+ Wide-Angle Piggyback Images

Recent Ultra Wide-Field Piggyback Images on Kodak E-200

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The ultra wide-field piggyback images presented on this page were all taken at the 2001 Okie-Tex Star Party under extremely dry and transparent skies using Kodak E200 film with my Nikon F mounted atop a Takahashi Sky Patrol mount and a late-model Nikkor 20 mm f2.8 lens, both borrowed from Kent Kirkley. The tracking accuracy of Kent's Sky Patrol mount was amazing. After initial polar aligning, the mount ran throughout the 30 minute exposures with no need for manual corrections, even with other longer focal length lenses. No light polution or halo reducing filters were used. The E200 film was push processed one f/stop. The resulting slides were scanned with an early model HP PhotoSmart scanner. Image processing was done with Photoshop 6.0. These images are from single slides. No multiple image stacking was done.

20 mm Lens Images

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Target	Summer Triangle to Cassiopeia
Lens	Nikkor 20 mm f/2.8 @ f/4
Exposure	30 minutes
Film	Kodak E-200 @ 1 f/stop push

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Target	Cygnus to Cassiopeia
Lens	Nikkor 20mm /2.8 @ f/4
Exposure	30 minutes
Film	Kodak E-200 @ 1 f/stop push

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Target	Orion, Gemini, Taurus, and Auriga
Lens	Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 @ f4
Exposure	30 minutes
Film	Kodak E200 @ 1 f/stop push

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Target	Winter Milky Way
Lens	Nikkor 20 mm f/2.8 @ f/4
Exposure	30 minutes
Film	Kodak E200 @ 1 f/stop push

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Target	Taurus to Cassiopeia
Lens	Nikkor 20 mm f/2.8 @ f/4
Exposure	30 minutes
Film	Kodak E200 @ 1 f/stop push

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