A. 8 mm f/3.5 fisheye lens

The Nikon D100 camera has shown itself to be superb for short time exposure tripod shots and short exposure piggyback shots as shown by the following images (figures 2-10):

Figure 2.  Getting started for the evening at the Grasslands Observatory in rural Southeastern Arizona.   Ten second exposure, ISO 1600, 8 mm f/3.5 lens.  T. Hunter.[1]

Figure 3.  Canopus culminating on the Southern horizon at the Grasslands Observatory.   Sixty second exposure, ISO 1600, 8 mm f/3.5 lens.  T. Hunter.

Figure 4. The Zodiacal Light, Venus, and the Milky Way on the Western Horizon at the Grasslands Observatory.  Sixty second exposure, ISO 1600, 8 mm f/3.5 lens.  T. Hunter.

Figure 5. The Summer Milky Way overhead in Tucson, Arizona, at the 3towers Observatory which sits five miles North of the center of Tucson, Arizona.  North is to the left, and South is to the right.  Note Vega and Lyra near the center of the image and Ursa Major at the top of the image.  To the right is the sky glow from Tucson and glow from astronomical twilight.   Sixty second exposure, ISO 1000, 8 mm f/3.5 lens. T. Hunter.

Figure 6.  Looking north with the 3towers Observatory in the foreground and the mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, in the distance behind the three radio towers near the observatory.  Note the light pollution from Phoenix, Arizona, 100 miles distant in the left side of the image.  Note also Ursa Major on the left and Polaris left of center near the foreground radio tower.  Cassiopeia sits directly above the middle tower.  Pegasus and Andromeda are to the right. Sixty second exposure, ISO 1000, 8 mm f 3.5 lens.  T. Hunter.

B. Standard Lenses 28–135 mm

Figure 7.  The author pointing out the Pleiades at the 8^th Annual Starry Nights Festival in Yucca Valley, CA, October 16, 2004.  Fifteen second exposure, ISO 800, 50 mm f/2 lens, Fuji DSLR camera.  Courtesy Wally Palcholka. 

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