Naxos: The Ultimate Guide
Cyclades archipelago
The largest of the Cyclades archipelago, Náxos is one of the few Greek islands that is completely self-sustainable and could feed itself. Every square inch of the island, including the main town proudly boasts either a small vine plot or abundant market garden, squeezed in between low rise apartment blocks and villas. Further into the centre of the island, you will see flocks of sheep and goats everywhere, along with row upon row of silvery-green olive trees.
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Naxos also has some of the Cyclades loveliest beaches and its most dramatic scenery: vast mountains, lush terraced valleys and traditional white-washed villages. It has a unique regional food identify, famous for the grapefruit like “kitron” which is the key flavouring for the smooth local liqueur and spoon sweet. Naxiot potatoes are also renowned throughout Greece – as is the islands impressive array of both sheep and goat’s milk cheeses.
An excellent write up!!! Very informative, passed on this information to my son who likes this and interested in Astro photography. Guess will have to gear up to shell out some big bucks in the near
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After 2 months of cloudy nights, got a couple of nights of clear skies. Managed to shoot a few targets on the nights of 17th and 18th May. With the pier setup, I spent an hour on 17th for polar alignment. After this, it took just 10 minutes on 18th night (or early morning on 19th at 2:45AM) to open the enclosure and start capturing.
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy:
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. This galaxy is situated at 23.16 million light years from the earth and has a radius of 30,000 light years. This galaxy is 400 million years old, a child compared our own Milky Way which is 13.5 billion years old. This image is an integration of 1 hour and 12 minutes (24 images of 3 minute exposure each)
What an awesome thread graaja! you passion and dedication to astrophotography is really amazing!
The amount of hardware and software and the effort to setup them up and capture those sensational photos really deserves a big kudos to you.
I too was bitten by the bug of star gazing and i purchased a MEADE Polaris 130/650 EQ-3 Reflector Telescope couple of weeks back. While it claims to have a EQ3 mount, in reality it is EQ2 and i am still getting the hand of the whole setup from the mount to the eye pieces to use.
I also purchased a mobile phone mount to capture photos and so far all my efforts have been only towards watching moon and clicking few photos.
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