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Photos taken from Nylsvlei Nature Reserve
22 May 2004

Here is a collection of some of the photos I took from the Nylsvlei nature reserve about 160km north of Pretoria.
All the photos were taken using Fujichrome Sensia 400 slide film.

Comet LINEAR (C/2002 T7)
This set of photos of Comet LINEAR was taken using a 80/400mm (f5) SkyWatcher telescope mouted on top of a 8" f5 SkyWatcher Newtonian telescope.
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Exposure: 2 minutes

Exposure: 4 minutes

Using K3CCD Tools software I aligned and stacked 5 slide frames to produce this image.


NGC 4945
This slightly out of focus photos of NGC 4945 was also taken using a 80/400mm (f5) SkyWatcher telescope mouted on top of a 8" f5 SkyWatcher Newtonian telescope.

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Exposure time: 5 minutes

Milky Way
This wide angle photos of region close to Scorpuis tail was taken with a 50mm lens on the Minolta camera mouted on top of a 8" f5 SkyWatcher Newtonian telescope.

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Exposure time: 15 minutes

Star tails
These two wide angle photos taken with a 28mm lens on the Minolta camera mouted on a tripod.

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Exposure time: 30 minutes
Exposure time: 15 minutes

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