imageshack from now on... at least til i get some websapce up.