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Glendon Campgrounds - 31st Aug to 1st Sept

Posted: September 4th, 2019, 1:03 am
by Dave
On the last day of winter, Cos, Don and Tracey, Ben, Tim and David met at Aratula and then headed out to Glendon Campgrounds. There was a bit of a delay as there was a car crash on the highway around 8 km from Glendon, probably only minutes before we arrived. Eventually we turned around and took a bypass road to arrive at Glendon.

After setting up our tents, we explored the explored the park. The tracks were fairly simple, though we did have a play on various washouts and hills.

Don having some fun.
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Cos coming down a steep hill.
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Cos testing out some motorbike tracks.
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Searching for the gold mines, we stop at the top of a hill for a group photo.
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We eventually found the gold mines.
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Eventually it was time to head back to camp and get ready to set up tripods and get dinner ready.
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Sunset give us some more photo opportunities.
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As darkness arrived, Ben kindly showed us some interesting Nebula, stars and galaxies.
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It was a fairly cool night, with temperatures dropping to around 2 degrees. The next morning the group headed home after breakfast. The scenery was nice, and hopefully Ben, Cos and David got some good photos.
I'll also soon send people a link to a time-lapse video of the milky way setting behind some trees.

Hope everyone enjoyed themselves on this quick weekend camping trip.


Cheers
David.

Re: Glendon Campgrounds - 31st Aug to 1st Sept

Posted: September 4th, 2019, 8:49 pm
by Capella_Ben
Twas a great weekend!

This is the second draft of the image I took.

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You can see other images here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/158587750 ... 642502423/

or here:
https://www.astrobin.com/users/capella_ben/

Re: Glendon Campgrounds - 31st Aug to 1st Sept

Posted: September 4th, 2019, 8:51 pm
by Capella_Ben
...and a couple more photos...

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Re: Glendon Campgrounds - 31st Aug to 1st Sept

Posted: September 5th, 2019, 10:36 pm
by Dave
Hi Ben,

I like the "blues" in the photo. I assume that's oxygen???

The dust cloud is interesting too, especially when you think of the size of it.

Re: Glendon Campgrounds - 31st Aug to 1st Sept

Posted: September 7th, 2019, 8:40 pm
by CBM_64
Thanks for a great trip & trip report Dave. You got some great colours in your milky way photos.

Ben, thanks for the links they are some incredible photos.

Here are a few of mine.

Playing around with my light wheel
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Enjoying the camp fire.
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Some of the milky way
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Attempting star trails. Sadly the camera battery ran out.
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Re: Glendon Campgrounds - 31st Aug to 1st Sept

Posted: September 7th, 2019, 9:51 pm
by Dave
Hi Cos,
Those photos look great, with some very artistic. Even the effect with the star trails looks really good.

Re: Glendon Campgrounds - 31st Aug to 1st Sept

Posted: September 8th, 2019, 10:04 pm
by GridPack
Wow...Some great photos!