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Tonight I'm going to go down the national seashore and try some astrophotography.
The galactic center of the Milky Way will be over some jetties/dunes so I'm gonna try and take pictures of it. There's still a little moon left so it won't be the best but other conditions are ideal. No clouds no haze etc.
I've been plonking down money over the last year on a good prime lens, a good eq mount, and a decent camera. I finally have everything I need, and my schedule for tonite/tomorrow changed in my favor.
I've been looking forward to this for so long the fact that I get to finally go do it is pretty wild. I'm doing some absolutely bargain basement astrophotography but I've been pursuing it since I took a photo of the galactic center with a five year old iPhone a couple years ago.
I have a 55-200mm kit lens that I'm going to try using for a couple nebula photos too since I now have a working tracker.
Please post your photos!
I plan to! I'm learning how to use the image stacking software so I have some stuff to work out yet on that front. Last night was forecast as not cloudy but it was. Breaks never materialized so I ended up taking some night time photos of the new fishing pier and going home.
Next weekend's viewing weather forecast is just now coming available but it looks to be a good weekend here WRT sky watching weather and next week the Lyrid meteor shower should be visible from the Northern Hemisphere looking towards Lyra in the northeast. April 21-22 is forecasted to be the peak and should be 16-18 per hour average. Really really looking forward to sleeping in the back of my truck and taking pictures of the wonders of the universe I am lucky enough to be alive for. Sometimes there's some really beautiful shit out there that makes me grateful to be alive to see despite it all.