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Bino Viewing Venus & Pleiades with StarLight Mount.jpg
A selfie of me viewing the close approach of Venus to the Pleiades star cluster on April 1, 2020, using big 15x70 Celestron SkyMaster Pro binoculars mounted on a Canadian-built Starlight Innovations binocular mount, a parallelogram-style mount that allows viewing up high and with the binocular at different heights without losing its pointing position.
Orion is over my left shoulder; the Hyades is at centre above the mount. The waxing gibbous Moon provided the illumination.
This is a stack of 4 images for the ground to smooth noise and 1 image for the sky to minimize trailing, all 13 seconds at f/5.6 with the Sigma 24mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600. Topaz Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI applied.
Orion is over my left shoulder; the Hyades is at centre above the mount. The waxing gibbous Moon provided the illumination.
This is a stack of 4 images for the ground to smooth noise and 1 image for the sky to minimize trailing, all 13 seconds at f/5.6 with the Sigma 24mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600. Topaz Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI applied.
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- © 2020 Alan Dyer
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