All images on this page where taken using Kodak Flexi 400, which is the name under which PPF is sold in Australia.
Hale-Bopp is probably the most photographed comet in recent history. This exposure was taken on the 18th of April 1996. The shot was taken with a 300 mm lens on a Pentax Spotmatic using Kodak ISO 400 film. Exposure duration is 10 seconds unguided. This photo clearly shows the most distinctive feature of this comet, it's curved tail.
This is the original exposure that was enhanced using Ulead Express (TM) to result in the previous photo. The original photo was enhanced to bring out the curved tail and to reduce the extent of the over exposure of the background sky.
The Saucepan is also known as the belt region of Orion, this photo was taken with a 110 mm lens on my old faithful, the Pentax Spotmatic, exposure duration was 15 seconds unguided. The photo clearly shows the nebulosity in the saucepan's handle (Orion's Sward). The colour is due to ionized hydrogen.
The fuzzy dot in the center of this photo is the Omega Centauri Globular Cluster, this globular cluster is the brightest in the sky at magnitude 3.7 and is 17 000 light-years distant. The photo was taken with the same set up as the previous photo. The exposure duration was approximately 10 seconds unguided.
The small group of stars towards the center left of this picture are know alternatively as either M44 or Praesepe (the Beehive) open cluster and is 520 light-years distant. This photo was taken with the same setup as the previous two photos. The exposure duration was approximately 10 seconds unguided, consequently only a small number of the cluster’s total number of stars are visible.
This is our local star, the Sun, at sunset. The photo was taken with a 55 mm lens on old faithful, the exposure duration is 1/500 second. Pretty isn't it?
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