This is my first (and so far only) photograph of the night sky taken with my new camera. I attached the camera to a homemade equatorial wedge (built for a 102mm SCT) and set the assembly on my north porch. The "Little Dipper" asterism can be seen offset toward right center. Some nearby tree tops are silhouetted against the brighter night sky at the bottom of the photo.
Digital photography is certainly far more user friendly than film photography! One gets to see the results right away, and PCs make it easy to tweak the images as necessary. The above photo is a 30 second exposure at ISO 800 with an 18mm lens at f/3.5. It was taken at 11:59 pm local time on July 31, 2008.
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