Observation by Doug Flack: Autumn 2016 from a tower block

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Doug Flack

Observer

Doug Flack

Observed

2016 Aug 30 - 23:00

Uploaded

2020 May 23 - 06:28

Objects

The Pleiades (M45)
Widefield

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Constellation

Orion

Field centre

RA: 04^h51^m
Dec: +11°19'
Position angle: -30°45'

Field size

66° × 46°

Equipment

Pentax K-5 DSLR with a not very exciting Pentax DA 55 lens

Location

Window of 3rd floor tower block in Brentwood Essex

Title

Autumn 2016 from a tower block

About this image

6 RAW frames stacked in DSS and finished in PS Elements 12. With no access to a garden at the time, which was festooned with security lighting anyway, made an "arm" which could be extended from the window using the window frame as a support, to try to do "something". This was the result. I took many more such pictures through that autumn, most of which seem to have been since deleted. Whilst not a picture likely to make "picture of the month" it shows what you can do in difficult situations and "I commend it to the house!"

Files associated with this observation

Autosave001 edit 1a low.jpg (1.3 MB)

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David Swan, Stuart Morris, Alan Thomas, Mr Leonard Entwisle, Neil Morrison, Andy Wilson, Peter Mulligan, Grant Privett, Jeremy Shears, Paul Whitmarsh

Comments

Alan Thomas, 2020 May 23 - 10:01 UTC

Well done. Shows us that, with determination, almost anything is possible!

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