I don't get much of a chance to get out photographing landscapes etc but I managed to get a pass out last night. I took a spin up to the Observatorio de Torcal. It's near a little town called Antequera in Andalucia. There were a rake of people out with the strangest of contraptions looking for that asteroid, I mean crazy stuff. This dude had stuff that looked like it was straight out of a Mission Impossible movie.
Anyway, the whole "photographing the stars" subject just fascinates me and is something I plan to get into when the little one starts getting a bit older. At the moment it's a no go. Last night we had a fairly bright moon so I was limited in terms of visibility. I thought I'd share a wee photo. On a personal level, I love the color in it. The extreme right and left weren't painted with my maglite enough but sure it's a learning game. This is more or less my first outing doing this type of stuff so go easy on me.
You can see Orion, Beetlegeuse, Sirius and a few other stars that I can't remember. That glow at the end of the path is Malaga, which is about 50k away.
I can see how easy it is to immerse yourself in this type of stuff. I picked up Phil Hart's ebook and it is just immense the type of images you can capture with a camera alone. I can only imagine what would happen when you hook your camera up to a good telescope.
