Astro

The normal liquid ball head is swapped for a Wimberley mount for my astro work. Later I hope to find a suitable motor driven equitorial mount. The Wimberley allows smooth pan and tilt of a heavy lens (Nikon 200-400 zoom shown below, although the 14mm f2.8 is also good in some situations eg aurora) The whole set up is balanced so when in position it stays there even when I leave go.

Moon above Northern sky below

Short exposure stops stars forming trails as below. This is where an equitorial mount comes into its own as it will move the camera to compensate for the Earth's motion and prevent trail during a long exposure.

Longer exposure but now some trailing obvious also some sodium street lamp reflection from the atmosphere.

Milky way from Wiltshire near Stourbridge.

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