Astronomy Field Trip - Tenerife 2018

Some snapshots...
Lenticular clouds over Mt Teide	Two teams of students were trained to use the Mons telescope during the one-week field trip. The students calculated object coordinates and moved the telescope manually using the setting circles.		Teide Observatory
Working on the Mons	Working on the Mons	Working on the Mons	Working on the Mons	Working on the Mons
Working on the Mons	Don't move the camera!	Working on the Mons	At the controls of the IAC-80	Working on the Mons
Group and Milky Way	Group and Milky Way	Group and Milky Way	Group and Milky Way	View of the caldera
Group and observatory	Group and Mt Teide	Group and rocks	At one with the rocks

Some astrophotography...

The image on the right shows Antares
(the brightest star in the constellation
of Scorpius) and the Rho Ophiuchi
molecular cloud complex.

This star-forming region is one of
the closest to us at a distance of
about 400 light-years.

It was taken with a Nikon
D7500 DSLR and a 135mm f/2 lens
mounted on an iOptron SkyTracker.

Antares and Rho Ophiuchi

The image is the result of
stacking (adding together)
60 individual exposures
each of which was 120s long.

Click here for a labelled image.


Star trails over Teide Observatory Nikon D7500 DSLR + 10mm fisheye lens Stack of one-minute exposures taken over about 3 hours


Star trails with 'comet' effect over Teide Observatory Nikon D7500 DSLR + 10mm fisheye lens Stack of one-minute exposures taken over about 3 hours


Star trails with 'comet' effect over Teide Observatory Nikon D7500 DSLR + 10mm fisheye lens Stack of one-minute exposures taken over about 3 hours


Star trails with 'comet' effect over Teide Observatory Nikon D7500 DSLR + 10mm fisheye lens Stack of one-minute exposures taken over about 1 hour

Star trail movie: Circling Polaris

Star trail movie: With red 'painted' foreground

Star trail movie: Over western horizon

Astronomy Field Trip - Tenerife 2018

Some snapshots...

Some astrophotography...