MikeOates.org
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The Home of Amateur Astronomy in the UK
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- My interest in astronomy stems from my childhood, I was very interested in the Apollo program which I followed intensely. I only got actively involved with astronomy in 1985 with the return of Halley' Comet. As I was already very interested in photography, to the extent of processing my own photographs, I instinctively turned my camera to the sky. My first astrophoto's were of the comet, they were not much more than faint smudges on the negatives but they meant a lot to me, my very own bit of Halley's Comet!. I soon learned that you needed more elaborate equipment to take longer exposures in order to stop the stars trailing. So decided to build a motorised equatorial mount to photograph Halley's Comet after it had gone around the Sun. Unfortunately I was also soon to find out that, when ever there is something important happening in the heavens, it was sure to be cloudy. So I never used the mount to capture the comet again, but it was the start of a new adventure for me, as I continued to photograph fainter and fainter objects on film, even though I was only using a telephoto lens.
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- Manchester M25 9PY UNITED KINGDOM
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- Michael Oates
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- +44 8450589000
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