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Arrow Re: Astrophotography anyone?

the perseids are ramping up and i got the camera running out the south window again last night to do my meteor trapping thing. not the best south sky for me what with the moon & jupiter brightening things, but nothing ventured nothing gained. anyway, i had the camera feeding to the tv to watch live and noticed a 22º moon halo form up on-screen. going to the window, i saw nada. not too surprising i guess as i have the sony camera in its "SuperNightShot" infrared mode.

unfortunately, yet again, when i transfered the video to the computer everything went dark and no halo visible. so back to the grab-a-still-from-the-vid and brighten it. that is the only retouching to the shot below. besides the 22º halo, there is a very faint 46º halo but i couldn't get it to stand out well in the image. just a wisp of it visible on right side of frame. who ya gonna call?

ps that's jupiter inside the halo left of luna.


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