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Subject: Re: [OM] Astrophotography
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:01:06 -0400
I didn't care for the use of specific camera models and lenses (it's never up to date) but did find something I'd never thought of before. When using a short focus lens the area of the sky that's covered is quite large. Since exposure time is based on declination the top and bottom of the frame of a wide angle view see a much different view and the maximum time varies considerably between top and bottom of the frame.

Chuck Norcutt


On 7/29/2014 6:03 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
I have no idea how to find it now but I used to have a reference
table (from the web somewhere) where you could determine the maximum
exposure >>time for a motion free image given focal length and
magnification.


I vaguely recall the "600" rule where 600mm lens can be used at about 1
sec--somewhat depends on angle of declination too.  max time=600/fl

Oh, I see this calculator--better yet.

http://www.sceneplanner.com/tool3.php

Yea, there is also a phone app of course.

I am still still not sure how to use DSS w/o much repositioning. Better
watch a tutorial.

Mike
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