Constellations


A selection of photographs taken by club-members.
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Orion belt & sword. 200mm Telephoto lens, f5.6. 20 minutes unguided. Elite Chrome 400
Taken with a piggy-backed Pentax Spotmatic 35mm camera. The slide was copied using a Coolpix 880 slide copying adapter. Image taken by Dave Smith.



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Ted Rodway takes this picture of the Orion field from La Palma. This image shows the Barnard's Loop and the extent of the nebulosity that fills this area of the sky.

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Andy Turner takes a nice wide-angle shot of one of my favourite regions of the sky - The Pleiades and Hyades in Taurus. This scene reminds me of cold frosty winter night. Worth wrapping up warm for.