Orion Reflection…how?
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on October 6, 2021 @
Leyburn Qld Australia
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Camera Used: Canon Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
Exposure Time: 150/10
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 2000
Date Taken: 2021:10:08 12:53:30
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When you really want to take an image you’ll use any method you have, can you guess how I took this picture?
I’m at our very dark sky site and all my cameras were busy taking deep sky images through the telescope in the observatory. I opened the observatory door and looked up to see Orion and Taurus rising in the eastern sky just before midnight…Wow! All I had left to take a photo with was my little Canon G7x mark 11, but I also needed a camera tripod and that was under the caravan bed where my husband was fast asleep…what to do???
I tried using a fence post, no good, then the rail on the observatory…no good again, Aha, what about the bonnet of the car, ‘Yay’ success :-) with the added bonus that it looks like the stars are reflecting in water…when I showed this image to my husband he laughed and called the picture ‘Stars reflecting on Landcrusier Lake’ :-) :-) This is the first time I’ve ever taken a picture of the stars on a cars bonnet! So the moral of the story is ‘Never Give Up’ :-)
Image taken with Canon G7x mark 11 camera on the manual setting with a 15 second exposure, ISO2000, aperture F2 and focal length 8.8mm.
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