Stars in the military

[rcj]

Hi all,

Back from a recent military training in Queensland, Australia.
The picture below show a moderate exposure of the night scene during one of our training exercises. It was quite unexpected that an image could even be taken during those busy times of hectic deployment and training, and also keeping the DSLR dust-free! Slept under clear skies almost everynight, so clear until the zodiacal light is obvious. Caught a nice sun pillar, and the Magellanic Clouds were prominent in the south. The dim parts of the Milky Way in the Orion-Auriga region was discernible too. Training was hard (and living conditions were rudimentary), but seeing the stars paid off!

http://www.singastro.org/album_pic.php?pic_id=440

[fizzy123]

Wow, nice pics, had the same experience at Australia too when I go there for brigade ex. See meteors like 1 per 15 secs. Rcj, u tankee or AI. 8-) :idea: :roll:

[ALPiNe]

Hi Remus,

Welcome back!! Nice pic you've got there! A picture speaks a thousand words.. Just a wild guess, is that Gemini in the background?

Slept under clear skies almost everynight, so clear until the zodiacal light is obvious.

Wish I am there right now...

So...for the DSLR, whose DSLR did you borrow or steal from?


Cheers,
:cheers:
- ALPiNe

[neoterryjoe]

[quote="ALPiNe"]
Wish I am there right now...
- ALPiNe[/quote]

Ermm, you might regret once you are there, hor, remus?

[ykchia]

Hi:

Looks to me a setting Sagittarius 'Down- Under' or 'wrong-wayround' version...

Remind me of the appearance of Orion with the 'sword' slanting in the wrong way when I first set foot on NZ for study in the 80s...


rgds
ykchia

[NGC 5139]

That's very nice- interesting to have a military vehicle in the foreground and a tree in the background.

[rcj]

hi all,
am sort-of like a multipurpose man in armour. Used to drive the BV206, then became a gunnery assistant, also layed the mortar (calibrate the mortar before firing), and now during Exercise Wallaby, performed the role of the loader, the one that fired the mortars off. My left hearing has deteriorated slightly ever since (due to intense sound pressure). Had one bad experience, falling off the top of the vehicle (shown in the same picture) one night, to the ground. Could not imagine that even in reservist, we had to dig shellscapes. Food was really rudimentary, almost like pre SFI days, and during the exercise, most of us had little appetite, and survived mostly on biscuits and water. Brought the D70 and the F3 along during the trip. Have yet to develop the slides containing a few star trails. Will try to upload more night shots from the D70.

[zong]

Whoa, that's the stupid thing i'm driving now.. only a different version, the recovery. Still, it's veryinteresting to see a military vehicle in the foreground with stars in the back.. even if i go outfield now and take a picture it could never be with this nice a sky

Oh, and teach me how you "squeeze" in so many things in your bag AND put a dslr in there! and how you "bring" in the camera! I'm very curious, because to keep a camera "sand-free" in that stupid big military vehicle is not an easy task.. in fact, i thought it's impossible until you posted this!