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Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« on: June 23, 2017, 09:38:50 PM »
I have wanted to emulate the old centerfolds in Sky & Telescope magazine and gave it another try last night.
My previous attempts have been foiled by airplanes, battery death, clouds, faulty cable releases, bumping the mount and just being a
klutz in the dark.
Even now, the shot from the Zenit suffered a scratch on the negative that I cloned out, so don't mind the extra or missing stars, argh!

I used an old Konica Auto S2 rangefinder with a 45mm Hexanon 1.8 lens
for the first photo and my pet Zenit E with a 50mm Zeiss 1.8 Pancolar lens for the second photo.

Both were made using expired Ilford Delta 400 film and then souped in the caffenol delta recipe for 8 minutes.

Each photo was made using a ten minute exposure.  I made others using different times, but ten minutes was the best of the lot.
Tracking provided courtesy of a Losmandy G8

These are from last night.
enjoy!

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Re: Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2017, 01:16:12 PM »
Those are great Becky, they do look like something from an old magazine.  How would they have tracked stars back then?  I'm sure they didn't have a device like your Losmsndy G8, it seems like it would have been difficult to do it by following a target but I suppose it could be done.

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Re: Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2017, 04:35:25 PM »
back in the heyday of the centerfolds of Sky & Telescope magazine, ( 1960 and 70's) they had tracking devices.
Plus, there is a simple device known as a "barn door tracker" that uses a 1/4-20 althread and not that works well for about 15 minutes of watching and turning it...


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Re: Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2017, 12:13:19 AM »
Lovely shots, Beckster!
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Re: Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2017, 04:30:58 PM »
Very cool shots Becky, made even cooler by the commie surplus camera! :p
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Re: Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2017, 10:22:11 AM »
loving these, becky :)
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Re: Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2017, 11:19:15 AM »
Wow, that´s really infinite focusing  :)

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Re: Emulating some old Sky & Telescope magazine centerfolds
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2017, 04:51:27 PM »
Beautiful!